The Servants of the StomachHarper & brothers, 1868 - 303 páginas An educational work about how the body builds and runs itself from its nourishment, designed to encourage a young person's interest in biology and chemistry. |
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
action already animal aponeurosis apophyses appear attraction become bend biceps blood body bones bony brain calcaneum called canal cardiac plexus carpus carry cartilage centre of gravity cerebellum CHAPTER chest clavicle contraction cord dear child dura mater earth easily electric current electrified equilibrium exactly extensors extremity fatigue feet femur fibres fibrous finger foot forward gelatine give going ground hand head hollow humerus imagine joint laws ligaments limbs little girl machine magnet means median line membrane ment metallic motion move movement muscles nature nerves nervous never once organs pass periosteum phalanges pia mater piece pile position produced require scapula servants side skull speak spinal marrow stomach substance surface synovial membrane tell tendon thing tibia tion tissue told turn understand vertebral canal vertebral column walking whilst whole wish word wrist
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 140 - Celeiis; but this story is unknown to Homer. According to a still later legend, she plunged her son into the Styx, and thereby rendered him invulnerable in every part except the heel by which she held him. Like all noble heroes, Achilles was instructed by Chiron...
Página 294 - Legislative," in contradistinction to the first or ' Constituante,' which framed the constitution of 1791. The members of this party were mostly returned by the departments of the west and south ; and as their leaders, Vergniaud, Guadet, Gensonne, &c., represented the department of...
Página iv - Francs (1881). Mrs. Margaret Gatty says, speaking of his physiologies for children : " He has brought the great leading anatomical and physical facts of life out of the, depths of scientific learning, and made them literally, comprehensible by a child. The religious teaching of the book is unexceptionable. There is no strained introduction of the subject, but an acknowledgment of the Great Creator, of the hourly gratitude we owe to Him, and of the utter...
Página 310 - ... fine affair if the brain had to watch over the service of the stomach, or if, at its convenience, it regulated the movements of the master who disposes of its life. Besides, what would become of the poor body, if the least drowsiness attacked the universal centre ? Happy is it for us— and let us not be slow to own it— that nature has armed herself against these encroachments of power.•' — Mace's The Little Kingdom, 3.
Página iii - This work, especially intended for the use of the, young, explains in a manner both intelligible and interesting, ' the history of life as sustained and supported in the human race.
Página 161 - their conduft. " It is better to sit than to stand, to lie down than to sit, to sleep than to wake, and death is the best of all." In those occupations, which require perseverance without exertion, and which demand only that degree of attention, which permits the current of thought to glide on in uninterrupted indolence, they excel ; but they uniformly shrink from attempts...
Página v - ... delightful a field of knowledge natural history must open to all, when there is so much to interest and admire even in those animals which we usually regard with contempt and disgust. The examination of the wondrous works of nature is a study elevating as well as delightful ; for the more deeply we search into the wonders around us, the more clearly we discover the wisdom which is displayed even in the lowest forms of creation ! AL o.
Página 107 - Put your hand to the hollow of your knee — you will feel something like cords which you would almost mistake for bones when they stiffen.
Página 198 - I must tell you that it is to him we are indebted for the discovery of the important part which electricity now plays in the world.