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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... vegetables , and of a structure so simple as to admit of pro- pagation like vegetables by cuttings . Yet in all the diversity of living beings we recognize certain processes peculiar and essential to life ; as the power of converting ...
... vegetables , and of a structure so simple as to admit of pro- pagation like vegetables by cuttings . Yet in all the diversity of living beings we recognize certain processes peculiar and essential to life ; as the power of converting ...
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... vegetables , and in some moluscæ , no traces of nerves are discoverable . The nervous system begins in a simple form , and seems to increase in complexity up to man . But this will make the subject of the next lecture . Mr. Hunter also ...
... vegetables , and in some moluscæ , no traces of nerves are discoverable . The nervous system begins in a simple form , and seems to increase in complexity up to man . But this will make the subject of the next lecture . Mr. Hunter also ...
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... vegetable and animal matter , may be made to move in a si- milar manner , by a similar cause ? * It is not meant to be affirmed that electricity is life . There are strong ana- logies between electricity and magnetism , and yet I do not ...
... vegetable and animal matter , may be made to move in a si- milar manner , by a similar cause ? * It is not meant to be affirmed that electricity is life . There are strong ana- logies between electricity and magnetism , and yet I do not ...
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... vegetables , and in some moluscæ , no traces of a nervous system are discoverable . In some of the lower order of animals , that have organs for the preparation and dis- tribution of nutriment , they are supplied by a visceral nerve ...
... vegetables , and in some moluscæ , no traces of a nervous system are discoverable . In some of the lower order of animals , that have organs for the preparation and dis- tribution of nutriment , they are supplied by a visceral nerve ...
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... vegetables , and in some moluscæ , no traces of a nervous system are discoverable , yet the irritability of life is manifest in all . In the ascending series of animals , in proportion as the brain becomes large and complex , we have ...
... vegetables , and in some moluscæ , no traces of a nervous system are discoverable , yet the irritability of life is manifest in all . In the ascending series of animals , in proportion as the brain becomes large and complex , we have ...
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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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