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Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man

Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man

by Francis Gano Benedict

The establishment in Boston of an inquiry into the nutrition of man with the construction of a special laboratory for that purpose is a direct outcome of a series of investigations originally undertaken in the chemical laboratory of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut, by the late Prof. W. O. Atwater. Appreciating the remarkable results..

A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene

A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene

by Calvin Cutter

Agesilaus, king of Sparta, when asked what things boys should learn, replied, “Those which they will practise when they become men.” As health requires the observance of the laws inherent to the different organs of the human system, so not only boys, but girls, should acquire a knowledge of the laws of their organization. If sound morality depends ..

The Origin and Nature of the Emotions

The Origin and Nature of the Emotions

by George W. Crile

IN response to numerous requests I have brought together into this volume eight papers which may serve as a supplement to the volumes previously published[*] and as a preface to monographs now in preparation.[*] Surgical Shock, 1899; Surgery of the Respiratory System, 1899; Problems Relating to Surgical Operations, 1901; Blood Pressure in Surgery, ..

The Goat-gland Transplantation

The Goat-gland Transplantation

by Sydney Blanshard Flower

Dr. Brinkley began his experiments in gland-transplanting upon animals in the year 1911, three years before the European War, using goats, sheep, and guinea-pigs as his subjects. He ran beyond the limits of his resources in this experimental work on animals, which was interrupted by his enlistment in the army, and assignment to service as First Lie..

Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I

Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I

by Erasmus Darwin

The purpose of the following pages is an endeavour to reduce the facts belonging to ANIMAL LIFE into classes, orders, genera, and species; and, by comparing them with each other, to unravel the theory of diseases. It happened, perhaps unfortunately for the inquirers into the knowledge of diseases, that other sciences had received improvement previo..

Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II

Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II

by Erasmus Darwin

All diseases originate in the exuberance, deficiency, or retrograde action, of the faculties of the sensorium, as their proximate cause; and consist in the disordered motions of the fibres of the body, as the proximate effect of the exertions of those disordered faculties.The sensorium possesses four distinct powers, or faculties, which are occasio..

Popular Lectures on Zoonomia

Popular Lectures on Zoonomia

by Thomas Garnett

DR. GARNETT was born at Casterton, near Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, on the 21st of April, 1766. During the first fifteen years of his life, he remained with his parents, and was instructed by them in the precepts of the established church of England, from which he drew that scheme of virtue, by which every action of his future life was to be gov..

The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction

The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction

by Winfield Scott Hall

The casual observer, even if he watches thoughtfully the various activities of plants and animals, would hardly believe these activities capable of classification into two general classes. He notes the germination of the plant seed and its early growth, step by step approaching a stage of maturity; it blossoms, produces seed, and if it is an annual..