Dissection of these turtles revealed that their stomachs were distended to two or three times normal size with mulberries; no other kinds of food were found in the stomachs.
Dissection of injured shells revealed the mode of shell regeneration to be the same whether a large or small portion of the shell had been damaged.
The dissection of animals is not altogether pleasant, and requires much time; nor is it easy to secure an adequate supply of the needful specimens.
Not only sceptical to the core, but constitutionally indifferent, the squire had always found enough to make life amply worth living in the mere dissection of other men's beliefs.
If she had known more of literature she would have realised that she was witnessing a masterly dissection of one of those many morbid growths of which our nineteenth century psychology is full.
The dissection of the human body was prohibited since the injury to the body would prevent its resurrection on the Last Day.
And it has disagreed with him; man has not digested it properly through lack of sufficient dissection of its parts.
He had been implicated in the Burke and Hare scandal, had been proved to have availed himself of the services of these murderers to procure him subjects for dissection at his school of anatomy.
There was one subject on which he was impervious to argument: he would never admit that it concerned him in the least how the subjects fordissection had come into his hands.
Dissection and the making of a post-mortem examination, though often confounded in the public mind, differ materially.
The art of anatomical dissection consists in freeing the muscles, tendons, arteries, veins, and nerves from the surrounding fat and connective tissue which in the living body preserves and covers them.
So indispensable is it that the schools have never scrupled to obtain subjects for dissection when popular prejudice stinted the supply, by foul means when fair did not avail.
To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).
The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation.
If it is not convenient to finish the dissection of an insect at once, it should be covered with spirits of wine.
The ramifications of the tracheal tree may be seen without dissection through the transparent skin of the common louse[277] and most of the thin skinned larvae.
Were you to push your examination further, and by dissection to compare the internal conformation of the caterpillar with that of the butterfly, you would witness changes even more extraordinary.
Incision followed bydissection and removal of the sac, either intact or punctured, is radical and efficient.
Its dissection from the normal position is a real loss at that site, and of questionable benefit over the cut bone, as motion in the joint is as good or better without it.
When the dissection reaches the papillary layer in the skin, as evidenced by the red color, further operative steps should cease.
The latter procedure usually accomplishes the control of the hemorrhage incident to a deep dissection for papilloma or verucca.
If the insect is allowed to stay in this mixture for a considerable time, say three or four weeks, and then removed and dried, it becomes very hard and brittle and can not be used for dissection or study, but makes a good cabinet specimen.
The ligaments remain soft and movable, and the animals or plants remain fit for anatomical dissection and study for long periods, even years.
The dissection shows other peculiarities of structure, such as might be expected from a consideration of the exterior.
From the sides of Hoosac and Greylock the surface of the Massachusetts plateau is seen, with its dissectionby the Berkshire and Deerfield Valleys, illustrating the broad effects of erosion over the surface of the continent.
In protracted and unyielding cases, removal of the whole matrix of the nail has been proposed; the dissection is painful and tedious, and its efficacy doubtful.
In mismanaged cases, I have found on dissection the lower end of the bone lying in the sacro-ischiatic notch, and a process advancing very different from reparation—necrosis.
To search for, and make a clean dissectionof the wounded part of the vessel in such cases, is impossible.
The dissection is difficult, the vein being much in the way, and the vessels surrounded by nerves, and intimately connected with them by dense cellular tissue.
In general, regular dissection is unnecessary in the removal of encysted tumours.
It is commenced opposite to the os hyoides, and carried downwards parallel with the trachea; the use of the knife is continued till by cautious dissection the wound is brought to the level of the common sheath of the large vessels.
Removal of such tumours by dissection is unnecessary, and also attended with risk.
The dissection was proceeded with to where the branches from the supra-scapular were expected to enter.
On dissection we found 81 vertebræ, exclusive of the cephalic.
The dissection of the Cetacea, and more especially of the larger kinds, is attended with great difficulty, and not unfrequently entails heavy expenses on those who attempt it.
Dissection of a small Cetacean sent to me from Orkney in the month of May 1835.
Strange to say, however, the practice of dissection fell into disuse toward the end of this Anatomic Period, and scholars preferred to indulge in subtle metaphysical discussions rather than study human tissues.
He did not limit himself todissection of his own cases, but sought autopsies in the cases of others.
Amphitheaters for dissection were open in every city in Europe.
The first deserving of mention was Herophilus, who was born in Chalcedon about the end of the fourth century before Christ, and supposed to be the first to undertake systematic dissection of the human body.
Respect for the bodies of the dead was a religious observance in all Greece, and prevented the dissection of the human body.
The prejudice against dissection did not begin to abate until the thirteenth century, when a very few of the clergy dared, in a very timid manner, to perform surgical operations.
The principal reason for its eminence in medical instruction was the practice of dissection of human bodies, which, under the Ptolemies, was allowed and recommended, and by which the science of medicine received an extraordinary impulse.
But zeal for dissection rapidly cooled off, and Galen barely mentions five or six men who devoted themselves to it in the space of nearly four hundred years down to his time.
But this folly was gradually discontinued, and by the second half of the sixteenth century public dissection was performed without recourse to such mummeries.
After him the practice of dissection appears to have been lost, either from the redoubled prejudices of the superstitious, who opposed it, or as the result of the apathetic ignorance or the ignorant apathy of the physicians.
The laboratory in which these researches were conducted, was high and airy and not associated with any unpleasant smells except at the season when the class were engaged upon the dissection of the hideous dog-fish.
Boyce was evidently far less unapproachable than Edwin had imagined, and while they were examining his dissection together they had not noticed the approach of Dr.
Her place was not filled; she had been simply noted as absent, and she did a comforting day of admirable dissection upon the tortoise.
Here is something which, intangible in itself, seems incapable of dissection or of objective experimentation, in the ordinary sense of the word.
To illustrate an important dissection of the graph we will consider those graphs which read the same by columns as by lines; these are called self-conjugate.
As dissection was considered a profanation of the body, anatomical knowledge was exceedingly meagre.
In his time public opinion condemned dissection of the human body, but it is certain that dissections were performed by Hippocrates to a limited extent.
He was greatly helped in the supply of material fordissection in his study of comparative anatomy by his pupil, Alexander the Great.
It is recorded that they did not confine their investigations to the dissection of the dead, but also vivisected criminals.
The directions he gives for dissection show that he was a master of the art.
There was no prejudice against dissection in Holland; in all the principal towns lectures on anatomy were publicly given, and dissected subjects were exhibited.
Madden), account ofdissection at College of Surgeons, 28.
Dissection in the United States was, as in this country, looked upon with great aversion; this was, no doubt, mainly owing to the fact that the bodies used for this purpose were obtained from the graves.
To remedy this a clause was proposed, giving the College permission to have a place near to Newgate, where the part of the sentence which related to the dissection of the bodies might be carried out.
Great respect for the body of the dead has characterised mankind in nearly all ages; post mortem dissection was looked upon as a great indignity by the relatives of the deceased, and every precaution was taken to prevent its occurrence.
To make provision by law, therefore, for the dissection of the bodies of any other class of persons was, not unnaturally, distasteful, in that it partly put them in the same position as murderers.
No doubt this provision much increased the dislike of the poor to any regulations by which the bodies of their friends might be given up for dissection after death.
The complaint as to the scarcity of bodies for dissection is as old as the history of anatomy itself.
As pointed out on page 87, this was one of the great reasons which made dissection so hateful to the poor.
The rule was that all bodies of persons who died in hospital were given up for dissection if required; but, by paying the cost of the funeral, friends could, if they wished, take away the body.
That the body of Mary Whittenbach executed this day at the Old Bailey for murder be delivered (after the necessary dissection by the College) to Mr. Joseph Henry Green.
In the male Cockroach ten abdominal terga are visible without dissection (fig.
Swammerdam proved by dissection that the queen is the mother of the colony, that the drones are males, and the working-bees neuters; but he did not find out that the neuters are only imperfect females.
A collection of these would help as much, perhaps, to solve some of the problems of affinity, as the dissection of the body, and there would be this advantage in the method, viz.
