The Professor's Wife. A StoryChatto & Windus, 1881 - 167 páginas |
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Alan animal arch-vivisector Archer ascer Aunt Cecilia bear bear-leader Beatrice's BECCLES beg your pardon Bertram better Blue Book Chiavenna chloroform Claude Bernard cried cruel curare D'Eynecourt dare say dear fellow dinner door drawing-room Eleanor Eric's exclaimed Beatrice experiments eyes Fane Fingal forgive Frank gentlemen give glanced Good-bye hand head hear heard husband hypnotize Inglefield knew laboratory Lady Grant Lady Westernbrook Laneton laughed lecture look Lord Moreham master and pupil matter Maude mean ment mind Miss Egerton morning nerves never night old Professor once paused physiology portmanteau Professor Golbig Sir Arthur Sir Eric Grant sitting smile sorry speak suddenly suppose talk tell thank things thought to-night told tone tram trying Uncle Arthur Uncle Gerald vivisect vivisector voice white witch wife Williamson wonder word
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Página 28 - Judge not; the workings of his brain And of his heart thou canst not see; What looks to thy dim eyes a stain, In God's pure light may only be A scar, brought from some well-won field, Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
Página 138 - He took her up in his arms as if she had been a child, and carried her into another room, where he laid her on a bed. He had often seen sick and dying people, and he did not for a moment lose his presence of mind. He saw at once that Jane had fainted, and by the help of a few simple restoratives she soon recovered. She slowly opened her eyes and looked strangely at him.
Página 167 - The advancement of science, and not practical utility to medicine, is the true and straightforward object of all vivisection. No true investigator in his researches thinks of the practical utilization. Science can afford to despise this justification with which vivisection has been defended in England.
Página 42 - HAST thou seen, with flash incessant, Bubbles gliding under ice, Bodied forth and evanescent. No one knows by what device! Such are thoughts! — A wind-swept meadow Mimicking a troubled sea: Such is life; and death a shadow From the rock eternity!
Página 164 - ... very carefully freed from the connective tissue surrounding them. If the animal be strong and have thoroughly recovered from the chloroform and from the operation, irritation of the peripheral stump of the anterior root causes not only contractions in the muscles supplied by the nerve, but also movements in other parts of the body indicative of pain or of sensations.
Página 80 - IS ENOUGH : cherish life that abideth, Lest ye die ere ye know him, and curse and misname him; For who knows in what ruin of all hope he hideth, On what wings of the terror of darkness he rideth? And what is the joy of man's life that ye blame him For his bliss grown a sword, and his rest grown afire?
Página 164 - Handbook of the Physiological Laboratory," page 403 : " This is never witnessed in the frog. It can be shown only in the higher animals, the cat or dog being best adapted for the purpose. The method adopted is very similar to the...
Página 162 - A cat we generally must chloroform. 3642. Why do you not chloroform a dog ? — We chloroform a cat because we are afraid of being scratched. 3643. Why not a dog?— If it is a small dog there is no fear of being bitten by the dog.
Página 167 - ... regard to the journals; the outcry and agitation carried on in the different journals against the practice of vivisection. There is no such thing abroad; there the general public takes no view, does not claim to pronounce any criticism or any judgment about scientific teaching or physiology in general. 3553. But you believe that, generally speaking, there is a very different feeling in England?
Página 165 - ... movements in other parts of the body indicative of pain or of sensation. On dividing the mixed trunk at some little distance from the junction of the roots, the contractions of the muscles supplied by the nerves cease, but the general signs of pain or sensation still remain. These disappear when the posterior root is also divided. Hence it is inferred that fibres conveying centripetal impulses pass downward along the anterior root to the mixed trunk, and thence, turning round, run back again...