The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 1

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J. & A. Churchill, 1863
 

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Página 217 - ... is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible, and that a qua-qua-versal proposition of this kind, which may be read backwards, or forwards, or sideways, with exactly the same amount of signification, does not really exist, though it may seem to do so. At the present moment, therefore, the question of the relation of man to the lower animals resolves itself, in the end, into the larger question of the tenability, or untenability, of Mr. Darwin's views.
Página 217 - But, for all this, our acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis must be provisional so long as one link in the chain of evidence is wanting ; and so long as all the animals and plants certainly produced by selective breeding from a common stock are fertile, and their progeny are fertile with one another, that link will be wanting.
Página 127 - Ligament is that portion of the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle t which extends from the anterior ' superior spine of the ilium to the spine of the pubes.
Página 120 - Smith for the able and efficient manner in which he has presided over the meetings of the Society for the past two years ; and to Dr. Tanner for his valuable and zealous services as Honorary Secretary from the commencement of the Society, four years ago, until the present time.
Página 162 - ... nearly as hard; to stand for hours with one's feet in the mud and with water dripping from the roof on one's head, in order to mark the position and guard against the loss of each single bone of a skeleton, and at length, after finding leisure, strength and courage for all these operations, to look forward, as the fruits of one's labour, to the publication of unwelcome intelligence, opposed to the prepossessions of the scientific as well as...
Página 216 - But if Man be separated by no greater structural barrier from the brutes than they are from one another — then it seems to follow that if any process of physical causation can be discovered by which the genera and families of ordinary animals have been produced, that process of causation is II amply sufficient to account for the origin of Man.
Página 66 - ... till he reached the quarters of the Duke in the village of Waterloo. Here he was taken into the room where the gallant Alexander Gordon lay dying; and the Prince of Orange lay wounded. The Prince used to recount that not a word announced the entrance of the new patient, nor was he conscious of his presence till he heard him call out, in his usual tone, ' Hallo ! don't carry away that arm till I have taken off my ring ! ' Not a groan, not a sigh, not a remark had been extorted either by the wound...
Página 215 - Such relative rank shall carry with it all precedence and advantages attaching to the rank with which it corresponds (except as regards the presidency of Courts-martial, where our will and pleasure is, that the senior combatant officer be always president), and shall regulate the choice of quarters, rates of lodging money, servants, forage, fuel, and light, or allowances in their stead, detention, and prize money.
Página 190 - ... made by the ordinary process, in having a large portion of the light carburetted hydrogen replaced by hydrogen ; it is therefore, in a sanatory point of view, the best gas hitherto produced. This is seen in the following table, which exhibits the amount of carbonic acid and heat generated per hour by various sources of light, each equal to 20 sperm candles burning at the rate of 120 grains of sperm per hour. Carbonic Acid. Heat. Tallow, .... 10.1 cubic feet. 100...
Página 256 - Now that we know the whole cycle of the life of the sponges, and the characters which may be demonstrated to be common to the whole of this important and remarkable class, I do not think any one who is acquainted with the organization or the functions of plants, will be inclined to admit that the Spongida have the slightest real affinity with any division of the vegetable kingdom.

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