The Composite Man as Comprehended in Fourteen Anatomical Impersonations

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1901 - 153 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 17 - To hew the rock or wear the gem Can little now avail to them. But if the page of truth they sought, Or comfort to the mourner brought, These hands a richer meed shall claim Than all that wait on wealth or fame. Avails it, whether bare or shod These feet the paths of duty trod...
Pàgina 17 - BEHOLD this ruin! Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full. This narrow cell was Life's retreat: This space was Thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot! What dreams of pleasure long forgot! Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear Have left one trace of record here.
Pàgina 17 - Can nothing now avail to them ; But if the page of Truth they sought, Or comfort to the mourner brought, These hands a richer meed shall claim Than all that waits on wealth or fame.
Pàgina 94 - John answered, saying unto them all : I indeed baptize you with water ; but there cometh he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose...
Pàgina 16 - Twos a skull, Once of ethereal spirit full, This narrow cell was life's retreat; This space was thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot; What dreams of pleasure long forgot? Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear Have left one trace of record here. Beneath this mouldering canopy Once shone the bright and busy eye; But start not at the dismal void.
Pàgina 61 - Papillae exist over the entire surface of the cutis vera in all parts of the body, but in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet they are biggest and most orderly in their arrangement.
Pàgina 101 - ... tiny-brain—each, however, connected with all the others. And more than this—in addition to the tiny-brains in each of the important vital organs, there are found scattered through the trunk a number of ganglia, or knots of gray nervous matter, arranged longitudinally in two lines extending from just in front of the spinal column from the base of the skull to the end of the spinal column, each vertebra having its appropriate ganglia. In some cases several of these ganglia are grouped together,...
Pàgina 62 - My sweat glands are scattered thickly over the entire surface of my body, but are thickest in the palms of my hands and the soles of my feet, in this connection opening in various places between rows of papillae.
Pàgina 31 - ... blood from the upper part of the body and the inferior vena cava bringing the same kind of blood from the lower part of the body.
Pàgina 17 - Has left one trace of record here. Beneath this mouldering canopy, Once shone the bright and busy eye; But start not at the dismal void, If social love that eye employed, If with no lawless fire it gleamed, But through the dew of kindness beamed, That eye shall be for ever bright, When stars and suns have lost their light.

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