The Principles of Physiology Applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental EducationMac Lachlan and Stewart, 1852 - 345 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 293 - In regard to the wildness of birds towards man, there is no way of accounting for it, except as an inherited habit. Comparatively few young birds, in any one year, have been injured by man in England ; yet almost all, even nestlings, are afraid of him. Many individuals, on the other hand, both at the Galapagos and at the Falklands, have been pursued and injured by man, but yet have not learned a salutary dread of him.
الصفحة 293 - We may infer from these facts what havoc the introduction of any new beast of prey must cause in a country, before the instincts of the indigenous inhabitants have become adapted to the stranger's craft or power.
الصفحة 292 - I often tried, and very nearly succeeded, in catching these birds by their legs. Formerly the birds appear to have been even tamer than at present.
الصفحة i - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
الصفحة 94 - We lately visited in a large town a boarding-school containing forty girls ; and we learnt on close and accurate inquiry, that there was not one of the girls who had been at the school two years (and the majority had been as long), that was not more or less CROOKED!
الصفحة 188 - The means of preventing them are as much under the power of human reason and industry as the means of preventing the evils of lightning or common fire.
الصفحة 30 - Now, the number of square inches of surface in a man of ordinary height and bulk is 2500 ; the number of pores, therefore, 7,000,000, and the number of inches of perspiratory tube 1,750,000, that is, 145,833 feet, or 48,600 yards, or nearly twenty-eight miles.
الصفحة 183 - Will not this impressive fact induce persons of rank and influence to set their countrywomen right in the article of dress, and lead them to abandon a practice which disfigures the body, strangles the chest, produces nervous or other disorders, and has an unquestionable tendency to implant an incurable hectic malady in the frame ? Girls have no more need of artificial bones and bandages than boys.
الصفحة 308 - Dr. Beddoes with the certainty of its success, no sooner felt the thermometer between his teeth, than he concluded the talisman was in operation, and in a burst of enthusiasm declared that he had already experienced the effects of its benign influence throughout his whole body. The opportunity was too tempting to be lost.
الصفحة 270 - Go into the country," and I went. But in such attempts at repose all my ailments gathered round me — made themselves far more palpable and felt. I had no resource but to fly from myself — to fly into the other world of books, or thought, or reverie — to live in some state of being less painful than my own. As long as I was always at work it seemed that I had no leisure to be ill. Quiet was my hell. At' length the frame thus long neglected — patched up for a while by drugs and...