Sound physiologists agree that madness is rarest amongst persons of the finest imagination.
The experimental physiologists tell us that a bird will live under a bell glass until he has substituted a large amount of carbonic acid for oxygen in the air of the bell glass.
Physiologists have in times past maintained the contrary; and some have even ventured to apply to the phaenomena of stimulation the dynamic law that "action and reaction are equal and opposite.
In the case of tobacco, however, it is difficult to find physiologists who will justify the popular clamour.
Finally, embryologists, physiologists of sex and biologists generally, not only accept the conception of bisexuality, but admit that it probably helps to account for homosexuality.
What do some physiologists assert of the medulla oblongata?
With what instrument have physiologists compared it?
Some physiologists suppose that it is produced by an engorged condition of the glands of the stomach which supply the gastric juice; while others maintain that it depends on a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
Some physiologists assert, that the medulla oblongata is the point at which excitement to motion commences, and sensation terminates; and also, that it possesses the power of originating motion in itself.
Thus physiologists say, that by the process of secretion, bile is formed by the liver; and also, that bile is the secretion of this organ.
All physiologists agree that from twenty to forty ounces of matter pass off from the skin of an adult every twenty-four hours.
The structure of this nerve is very complicated, and different physiologists ascribe to it various functions.
The color of the red globules is owing to the presence of iron, though some physiologists think it depends on an animal substance of a gelatinous character.
The brain is regarded by physiologists and philosophers as the organ of the mind.
Some physiologists have imputed an active propulsive power to the capillary vessels in carrying the blood through the veins.
Give the opinion of physiologists respecting the time required for the renewal of the whole body.
How is the brain regarded by physiologistsand philosophers?
In what do all the physiologists of the present day concur?
Various opinions exist among physiologists in regard to the use of marrow.
It has indeed been such a favourite idea with some physiologists that in the undoubted developments of something like a distinct Anglo-American type, there is a certain approximation to the Indian, that Dr.
And this is the reason why the greatest physiologists and chemists, which the medical profession possesses, are not, as a matter of course, the best curers of disease.
Hitherto, however, the physiologists have immeasurably outstripped the pathologists in the comprehensiveness of their views, and, therefore, in the value of their results.
Probable causes of the small contributions of physiologists towards the power of predicting events, 171 note Physiology, decline of the science of, in the reign of Louis XIV.
Is there not here much more than what our modern physiologists are prone to call automatic movements, the results of reflex sensorial action?
Physiologists and gymnasts have everywhere bestowed upon them the most unqualified commendation.
Physiologists and teachers believe that the new system of gymnastics is destined to establish a new era in physical education.
In order to explain the phenomena of electric response, some physiologists assume that the negative response is due to a process of dissimilation, or breakdown, and the positive to a process of assimilation, or building up, of the tissue.
This is the curious phenomenon known to physiologists as 'the staircase' effect, in which successive uniform stimuli produce a series of increasing responses.
Physiologists have taught us to read in the response-curves a history of the influence of various external agencies and conditions on the phenomenon of life.
The facts brought to light by anatomists and physiologists during the last fifty years, are at length being used towards the interpretation of this highest class of biological phenomena; and already there is promise of a great advance.
After the mucous and serous layers of the embryo have separated, there presently arises between the two a third, known to physiologists as the vascular layer--a layer out of which are developed the chief blood-vessels.
Closely related to the general truth that the evolution of all organisms is carried on by combined differentiations and integrations, is another general truth, which physiologists appear not to have recognized.
Ask one of our leading geologists or physiologists whether he believes in the Mosaic account of the creation, and he will take the question as next to an insult.
It is supposed by some physiologists that the essential cells of nerves do not actually touch, but are separated by a narrow gap which widens in sleep while it narrows almost to extinction during mental activity.
The physiologists and psychologists have for centuries been trying to determine the mechanism of the dream without having yet obtained any satisfactory solution of the problem.
All physiologists know that hysterical persons have a tendency to falsehood and simulation.
I put my physiologists in good company, surely, and they have nothing of which to complain.
Moreover, in order to study the respiratory exchanges, physiologists experiment on man as well; is, therefore, the extraordinary scruple against experimenting on animals to be imposed upon them also?
This juice is used by South American Indians for their arrows, and physiologists use it to ensure the immobility of the animal on which they are experimenting.
Some of these fanatics pretend, for example, that physiologists should practise vivisection upon themselves.
Some physiologists have kept dogs for several years in this condition: gay, caressing, docile, they did not appear to complain of their lot.
There are functional differences between men and animals; and physiologists know these perfectly well by their training; but there are, above all things, much more striking resemblances.
This is what physiologists have sought and are seeking to do.
Finally, the remaining objections of the anonymous author in question amount only to this: The author believes that physiologists work for money and renown, and not at all for the sake of humanity (!
There are of course differences which physiologists train themselves to perceive; for example, certain poisons are almost innocuous to some animals, and are very fatal to man.
My own experience, which is a wide one, has been that physiologists not only obey the law literally, but are most punctilious in its due observance.
One should add that since Claude Bernard's work on curare, physiologists have seen reason for doubting whether it leaves sensibility intact, as Bernard thought.
And without considering me as a partisan, you will, I hope, allow me to state some of the reasons which I have heard good physiologists advance in favour of that opinion to which you are so hostile.
All physiologists are agreed that since alcohol contains no nitrogen it cannot be a tissue-forming food; there is no difference of opinion here.
However, I will illustrate this by a couple of examples as good as I find within the range of my physiological knowledge, for which physiologists may be able to substitute clearer and more striking ones.
Physiologists have experienced much difficulty in studying the character of this secretion from the instability of its constituents when subjected to chemical examination.
Some physiologists suppose that the cerebellum is the source of that harmony or associative power which co-ordinates all voluntary movements, and effects that delicate adjustment of cause to effect, displayed in muscular action.
They have been regarded by some physiologists as identical with those of the lymph and chyle.
These facts lead physiologists to the conclusion, that it undergoes some transformation in the intestines and is re-absorbed.
Some distinguished physiologists believe that the food is kept in a gentle, unceasing, but peculiar motion, called peristaltic, since the stomach contracts in successive circles.
By some physiologists these bodies are considered as the nuclei, or vital points, of the medulla oblongata.
Physiologists assign to the cerebrum its functions, and neurological, as well as phrenological writers, have located them as represented in Fig.
Some physiologists affirm that no organ receives a greater quantity of blood, according to its size, than the spleen.
Some physiologists have supposed that a second digestion takes place in the upper portion of the large intestine.
Physiologists enumerate three kinds of reflex actions, which are either purely sympathetic, or partially influenced by the cerebro-spinal system.
The reason was, that I am forced to differ widely from the two great physiologists whom I have so often quoted this evening.
The nature of the base is far more important, as far as can be judged from the few experiments here given, than that of the acid; and this is the conclusion at which physiologists have arrived with respect to animals.
Several eminent physiologists have discussed the homological nature of these appendages or tentacles, that is, whether they ought to be considered as hairs (trichomes) or prolongations of the leaf.
Physiologists believe that when a nerve is touched, and it transmits an influence to other parts of the nervous system, a molecular change is induced in it, though not visible to us.
This result surprised me much, as two physiologists were of opinion that fibro-cartilage would be easily digested by gastric juice.
Most physiologists believe that in irritable plants the excitement is transmitted along, or in close connection with, the fibro-vascular bundles.
Suppose that all the physiologists suddenly rushed into practice, and all the bacteriologists were turned into medical officers of health.
These few instances suffice to show how the physiologists were unsettled as to the nature and properties of the gastric juice.
Next, that the physiologists have not always been agreed as to the facts of cerebral localisation; that Charcot doubted them, that Goltz criticised Munk, and so on.
He brandishes his knightly sword against the physiologists who experiment on animals.
The ablest modern physiologists incline to the same opinion.
The style is admirably simple and lucid, and every statement made is in accordance with the latest views on the subject held by physiologists and anatomists of acknowledged eminence.
All life processes take place in a colloid system, and the necessity to physiologists of the study of colloids is forcibly emphasised.
The theoretical discussions are particularly valuable, and physiologists will read with interest the long discussion of protein bodies.
His claim for the support of the physiologists reminds us that Dr.
Jacques Loeb amazed thephysiologists gathered in their last annual meeting at the Chicago University.
Guided by the white and gray colors of the nervous tissue, and also by the structures revealed by the microscope, physiologists have made out three general schemes in the grouping of cell-bodies, as follows: 1.
Almost to the present time, physiologists have described the nervous system as being made up of two kinds of structural elements which were called nerve cells and nerve fibers.
It is also the opinion of certain physiologists that cane sugar and maltose (double sugars) are converted by the hydrochloric acid into dextrose and levulose (single sugars).
As physiologists have become better acquainted with the human nervous system, different schemes of classification have been proposed.
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