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... NATURE AND OBJECTS OF THE SCIENCE OF PHYSIOLOGY 1. General Characters of Organized Structures 2. Digestive Characters of Vital Actions 3. Of the Forces concerned in the production of Vital Phenomena 4. Of Degeneration and Death . 5 ...
... NATURE AND OBJECTS OF THE SCIENCE OF PHYSIOLOGY 1. General Characters of Organized Structures 2. Digestive Characters of Vital Actions 3. Of the Forces concerned in the production of Vital Phenomena 4. Of Degeneration and Death . 5 ...
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... Nature and Objects of the Circulation of Nutrient Fluid 2. Different forms of the Circulating Apparatus 304 305 3. Action of the Heart . 320 4. Movement of the Blood in the Arteries . 327 5. Movement of the Blood in the Capillaries 6 ...
... Nature and Objects of the Circulation of Nutrient Fluid 2. Different forms of the Circulating Apparatus 304 305 3. Action of the Heart . 320 4. Movement of the Blood in the Arteries . 327 5. Movement of the Blood in the Capillaries 6 ...
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William Benjamin Carpenter. BOOK I. GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY . CHAPTER I. ON THE NATURE AND OBJECTS OF THE SCIENCE OF PHYSIOLOGY . -- 1. THE general distribution of the objects presented to us by external nature , into three kingdoms - the ...
William Benjamin Carpenter. BOOK I. GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY . CHAPTER I. ON THE NATURE AND OBJECTS OF THE SCIENCE OF PHYSIOLOGY . -- 1. THE general distribution of the objects presented to us by external nature , into three kingdoms - the ...
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... to a new being , is not so much the structure itself as the power of forming that structure from the surrounding elements ; and it is by gradually drawing to itself certain of these elements 22 NATURE AND OBJECTS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCE .
... to a new being , is not so much the structure itself as the power of forming that structure from the surrounding elements ; and it is by gradually drawing to itself certain of these elements 22 NATURE AND OBJECTS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCE .
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... nature of the chemical operations they effect ; for it is their function to combine the oxygen , hydrogen , carbon , and nitrogen , of the Inorganic world into Organic Compounds ; which not only serve as the materials of their own ...
... nature of the chemical operations they effect ; for it is their function to combine the oxygen , hydrogen , carbon , and nitrogen , of the Inorganic world into Organic Compounds ; which not only serve as the materials of their own ...
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