The Elements of Anatomy

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Taylor, 1837 - 910 pagina's
 

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Pagina 542 - Its course corresponds to a line drawn from a point midway between the anterior superior spine of the ilium and the symphysis pubis, to the inner side of the inner condyle of the femur.
Pagina 377 - January 1, 1845, with a punctured wound from a joiner's chisel in the calf at the junction of the upper with the middle third of the leg, and a little to the inner side of the mesial line — arterial and venous blood flowed in quantity.
Pagina xv - Men have sought to make a world from their own conceptions, and to draw from their own minds all the materials which they employed ; but if, instead of doing so, they had consulted experience and observation, they would have had facts, and not opinions, to reason about, and might have ultimately arrived at the knowledge of the laws which govern the material world.
Pagina 432 - ... to the lower border of the popliteus muscle, where it divides into the anterior and posterior tibial artery.
Pagina xvi - ... philosophically admits, may be said to be.*, that which immediately precedes any change, and which, existing at any time in similar circumstances, has been always, and will be always, immediately followed by a similar change^. Priority in the sequence observed, and invariableness of antecedence in the past and future sequences supposed, are the elements, and the only elements, combined in the notion of a cause.
Pagina 342 - Peroneus longus; its tendon is inserted into the base of the first phalanx of the little toe, on its outer side.
Pagina xiii - The way that promises success is the reverse of this. It requires that we should generalise slowly, going from particular things to those that are but one step more general : from those to others of still greater extent, and so on to such as are universal. By such means we may hope to arrive at principles, not vague and obscure, but luminous and welldefined, such as Nature herself will not refuse to acknoM•ledge.
Pagina 578 - Now, as to the sympathetic nerve, so far from being in any way derived from the brain or spinal cord, it is produced independently of either, and exists notwithstanding the absence of both. It is found perfectly formed in acephalous infants...
Pagina xvi - A cause, in the fallest definition which it philosophically admits, may be said to be that which immediately precedes any change, and which, existing at any time in similar circumstances, has been always, and will be always, immediately followed by a, similar change.
Pagina 769 - ... between the transverse process of the last cervical vertebra and the neck of the first rib. At the...

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