Animal PhysiologyBohn, 1859 - 604 pages |
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action albumen alimentary aorta apparatus arrangement artery Articulata auricle Birds blood blood-vessels body bone breathe canal capillaries carbonic acid cartilage cavity cells chyle cilia circulation composed consists contains continually contraction convey corpuscles Crustacea digestive epidermis fibres fibrin fibrous Fishes fluid follicles functions ganglia ganglion gastric gelatin gills glands Haversian canals heart higher animals Insects intestinal intestinal canal lacteals layer legs less liver living lower lungs Mammals manner matter membrane minute Mollusca Mollusks mouth movements mucous membrane muscles muscular nerves nervous system nutrition oesophagus organs orifice oxygen particles pass peculiar portion possess produced proportion quantity Reptiles resemblance respiration respiratory secretion seen serous membrane shell side skin spinal cord stomach structure substance supply surface take place teeth temperature termed tion tissue tribe trunk tube usually vegetable veins ventricle vertebral column Vertebrata Vertebrated vessels walls whilst whole Zoophytes
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Page 539 - ... judged,' and sometimes it was left in its place. After he had piled up his materials in one part of the room (for he generally chose the same place), he proceeded to wall up the space between the feet of a chest of drawers, which stood at a little distance from it, high enough on its legs to make the bottom a roof for him; using for this purpose dried turf and sticks, which he laid very even, and filling up the interstices with bits of coal, hay, cloth, or any thing he could pick up. This last...
Page 286 - In order to clear the throat, place the patient gently on the face, with one wrist under the forehead, that all fluid, and the tongue itself, may fall forward, and leave the entrance into the windpipe free.
Page 436 - ... varies in different individuals and in the same individual at different times...
Page 16 - With other ministrations thou, O Nature ! Healest thy wandering and distempered child: Thou pourest on him thy soft influences, Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets; Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters ! Till he relent, and can no more endure To be a jarring and a dissonant thing Amid this general dance and minstrelsy; But, bursting into tears, wins back his way, His angry spirit healed and harmonized By the benignant touch of love and beauty.
Page 539 - The long and large materials were always taken first, and two of the longest were generally laid crosswise, with one of the ends of each touching the wall, and the other ends projecting out into the room.
Page 539 - ... portable. As the work grew high, he supported himself on his tail, which propped him up admirably ; and he would often, after laying on one of his building materials, sit up over against it, appearing to consider his work, or, as the country people say, 'judge it.
Page 430 - One particular only, though it may appear trifling, I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask, but catching the cat, which he knew by feeling, he was observed to look at her steadfastly, and then setting her down said, so puss, I shall know you another time.
Page 13 - we have examples of the compatibility of even the heat of boiling water with the preservation of animal life. Thus in a hot spring at Manilla, which raises the thermometer to 187°, and in another in Barbary, whose usual temperature is 172°, fishes have been seen to flourish. Fishes have been thrown up in very hot water from the crater of a volcano, which from their lively condition, was apparently their natural residence.