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How the first embryon fibre, sphere, or cube, Lives in new forms, a line,—a ring,
— a tube; Closed in the womb with limbs unfinished laves, 15 Sips with rude
mouth the salutary waves; Seeks round its cell the sanguine streams, that pass,
And ...
How the first embryon fibre, sphere, or cube, Lives in new forms, a line,—a ring,
— a tube; Closed in the womb with limbs unfinished laves, 15 Sips with rude
mouth the salutary waves; Seeks round its cell the sanguine streams, that pass,
And ...
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A muscular fibre. 5. The immediate organs of sense. 6. The external organs of
sense. 7. An idea or sensual motion. 8. Perception. 9. Sensation. Io. Recollection
and suggestion. 11. Habit, causation, association, catenation, 12. Reflex ideas.
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A muscular fibre. 5. The immediate organs of sense. 6. The external organs of
sense. 7. An idea or sensual motion. 8. Perception. 9. Sensation. Io. Recollection
and suggestion. 11. Habit, causation, association, catenation, 12. Reflex ideas.
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The ultimate fibrils of these nerves terminate in the immediate organs of sense
and muscular fibres, and is a ligature be put on any part of their passage from the
head or spine, all motion and perception cease in the parts beneath the ligature.
The ultimate fibrils of these nerves terminate in the immediate organs of sense
and muscular fibres, and is a ligature be put on any part of their passage from the
head or spine, all motion and perception cease in the parts beneath the ligature.
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In these it lays aside its coverings, and is intermixed with the slender fibres, which
constitute those muscles and organs of sense. Thus all these distant ramifications
of the sensorium are united at one of their extremities, that is, in the head and ...
In these it lays aside its coverings, and is intermixed with the slender fibres, which
constitute those muscles and organs of sense. Thus all these distant ramifications
of the sensorium are united at one of their extremities, that is, in the head and ...
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The immediate organs of sense consist in like manner of moving fibres
enveloped in the medullary substance above mentioned; and are erroneously
supposed to be simply an expansion of the nervous medulla, as the retina of the
eye, and ...
The immediate organs of sense consist in like manner of moving fibres
enveloped in the medullary substance above mentioned; and are erroneously
supposed to be simply an expansion of the nervous medulla, as the retina of the
eye, and ...
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| Title | Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ... Volume 1 of Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life, Erasmus Darwin |
| Author | Erasmus Darwin |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1801 |
| Length | 516 pages |
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