The Human Body: An Elementary Text-book of Anatomy, Physiology and HygieneHenry Holt & Company, 1886 - 377 páginas |
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abdominal action alcohol alimentary canal animal aorta auricle bile blood blood-vessels body bones brain branches breathing called capillaries carbon dioxide cartilage cavity cells centre chemical chest chyme color connective tissue consists contain contraction Describe diaphragm digestion disease dorsal duct elastic energy fibres fibrin flow foot front gastric Give glands gullet heart heat humerus Illustrate joint kidney lacteals larynx layer ligaments limbs liquid liver lower lungs lymph matter microscope mouth movement mucous membrane muscles muscular nerve-centres nerve-fibres nerves nervous nitrogen organs outer oxidation oxygen papillæ pass pericardium pharynx portion proteids pulmonary artery pulmonary veins quantity red corpuscles retina ribs right auricle saliva secretion seen sensations side skeleton skin skull small intestine spinal cord starch stomach structure substances supply surface teeth temperature tendon tion tongue trunk tube upper valves veins ventral ventricle vertebral vertebral column vessels walls
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Página 378 - ... multiplication-table. With this in view, the author attempts to exhibit, so far as is practicable in an elementary treatise, the ascertained facts of Physiology as illustrations of, or deductions from, the two cardinal principles by which it, as a department of modern science, is controlled, — namely, the doctrine of the " Conservation of Energy" and that of the" Physiological Division of Labor.
Página 377 - The principal objects of the series are to supply the lack — in some subjects very great — of authoritative books whose principles are, so far as practicable, illustrated by familiar American facts, and also to supply the other lack that the advance of Science perennially creates, of text-books which at least do not contradict the latest generalizations. The scheme...
Página iv - Physiological Division of Labor." To the same end he also gives simple, practical directions to assist the teacher in demonstrating to the class the fundamental facts of the science. The book includes a chapter on the action upon the body of stimulants and narcotics. From HENRY...
Página 378 - Professor of Physiology, University of Michigan: "The number of poor books meant to serve the purpose of text-books of physiology for schools is so great that it is well to define clearly the needs of such a work: I. That it shall contain accurate statements of fact. 2. That its facts shall not be too numerous, but chosen so that the important truths are recognized in their true relations. 3. That the language shall be so lucid as to give no excuse for misunderstanding.
Página 378 - Elementary Course. I2mo. 261 pp. A very earnest attempt to present the subject so that children may easily understand it, and, whenever possible, to start with familiar facts and gradually to lead up to less obvious ones. The action on the body of stimulants and narcotics is fully treated. From WS PERRY...
Página 217 - The human heart lies with its apex touching the chest-wall between the fifth and sixth ribs on the left side of the breast-bone. At every beat a sort of tap known as the " cardiac impulse," or " apex beat," may be felt by placing the finger at that point.