The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Band 73

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Cupples, Upham & Company, 1866
 

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Seite 289 - How this metamorphosis takes place — how a force existing as motion, heat, or light, can become a mode of consciousness — how it is possible for aerial vibrations to generate the sensation we call sound, or for the forces liberated by chemical changes in the brain to give rise to emotion — these are mysteries which it is impossible to fathom. But they are not profounder mysteries than the transformations of the physical forces into each other.
Seite 161 - Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents : but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Seite 38 - It is obvious that if flesh employed as food is again to become flesh in the body, if it is to retain the power of reproducing itself in its original condition, none of the constituents of raw flesh ought to be withdrawn from it during its preparation for food. If its composition be altered in any way ; if one of...
Seite 288 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Seite 288 - As soon as a beam of either day-light or the oxyhydrogen light is, by raising the shutter, permitted to impinge upon the plate, the needles are deflected : thus, light being the initiating force, we get chemical action on the plate, electricity circulating through the wires, magnetism in the coil, heat in the helix, and motion in the needles.
Seite 288 - And in this twofold sphere the twofold man (For still the artist is intensely a man) Holds firmly by the natural to reach The spiritual beyond it, fixes still The type with mortal vision to pierce through, With eyes immortal to the...
Seite 288 - Through all things upwards, — that a twofold world Must go to a perfect cosmos. Natural things And spiritual, — who separates those two In art, in morals, or the social drift, Tears up the bond of nature and brings death, Paints futile pictures, writes unreal verse, Leads vulgar days, deals ignorantly with men, Is wrong, in short, at all points. We divide This apple of life, and cut it through the pips, — The perfect round which fitted Venus' hand Has perished as utterly as if we ate Both halves.
Seite 121 - ... useless he admitted. He differed from the President in reference to the most common seat of the constriction ; for, although there were cases in which the...
Seite 288 - A prepared Daguerreotype plate is enclosed in a box filled with water, having a glass front, with a shutter over it ; between this glass and the plate is a gridiron of silver wire ; the plate is connected with one extremity of a galvanometer coil, and the gridiron of wire with one extremity of a Breguet's helix...
Seite 262 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York.

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