Experimental Physiology, Its Benefits to Mankind: With an Address on Unveiling the Statue of William Harvey at Folkestone, 6th August 1881Longmans, Green, 1882 - 216 pages |
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Page 99 - On laying bare the roots of the spinal nerves, I found that I could cut across the posterior fasciculus of nerves, which took its origin from the posterior portion of the spinal marrow without convulsing the muscles of the back; but that on touching the anterior fasciculus with the point of the knife, the muscles of the back were immediately convulsed.
Page 66 - I remember that when I asked our famous Harvey, in the only discourse I had with him, (which was but a while before he died), what were the things that induced him to think of a circulation of the blood, he answered me, that when he took notice that the valves in the veins of so many parts of the body were so placed that they gave free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage...
Page 66 - ... placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way.
Page 66 - ... free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage of the venal blood the contrary way ; he was invited to imagine, that so provident a cause as Nature had not placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more...
Page 65 - Toutes les parties d'un corps vivant sont liées; elles ne peuvent agir qu'autant qu'elles agissent toutes ensemble : vouloir en séparer une de la masse, c'est la reporter dans l'ordre des substances mortes, c'est en changer entièrement l'essence (1).
Page 99 - ... sensation. I have found at different times all the internal parts of the brain diseased without loss of sense; but I have never seen disease general on the surfaces of the hemispheres without derangement or oppression of the mind during the patient's life. In the case of derangement of mind, falling into lethargy and...