Outlines of Human PhysiologyBurgess and Hill, 1827 - 406 pages |
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absorbed action alimentary canal animal aorta appears arterial blood arteries and veins ascertained atmospheric air auricle becomes bile bowels brain branches breathing capillary vessels carbonic acid cavity cerebellum chest chyle chyme circulation coagulation colour consists contained continued contraction cubic inches death deglutition diaphragm digestion dilated divided duct duodenum elastic experiments expiration fauces fibrin filaments fluid gland globules heart heat influence injected instance irritability lacteals left ventricle living body lungs Majendie matter medulla oblongata membrane minute mucous muscles muscular fibres nature nerves nervous observed oesophagus organ oxygen pharynx phenomena Phil phrenic nerves pleura portion posterior preceding pressure principle produced pulmonary quantity remarkable respiration ribs right auricle secretion sensation serous serous membrane serum side skin small intestine spinal chord sternum stomach substance surface takes place temperature termed texture thoracic duct thrown Trans trunk tube urine valves vegetable venous blood Wilson Philip
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Page 253 - I shut my eyes, these phantasms would sometimes vanish entirely, though there were instances when I beheld them with my eyes closed ; yet, when they disappeared on such occasions, they generally returned when I opened my eyes. I conversed sometimes with my physician and my wife of the phantasms which at the moment surrounded me : they appeared more frequently walking than at rest, nor were they constantly present. They frequently did not come for...
Page 271 - ... he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape, or magnitude, but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again...
Page 271 - ... but even then he was no less surprised, expecting the pictures would feel like the things they represented, and was amazed when he found those parts, which by their light and shadow appeared now round and uneven, felt only flat like the rest ; and asked which was the lying sense, feeling, or seeing...
Page 253 - All these phantasms appeared to me in their natural size, and as distinct as if alive, exhibiting different shades of carnation in the uncovered parts, as well as...
Page 252 - After the first day the form of the deceased person no more appeared, but its place was supplied with many other phantasms, sometimes representing acquaintances, but mostly strangers ; those whom I knew were composed of living and deceased persons, but the number of the latter was comparatively small. I observed the persons with whom I daily conversed did not appear as phantasms, these representing chiefly persons who lived at some distance from me. " These phantasms seemed equally clear and distinct...
Page 271 - ... the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could be bigger.
Page 271 - Before he was couched, he expected little advantage from seeing, worth undergoing an operation for, except reading and writing; for he said, he thought he could have no more pleasure in walking abroad than he had in the garden, which he could do safely and readily.
Page 294 - I saw only son ; the commencement of the name being wholly obliterated to my view. In this instance the loss of sight was towards my left, and was the same whether I looked with the right eye or the left. This blindness was not so complete as to amount to absolute blackness, but was a shaded darkness without definite outline.
Page 294 - In this instance the loss of sight was toward my left, and was the same whether I looked with the right eye or the left. This blindness was not so complete as to amount to absolute blackness, but was a shaded darkness without definite outline. The complaint was of short duration, and in about a quarter of an hour might be said to be wholly gone, having receded with a gradual motion from the centre of vision obliquely upwards towards the left.
Page 254 - ... themselves, but more frequently addressed their discourse to me ; their speeches were commonly short, and never of an unpleasant turn. At different times there appeared to me both dear and sensible friends of both sexes, whose addresses tended to appease my grief, which had not yet 264 Case of Nicolai.