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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840. Excerpt: ... was commanded by Hercules to exert himself to raise his wagon from the pit, he placed his shoulder against the wheel, and drawing his body up into a crouching attitude whereby all his joints were flexed, and making his feet the fixed points, by a powerful muscular effort he straightened the toggle joints of his limbs, and the wheel was raised from-its bed of "miry clay." His horses at the same moment extending their joints, the heavily laden wagon was carried beyond the reach of farther detention. CHAPTER VII. PHYSIOLOGY AND EFFECTS OF EXERCISE. 154. After what has been said of the circulation of the blood and of muscular action, the reader may be prepared to understand a few remarks upon the close connexion and the great influence of the two upon each other, and to follow us in a few deductions on the importance of attending to the functions of one of them in his own person, so as to obtain the greatest amount of benefit to both in other words, so to regulate his bodily exercise as to ensure the greatest degree of health. In page 104 we have stated that the ultimate particle of muscular fibre appears very much to resemble the ultimate globule of the blood, both in physical form and chemical composition, as if the latter had been simply deposited from the vessel without change. Physiologists, however, differ very much with regard to their identity; but, be it as it may, one thing is very certain, that from the extremely minute degree to which the arteries ramify in the substance of muscles, it is hardly possible to distinguish between each final molecule of a muscular fibre and the capillary artery supplying it with blood. In fine, the muscular fibre appears to be very similar in structure to the coagulum or solid part of the blood. And it is well known, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235746208
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235746208
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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