Letters to Brother John, on Life, Health and Disease1859 - 12 sidor |
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Letters to Brother John, on Life, Health and Disease Edward Johnson (M.D.) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1859 |
Letters to Brother John, on Life, Health and Disease Edward Johnson (M.D.) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1837 |
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Sida 25 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it : as thus : Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam ; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Sida 78 - John, you will observe that every thing connected with life — all the actions, the energies, and beauties of the body ; all the actions, energies, and beauties of the mind, as well as the body and mind themselves, are under the dominion of the circulation of the blood, from which both mind and body must inevitably derive each its tone and character. So that " the body and the mind are like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining — rumple the one and you rumple the other.
Sida 78 - think," in the last instance, is improperly used ; he sits down in order to describe the ideas which his mind's eye beholds dancing in antic and ever-varying groups on the stage of his own brain's theatre — to " Body forth The forms of things unknown ; Turn them to shapes, and give to airy nothings A local habitation and a name.
Sida 38 - Life consists in the sum of the characteristic actions of organized beings, performed in virtue of a specific susceptibility, acted upon by specific stimuli...
Sida 142 - If then wine contains some nourishment, it must depend on the solid particles suspended in it. Now if you evaporate a glass of wine on a shallow plate, whatever solid matter it contains will be left dry upon the plate, and this will amount to about as much as may be laid on the extreme point of a pen-knife blade, and a portion, by no means, all, of this solid matter, is capable of nourishing the body, a portion about equal to one-third of the flour in a single grain of wheat...
Sida 127 - See how it is buffetted by the wind, and alternately scorched by the sun, and deluged by the rain, and frozen by the frost, and spattered by the mud, and brushed and bruised by the passenger's foot ! Yet how greenly and healthily it grows ! Take it into your...
Sida 29 - of a considerable number of ganglia, (hardish knobs,) of which the number and size differ not only in different individuals, but in the same individual, on the two sides of the body ; and of branches which in part connect these ganglia, or form junctions with the other nerves, and are in part distributed to the internal organs. It extends from the base of the skull, on each side of the vertebral column (backbone) through the neck, chest, and abdomen, as far as the coccyx, (that is, the lower extremity...
Sida 141 - If wine be productive of good, what is the nature and kind of good which it produces ? Does it nourish the body ? We know that it does not ; for the life of any animal cannot be supported by it. Besides, if yon have understood what I have said as.
Sida 136 - ... water-drinking, then, it is clear that the relish depends, not on any flavour residing in the water, but on a certain condition of the body. If therefore we only took drink when drink was required, pure water would be sufficiently delicious, but we seek to give to our drink certain exciting and racy flavours as a substitute for that relish which should, of right, reside in ourselves, and we do this in order to enable ourselves to drink when drink is not reqnired.
Sida 3 - that by the use of alcohol a limit must rapidly be put to the change of matter in certain parts of the body. The oxygen of the arterial blood, which, in the absence of alcohol, would have combined with the matter of the tissues, now combines with the elements of alcohol. The arterial blood becomes venous, without the substance of the muscles having taken any share in the transformation.