Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons

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J. Callow, 1819 - 579 من الصفحات
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The first Foundation of Physiology
72
Varieties
97
Exemplified in the nervous System
103
An immaterial Principle as necessary to them as to Man
110
ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN
117
Opinions of MON ODDO and Rousseau respecting
123
Individual Varieties of all natural Productions
126
Simia Satyrus or Orangutang
129
The erect Attitude natural to Man
135
Peculiarities of Organisation connected with the biped
141
Peculiarities of the human Spine
146
Incurvation of the Sacrum and Coccyx peculiar to Man
147
Animals are incapable of the erect Attitude
153
Contrast with that of Animals
159
Comparison of the human Head
165
Relative Area of the Cranium and Face on a vertical
171
The Plane of the occipital Foramen nearly horizontal
177
Nearly vertical in most Animals
178
Smoothness of the human Skin
186
Comparison between the Brain and the Nerves connected
192
Position of the Heart
198
Peculiarities in the animal Economy
204
Question concerning the natural Food of
212
The Teeth and Jaws
218
In Africa 541
224
Contrast in this Point of View between Man and
225
Longevity 463
226
What it has enabled Man to accomplish
230
The moral and intellectual Distinctions between
237
SECTION II
243
The latter in its literal Sense is incompatible with
249
Zoological Acceptation of Species
260
Breeding considered as a Criterion of Spocies
265
On the Colour of the human Species
271
Varieties of Colour in Man and their Causes
278
Their Peculiarities are not to be considered as a Disease
286
Brown or tawny
295
Nor always in the mixed Breeds present the middle Tint
301

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الصفحة 246 - And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
الصفحة 246 - This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him ; male and female created he them ; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
الصفحة 247 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
الصفحة 247 - Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
الصفحة 246 - ... in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
الصفحة 247 - And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female.
الصفحة 434 - Buffon, is 1. That the animals common both to the old and new world, are smaller in the latter. 2. That those peculiar to the new, are on a smaller scale. 3. That those which have been domesticated in both, have degenerated in America: and 4. That on the whole it exhibits fewer species.
الصفحة 512 - Upon the whole, every circumstance concurs in proving that mankind are not composed of species essentially different from each other ; that, on the contrary, there was originally but one species...
الصفحة 230 - SPEECH, consisting of names or appellations, and their connexion; whereby men register their thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither commonwealth, nor society, nor contract, nor peace, no more than amongst lions, bears, and wolves.
الصفحة 253 - But neither the annals nor the traditions of nations reach back to those remote ages, in which they took possession of the different countries where they are now settled. We cannot trace the branches of this first family, or point out, with certainty, the time and manner in which they divided and spread over the face of the globe. Even .among the most enlightened people, the period of authentic history is extremely short, and every thing prior to that is fabulous or obscure.

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