Life of Dr. John Reid, Late Chandos Professor of Anatomy and Medicine in the University of St. Andrews |
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... Experimental Physiology , ( the department in which he afterwards so highly distinguished himself , ) was first awakened in him by a perusal of Haller's work On the Sensibility of Parts , which , during the summer vacation , the two ...
... Experimental Physiology , ( the department in which he afterwards so highly distinguished himself , ) was first awakened in him by a perusal of Haller's work On the Sensibility of Parts , which , during the summer vacation , the two ...
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... experiments at its meetings , along with the young doctors and naturalists of their day . Similar reunions may still be witnessed at its meetings . † * A well - known and very graphic description of some of the earlier meetings of the ...
... experiments at its meetings , along with the young doctors and naturalists of their day . Similar reunions may still be witnessed at its meetings . † * A well - known and very graphic description of some of the earlier meetings of the ...
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... experiment without risking the de- struction or derangement of the vital forces , by the unavoidable interference with their normal action , which experiment necessitates . Moreover , what is vital in any single function or phenomenon ...
... experiment without risking the de- struction or derangement of the vital forces , by the unavoidable interference with their normal action , which experiment necessitates . Moreover , what is vital in any single function or phenomenon ...
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... title is , " An Experimental Investigation into the Functions of the Eighth Pair of Nerves , or the Glosso- Pharyngeal , Pneumogastric , and Spinal Accessory . " is necessary that I should take great care of myself 86 LIFE OF.
... title is , " An Experimental Investigation into the Functions of the Eighth Pair of Nerves , or the Glosso- Pharyngeal , Pneumogastric , and Spinal Accessory . " is necessary that I should take great care of myself 86 LIFE OF.
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... experiments on living animals , imply- ing the infliction of much suffering . To the moral aspects of this mode of investigation , to which Dr. Reid gave much attention , I shall again refer ; mean- while , I request the reader's ...
... experiments on living animals , imply- ing the infliction of much suffering . To the moral aspects of this mode of investigation , to which Dr. Reid gave much attention , I shall again refer ; mean- while , I request the reader's ...
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Page 155 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs, Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 158 - for Aix is in sight!" "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 174 - For we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Page 180 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Page 114 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked : that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 274 - So if he has declared that you shall hereafter stand before his judgment seat to give an account of the deeds done in the body...
Page 98 - I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing ? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling ? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased Him. And if they were all one member, where were the body ? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand,...
Page 65 - ... of pretension or notion of his own importance, or so little solicitous to distinguish himself, or so sincerely willing to give place to every one else. Even upon subjects which he had thoroughly studied, he was never in the least impatient to speak, and...
Page 235 - It is better to sit down in a modest ignorance, and rest contented with the natural blessing of our own reasons, than buy the uncertain knowledge of this life with sweat and vexation, which Death gives every fool gratis, and is an accessary of our glorification.
Page 158 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.