My experiments have forced me to the conclusion that there is no difference as regards suggestibility between natural sleep and the so-called hypnotic trance.
He has made some very striking and arresting experiments with protoplasm and chemical stimuli and opened a new field of problems in biology.
It seems"-- "That his experiments have very considerably advanced the cause of science, doubtless?
But if he makes experiments for so comprehensive a book as his, there would be no end to them; his erroneous assertions would fall then upon himself; and he might be blamed for not having made experiments as to every particular.
Sand and mud have been brought up from a depth of a hundred fathoms below the surface, and experiments have shown that waves have a vertical influence 350 times their height.
We have thus given, in some detail, descriptions of all the noteworthy experiments in navigation previous to the birth of Christ.
The most extensive experimentsof this kind were made in England, but not with the most gratifying success.
It has been shown that in nature, as in the experimentsof M.
The objects were to make experiments on the elliptical figure of the earth, on magnetic and meteorological phenomena, and on the refraction of the atmosphere in high latitudes.
Hunting, botanizing, excursions upon the island, experiments in an observatory erected on shore, and amateur theatricals, afforded some relief from the unavoidable inactivity to which officers and crew were now condemned.
If before drawing his map the traveller were to go to some working lithographer and witness the process, and make two or three experiments in a small way, he would naturally succeed all the better.
I have made a great many experiments with different kinds of wood, having procured an assortment of those used by the fancy toy-makers of Tunbridge Wells, and the chippings from botanical gardens.
One of Mr. Glaisher's experiments showed a difference of no less than 28 degrees between the cold on the ground and that at 8 feet high.
A vast number of experiments have been made by Mr. Glaisher on this subject ('Phil.
The above figures are the results of experiments made in England, where the air is always moist, and the formation of dew, while it testifies to the cold of the night, assists largely to moderate it.
I have made several experimentswith a view to obtaining serviceable spectacles, for seeing under water.
Professor Tyndall's expositions and experiments are remarkably thoughtful, ingenious, clear and convincing; portions of the book have almost the interest of a romance, so startling are the descriptions and elucidations.
The lectures are so full of life and spirit that we can almost imagine the lecturer before us, and see his brilliant experiments in every stage of their progress.
The apparatus used by Hansen and Lehmann in their experiments consists of two large concave reflectors.
Helmholtz confined hisexperiments and demonstrations to the mouth-pharynx cavity, and investigated in particular the influence of this cavity in producing the various vowel and consonant sounds.
Similar experiments would probably show that unconscious movements of the larynx also occur during the listening to vocal tones.
It must be noted here that these experimentsare not in any sense convincing.
He began life as a painter, but did not give his whole attention to art--chemistry and experiments in electricity and galvanism claiming much of his time.
Many curious and interesting experiments may be performed by means of the machine, illustrating the general properties of electricity.
Bacon suffered some from the ignorance of the age in which he lived, many of his experiments being looked upon as magic.
From papers in the historical collections of Pennsylvania, it appears that the first successful experiments were made at Philadelphia, in 1785, three years before the attempts at Falkirk, and on the Clyde, in Scotland.
There is possibly no animal so well adapted for scientific experiments as the Guinea Pig.
As a hobby the raising of Guinea Pigs is most interesting and instructive as there are so many experiments that can be made in the breeding.
The dangerous experiments in rhyming which characterised many of the poems in the volumes of 1844 are abandoned; the licences of language are less frequent; the verse runs smoothly and is more uniformly under command.
Until there are carefully carried out fertilizer experiments with this fruit the vexatious problems of fertilization cannot be solved.
Already we seem to have seen in some of the radium experiments one "element" turn into another.
In other words, socialistic experiments will have demonstrated their own evils before the habit of indulging in them has gone so far as to allow States to drift the whole way into socialism.
Few things are more remarkable in the numerous and highly-varied experiments of vaticinatory fiction and more serious efforts of prognostication than the utter absence of any adequate attempt to forecast the future of the race itself.
My own experiments on animals have shown me how rapidly fatal even small quantities of chloroform are when injected into the circulation, and a similar remark is equally applicable to sulphuric ether.
The results of theexperiments on artificial jaundice (page 95) led me to this conclusion.
If one of the professors of his medical school chances to be addicted to making anti-Martin experiments on animals, or the study of comparative anatomy, the pursuits offer an endless fund of amusement to the jocose student.
Already it is being applied in Cuba, and without doubt innumerable lives will be saved as a result of these experiments showing the precise method by which yellow fever is contracted by those exposed in an "infected locality.
By theseexperiments all other causes were ruled out of consideration.
Reed and his associates analyzed the phenomenon more closely and tried their experiments on the hypothesis that only mosquitoes who have lived twelve days after biting the patient are capable of passing on the disease.
With reference to the experimentsmade for the solution of this question I cannot do better than to quote in extensa from Dr.
At present the law of New York state applies to experiments upon animals the same principle that it applies to surgical operations upon men, women, and children.
But if his experiments prove inconclusive either way, he is quit for his loss of time, no vital harm being done.
Finlay's experiments failed to convince the medical profession generally of the truth of his theory relating to the transmission of yellow fever, and this important question remained in doubt and a subject of controversy.
Finlay's experiments by the method of difference had failed, however, indisputably to establish the cause, since he did not see that it was necessary to allow the bacillus at least twelve days for incubation in the body of the mosquito.
It will be seen that the essential difference between the successful experiments of the board of which Dr.
Yet, however plausible, the theory, neither of them could declare that he had discovered the fact until the experiments carried on under rigorous precautions had been tried.
Reed's paper describes in careful scientific detail theexperiments which finally established the fact that the contagion came through mosquitoes, and in no other way.
Does the Government recognize that according to experiments up to this time general commandeering of products.
And at the same time these laughable experiments are presented to the people with a self-sufficiency which makes it possible for them to recognize very well the insincerity of the ruling classes.
In our own country Mr Romaines has conducted some interesting physiological experiments on these forms; and Professor Schaefer has made some important histological investigations upon them.
I placed this easily-moved apparatus before my window, where it was exposed to the action of light, and also, as I performed my experimentsin the summer, to that of heat.
But microscopic research and experiments forbid us any longer to believe that fermentative or putrefactive matter spontaneously gives birth to living creatures.
All carefully performed experiments on the nervous system of Arthropoda have shown that each ganglion of the ventral chain is a motor centre, and in Insects a respiratory centre, for the somite to which it belongs.
Plateau’s experiments are conclusive as to the subordinate value of the palps in feeding.
It is plain, and Plateau makes this remark himself, that such experiments upon the power of unaided vision in Insects, give a very inadequate notion of the facility with which an Insect flying at large can find its way.
The experiments of Basch, though now superseded by Plateau’s more trustworthy results, deserve notice as first attempts to investigate the properties of the digestive fluids of Insects.
Belgique, 1886) relates experiments upon the powers of scent resident in different organs of the Cockroach.
Similar experiments were made with other substances, and Insects whose antennæ and palps had been removed were subjected to trial.
The situation of the olfactory organs has only been ascertained by varied experiments and repeated discussion.
Much better support can be found for the belief that the antenna is an olfactory organ,[52] and some experiments which seem conclusive on this point will be cited in a later chapter.
Its progress seemed to have been made in the realm of thought alone, but even here everything was derivative and had reference to the experiments of an older age.
At Cape Castlereagh and the heights over Doris Cove in Gilbert Island, the rock seemed to contain so much metal, that I spent the greater part of one day in trying experiments on pieces of it, with a blowpipe and mercury.
The experiments that have been made prove the feasibility of growing the mulberry, and raising the silkworm in this climate.
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