The mechanisms of life (respiration and circulation): I would prefer to say, respiration and circulation are two of the requisites of life, two indispensables upon which intelligent action depends. Respiration and circulation are not controlled by the mind, are not intellectual faculties, their action is past our comprehension; they are under the guidance of a superior intelligence than that of man. In which of the seven does the functional creator exist; where is his throne from whence he rules the organism?
Gray tells us that the spinal cord is composed of grey and white substances interlaced with minute fibrils, some of which serve as conducting paths between the brain centers and the spinal centers, that associating systems unite these conducting paths. Presnted by: Alexandria, VA Chiropractors He also states, “A purely anatomical examination fails to reveal the functional relations in the fibres.”
Through the nervous system the intellectual receives all impressions and appreciation of the outer world. Nerve vibration is associated with consciousness. By and through it then adapts itself to thon’s environments.
The bodily functions control all physiological action. By and through the sympathetic portion of the nervous system life is maintained.
Through evolution the nervous system has undergone remarkable differentiation and specialization attaining its maximum as a dominant ruler in the human species; however, some of the animals and birds excel in some of the senses, for instance that of smell and direction.
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