The Connection Between Physiology and Intellectual PhilosophyWilliam Pickering, 1846 |
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Seite 97 - Sligo, and Mayo. Here they have been almost ever since exposed to the worst effects of hunger and ignorance, the two great brutalizers of the human race.
Seite 24 - Discovery of the functions of the anterior and posterior roots of the spinal nerves by Sir Charles Bell.
Seite 80 - Mr. Cline ; and when he was first admitted into this hospital, I saw him lying on his back, breathing without any great difficulty ; his pulse regular, his arms extended, and his fingers moving to and fro to the motion of his heart ; so that you could count his pulse by this motion of his fingers. If he...
Seite 49 - exists only in those regions of this great system which are exposed to the contact of foreign bodies, and where it is essential to the comfort or preservation of the animal that the presence and qualities of external objects should be perceived. Its nerves, unlike those of the other especial senses, which have their origin in the brain, are derived from the cerebro-spinal system, and intermingle, as they pass out, with those of motion. The extremities of these nerve fibrils pass through the true...
Seite 97 - In Sligo and northern Mayo, the consequences of the two centuries of degradation and hardship exhibit themselves in the whole physical condition of the people, affecting not only the features, but the frame, and...
Seite 75 - Although Aristotle has remarked that the female brain is absolutely smaller than the male, it is nevertheless not relatively smaller compared with the body ; for the female body is, in general, lighter than that of the male. The female brain is for the most part even larger than the male, compared with the size of the body.
Seite 98 - Five feet two inches upon an average, pot-bellied, bowlegged, abortively featured ; their clothing a wisp of rags, &c. — these spectres of a people that once were well-grown, able-bodied, and comely, stalk abroad into the day-light of civilization, the annual apparitions of Irish ugliness and Irish want." " In other parts of the island, where the population has never undergone the influence of the same causes of physical degradation, it is well known that the same race furnishes the most perfect...
Seite 79 - I have, a .case which I think you would like to see. It is a man who lias been insensible for many months ; he lies on his back with very few signs of life ; he breathes, indeed, has a pulse, and some motion in his fingers ; but in all other respects he is apparently deprived of all powers of mind, volition, or sensation.