The Abdominal BrainGross & Delbridge, 1885 - 45 pages |
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... living ? " —- while the hypochondriac's solution of the conundrum would be , " That depends upon the liver ! " Disease , however slight , in any of the organs of the body which are supplied by this Sympathetic system , not only produces ...
... living ? " —- while the hypochondriac's solution of the conundrum would be , " That depends upon the liver ! " Disease , however slight , in any of the organs of the body which are supplied by this Sympathetic system , not only produces ...
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... wind its purple wings In gulfs enchanted , where the Siren sings , And coral reefs lie bare , Where the cold Sea - maids rise to sun Their streaming hair . " Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; 26 THE ABDOMINAL BRAIN .
... wind its purple wings In gulfs enchanted , where the Siren sings , And coral reefs lie bare , Where the cold Sea - maids rise to sun Their streaming hair . " Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; 26 THE ABDOMINAL BRAIN .
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Leila G. Bedell. " Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell Where its dim dreaming life were wont to dwell , As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell , Before thee lies ...
Leila G. Bedell. " Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell Where its dim dreaming life were wont to dwell , As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell , Before thee lies ...
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... living skul- less vertebrate yet discovered . It is found on the Scandinavian shores of the North sea and on the Mediterranean . It belongs undoubtedly to the fish family . And while it has no vertebral column proper , it has a delicate ...
... living skul- less vertebrate yet discovered . It is found on the Scandinavian shores of the North sea and on the Mediterranean . It belongs undoubtedly to the fish family . And while it has no vertebral column proper , it has a delicate ...
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... living organism . We have said already in speaking of the brain and cord system : " It is the mighty enginery that moves civilization in its onward march . " Let us revise : the fire beneath our engine is the abdominal brain . The ...
... living organism . We have said already in speaking of the brain and cord system : " It is the mighty enginery that moves civilization in its onward march . " Let us revise : the fire beneath our engine is the abdominal brain . The ...
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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.