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Page 337 - ... as well as reservoirs, and are essentially designed for man to enable him to control and to exercise that moral check on the passions by which he should be distinguished from brute animals, and without which no considerable advance can be made in civilization or in elevation of individual condition and character.
Page 154 - Crawford's hypothesis; the essence of which is, that the capacity of arterial blood for heat is greater than that of venous, that there is no difference of temperature between the two ventricles of the heart, and, in fact, that the heat of all parts is nearly the same. They are more agreeable to, and indeed they even support, the hypothesis of Dr. Black, that animal heat is produced in the lungs, and distributed over the whole system by means of the arterial blood.
Page 173 - Indians are of this opinion, and there is a tradition or story amongst them in which this origin is assigned to us.
Page 45 - ... of the same substance. In a practical point of view, however, the professor seems to have been more successful ; for he informs us, that " ever since the year 1 8 1 5, he has made telescopes of prisms of larger and smaller angles, which have fully answered his expectations," and that " one of them, less than an inch in length, and half an inch in breadth, composed of little prisms of French glass, with angles of 45°, affords so much distinctness and precision in the outlines of the images, that...
Page 114 - ... towards the elucidation of an important and most mysterious subject. Experiments on the Poison of the Hooded Snake. Experiment 1. The snake used in this experiment was found in a bag floating down the Kalany ganga. It was about five feet long, and its broadest part about six inches in circumference. It appeared to be active and in good health. On the 30th of November, 1816, at Colombo, a full-grown hen was brought near it. After much threatening the snake darted on the hen, and fixed its fangs...
Page 224 - ... elevation of temperature, resulting from the more energetic respiration which he supposes to be exercised by these organs. He, however, thinks it not improbable that these fish may possess means of generating heat peculiar to themselves, and of which at present we have no adequate idea. He conceives that the situation of the kidneys, of which a considerable portion is even higher than the stomach, and posterior to the gills, and which are of large size, and well supplied with nerves and blood-vessels,...
Page 333 - If he had, he could hardly have failed to have arrived at a different conclusion. The second inference is supported by there being a certain difference in almost every case between the fluid of the vesiculce and that of the vasa deferentia...
Page 154 - ... hypothesis ; the essence of which is, that the capacity of arterial blood for heat is greater than that of venous, that there is no difference of temperature between the two ventricles of the heart, and in fact that the heat of all parts is nearly the same. They are more agreeable to, and indeed they even support, the hypothesis of Dr. Black, 'that animal heat is produced in the lungs, and distributed over the whole system by means of the Arterial blood...
Page 334 - ... most out of the way of being readily mixed with the fluid of the testes. What the exact difference of qualities is between the fluid of the vesiculae and...