The motive power of the human system : with the duodynamic symptoms and treatment of chronic diseases / by H.H. Sherwood ; revised by H.H. Sherwood's successor, William Larned.

  • Sherwood, H. H. (Henry Hall)
Date:
1850
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Credit: The motive power of the human system : with the duodynamic symptoms and treatment of chronic diseases / by H.H. Sherwood ; revised by H.H. Sherwood's successor, William Larned. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gative stale in the leaves and buds or lungs of the plants, which attract and repel the air through appropriate tubes, and are then attracted to their bulbs to be again repelled from them as before, and deposited for their nourishment and growth. Plants have also an excreting system in their skin or bark, as well as in membranes, similar to those of animals, and while those on the surface are maintained like those of animals in a negative state, those of their internal surfaces are maintained in a positive state. Their excretions from their globate glands in the bark and membranes, are like those of the different species of animals different in different species. The calyx and stalks of the moss rose, as well as of many others of the same species, are more or less covered with prominent glands, from which is repelled an aromatic fluid. Their fragrance or perfume, and that of the different kinds of willow, with the geraniums, as well as other nectariferous flowers of the higher orders of plants, are like those of the higher orders of animals, the pro- ductions of their excreting systems, and form, like theirs, a delightful contrast with the disgusting odours from the same systems in the noxious and lower orders of the vegetable, as well as of the animal kingdom. 3