The Laws and Mechanics of Circulation: With the Principle Involved in Animal Movement (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Wm ; H. Triplett

9780266999423: The Laws and Mechanics of Circulation: With the Principle Involved in Animal Movement (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0266999425 ISBN 13: 9780266999423

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More or less remarks upon muscular irritability and contractility, but noth ing of dualism in the muscles, without which musculation would be utterly impossible, etc., etc. The books large enough, too some of them a thousand pages, nearly, fine press. No grasp, no continuity of relations, all differing, but as far as possible from a philosophy. Each one following the train of facts he is most familiar with (compelled to it in the absence of a guiding principle), fitting the others into the text as best he can to make a book, at times appar ently as though tumbled in at random till the book is big enough; vain strivings for order and method, however, discernible. The result m'l. (i would like to make exceptions, but cannot though some of the books have remarka ble excellence, and it wounds one to the heart to say aught against them.) With all this, wrong teaching most pernicious, doing irreparable harm to some minds, worse than night-blindness, for that would suffer the unfortunate to see by daylight, but this by no light whatever; but to any mind the work of unlearning and starting afresh is most difficult, next to impossible, accomplished only by persistent and heroic effort. For example, respiration and circulation form a connected movement for supplying the cell-brood in the tissues and removing waste products but the physiologies treat them separately, basing circulation upon the heart, respiration upon the diaphragm. By what right is that done? No right; none.

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