Physiological Lectures: Addressed to the College of SurgeonsLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1821 - 136 pages |
Other editions - View all
Physiological Lectures: Addressed to the College of Surgeons John Abernethy No preview available - 2015 |
Physiological Lectures: Addressed to the College of Surgeons John Abernethy No preview available - 2018 |
Physiological Lectures: Addressed to the College of Surgeons John Abernethy No preview available - 2020 |
Common terms and phrases
admit anatomist animals aorta appear arteries become believe blood body bones brain carpus cause cavity character chiefly chyle circulation Comparative Anatomy connected consequence considered contraction cuticle Cuvier degree digestion diseases disorder displayed duced effect electricity endeavour enquiry evident examined excited exhibited facts feel fibres functions gastric fluids gillaroo heart human Hunter Hunter's opinions Hunter's Theory induced inferred injected irritability JOHN ABERNETHY John Hunter joint knowledge labour lectures limbs lower kinds mals manner matter means medulla spinalis metacarpal bones mind mode motion muscles muscular Museum nature neral nerves nervous system nourishment observe organs ovum peculiar pelvis perceive perception phænomena Philosophical Physiology possess preparations present probable produce pylorus quadrupeds racter result says secretion seems sensation shew stances stomach structure substance subtile suppose surface tain take place tardigrade tion tubes ture ulna variety various vegetables vertebral column vessels viscera vital actions whilst
Popular passages
Page 40 - Spiritus intus alit: totamque infusa per artus ' Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet ' Inde hominum pecudumque genus vitaeque volantum ' Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
Page 148 - ... no control, either broken or deranged, a thousand movements might instantly be interrupted, and our bodies left to crumble into the dust. It was considerations of this kind that led the celebrated physician Galen, who was a sceptic in his youth, publicly to acknowledge that a Supreme Intelligence must have operated in ordaining the laws by which living beings are constructed. And he wrote his excellent treatise " On the uses of the parts of the human frame," as a solemn hymn to the Creator of...
Page 75 - ... they would then see equal reason to believe that mind might be superadded to life, as life is to structure. They would then, indeed, still farther perceive how mind and matter might reciprocally operate on each other by means of an intervening substance. Thus, even, would physiological researches enforce the belief which, I may say, is natural to man — that, in addition to his bodily frame, he possesses a sensible, intelligent, and independent mind ; an opinion which tends, in an eminent degree,...
Page 94 - We should perceive how nearly impossible it is that persons should feel and think exactly alike upon any subject. We should not arrogantly pride ourselves upon our virtues and knowledge, nor condemn the errors and weakness of others, since they may depend upon causes which we can neither produce nor readily counteract.
Page 253 - The last words of Nelson were, " Tell Collingwood to bring the fleet to an anchor." The tranquil grandeur which cast a new majesty over Charles the First on the scaffold, appeared when he declared, " I fear not death ! Death is not terrible to me...
Page 10 - O 7 variety of organization, yet exercising the same functions in each ; a circumstance from which we may I think naturally conclude, that life does not depend on organization. Mr. Hunter, who so patiently and accurately examined the different links of this great chain, which seems to connect even man with the common matter of the universe, was of this opinion.
Page 38 - When therefore we perceive in the universe at large, a cause of rapid and powerful motions of masses of inert matter, may we not naturally conclude that the inert molecules of vegetable and...
Page 61 - ... principle of life and action, and a sentient and rational faculty, all intimately connected, yet each apparently distinct from the other. " So intimate, indeed, is the connection as to impose on us the opinion of their identity. The body springs and bounds as though its inert fabric were alive, yet we have good reasons for believing that life is distinct from organization. The mind and the actions of life affect each other. Failure or disturbance of the actions of life prevent or disturb our...
Page 72 - I said in the beginning, to be solicitous to think correctly. Opinions are equally the natural result of thought, and the cause of conduct. If errors of thought terminated in opinions, they would be of less consequence ; but a slight deviation from the line of rectitude in thought, may lead to a most distant and disastrous aberration from that line in action.