General physiology; an outline of the science of life . nd criticism. It will be an L1AING SUBSTANCE 129 interesting task for the physiologists to investigate carefully thesephenomena, heretofore so ill-defined, to prove by refined methodswhat vital phenomena are really depressed and to what degree, andfinally to show how this voluntary apparent death, which, it iswidely believed, has in it absolutely nothing mystical, is to beexplained physiologically. How little justification there is in doubting the power of certainorganisms to retain the capacity of life without exhibiting theslightest vit
General physiology; an outline of the science of life . nd criticism. It will be an L1AING SUBSTANCE 129 interesting task for the physiologists to investigate carefully thesephenomena, heretofore so ill-defined, to prove by refined methodswhat vital phenomena are really depressed and to what degree, andfinally to show how this voluntary apparent death, which, it iswidely believed, has in it absolutely nothing mystical, is to beexplained physiologically. How little justification there is in doubting the power of certainorganisms to retain the capacity of life without exhibiting theslightest vital phenomena, and even for so long a time that theusual duration of their life is greatly surpassed, appears when weturn from the vertebrates to the invertebrates, which have beenvery carefully investigated in this respect. Leeuwenhoek (1719) made the very remarkable observationthat in the dust of eaves-troughs animalcules exist which arecapable of drying up completely without losing the power ofawakening to active life upon being moistened with rain-.
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