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... Lungs and Air Passages 326 The Thorax 329 Thoracic Movements 330 Inspiratory Muscles . 333 Expiration . 337 Function of the Pleura 338 Pressure Differences in the Air . The Volume of Air ... Nervous Mechanism of Respiration . Modified ...
... Lungs and Air Passages 326 The Thorax 329 Thoracic Movements 330 Inspiratory Muscles . 333 Expiration . 337 Function of the Pleura 338 Pressure Differences in the Air . The Volume of Air ... Nervous Mechanism of Respiration . Modified ...
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... lungs , spleen , liver and brain . Glycogen , CH10O5 , a body like dextrin , first found in the liver .. It gives an opalescent solution in water , and is readily converted into dextrose by an amylolytic ferment , or weak acids . It has ...
... lungs , spleen , liver and brain . Glycogen , CH10O5 , a body like dextrin , first found in the liver .. It gives an opalescent solution in water , and is readily converted into dextrose by an amylolytic ferment , or weak acids . It has ...
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... lungs as vapor , and by the skin , kidney , and many other glands , as the fluid in which the solids of their secretions are dissolved . Inorganic acids occur in the body either combined , forming salts , in which condition we find ...
... lungs as vapor , and by the skin , kidney , and many other glands , as the fluid in which the solids of their secretions are dissolved . Inorganic acids occur in the body either combined , forming salts , in which condition we find ...
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... lungs , where the blood takes it from the air . In the blood only a small quantity of that which can be removed by the air pump is really free ; the remainder is chemically com- bined with the coloring matter of the blood . It is ...
... lungs , where the blood takes it from the air . In the blood only a small quantity of that which can be removed by the air pump is really free ; the remainder is chemically com- bined with the coloring matter of the blood . It is ...
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... lungs the atmospheric air often crowded with these organisms , and swallow multitudes of them with our food . But for it every wound would become putrid , every breath might admit deadly germs to our blood . When the vitality of the ...
... lungs the atmospheric air often crowded with these organisms , and swallow multitudes of them with our food . But for it every wound would become putrid , every breath might admit deadly germs to our blood . When the vitality of the ...
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Page ii - Guy's Hospital, London. American Edition. Revised and Edited by Louis STARR, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania ; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia.
Page vii - English Edition, revised and improved. 758 pages. This volume was specially prepared to furnish students with a new text-book of Physiology, elementary so far as to avoid theories which have not borne the test of time and such details of methods as are unnecessary for students in our medical colleges. " The brief examination I have given it was so favorable that I placed it in the list of text-books recommended in the circular of the University Medical College.
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Page 90 - Active living tissues may be said to have antiseptic power, ie, are able to destroy septic bacteria ; nnd it is only owing to this bactericide power of our textures that we can, with immunity, breathe into our lungs the atmospheric air often crowded with these organisms, and swallow multitudes of them with our food. But for it every wound would become putrid, every breath might admit deadly germs to our blood...
Page 740 - Specific Gravity. The ratio of the weight of a given volume of any substance to the weight of an equal volume of distilled water, and is found by dividing the first weight by the second.
Page 260 - Thomson) : i. right pulmonary vein cut short; i', cavity of left auricle ; 3, 3', thick wall of left ventricle ; 4, portion of the same with papillary muscle attached: 5, the other papillary muscles ; 6, 6...
Page 566 - Eye are three in number : (1) the anterior surface of the cornea, (2) the anterior surface of the crystalline lens, and (3) the posterior surface of the crystalline lens (Fig 128). These surfaces act together like a convex lens, to bend 'the rays of light which pass through them (Fig. 132), so that all those which start from FIG. 132. — Illustrating the formation behind a convex lens of a diminished...
Page 325 - Diagram of the respiratory organs. The windpipe leading down from the larynx is seen to branch into two large bronchi, which subdivide after they enter their respective lungs.
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Page 90 - ... expense of the tissues, or of the food supply intended for the sustenance of those tissues. "So long as the tissues of a higher animal are healthy and well nourished the common forms of septic bacteria cannot thrive in immediate contact with it. They can only exist in the intestines, etc., because they find accumulations of lifeless fluids which offer them a suitable nidus. Active living tissues may be said to have antiseptic power, ie, are able to destroy septic bacteria...