Nervous+fluid

  • 41Spirits of turpentine — Spirit Spir it, n. [OF. espirit, esperit, F. esprit, L. spiritus, from spirare to breathe, to blow. Cf. {Conspire}, {Expire}, {Esprit}, {Sprite}.] 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. [Obs.] All of spirit… …

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  • 42Spirits of wine — Spirit Spir it, n. [OF. espirit, esperit, F. esprit, L. spiritus, from spirare to breathe, to blow. Cf. {Conspire}, {Expire}, {Esprit}, {Sprite}.] 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. [Obs.] All of spirit… …

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  • 43sulphuric ether — Spirit Spir it, n. [OF. espirit, esperit, F. esprit, L. spiritus, from spirare to breathe, to blow. Cf. {Conspire}, {Expire}, {Esprit}, {Sprite}.] 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. [Obs.] All of spirit… …

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  • 44Sweet spirit of niter — Spirit Spir it, n. [OF. espirit, esperit, F. esprit, L. spiritus, from spirare to breathe, to blow. Cf. {Conspire}, {Expire}, {Esprit}, {Sprite}.] 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. [Obs.] All of spirit… …

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  • 45sweet spirit of niter — Spirit Spir it, n. [OF. espirit, esperit, F. esprit, L. spiritus, from spirare to breathe, to blow. Cf. {Conspire}, {Expire}, {Esprit}, {Sprite}.] 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. [Obs.] All of spirit… …

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  • 46The Spirit — Spirit Spir it, n. [OF. espirit, esperit, F. esprit, L. spiritus, from spirare to breathe, to blow. Cf. {Conspire}, {Expire}, {Esprit}, {Sprite}.] 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. [Obs.] All of spirit… …

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  • 47Transmutation of species — is a term to describe the altering of one species into another. It was one of the names commonly used for evolutionary ideas in pre Darwinian times, others being the development hypothesis (one of the terms used by Darwin) and the theory of… …

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  • 48Malcolm Flemyng — Malcolm Flemyng, M.D. (d. 1764), was a Scottish physiologist. Flemyng was born in Scotland early in the eighteenth century. He was a pupil of Monro at Edinburgh and of Boerhaave at Leyden. In the first of his five printed letters to Haller (Epist …

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  • 49animal spirits — 1. Nervous fluid, the nervous force, vital principle, life. 2. Energy, vigor, life, spirit, buoyancy of mind, lightheartedness, impulsiveness, spiritedness. See animation …

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  • 50Flemyng — (Fleming), Malcolm, studirte in Leyden unter Boerhaave u. lebte als Arzt in Kingston bei Hull im 18. Jahrh.; er schr.: Neuropathia (Gedicht), York 1740 (italien. Rom 1755); Proposal for improving the practice of medicine, Hull 1742; The nature of …

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