Medical Extracts: On the Nature of Health, with Practical Observations and the Laws of the Nervous and Fibrous Systems by a Friend to Improvements, Volume 41797 |
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Page 623
... blood the electrical fluid ? The BRAIN then would be the great laboratory for this purpose . PRIESTLEY . Moft authors have fuppofed , that the nerves are tubes or ducts conveying a fluid fecreted in the brain , cerebellum , and spinal ...
... blood the electrical fluid ? The BRAIN then would be the great laboratory for this purpose . PRIESTLEY . Moft authors have fuppofed , that the nerves are tubes or ducts conveying a fluid fecreted in the brain , cerebellum , and spinal ...
Page 625
... blood was fent almost in a straight line from the heart , and there- fore the blood , from its proximity to the brain , must move with a proportionate velocity . HALLER com- putes that the heart fends to the brain one fixth of the whole ...
... blood was fent almost in a straight line from the heart , and there- fore the blood , from its proximity to the brain , must move with a proportionate velocity . HALLER com- putes that the heart fends to the brain one fixth of the whole ...
Page 626
... blood arrives at the brain in fo fhort a space of time oxygenated ( and though it were taken double , there would be no great exaggeration of the matter ) , and paffes thence unoxygenated , is it not rea- fonable to fuppofe , that in ...
... blood arrives at the brain in fo fhort a space of time oxygenated ( and though it were taken double , there would be no great exaggeration of the matter ) , and paffes thence unoxygenated , is it not rea- fonable to fuppofe , that in ...
Page 630
... blood , and how is the image of man , erect , and viewing the heavens , reversed ! He who could ex- claim , " These are THY wondrous works ; How wondrous then THYSELF ! " If more or lefs blood , or that not duly fupplied with the vital ...
... blood , and how is the image of man , erect , and viewing the heavens , reversed ! He who could ex- claim , " These are THY wondrous works ; How wondrous then THYSELF ! " If more or lefs blood , or that not duly fupplied with the vital ...
Page 632
... blood , or if jaundiced , fight is loft or imperfect ; or if we make gyrations round one foot with the eyes fhut , when we afterwards open them , the image of objects will appear in rotatory motion . Sight or vifion , therefore ...
... blood , or if jaundiced , fight is loft or imperfect ; or if we make gyrations round one foot with the eyes fhut , when we afterwards open them , the image of objects will appear in rotatory motion . Sight or vifion , therefore ...
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