The Abdominal BrainGross & Delbridge, 1885 - 45 pages |
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... matter . Now , gray nerve - tissue , wherever it exists , is a gen- erator of nerve - force , or mind , and it is not unreas- onable to suppose , therefore , that these masses of the tissue in question , that are placed around the heart ...
... matter . Now , gray nerve - tissue , wherever it exists , is a gen- erator of nerve - force , or mind , and it is not unreas- onable to suppose , therefore , that these masses of the tissue in question , that are placed around the heart ...
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... matter , and the center of the spinal cord , while the mass of white matter with which they are associated consists wholly of amassed conducting fibres . And it is prob- able that an individual cell performs but one act during life ...
... matter , and the center of the spinal cord , while the mass of white matter with which they are associated consists wholly of amassed conducting fibres . And it is prob- able that an individual cell performs but one act during life ...
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... matter in the 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 ...
... matter in the 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 ...
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... matter whether it is hip - joint disease , carbuncle , neuralgia , rheumatism , skin - disease - all are to be set down to the account of mal - assim- ilation , imperfect or vitiated nutrition . Now a nervous system having so much ...
... matter whether it is hip - joint disease , carbuncle , neuralgia , rheumatism , skin - disease - all are to be set down to the account of mal - assim- ilation , imperfect or vitiated nutrition . Now a nervous system having so much ...
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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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