Elements of Anatomy

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Taylor and Walton, 1837 - 910 páginas
 

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Página 409 - 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.
Página 369 - Extensor carpi radialis brevior, immediately behind the styloid process ; and is inserted into the base of the metacarpal bone of the index finger, its radial side.
Página xix - 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.
Página 365 - ... and is inserted into the base of the metacarpal bone of the thumb. The...
Página xx - ... 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.
Página 374 - Peroneus longus; its tendon is inserted into the base of the first phalanx of the little toe, on its outer side.
Página xvii - 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.
Página 320 - The upper oblique portion arises from the anterior tubercles of the transverse processes of the third, fourth, and fifth cervical vertebrae, and is directed upwards, to be inserted into the anterior tubercle of the atlas.
Página xx - 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.
Página 360 - The superficial layer of muscles comprehends the pronator radii teres, flexor carpi radialis, palmaris longus, flexor carpi ulnaris and flexor digitorum sublimis.

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