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... nerves which are extended like filaments from the brain to all the other members , with which they are so connected that we can hardly touch any part of the human body without causing the extremities of some of the nerves spread over it ...
... nerves which are extended like filaments from the brain to all the other members , with which they are so connected that we can hardly touch any part of the human body without causing the extremities of some of the nerves spread over it ...
Page 291
... nerves by which another motion is excited in the brain which gives the soul the sensation of animal joy1 . In the same way when the blood is so thick that it flows badly into the ventricles of the heart , and is not there sufficiently ...
... nerves by which another motion is excited in the brain which gives the soul the sensation of animal joy1 . In the same way when the blood is so thick that it flows badly into the ventricles of the heart , and is not there sufficiently ...
Page 347
... nerves , and even the blood , which , participating in the impressions of the spirits , can carry them by the arteries into all the members . And recollecting what has been said above about the machine of our body , i.e. that the little ...
... nerves , and even the blood , which , participating in the impressions of the spirits , can carry them by the arteries into all the members . And recollecting what has been said above about the machine of our body , i.e. that the little ...
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