Sanatan Jain

SR No.: 035241
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Unknown
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1907
Total Pages: 412
Language: English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati
Classification: Book_English, Book_Devnagari, & Book_Gujarati
File Size: 3 MB

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મારા થી જુન) આમસિદ્ધિશાપર એક નિબંધ.
333 પહેલાં ડોકટર બેઝ સજીવ અને જડમાં પ્રતિ- તેમણે પુસ્તક પ્રસિદ્ધ કર્યું છે. ઉક્ત તપાસ ક્રિયા આપવાની શક્તિ સંબંધે તપાસ અને અને શોધને વધારે લાંબા ક્રમમાં લઈ જવાને શોધ કરવાનું શરૂ કર્યું હતું. આ સંબંધે તેઓ શક્તિમાન થયા છે, અને તે તેમણે
The physiologist endeavours to ascertain the exact behaviour of living matter in various stimuli. No one, I fancy, will be so foolish as to question that there are specific reactions dependent upon or involved in the state which we call life: a living nerve reacts otherwise than a dead nerve. But it is evident that, if solid matter in generai has its own architec. ture, its own inter-molecular reactions-upon which its solidity depends as compared with the state of a liquid or a gas--the physiologist can scarcely expect to make real progress until he knows what rections his material will display simply in virtue of the fact that it is solid matter.
DR. BOSE'S DISCOVERIES. Guided alone by the prime idea of the unity of Nature, Dr. Busc has been able to show not merely that living vegetable tissues behave under stimulation in a fashion exactly parallel to that of animal tissues but even that in many plants fibres of peculiar conductivity and sensitivity can be isolated which it seems perfectly legitimate to call vegetable nerves. The phrase will not seem so preposterous to those who are aware of the recent trend of physiological botany, the discovery of certain special senses in the plant, and even of special sense organs, such as the photo-gensitive structures, which are now called ocelli or little eyes.
Space remains for the merest indication of the manner in which these new researches extend towards and indeed actually invade, the domain of physiological psychology. Dr. Bose has found that a nerve-like muscle-alters in length under stimulation, and has succeeded in making the nerve record its own changes photographically (by moving a spot of light directed upon sensitive paper) and mechanically (by moving & lever writing upon smoked glass). Further, he has contributed largely to the question of the consumption of energy in nervous action since he can measure precisely the quantity of the "dose' of electrical energy administered to the nerve, and then can ascertain, in some measure, what becomes of it. These remarks give an idea of the quantity, and but an imperfect notion of the quality of Dr. Bose's work. I have, for instance, been able to make nc allusion to his work on the action of drugs and of alcohol in special. One way merely note, in conclusion, that these researches, which began with the study of response in strips of tin and the like, have led onwards to the domain even of Psychology itself, not froin any determination of the worker, who had no idea at first, of the direction in which he would be led.