E. Darwin

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These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate.

The articles which compose the blood.

We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring.

Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli.

Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.

Some inebriates have their paroxysms of inebriety.

These vicissitudes of exertion and inertion of the arterial system constitute the paroxysms of remittent fever.

The valves preclude the blood from entering the veins.

If venesection and a cathartic be premised.

In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect.

The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body.

Hence sable coal his massy couch extends, And stars of gold the sparkling pyrite blends.

We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants.