The Abdominal BrainGross & Delbridge, 1885 - 45 pages |
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... child , in lower animals and in men of extremely limited brain action , bears a very small proportion to the amount of gray matter in the adult , thinking , active indi- vidual . It is believed by some that cells which have never been ...
... child , in lower animals and in men of extremely limited brain action , bears a very small proportion to the amount of gray matter in the adult , thinking , active indi- vidual . It is believed by some that cells which have never been ...
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... child is born of the desire for food , which surely originates with the Sympathetic . And so on for months the child exhibits evidence only of desire and emotion , in re- sponse to which alone arises all action of cerebral or spinal ...
... child is born of the desire for food , which surely originates with the Sympathetic . And so on for months the child exhibits evidence only of desire and emotion , in re- sponse to which alone arises all action of cerebral or spinal ...
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... Child of the wandering sea , Cast from her lap , forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! While on mine ear it rings , Through the deep caves of thought I hear A voice that sings ...
... Child of the wandering sea , Cast from her lap , forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! While on mine ear it rings , Through the deep caves of thought I hear A voice that sings ...
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... child's brain is over - taxed in schools . A vigorous exercise of intellectual activity gives zest to the enjoyment of recreation in physical exercise , and both these add stim- ulus to nutritive functions . Appetite is good , digestion ...
... child's brain is over - taxed in schools . A vigorous exercise of intellectual activity gives zest to the enjoyment of recreation in physical exercise , and both these add stim- ulus to nutritive functions . Appetite is good , digestion ...
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... child's life ? Let the ambi- tion to do well suffice , even though the child stand on a common plane with many others . Save her from that precipice of exalted am- bition to excel everybody else , where one misstep will plunge her into ...
... child's life ? Let the ambi- tion to do well suffice , even though the child stand on a common plane with many others . Save her from that precipice of exalted am- bition to excel everybody else , where one misstep will plunge her into ...
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abdominal brain anatomically Animal and Organic Animal organism ASCIDIAN Bichat body brain and cord cavities center of Animal central cells central office Cerebro Cerebro-spinal child Cloth connection Cook County Hospital desire diseased condition disturbances dual force dyspepsia func functions of organic gang ganic gray matter GROSS & DELBRIDGE heart ical influence invertebrates LEILA G liver manifest membrane mind Mollusks motion motor muscles nautilus nected nerve cells nerve force nerve sup nerve supply nervous center nervous system nutrition octavo organic functions organic system organs of special ovum paper pathetic system pharynx physical and psychical Physician plied Popular Science Monthly Prof Protozoa reflex action relation reservoirs scale of animal seat sensation shell solar plexus special sense spinal cord spinal nerves spleen stomach substance Sympathetic nerve Sympathetic system system of nerves system of Organic thee tion trifugal truth vertebral woman women
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Page 26 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Page 2 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Page 27 - Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: — 13 Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!
Page 27 - Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn ! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : — Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul...
Page 23 - ... having a short neck and a single large orifice. Another picks up the finest grains, and puts them together with the same cement into perfectly spherical " tests" of the most extraordinary finish, perforated with numerous small pores, disposed at pretty regular intervals.
Page 23 - ... ichthyosaurus, etc. ; 4. That, as builders, they have produced immense structures, which far surpass in size all the colossal works of man. The evidence of these statements will be presently given; but meantime it may be remarked that such grand results redeem the study of microscopical objects from that pettiness which is often imputed to it.
Page 23 - Yet this is exactly what these jellyspecks do on a most minute scale; the tests they construct when highly magnified, bearing comparison with the most skilful masonry of man. From the same sandy bottom one species picks up the coarser quartz grains, cements them together with phosphate of iron secreted from its own substance, and thus constructs a flask-shaped test having a short neck and a single large orifice.
Page 30 - It has no specialized head, no brain, no skull, no jaws, no limbs.