item: #1 of 28 id: 10266 author: Berman, Louis title: The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature date: None words: 116785 flesch: 56 summary: There are other internal secretions of the thyroid, with a function of their own, that have no iodine. The infantiloid constitution is one of arrested development, and may center around the arrested function in childhood or adolescence of any one or a number of endocrine glands. keywords: activity; adrenal; animal; ante; apparatus; blood; body; brain; case; cells; change; character; chemical; childhood; children; condition; consciousness; control; cortex; development; disease; effects; endocrine; energy; eyes; face; fact; factors; female; feminine; function; general; genius; glands; good; growth; hair; hand; history; human; individual; influence; instinct; knowledge; life; light; like; male; man; masculine; material; matter; means; men; mind; muscles; nature; nerve; new; number; organism; organs; ovaries; people; personality; pineal; pituitary; point; post; present; pressure; process; puberty; reactions; relation; science; secretion; self; sex; sex glands; size; skin; soul; species; state; system; teeth; thymus; thyroid; thyroid gland; time; traits; type; vegetative; way; woman; work; years cache: 10266.txt plain text: 10266.txt item: #2 of 28 id: 13111 author: Mott, F. W. (Frederick Walker) title: The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song date: None words: 23427 flesch: 54 summary: Similar defects occur in written as in vocal speech; the syllables and even the letters are disjointed; there is a fine tremor in the writing, and inco-ordination in the movements of the pen. Eventually the action and reaction of receptual intelligence and conventional sign-making must have ended in so far developing the former as to have admitted of the breaking up (or articulation) of vocal sounds, as the only direction in which any improvement in vocal sign-making was possible. keywords: air; articulate; brain; breathing; centres; cords; fig; instrument; language; larynx; muscles; portion; resonator; right; sense; seq; sounds; speech; tongue; vocal; voice; vowel cache: 13111.txt plain text: 13111.txt item: #3 of 28 id: 15435 author: Lewis, Margaret W. (Margaret Wiseham) title: Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City date: None words: 25287 flesch: 90 summary: Is alcohol food or poison?--It is poison. What do you mean by changing the kind of work or play?--If, in my work or play, my arms become tired, I must do something in which my arms may rest, though other parts of my body may be in exercise. keywords: air; alcohol; alcoholic; blood; body; bones; brain; drink; food; harm; heart; joint; liquors; lungs; muscles; nerves; parts; skin; stomach; tobacco; use; work cache: 15435.txt plain text: 15435.txt item: #4 of 28 id: 15707 author: Darwin, Erasmus title: Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I date: None words: 193448 flesch: 61 summary: In opposition to this doctrine of the production of our ideas, it may be asked, if some of our ideas, like other animal motions, are voluntary, why can we not invent new ones, that have not been received by perception? These inversions of the motion of the stomach in vomiting are performed by intervals, for the same reason that many other motions are reciprocally exerted and relaxed; for during the time of exertion the stimulus, or sensation, which caused this exertion, is not perceived; but begins to be perceived again, as soon as the exertion ceases, and is some time in again producing its effect. keywords: action; air; animal; association; blood; bodies; body; cause; cold; colour; common; consequence; day; degree; diseases; effect; exertion; eye; eyes; fever; fibres; fit; fluid; food; form; general; glands; having; heat; ideas; iii; inflammation; irritative; kind; length; life; light; manner; matter; motions; muscles; new; objects; ones; organs; pain; particles; parts; periods; pleasure; power; produce; pulse; quantity; quiescence; retina; sect; sensation; sense; skin; sleep; small; spectra; spectrum; spirit; state; stimulus; stomach; system; time; trains; vessels; volition; water; xii cache: 15707.txt plain text: 15707.txt item: #5 of 28 id: 17367 author: Kellogg, John Harvey title: First Book in Physiology and Hygiene date: None words: 42818 flesch: 87 summary: We may use our arms and legs and many other parts when we wish to do so; and if we do not care to use them we may allow them to remain quiet. Salt meats, and other foods which have much salt added to them, are hard to digest because the salt hardens the fibres of the meat, so that they are not easily dissolved by the digestive fluids. keywords: air; alcohol; blood; body; bones; book; brain; breathe; chapter; effects; food; heart; lungs; man; muscles; nerves; parts; person; skin; stomach; study; things; time; tobacco; use; water; way; work cache: 17367.txt plain text: 17367.txt item: #6 of 28 id: 27600 author: Darwin, Erasmus title: Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. II date: None words: 238746 flesch: 66 summary: Suppl. i. 12. Suppl. i. 12. keywords: ---of; absorbents; absorption; accumulation; acid; action; air; animal; arteries; associated; association; bark; bath; bladder; blood; body; capillaries; cases; cause; class; class i.; cold; consequence; cure; day; debility; defect; degree; disease; effect; fever; fit; fluid; food; genus; glands; grain; half; head; heat; hours; i. 1; i. 2; i. 3; ideas; iii; increase; inflammation; irritation; kind; liver; lungs; m. m.; matter; membranes; motions; mucus; muscles; opium; pain; parts; patient; people; power; pox; produce; pulse; quantity; secretion; sect; sensation; sense; sensitive; sickness; skin; sleep; small; species; state; stimulus; stomach; sympathy; system; time; torpid; torpor; ulcers; urine; vessels; warm; water; wine cache: 27600.txt plain text: 27600.txt item: #7 of 28 id: 27748 author: Garnett, Thomas title: Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease date: None words: 97927 flesch: 52 summary: P.R.I. 5 5 W. Berwick, Esq. _St. Petersburg_ 1 11 6 Richard Best, Jun. Esq. 1 1 Henry Bickersteth, Esq. _Kirkby Lonsdale_ 2 2 Henry Bickersteth, Jun. Esq. _Kirkby Lonsdale_ 1 1 Mr. John Bickersteth 2 2 Mr. E. Bickersteth 1 1 T. Bigge, Esq. _ keywords: action; air; animal; blood; bodies; body; case; causes; cold; debility; degree; diseases; ear; effects; esq; excitability; excitement; external; eye; eyes; food; force; functions; general; gout; health; heat; inflammation; john; kind; life; light; living; manner; means; mind; motion; muscles; nature; nerves; object; oxygen; p.r.i; parts; person; place; powers; produce; quantity; retina; rev; sensation; sense; sleep; sound; state; stimulus; stomach; symptoms; system; thomas; time; vessels; vision; water; william cache: 27748.txt plain text: 27748.txt item: #8 of 28 id: 28216 author: Benedict, Francis Gano title: Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man date: None words: 46120 flesch: 54 summary: W_{1}, W_{2}, Wheatstone bridges for resistance thermometers; K_{1}, K_{2}, double contact keys for controlling Wheatstone circuits; S_{1}, S_{2}, S_{3}, double-pole double-throw switches for changing from chair to bed calorimeter; S_{4}, double-pole double-throw switch for changing from wall to air thermometers; G, galvanometer; R_{2}, rheostat. Inside of the chamber there is a heat-absorbing system suspended from the ceiling, and air thermometers and thermometers for the copper wall are installed at several points. keywords: acid; air; apparatus; balance; bed calorimeter; calorimeter; calorimeter chamber; calorimeter laboratory; carbon; chair; chamber; current; dioxide; experiments; fig; heat; oxygen; pipe; pressure; resistance; system; temperature; thermometers; use; valve; vapor; volume; wall; water; weight cache: 28216.txt plain text: 28216.txt item: #9 of 28 id: 29362 author: Flower, Sydney Blanshard title: The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women date: None words: 24000 flesch: 69 summary: I am also the first to use goat glands in preference to others. I was the first to transplant goat glands. keywords: age; body; brinkley; case; gland operation; glands; goat; goat glands; good; hospital; human; life; man; men; new; operation; results; time; transplantation; woman; work; years; youth cache: 29362.txt plain text: 29362.txt item: #10 of 28 id: 2939 author: Huxley, Thomas Henry title: William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood date: None words: 8082 flesch: 54 summary: The shading of the venous system is given to all the vessels which contain venous blood; that of the arterial system to all the vessels which contain arterial blood. Fig.2,--The Course of the Blood according to Galen (A.D. 170). keywords: arteries; blood; course; galen; harvey; heart; time; veins cache: 2939.txt plain text: 2939.txt item: #11 of 28 id: 30541 author: Cutter, Calvin title: A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) date: None words: 147293 flesch: 77 summary: [Gr. +aêr+, _aêr_, air, and +têreô+, _têreo_, to keep; because the ancients thought that the arteries contained only air.] The latter of these divisions is subdivided into _Human_ anatomy, which considers, exclusively, human beings; and _Comparative_ anatomy, which treats of the mechanism of the lower orders of animals. keywords: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=; 1st; acid; action; air; anatomy; animal; arteries; artery; blood; body; bones; brain; chest; clothing; cold; column; condition; cuticle; disease; ear; effect; exercise; extremities; eye; fig; fluid; food; form; glands; great; hand; head; health; heat; hygiene; illustration; influence; left; life; lungs; matter; membrane; muscles; nerves; observation; organs; oxygen; page; pair; parts; person; physiology; portion; position; power; process; quantity; ribs; right; room; skin; spinal; state; stomach; structure; surface; system; teeth; time; use; veins; vessels; water cache: 30541.txt plain text: 30541.txt item: #12 of 28 id: 31616 author: Davison, Alvin title: Health Lessons, Book 1 date: None words: 38636 flesch: 88 summary: Fats are got not only from fat meat but also from eggs, butter, milk, and many other foods. For this reason a food tube leads from the mouth down into the trunk to prepare milk, meat, bread, or other food, for the use of the body. keywords: air; alcohol; beer; blood; body; brain; cause; day; disease; drink; fig; food; germs; health; heart; illustration; lungs; milk; muscles; parts; persons; sick; skin; stomach; teeth; tobacco; use; water; work; years cache: 31616.txt plain text: 31616.txt item: #13 of 28 id: 32251 author: Overton, Frank title: Applied Physiology, Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics date: None words: 27702 flesch: 97 summary: [Illustration: =Blood corpuscles (×400).= _a_ a pile of red blood cells. _b_ red blood cells seen flatwise. _c_ red blood cells seen edgewise. _ keywords: air; alcohol; blood; body; cells; cold; disease; drink; food; germs; good; mouth; skin; stomach; things; tobacco; use; water; work cache: 32251.txt plain text: 32251.txt item: #14 of 28 id: 32521 author: Jones, May Farinholt title: Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks date: None words: 25446 flesch: 92 summary: Little boys and girls need things to make them strong just as the little plants do. AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. FOREWORD The Author, in her work with young teachers, has frequently noted the great difficulty they seem to have in presenting hygienic facts to little children in a manner so attractive as to catch and hold their attention. keywords: air; body; boy; boys; children; come; day; engine; fly; food; germs; good; house; jack; little; mother; people; plants; teeth; things; time; water; white; work cache: 32521.txt plain text: 32521.txt item: #15 of 28 id: 34211 author: Hutchison, Joseph C. (Joseph Chrisman) title: A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers date: None words: 84656 flesch: 74 summary: We accordingly say that the nerves have a twofold use, a _sensory_ and _motor_ function. {253} A´QUE-OUS HUMOR (L. _aqua_, water). keywords: action; air; animals; blood; body; bone; brain; cold; color; cord; digestion; exercise; eye; fibres; fig; food; form; greek; heart; illustration; life; lungs; man; means; membrane; motion; movements; muscles; nerve; organs; parts; place; power; sensation; sense; sidenote; sight; skin; small; spinal; state; stomach; substances; surface; system; taste; time; touch; use; vessels; water; white cache: 34211.txt plain text: 34211.txt item: #16 of 28 id: 36297 author: Luckiesh, Matthew title: Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications date: None words: 57402 flesch: 61 summary: By taking advantage of this fact many illusions can be produced. In fact, the careful observer will encounter many illusions which may be readily accounted for in this manner. keywords: angles; black; blue; brightness; case; color; contrast; distance; effect; example; eye; eyes; fact; field; fig; figure; green; horizontal; illusions; illustration; image; light; lighting; lines; object; observer; perspective; red; retina; size; sky; space; vision; white cache: 36297.txt plain text: 36297.txt item: #17 of 28 id: 39998 author: Muybridge, Eadweard title: The Science of Animal Locomotion (Zoopraxography) An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements date: None words: 3561 flesch: 50 summary: E. M. 10 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, _August 1891_. SUBSCRIBERS. The results of this investigation are =Seven Hundred and Eighty-one Sheets of Illustrations=, containing more than 20,000 figures of men, women, and children, animals and birds, actively engaged in walking, galloping, flying, working, jumping, fighting, dancing, playing at base-ball, cricket, and other athletic games, or other actions incidental to every-day life, which illustrate motion or the play of muscles. keywords: -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+--+--+--+ |; animal; berlin; john; plates; royal; sir; von; | points; | | cache: 39998.txt plain text: 39998.txt item: #18 of 28 id: 40119 author: Bidwell, Shelford title: Curiosities of Light and Sight date: None words: 27452 flesch: 61 summary: The light reflected by a soldier's coat, for example, may be called red light, because when it falls upon the eye it gives rise to a sensation of redness. The portion of the retina upon which the red image at first falls becomes fatigued and partially insensible to red light; it is therefore unable to appreciate the red component of the white light afterwards reflected to it by the paper, and the sensation of the complementary colour consequently predominates; hence the greenish-blue ghost, which is called the negative after-image of the wafer. keywords: blue; colour; disk; eye; fig; glass; green; illustration; image; length; lens; light; patch; rays; red; spectrum; violet; white; yellow cache: 40119.txt plain text: 40119.txt item: #19 of 28 id: 40215 author: Muybridge, Eadweard title: Descriptive Zoopraxography; or, the science of animal locomotion made popular date: None words: 14522 flesch: 59 summary: --_Standard, London._ Meissonier, devoting himself to his friends, evidently cared little for personal compliments; he was anxious for the well-deserved distinction of his _protégé_ Muybridge.... hind foot. keywords: animal; art; author; feet; foot; fore; fore foot; ground; hind; hind foot; horse; illustration; left; locomotion; london; motion; movements; muybridge; phases; photographic; plates; right; series; society; stride; time; university cache: 40215.txt plain text: 40215.txt item: #20 of 28 id: 40256 author: Crawford, Albert Cornelius title: Barium: A Cause of the Loco-Weed Disease date: None words: 37752 flesch: 71 summary: Geographical distribution of the loco-weed disease and allied conditions 9 Plants associated with the locoed condition 10 Clinical symptoms of locoed animals as described in literature 12 Conditions similar to loco-weed poisoning in other parts of the world 16 Pathological conditions in locoed animals as described on the range 18 Historical sketch of loco investigations from a pharmacological standpoint 19 Notes on various members of the loco-weed family 35 Laboratory experiments--physiological 36 Experiments on rabbits 36 Acute cases 36 Chronic cases 38 Pregnant animals 42 Subcutaneous injections 43 Summary of feeding experiments on rabbits 44 Experiments on sheep 44 Laboratory experiments--chemical 46 Effect of the aqueous extract of ashed loco plants 49 Total ash determinations of loco plants 54 Barium determinations in the ash of loco plants 55 Analysis of soils 57 Feeding experiments with barium salts on animals in the laboratory 57 Barium poisoning in man 62 Pathological lesions in experimental barium poisoning 65 Toxicity of various aqueous extracts of loco plants 66 Theoretical antidote for loco-weed poisoning 71 Action of barium on domestic and farm animals 72 Application of the results of these investigations to the range 74 Conclusions 75 Index 77 BARIUM, A CAUSE OF THE LOCO-WEED DISEASE. Stipa vaseyi_, _Leucocrinum montanum_, _Fritillaria pudica_, _Zygadenus elegans_,[17] and even species of Delphinium are considered loco plants, so widely has this name been used. keywords: acid; action; animal; aragallus; ash; astragalus; barium; cent; chlorid; day; disease; experiments; extract; fed; feeding; grams; investigations; loco; loco disease; loco plants; loco weed; locoed; mollissimus; p.m.; plants; poisoning; rabbit; reference; sheep; stomach; symptoms; temperature; vol; water; weed; weight; work cache: 40256.txt plain text: 40256.txt item: #21 of 28 id: 42660 author: Paget, Stephen title: Experiments on Animals date: None words: 110892 flesch: 62 summary: After | After |During | | | Number of | Number |according | First | Second|the rest| | | Animals | of |to Reports|Vacci- At the end of the epidemic the figures were:-- +--------------------------+---------+---------------+ | | Deaths. keywords: 1st |; 2nd |; 3rd |; account; act; action; antitoxin; anæsthetics; blood; body; british; c |; cases; cause; cent; certificate; cholera; course; day; days; diphtheria; discovery; disease; e |; evidence; experiments; facts; fever; following; general; good; home; hospital; india; inoculated; inoculation; journal; left; life; living; london; long; loss |; malaria; man; medical; method; mosquito; n |; national; new; non; operation; p |; pain; pasteur; patients; period; physiology; place; plague; present; professor; rabies; report; results; s |; science; secretary; serum; sir; society; study; system; tetanus; time; treatment; typhoid; use; vivisection; way; work; years; | +; | animals; | aug; | deaths; | h; | july; | mortality; | number; | sept; | t; | |; | ||; || | cache: 42660.txt plain text: 42660.txt item: #22 of 28 id: 46664 author: Power, D'Arcy, Sir title: William Harvey date: None words: 61069 flesch: 62 summary: His Majesty is graciously pleased in regard of the indisposition of health of Sir William Sandis and his Lady and the great danger of their remove into the Country, as appears by the enclosed certificate of Dr. Harvey, to dispense with their stay in London this winter season, notwithstanding the proclamation. This day came into this Compting house Doctor Smith physician by the appointment of Dr. Harvey, physician to this hospital who is to attend the King's Majesty into Scotland and tendered his service to Mr. Treasurer and other the Governors for the poor in the behalf and absence of Doctor Harvey. keywords: account; anatomy; animals; arteries; blood; body; brother; cambridge; charles; circulation; college; company; course; court; day; death; doctor; doctor harvey; eliab; end; good; great; hall; harvey; heart; hospital; house; item; john; king; knowledge; lecture; left; life; little; london; lord; lumleian; lungs; majesty; man; manner; nature; office; oxford; padua; parts; physicians; place; pounds; present; right; shell; sir; surgeons; thomas; thomas harvey; time; treatise; university; veins; ventricle; way; william harvey; work; years cache: 46664.txt plain text: 46664.txt item: #23 of 28 id: 47026 author: Fletcher, Horace title: Fletcherism: What It Is; Or, How I Became Young at Sixty date: None words: 35734 flesch: 58 summary: The things that require to be chewed long are not good food, and by that sign you may find out their unprofitableness better than in any other way. With the eruption of teeth come an abundant flow of saliva and a synchronous infantile capacity for managing other foods. keywords: = =; appetite; body; day; diet; digestion; doctor; eating; economy; experiment; fletcherism; fletcherizing; food; good; head; health; life; man; mastication; meal; mother; mouth; muscles; nature; new; nutrition; professor; results; right; stomach; taste; test; time; use; way; work; yale; years cache: 47026.txt plain text: 47026.txt item: #24 of 28 id: 47309 author: Monro, Alexander title: Experiments on the Nervous System with Opium and Metalline Substances Made Chiefly with the View of Determining the Nature and Effects of Animal Electricity date: None words: 7028 flesch: 64 summary: IN other Frogs I passed a gold Wire between their Sciatic Nerves and Os Sacrum, and twisted together the two ends of the Wire over the Backs of the Animals. At the same time, the quantity of Opium absorbed is so small, that I could not distinguish its smell or taste in the Blood; nor did I find these distinguishable, in other Experiments, in which the Frogs were violently convulsed after applying the infusion to the surface of their Skin. keywords: frog; gold; legs; muscles; nerves; zinc cache: 47309.txt plain text: 47309.txt item: #25 of 28 id: 50458 author: Pozzi-Escot, M. Emm. (Marius Emmanuel) title: The Toxins and Venoms and Their Antibodies date: None words: 22119 flesch: 61 summary: Pasteur_, V, p. 191; _Arch. Pasteur_, IX, p. 785; _Ibid. keywords: action; albuminoids; animal; bases; blood; case; des; fact; immunity; organism; paris; pasteur; poison; principles; products; properties; ptomaines; rend; serum; soc; substances; toxicity; toxins; venoms cache: 50458.txt plain text: 50458.txt item: #26 of 28 id: 6970 author: Macé, Jean title: The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals date: None words: 119866 flesch: 71 summary: I need scarcely add that 100 oz. of its _fibrine_ and _albumen_ contain: Of carbon......... But beside this, _hydrogen_ and _carbon_ are in a manner inseparable friends, whom one invariably meets side by side in all animal and vegetable substances. keywords: air; animal; blood; body; carbon; case; child; course; day; dear; end; fact; fire; fishes; food; form; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; history; house; human; life; liver; look; lungs; machine; making; man; matter; means; men; mouth; nature; order; organs; oxygen; people; place; point; poor; right; sort; stomach; subject; teeth; tell; things; think; time; tube; use; water; way; work; world cache: 6970.txt plain text: 6970.txt item: #27 of 28 id: 6986 author: Steele, Joel Dorman title: Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics date: None words: 126640 flesch: 76 summary: DESCRIPTION.--The ear is divided into the _external_, _middle_, and _internal_ ear. ] as we say, _i. e._, reflex. keywords: acid; action; air; alcohol; animal; blood; body; bone; brain; cases; cause; cells; change; children; circulation; clothing; cold; day; death; digestion; disease; effect; exercise; eye; eyes; feet; fibers; fig; food; footnote; force; form; hair; half; hand; head; health; heart; hours; illustrate; illustration; influence; left; life; light; lungs; man; matter; membrane; milk; mind; motion; mouth; muscles; nature; nerves; nose; open; organs; oxygen; pain; parts; people; persons; place; power; process; red; room; sense; skin; sleep; state; stomach; strength; structure; substance; surface; system; tea; teeth; time; tongue; use; veins; vessels; water; way; weight; work; years; | a.; | b.; | | cache: 6986.txt plain text: 6986.txt item: #28 of 28 id: 7983 author: Eddy, Walter Hollis title: The Vitamine Manual date: None words: 42017 flesch: 75 summary: | 18.0|18.0 | | 18.0| 18.0| 18.0| | or Meat residue . . . . . keywords: + +; + |; 1920; antiscorbutic; beri; butter; chem; diet; effect; factor; fat; food; funk; growth; j. biol; mccollum; med; mendel; milk; osborne; properties; protein; results; scurvy; soluble; substance; value; vitamine; water; yeast; | +; | corn; | fish; | ingredients; | salt; | | cache: 7983.txt plain text: 7983.txt