American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 10Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 |
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... living are so uniformly vicious , that very little propriety occurs in their conduct . The following anecdote , related by La- vater , may serve as a partial illustration of the assertion , that the features are af- fected by the turn ...
... living are so uniformly vicious , that very little propriety occurs in their conduct . The following anecdote , related by La- vater , may serve as a partial illustration of the assertion , that the features are af- fected by the turn ...
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... living animal bodies , and of the functions which those bodies execute . It presupposes , therefore , a knowledge of ... living or vital , because the actions of the living body are so far depending on these pow ers , that they can , by ...
... living animal bodies , and of the functions which those bodies execute . It presupposes , therefore , a knowledge of ... living or vital , because the actions of the living body are so far depending on these pow ers , that they can , by ...
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... living bodies resisting those affinities , which produce putrefaction in dead animal mat- ter , that they made life itself to consist in this antiseptic property . The celebrated experiment of Borelli , in which a muscle , deprived of ...
... living bodies resisting those affinities , which produce putrefaction in dead animal mat- ter , that they made life itself to consist in this antiseptic property . The celebrated experiment of Borelli , in which a muscle , deprived of ...
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... living body arises from the whole ; while , in dead matter , each par- ticle has it within itself . pos- When this nature of life was once clearly recognised by the most constant of its effects , physiologists naturally at- tempted to ...
... living body arises from the whole ; while , in dead matter , each par- ticle has it within itself . pos- When this nature of life was once clearly recognised by the most constant of its effects , physiologists naturally at- tempted to ...
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... living bodies , shortly con- sider the principal functions . Of the Vital Powers , Sensibility , and Contractility . Struck with the numerous differences that are observable between organized and living , and inorganic matters , philo ...
... living bodies , shortly con- sider the principal functions . Of the Vital Powers , Sensibility , and Contractility . Struck with the numerous differences that are observable between organized and living , and inorganic matters , philo ...
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