A Manual of Anthropology, Or Science of Man Based on Modern Research by Charles BrayLongmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1871 - 358 pages |
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Page vii
... nervous centres , as connected with thought and feeling , quite as important as M. Paul Bert's investigations into " Vitality " . -not that we wish to disparage his experiments . Pro- fessor Huxley has shown us even the commercial value ...
... nervous centres , as connected with thought and feeling , quite as important as M. Paul Bert's investigations into " Vitality " . -not that we wish to disparage his experiments . Pro- fessor Huxley has shown us even the commercial value ...
Page xi
... nervous system , and that the brain is the centre of this system , they may begin to feel some little interest in its varied functions and Gall's discoveries . There are many at the present time who have been obliged to disregard " the ...
... nervous system , and that the brain is the centre of this system , they may begin to feel some little interest in its varied functions and Gall's discoveries . There are many at the present time who have been obliged to disregard " the ...
Page xix
... nervous system . The foetal changes . The functions of the brain and nervous system . Mind - the highest development of force . Comparative slow rate at which nerve force travels . Dr. Gall's discoveries in cerebral physiology . Neglect ...
... nervous system . The foetal changes . The functions of the brain and nervous system . Mind - the highest development of force . Comparative slow rate at which nerve force travels . Dr. Gall's discoveries in cerebral physiology . Neglect ...
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... nerves as heat . " On the principle of the Persistence of Force , or Conserva- tion of Energy , a comparatively late discovery , and which Faraday pronounced to be " the highest law in physical science which our faculties permit us to ...
... nerves as heat . " On the principle of the Persistence of Force , or Conserva- tion of Energy , a comparatively late discovery , and which Faraday pronounced to be " the highest law in physical science which our faculties permit us to ...
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... nervous matter , and it will very much simplify and shorten our course if we confine ourselves principally to the gradual pro- duction and increase of that nervous matter , and omit the preparation for it as illustrated in geology and ...
... nervous matter , and it will very much simplify and shorten our course if we confine ourselves principally to the gradual pro- duction and increase of that nervous matter , and omit the preparation for it as illustrated in geology and ...
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