This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... adult life, and yellowish in old age. Q. At what period of life are they most developed? A. They are more fully developed in childhood; they are least so in old age. Q. These glands have a common and a peculiar texture--what are they?, .#. The common texture is a loose and dense cellular investment; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... adult life, and yellowish in old age. Q. At what period of life are they most developed? A. They are more fully developed in childhood; they are least so in old age. Q. These glands have a common and a peculiar texture--what are they?, .#. The common texture is a loose and dense cellular investment; the peculiar texture is a pulpy matter, of greater or less density, resembling the pulp of the nervous ganglions. Properties of the Absorbent System. Q. What properties of texture do the absorbents and glands possess? ft. Extensibility and contractility. Q. What vital properties attach to them? A. But little animal sensibility in health, but considerable in diseases. They have no animal contractility. Obviously, they have organic sensibility and insensible organic contractility. Q. What remarkable phenomenon attends these two last named properties in the absorbents? #. The organic sensibility and the insensible organic contractility continue some hours after death in some bodies; or in other words, absorption continues after death.. Q. How does the organic sensibility of the absorbents differ from that of the glands? A. In the absorbents it is in relation to many fluids; glands admit but one. Q. What difference appears between the lining membrane of the absorbents and that of the veins? A. The greater susceptibility of the first to inflammation. Q. What is a common consequence of inflammation of the lymphatic glands? A. Scirrhus hardness much more frequently follows inflammation "in them than in other structures. Q. What shows a difference between the vital properties of the absorbents and lymphatic glands? ft. The fact that the glands are so frequently inflamed by matters which do not affect the absorbents. Q. What are the usual...
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Good. Full contemporary leather binding. Hardcover. Solid binding and cover. Some rubbing/scuffing to leather. Toning. Marginal dampstain to last few pages. Ships daily.