The elements of physiology : containing an explanation of the functions of the human body; in which the modern improvements in chemistry, galvanism, and other sciences, are applied to explain the actions of the animal economy / translated from the French of A. Richerand ... by Robert Kerrison.

  • Richerand, A. (Anthelme), 1779-1840.
Date:
1803
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Credit: The elements of physiology : containing an explanation of the functions of the human body; in which the modern improvements in chemistry, galvanism, and other sciences, are applied to explain the actions of the animal economy / translated from the French of A. Richerand ... by Robert Kerrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Organ of taste, 236 feeling, 239 ' generation in men, 382 -> women, 586 for the secretion of bile, 71 of motion, active and passive, 306 ■—■ of vision in different animals, 222 Origin of nerves in sensible parts, 246 monstrous conceptions, 414 Ossicula auditus, 226 Ossification, 436 Ovarium, use of, 386 r Ovum secreted by the mother, 394 P. Palpebrn?, supercilia, &c. 203 Pancreatic juice, qualities of, 76 Parietes of the stomach, action of, 67 Parturition, causes of, 410 ■ , how effected, 421 Passions and appetites, what, 289 Peculiarity of temperaments, 44.3 Perceptibility, what, 3 Perception, 2S7 Periosteum and medullary juices, use of, 339 Peristole of the ancients, what, 64 Physical properties of urine, 92 Physiology, relation of, to other sciences, 21 , how connected with anatomy, 25 Placenta, structure and uses of, 406 Plato, ideas of, concerning the uterus, 392 Powers, vital, r , muscular, estimation of, 317 « , tonic, 6 Posture, erect, peculiar to mankind, 354 Pregnancy, phenomena of, 399 Preparatory changes of the blood for secretion, 185 Preponderance of flexor over extensor muscles, 312 Presbyopia, what, 218 Probabilities of human life, 460 Properties, chemical, of milk, 427 bile, 71 blood, 177 . chyle, 114 1 semen, 390 • urine, 93 Plexus retiformis of the vagina, 388 Phlegmatic, or lymphatic temper anient, 447 Process,