Hints to young medical officers of the army on the examination of recruits, and respecting the feigned disabilities of soldiers : with official documents, and the regulations for the inspection of conscripts for the French and Prussian armies / by Henry Marshall.

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1828
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Credit: Hints to young medical officers of the army on the examination of recruits, and respecting the feigned disabilities of soldiers : with official documents, and the regulations for the inspection of conscripts for the French and Prussian armies / by Henry Marshall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    transparent like jellj. The same colour is found in the muscles of most insects. Since, then,, muscular action exists under such varieties of external character ; it becomes necessary to inquire into, and to be governed by the powers which the absorbents possess, rather than by their structure. If their contraction, on the application of external stimuli, be admitted as a proof, their muscu- lar power has been long demonstrated: Haller produced it by the application of sulphuric acid to the absorbents of the liver; and saw them propel their contents with celerity, on the admission of cold air into the abdominal ca- vity. They possess this power in all red blooded animals, and it not only exists from birth, but is so tenaciously retained that it is not immediately destroyed by death. They contract too with considerable force, for they iG Lyonet Trait. Anat. de la Chenille, p. 92. 17 Blumenbach's Comparative Anatomy by Lawrence, p. 392. 18 See Cruikshank's Anatomy of the Absorbent System, and Soemmerring de corp. human, fabrica Tom. V. 19 Cruikshank's Anatomy, &c.