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I set to work again for months to find out how to make a digestive system that would deal with waste products and a reproductive system capable of internal nourishment and incubation. ECRASIA. Why did you not find out how to make them like us? That was the secret you needed. THE NEWLY BORN. Oh yes. How true! MARTELLUS. Control your reflexes, child. THE NEWLY BORN. My what!
Walking, writing, and numerous other movements pertaining to the occupation which one follows are examples of such reflexes. These activities are at first entirely voluntary, but by repetition they gradually become reflex, requiring only the stimulus to start them. The advantages to the body of its acquired reflexes are quite apparent.
At the last instant, Scotty pulled the plane up in a power climb. So near disaster had he come that the suction of the passing pontoons lifted a coiled rope into the air on top of the cabin. Even as he mounted the rail and stood on deck, Rick gave a prayer of thanks for his pal's perfect judgment and lightning reflexes.
This word may be used in the broad sense of denoting all use of consciousness, or mind, considered as a thing in some way additional to the reflexes of the nervous system. In the life of the animal, as in that of man, wherever we find the individual doing anything with reference to a mental picture, using knowledge or experience in any form, then he is said to be acting intelligently.
Still further negative evidence that inhalation anesthesia offers little or no protection to the brain-cells against trauma is derived from the following experiment: A dog whose spinal cord had been divided at the level of the first dorsal segment, and which had then been kept in good condition for two months, showed a recovery of the spinal reflexes, such as the scratch reflex, etc.
It seems that in contrast to reflexes and instincts which have prearranged bodily means of expression, the impulses must be subjected to a long period of training and education before they are capable of being controlled and transformed into that voluntary movement which is sometimes called will power.
"I started out for Whiteside in the fast boat." Winston focused a flashlight into one eye, then the other. "I was on the north side of North Cove when the boat smashed into something. I was thrown violently into the water." Winston tested the scientist's reflexes, using a finger instead of the traditional rubber hammer.
Aennchen explains all as reflexes of the incidents of the previous night the work on the white bridal dress, the terrible black feather on Max's hat; and merrily tells a ghostly tale of a nocturnal visitor to her sainted aunt which turned out to be the watch-dog. Enter the bridesmaids with their song:
Various reflexes may be brought out in a sleeper by slight stimulations to this or that region of his body. Furthermore, each of the senses has its own set of reflex adjustments to the stimulations which come to it.
"He told me he wanted to go to sleep after luncheon. And one or two other nice things." Ah, thought Mr. Heard, Keith was acting up to what he had said in the boat; he was being good to the boy; that was right of him. "I'm sure," he said, "that Keith has been speaking kindly to you." "Kindly? It's like talking to an earthquake. He told me to dominate my reflexes. He called me a perambulating echo.
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