An Enquiry Into the Probability and Rationality of Mr. Hunter's Theory of Life: Being the Subject of the First Two Anatomical Lectures Delivered Before the Royal College of Surgeons, of LondonLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 - 95 pages |
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... produce it , and the Method of preventing or treating it . By JOHN BURNS , Lecturer of Midwifery , and Member of the Faculty of Phy- sicians and Surgeons in Glasgow . The 2d Edit . Price 5s . " We have perused this volume with great ...
... produce it , and the Method of preventing or treating it . By JOHN BURNS , Lecturer of Midwifery , and Member of the Faculty of Phy- sicians and Surgeons in Glasgow . The 2d Edit . Price 5s . " We have perused this volume with great ...
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... produces no further effect on their minds . Truths , however , are of im- portance , in proportion as they admit of inferences which ought to have an in- fluence in our conduct ; and if we neglect to draw those inferences , or to act in ...
... produces no further effect on their minds . Truths , however , are of im- portance , in proportion as they admit of inferences which ought to have an in- fluence in our conduct ; and if we neglect to draw those inferences , or to act in ...
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... produces com- binations and associations without any re- ference to realities ; opinions , as unlike what I should understand by theory as darkness is to light , have nevertheless - been often proposed as theories and so denominated . That ...
... produces com- binations and associations without any re- ference to realities ; opinions , as unlike what I should understand by theory as darkness is to light , have nevertheless - been often proposed as theories and so denominated . That ...
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... produced in the limbs of some animals when removed from the body , even during twenty - four hours , if excited by voltaic electricity , and conse- quently when no supply of materials can be supposed to exist within the limb , to produce ...
... produced in the limbs of some animals when removed from the body , even during twenty - four hours , if excited by voltaic electricity , and conse- quently when no supply of materials can be supposed to exist within the limb , to produce ...
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... produces motion in them , equally whilst I support this book in my hand , and when I suffer it to fall on the table . If , however , so curious an occa- sional property could belong to matter , we should naturally expect that it would ...
... produces motion in them , equally whilst I support this book in my hand , and when I suffer it to fall on the table . If , however , so curious an occa- sional property could belong to matter , we should naturally expect that it would ...
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Page 74 - ... to organization; 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...
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Page 14 - I think naturally conclude, that life does hot 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. In speaking of the properties of life, he says, it is something that prevents...
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