The Graefenberg Manual of Health (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In Physiology this outsetting difficulty is farther enhanced by the consideration of the myriad agencies, material and spiritual, which play their part in producing the processes of the vitally endowed machine - the minute shades of electric influence, of light and heat, of air and aliment, of 'sound and objects of sight, of smell and subjects of touch, and, last not least, of the mind, at once the despot and the slave of its crumbling envelop, the body. Nothing but that divine spark within us, which kin dles the desire of knowledge, and lightens the oftentimes dark ened path of the student of physical science, could ever afford the necessary courage to face the array of obstacles in the way of his attainment of that portion of it which includes the pheno mena of its vitality, if his aim is to seek the truth, and not the corroboration of speculative opinions. That these last have always abounded in Physiology, is not therefore so much to be wondered at. The constantly broken chain of facts made sim ilar breaks in that of causality, and loose analogies or imperfect inductions were too tempting, in the dearth of stronger concate nations, not to be seized upon, and erected into irrefragable dog mas. From hermes Tmsnsors'rvs, and his idea of the nature of Life, down to the end of the seventeenth century, when Wuv'r'r and the Vitalists flourished, we accordingly find all kinds of speculations, advanced as inevitable truths, touching the functions of the living body, some of them ingenious, most of them extravagant, and none of them deduced from experiments.

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