Caloric means the cause of the sensation heat: and there seems no reason to fear that the perception of heat by the organs of sensation can ever be misunderstood to be the agent in chemical phenomena.
In its usual acceptation, it merely means the effect excited on the organs of sensation by a hot body.
These then were the connecting links between Yahweh and His people, and the organs by which the life of the Israelite nation was guided: the Kingship, the Priesthood, and the Prophetic Order.
Without hasting and without resting," the purpose of God was realised in their history, guided by these three organs of their national life.
But if the passage means to give the prophets a place among the national organs of intercourse with Yahweh alongside of the priests, the necessity of distinguishing these true and Divinely given prophets from pretenders was urgent.
These are organs of hers, and are controlled by her.
I would have you keep your eyes open to this, that we are perpetually putting wrong our digestive organs by our absurdities in diet.
The digestive organs have such a sympathy with contiguous organs, that no wonder if such contiguous organs are affected.
Secular life did not possess a stability or organs adequate to the tasks of social ethics.
Out of the fertile and fearless life which came from the interplay of these tendencies and activities, new ideas and values were born and soon found or created appropriate organs for their expression apart from the Church.
They have curious soft voices, which contrast agreeably with the harsh organs of the males.
The female voice is harsh and screaming, especially when heard after the delicate organs of the Somal.
When these powerful organs were fixed upon me, I shrunk into myself.
A voice, louder than human organs could produce, shriller than language can depict, burst from the ceiling and commanded him--TO HOLD!
Perhaps, though a casual position of my organs in my youth showed me that I possessed it, it is an art which may be taught to all.
Cuvier's four great divisions of the animal kingdom--the organs of sense and motion disposed as rays round a centre.
There is much which by their proper organs they might say to place before you their faith in the light of truth.
How, again, can it be supposed that they transmit these organs to the future neuter members of the community when they are perfectly sterile?
The wish has been father to the power; but this again opens up the whole theory of Lamarck, that the development of organs has been due to the wants or desires of the animal in which the organ appears.
From changed conditions and habits which render the organ no longer necessary, or which lead the creature to lay greater stress on certain other organs or modifications.
One wire goes direct to the bell and the other five reach the bell through the separate coils of the electro-magnets which control the drops.
But how are electrical connections made between a moving elevator car and the push buttons on various floors?
The blue end of the compass needle is called its north pole because it points north under the magnetic influence of the earth, and so we may call the lower end of the armature its north pole.
It means that a way is provided for the electric current to pass through the base.
But the elevator boy receives scarcely any instructions about his machine, and, indeed, his machine has been constructed pretty nearly "foolproof.
Now if this is like the magneto, where is the armature?
Push buttons or switches are distributed about the building at various points, and it is made his duty to close the circuits at these points at stated times.
Suppose the line wire to be very long and on account of its resistance the current is too feeble to operate a sounder.
I told him that although it was a fine piece of workmanship it was fortunately very easy to understand, and I asked them if it reminded them of anything else that they had ever seen.
But what you should understand is that you may produce a milder case of such poisoning, and may do it day after day habitually, and little by little your vital organs will be weakened by the strain.
THE UNITY OF THE BODY 105 Discusses the body as a whole, and shows that health is not a matter of many different organs and functions, but is one problem of one organism.
In that case it has to be thrown out by the kidneys or the sweat glands, and this puts upon these organs an extra strain, to which in the long run they may be unequal.
My first criticism of medical science, as it exists today, is that it has a tendency to concentrate upon organs and functions, and to overlook the central unity of the system.
You jump up and run, and these organs all set to work at top speed.
Their doctrine is, in brief, that the nervous force which directs the blood-stream is carried to the organs of the body by nerves which leave the spinal cord through openings between the vertebrae.
I am working like a dragon at my book, and am a terror to the household, likewise to all the organs and brass bands in this quarter.
Of the sense organs the most peculiar are the small sensitive bodies scattered in various parts of the skin, fins and mouth, called "end buds," each at the terminus of a nerve fibril.
The electric organs are a pair of large masses lying between the head and the pectoral fins.
Plants have no special organs for digestion or circulation, nor any nervous system.
These organs retain their normal bilaterality, but the body is, as a rule, inequilateral.
Fishes have efficient olfactory organs situated near the snout, and in the higher families they are in pairs and become true, but internal, nostrils.
At all events," he concludes, "the answers would probably tend to show that the many different kinds of light organs serve different purposes.
Bridge, that these organs enable their possessors to appreciate undulatory movements in the water in the shape of reflex waves from contiguous surfaces or objects.
The most valuable part belonged to the gods, and this consisted of the organsthat were pre-eminently the vehicles of the soul.
This music of speech exalts and supplements the dance; when all parts of the body are in motion the articulatory organs also tend to participate.
The history of the development of the physical organism aims to understand not merely the genesis of the particular organs but primarily their co-operation and the correlation of their functions.
Now at one time the kidneys with their connected organs were regarded as vehicles of the soul, and, as such, were sacrificed to the gods.
In this case, all the organswere offered, and, therefore, the entire soul.
The explanation is simple: they have not the right kind of organization; there is a want of proper development of the lymphatic and sanguine temperaments,--a marked deficiency in the organs of nutrition and secretion.
The former, it yields to the body for assimilation; the latter, it deposits with the organs of elimination for rejection.
Three systems, to which all the organs are directly or indirectly subsidiary, divide and control the body.
In the system of lichens, Nylander reckons all organs of equal value.
The brain and nervous system have, for a long time, made relatively too large a demand upon the organs of digestion and assimilation, while the exercise and development of certain other tissues in the body have been sadly neglected.
The female organization is no exception to this law; nor are the particular set of organs and their functions with which this essay has to deal an exception to it.
It cannot do more than its share without depriving other organs of that exercise and nourishment which are essential to their health and vigor.
Nature's methods of punishing men and women are as numerous as their organs and functions, and her penalties as infinite in number and gradation as her blessings.
The principal organs of elimination, common to both sexes, are the bowels, kidneys, lungs, and skin.
There is still another class that cannot nurse at all, having neither the organsnor nourishment requisite even to make a beginning.
Confirmatory proof of such an arrest was found in examining her breast, where the milliner had supplied the organs Nature should have grown.
This new edition will contain a list of House Organspublished in the United States.
I counted in the average 25 anomalous organs on each of them.
It is quite evident that such pale narrow leaves must produce smaller quantities of organic food than the darker green and broad organs of the gigas.
All improvement is, of course, by the first of these modes of evolution, but apparent losses of organs or qualities are [705] perhaps of still more universal occurrence.
This is partly due to differences in exposure, but mainly to alterations of the sensibility of the organs themselves.
They are distinguished from each other by more than [36] one character, often by slight differences in nearly all their organs and qualities.
This constancy is so absolute that the colors of the different organs convey the suggestion, that they are only separate marks of a single character.
In the first leaves the lobes are so broad as to touch one another along a large part of their margins, but inorgans formed later this contact gradually diminishes and the typical leaves have the lobes widely separated.
It is obvious however, that in these groups the leaves and other organs could conveniently be replaced by simple lines, indicating their size.
The first half is the same for all the organs of the plant, and is therefore termed individual; the second differs in the separate members, and consequently is known as partial.
This fact would frequently render the enumeration of the altered organs quite unreliable.
The foxgloves as a rule have naked flower-stalks, without the two little opposite leafy organs seen in so many other instances.
It is the capacity of young organs to develop in two diverging directions.
The definitive formation is made in extreme youth, often even during the previous summer, at the time of the [456] very first evolution of the young organs within the buds.
This, too, recalls many works of savages and of ancient races, in which the organs of sex are everywhere prominent.
The organs of the mouth take collectively two typical forms, the masticatory and the suctorial, the former exemplified by the beetles, the latter by the butterflies, in which the mouth is purely for suction.
The seat of the four electrical organs is along the under side of the tail, and they are said to possess the power of knocking down a man, and of painfully numbing the affected limb for several hours after the shock.
Fertilization is internal, and the male is provided with a pair of copulatory organs (claspers) projecting backwards from the pelvic fins.
In these a pair of luminous organs is found on the thorax, while there is a third on the under side of the base of the abdomen.
The membranous hind-wings are here the organs of flight, and when not in use are folded longitudinally and transversely, and tucked away under the elytra.
It is due to a bacillus, difficult to detect, but during an attack found in many of the internal organs as well as in the stools, urine, and blood of the affected person.
The cysts are found in various abdominal organs of herbivorous animals, and sometimes infest human beings, especially in Iceland.
It lessens the amount of blood sent to the organs of the body, distends the veins and contracts the capillaries, thus preventing waste of tissue.
Maclagan, professor of medical jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh, was then called to give the result of the chemical examination of the various organs of the body of Mrs. Pritchard, which had been retained for analysis.
The result of an analysis of the stomach and organs revealed the fact that death in each case had been caused by strychnine.
He also examined the organs from the bodies of Alice Marsh and Emma Shrivell.
There was no internal disease or growth, the organs being quite healthy, and nothing to account for death beyond the chloroform, which the medical men concluded must have been the cause of death.
Meanwhile the poison takes firmer hold of the system; languor, wearisomeness, and loathing of food continue; the nobler organs gradually become torpid, and the lungs in particular at length begin to suffer.
This having been effected, the internalorgans were submitted to analysis by Professor Maclagan, Dr.
The result of the chemical examination of the various organs of the body of Mrs. Taylor, which was exhumed for this purpose, revealed the presence of .
On examining the internal organs after death, fatty degeneration of the viscera was found, as is usual after arsenical poisoning.
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