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It attains its height at mid-day, and it is then that the slightest breath of air, the slightest [Pg 59] movement, suffices to cause dehiscence, which is generally followed by a scarcely perceptible contractile motion of the receptacle.
He held that the heart’s action, “the contractile power of the cardiac walls,” is the main spring or primum mobile, from which the circulating force proceeds, notwithstanding the great discrepancies as to what that force is; and while he objected to my theory, that it did not show any distinct measure of force, he said that, while Borelli estimated the contractive power of the heart at 180,000 pounds, Keill stated it at five ounces, Sir Charles Bell at 51 pounds, Carpenter at 51½, and Hales at 50.
He believed that it was assisted by the contractile power of the arteries, by the movement of the ribs and chest in respiration, by capillary attraction, muscular contraction in exercise, and several other forces; one of which, the attraction of the venous blood for the pulmonary cells, had been recently pointed out by Dr.
The muscles are the contractile organs that move the body.
By careful observation of the bodies of Vorticellids, a contractile vesicle may be observed, which appears to cause a movement of fluids, that is probably connected either with respiration or secretion.
-A, mouth, or gizzard; B, contractile vesicle.
"[8] They are furnished with a distinct mouth, and adult specimens exhibit star-shaped contractile vesicles in great perfection.
Gosse, speaking of this genus, observes "that the whole of the upper part of the body is lined with a sensitive, contractile, partially opaque membrane, which a little below the disk recedes from the walls of the body, and forms a diaphragm, with a highly contractile and versatile central orifice.
Carter affirm that they have detected a contractile vesicle, which would assimulate them to the animal series, but their general behaviour is vegetable; and the 'Micrographic Dictionary' is in favour of referring them to the Algæ-that great family of simple plants, of which the sea-weeds are the most important representatives.
"The anus is situated on the back close beneath the ciliary circle;" and the "contractile vesicle on a level with the ciliary wreath.
But the most important, and characteristic difference, which I have yet been able to discover, between this new influence and electricity, consists in their effects upon the contractile power of animals and of plants.
They were constantly kept in fresh water, as the situation most natural to them, during the whole of the time they were under experiment; and their skins were suffered to remain as entire as possible, since I found their muscles lost their contractile power, in a few hours, and became rigid when exposed, deprived of their skins, to the action of the water.
It appears too, both from the experiments of Dr Monro, and of Dr William Alexander of Halifax in Yorkshire, that when no communication is left between the trunk and posterior extremities of a frog, except by its sciatic nerves, a strong solution of opium, injected under the skin of its posterior extremities, deprives them both of their sensibility and of their contractile power; but that it does not in the least affect the trunk of the body.
Their legs were carefully examined, in the manner I have described, four or five times every day after their heads had been taken off, so long as any contractions could be excited; but I could not perceive, in any one of these instances, that the contractile power continued either 111 longer or more vigorous in the legs, in which the nerves were not divided than it did in those in which they were.
That a similar relation subsists between an increased action of the arteries, and the contractile power of muscles, is, I think, proved by the following experiment.
We are now perhaps prepared to account for the deficiency of contractile power in those legs, whose sciatic nerves had been divided, the one, between three weeks and a month, the other, six weeks, compared with its continuance in the leg, whose nerve had been divided upwards of three months.
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