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 617
... Body as a Hymn to the Creator . In the Supplement to HOFFMAN we find a regular Confeffion of Faith ; and the illuftrious Baron HALLER has left behind him several valuable Dif- sertations , with fome Poems on religious Subjects . The ...
... Body as a Hymn to the Creator . In the Supplement to HOFFMAN we find a regular Confeffion of Faith ; and the illuftrious Baron HALLER has left behind him several valuable Dif- sertations , with fome Poems on religious Subjects . The ...
Page 619
... BODY AND MIND , 659 SECT . LVI . ON THE PLEASURES OF THE POOR MAN , 661 - - 662 SECT . LVII . ON THE PLEASURES OF A CULTIVATED MIND , * Formerly we presented the reader with an ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS prefixed to each volume , with ...
... BODY AND MIND , 659 SECT . LVI . ON THE PLEASURES OF THE POOR MAN , 661 - - 662 SECT . LVII . ON THE PLEASURES OF A CULTIVATED MIND , * Formerly we presented the reader with an ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS prefixed to each volume , with ...
Page 621
... BODY , - SECT . LXXVII . OF TEMPORARY EX- HAUSTION , - SECT . LXXVIII . OF PERMANENT Ex- · HAUSTION , - SECT . LXXIX . LAW III . A DEFECTIVE EXCITEMENT OF THE MIND ACCUMULATES NERVOUS E- NERGY , WHILE IT AT THE SAME TIME WEAKENS NERVES ...
... BODY , - SECT . LXXVII . OF TEMPORARY EX- HAUSTION , - SECT . LXXVIII . OF PERMANENT Ex- · HAUSTION , - SECT . LXXIX . LAW III . A DEFECTIVE EXCITEMENT OF THE MIND ACCUMULATES NERVOUS E- NERGY , WHILE IT AT THE SAME TIME WEAKENS NERVES ...
Page 626
... body , and analogous to the matter of fire , or the electric fluid and fince the MEDULLARY SUBSTANCE of the brain is of a fibrous compofition , the threads of which are disposed in a parallel direction ( as is particularly obvious ...
... body , and analogous to the matter of fire , or the electric fluid and fince the MEDULLARY SUBSTANCE of the brain is of a fibrous compofition , the threads of which are disposed in a parallel direction ( as is particularly obvious ...
Page 627
... which belongs uniquely to the electrical fluid . One may hear three or four founds in fucceffion , very di- ftinctly , in the space of a quarter of a fecond . Between the time of touching a body , and the consciousness 8 the V.
... which belongs uniquely to the electrical fluid . One may hear three or four founds in fucceffion , very di- ftinctly , in the space of a quarter of a fecond . Between the time of touching a body , and the consciousness 8 the V.
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