The nervous system and its functions / By Herbert Mayo.

  • Herbert Mayo
Date:
1842
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Credit: The nervous system and its functions / By Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    further. And there are grounds in the researches of Liebig for anticipating, that the vegetable economy will be found, not only to produce a preliminary change in matter combining it into proximate vegetable principles, afterwards to be converted by the animal economy into animal substance; but, a more comprehensive function, to elaborate all the organic elements of either kingdom, and to form every constituent even of the animal frame. If this view prove correct, the chemical agencies of the vegetable and animal economy will display a singular contrast. The plant will be shown to provide and prepare, what the animal body only consumes. Then the essential purpose of vegetable existence may be held to be the sustenance of beings endued with consciousness. For in the lowest animal a glimmering of sensi- bility is traced; and, as 1s nature’s wont, by many steps of infinite gradation, manifesting the fertility of her resources, and wonderfully combining variety with uniformity, an uninterrupted progression of improving organization, joined to an enlarging scope of sensibility, instinct, and subordinate bodily
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