Eclectic Physiology: Or, Guide to HealthAmerican book Company, 1886 - 189 pages |
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Page 5 - ... shall be granted to any person to teach in the public schools of the District of Columbia or territories, after the first day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and...
Page 40 - CHAPTER IV. THE SKIN. 34. The Uses of the Skin. — The skin forms a beautiful, pliable covering for the body. By the exceeding toughness of the skin, the tender parts beneath it are protected from injury. The nerves of the skin tell when an object touches us. The skin keeps the body from getting very warm or very cold. The skin aids in removing waste matter from the blood. Since the uses are so numerous and different, the structure of the skin is necessarily complex. 35. The Structure of the Skin....
Page 145 - The metaphysician may, for the purposes of speculation, separate mind from body, and evoke laws of its operation out of the depths of self-consciousness ; but the physician, who has to deal practically with the thoughts, feelings, and conduct of men; who has to do with mind, not as an abstract entity concerning which...
Page 126 - ... pressure; if the skull were fractured, so that a portion of the bone pressed upon the brain, the individual would lie in an unconscious state until such pressure was removed, and unless relieved would speedily die. 2. Paralysis. — From various experiments, it appears that the fibers that connect the brain with the body cross over from the left side of the brain to be distributed to the right side of the body, and from the right hemisphere of the brain to the left side of the body. By this arrangement...