Janus, Volume 18

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Janus, 1913
"Revue internationale de l'histoire des sciences, de la médecine, de la pharmacie et de la technique." (varies).
 

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Page 301 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility : Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Page 330 - And since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions, of number, weight and measure, in the make of all things; the most likely way therefore, to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the creation, which come within our observation, must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.
Page 323 - Man kann dasjenige, was man besitzt, nicht rein erkennen, bis man das, was andre vor uns besessen, zu erkennen weiß. Man wird sich an den Vorzügen seiner Zeit nicht wahrhaft und redlich freuen, wenn man die Vorzüge der Vergangenheit nicht zu würdigen versteht.
Page 330 - He could look even upon wicked men, and those who did him unkind offices, without any emotion of particular indignation ; not from want of discernment or sensibility, but he used to consider them only like those experiments which, upon trial, he found could never be applied to any useful purpose, and which he therefore calmly and dispassionately laid aside.
Page 341 - Company, and that with the same success, as it has been made by me at first; the Dog being kept alive by the Reciprocal blowing up of his Lungs with Bellowes, and they suffered to subside, for the space of an hour or more, after his Thorax had been so display'd, and his Aspera Arteria cut off just below the Epigolotis, and bound upon the nose of the Bellows.
Page 341 - Hook, of Preserving Animals alive by Blowing through their Lungs with Bellows.
Page 303 - Brahmin religion, but for the cradle of the high civilization of the Hindus, which gradually extended itself in the West to Ethiopia, to Egypt, to Phoenicia ; in the East, to Siam, to China, and to Japan ; in the South, to...
Page 454 - ... composed and other persons to follow and keep up to date in the general movement of scientifichistorical research. 2. To furnish the Associations and their single members, by means of suitable. exchange, with any information that may be requested in regard to scientific-historical research, so that when the student requires enlightenment or advice he may address himself to the institutes of the various countries. 3. By means of the forces united in this way, to encourage the development of historical...
Page 587 - Je cherchai, dit-il, à quoi je pourrais, dans la suite, appliquer les connaissances logiques que j'avais acquises au prix de tant de sueurs et de fatigues. Je m'aperçus que toute cette logique ne m'avait rendu ni plus savant dans l'histoire et la connaissance de l'antiquité , ni plus habile dans l'art de la parole, ni plus apte à la poésie, ni plus sage en quoi que ce fût...
Page 342 - Dying convulsive fits; but be as soon reviv'd again by the renewing the fulness of his lungs with the constant blast of fresh air. Towards the latter end of this Experiment a piece of the Lungs was cut quite off; where 'twas observable, that the Blood did freely circulate, and pass through the lungs, not only when the Lungs were kept thus constantly extended, but also when they were suffer'd to subside and lye still.

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