A lecture to young men on chastity / [Sylvester Graham].

  • Sylvester Graham
Date:
1838
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Credit: A lecture to young men on chastity / [Sylvester Graham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    filaments. These nerves appertain to what is called animal life, and are the organs of sen- sation, perception, intellection and volition, and are connected with the muscles of voluntary motion. Second, the Ganglions and Plexuses, with their various cords, branches, fibres and filaments. These nerves appertain to what is called organic life. They are distributed to the various internal organs, and preside over all the processes of vital chemistry ; or in other words, they are the immediate instruments or conductors of that vital energy by which the living body converts food into chyme, and chyme into chyle, and chyle into blood, and blood into the various solids and fluids of the whole system. The stomach, heart, arteries, veins, lungs, liver, kidneys, and all the other organs concerned in the general function of nutrition, depend principally or entirely on the nerves of organic life, for their functional power. Hence the general function of nutri- 4*
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