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according actinic affinities agents allopathic alteration amount of force analogy animal heat blood British Medical Journal BURLINGTON STREET capable chemical action chemical affinity clock constitution correlated cure distribution of nervous doctrine drug DUBLIN dynamic condition effects electricity endeavour equable essential evolution of vital existence Freke HAUGHTON health and disease Hippocrates human body hydropathic ideas increase vitality instance irregularity law of healing living body London Medical Review lowered vitality manifest matter medi Medical Mirror medical science medicine morbid action motion natural agencies nerve-force nerves nervous centres nervous force nervous system NOTE observe operation organised organism Origin of Species petioles phenomena physician physiology plant practical principles produced proportionate distribution reaction reason regularity remedies renewal result substances sufficient symptoms theory of vital therapeutic tion tissue TRUE BASIS truth Turkish Bath typhoid fever vegetable VICTORIA INSTITUTE VISCOUNT POWERSCOURT vital action vital force vital power vital resistance whilst
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Page 4 - The shapely limb and lubricated joint, Within the small dimensions of a point, Muscle and nerve miraculously spun, His mighty work who speaks and it is done, The invisible in things scarce seen reveal'd, To whom an atom is an ample field.
Page 69 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. " Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype.
Page 74 - I can discover no logical halting-place between the admission that such is the case, and the further concession that all vital action may, with equal propriety, be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense and to the same extent, that the thoughts to which I am now giving utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, are the expression of molecular changes in that matter of life which is the source of our other...
Page 51 - That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known, To which time will but make thee more dear: No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close; As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Page 73 - Fick and Wislicenus, that the force due to the urea excreted in a given time is not sufficient to provide the actual work that may be done by the muscles in the same time. . Liebig and his followers, misled by a preconception of the simplicity of nature, assigned to nitrogenous food the duty of providing the force necessary for the production of muscular work, by supplying the waste of muscular tissue; while they supposed the farinaceous and fatty foods to provide the amount of animal heat required...
Page 71 - In the application of exact science to physiology, I look for the rise of that great and noble practice of medicine which, in a future age, will rival in precision the mechanical engineering of my times.
Page 22 - I affirm that a power, acting exclusively in length, is (wherever it be found) magnetism; that a power which acts both in length and in breadth, and only in length and breadth, is (wherever it be found) electricity; and finally, that a power which, together with length and breadth, includes depth likewise, is (wherever it be found) constructive agency.
Page 69 - An Animal is An Apparatus of Combustion; Possesses the faculty of Locomotion; Burns Carbon Hydrogen Ammonium; Exhales Carbonic Acid Water Oxide of Ammonium Azote; Consumes Oxygen Neutral azotized matters Fatty matters Amylaceous matters, sugars, gums; Produces Heat Electricity; Restores its elements to the air or to the earth; Transforms organized matters into mineral matters.