A treatise on vital causes / by James Newton Heale.

  • Heale, J. N. (James Newton)
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on vital causes / by James Newton Heale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    82 many soever dissimilar constituents, yet, when these all combine to produce any particular set of changes, the various materials employed in conjunction then constitute one entity. As the strung bow is one instrument, and all the events, associated in its product or function, form one extra-material essence, however dissimilar the constituent phases may be among themselves, even so the elasticity derived from the strung bow is the single product of many coincidences, and would have no existence if one of its contributing facts were obliterated.