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... they considered the body as an hydraulic machine, and the fluids as passing
through a series of chemical changes, forgetting that animation was its essential
chara&teristic. The great CREAT or of all things has infinitely diversified the works
...
... they considered the body as an hydraulic machine, and the fluids as passing
through a series of chemical changes, forgetting that animation was its essential
chara&teristic. The great CREAT or of all things has infinitely diversified the works
...
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Though these three classes include the motions of solid, liquid, and aerial bodies
; there is nevertheless a fourth division of motions; I mean those of the supposed
ethereal fluids of magnetism, electricity, heat, and light; whose properties are not
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Though these three classes include the motions of solid, liquid, and aerial bodies
; there is nevertheless a fourth division of motions; I mean those of the supposed
ethereal fluids of magnetism, electricity, heat, and light; whose properties are not
...
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... as the salivary glands, lachrymal glands, &c. orin capillary vessels, which are
probably less involuted glands; in these some fluid, as saliva, tears, perspiration,
is separated from the blood; and the remainder of the blood is absorbed or drank
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... as the salivary glands, lachrymal glands, &c. orin capillary vessels, which are
probably less involuted glands; in these some fluid, as saliva, tears, perspiration,
is separated from the blood; and the remainder of the blood is absorbed or drank
...
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These lasteal and lymphatic vessels are furnished with numerous valves to
prevent the return of the fluids, which they absorb, and terminate in glands, called
lymphatic glands, and may hence be considered as long necks or mouths
belonging ...
These lasteal and lymphatic vessels are furnished with numerous valves to
prevent the return of the fluids, which they absorb, and terminate in glands, called
lymphatic glands, and may hence be considered as long necks or mouths
belonging ...
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The similarity of the texture of the brain to that of the pancreas, and some other
glands of the body, has induced the inquirers into this subject to believe, that a
fluid, perhaps much more subtile than the electric aura, is separated from the
blood ...
The similarity of the texture of the brain to that of the pancreas, and some other
glands of the body, has induced the inquirers into this subject to believe, that a
fluid, perhaps much more subtile than the electric aura, is separated from the
blood ...
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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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