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Title: Carpenter's principles of human physiology
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 Meneses, Henry Power
Subjects: Human physiology Physiology
Publisher: London : J. & A. Churchill
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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g * For an excellent Treatise on The Stature and Bulk of Man in the British Isles, seeJohn Beckloe, Pamphlet, 1870, p. 191. 966 OF GENERATION : EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT. to the Physiological observer. But they also act as powerful motives to theWill; and, when strongly called forth, produce a degree of vigour anddetermination which is very surprising to those who have usually seen theindividual under a different aspect. But this vigour, being due to the strongexcitement of the Feelings, and not to any inherent strength of Intellect, isonly sustained during the persistence of the motive, and fails as soon as thissubsides. The feelings of Woman, being frequently called forth by theoccurrences she witnesses around her, are naturally more disinterested thanthose of Man; his energy is more concentrated upon one object; and to thishis Intellect is directed with an earnestness that too frequently either bluntshis feelings, or carries them along in the same channel, thus rendering them Fig. 371.
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y^jy&r Distribution of the Milk-ducts in the Mamma of the Human Female, during laetation; the ducts injected with wax. selfish.—In regard to the inferior development of her Intellectual powers,therefore, and to the predominance of the Instinctive, Woman must beconsidered as ranking below Man ; but in the superior purity and elevation ofher Feelings, she is as highly raised above him. Her whole character, Psychicalas well as Corporeal, is beautifully adapted to supply what is deficient inMan; and to elevate and refine those powers which might otherwise bedirected to low and selfish objects. 5. Of Lactation. 766. The new-born Infant in the Human species, as in the class of Mam-malia generally, is supplied with nourishment by a secretion elaborated fromthe blood of its maternal parent, by certain glandular organs known as the STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MAMMARY GLAND. 967 Mammary. The structure of these, which has been thoroughly investigatedby Sir A. Cooper* and Mr. Birkett,f is

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