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... PHYSICIANS ; LECTURER ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY AND BOTANY AT THE WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL , ETC. ETC. MEDICINA LITERIS 4096 LONDON : JOHN CHURCHILL , PRINCES STREET , SOHO . MDCCC LI . $ 2 HARVARD MEDICAL LIBRARY IN THE FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY ...
... PHYSICIANS ; LECTURER ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY AND BOTANY AT THE WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL , ETC. ETC. MEDICINA LITERIS 4096 LONDON : JOHN CHURCHILL , PRINCES STREET , SOHO . MDCCC LI . $ 2 HARVARD MEDICAL LIBRARY IN THE FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY ...
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... Physicians during the past and present years , on which occasion it was shown that the muscles were often flaccid and pale , and not firm and of a deep red colour as in health , and the brain much more white and bloodless than natural ...
... Physicians during the past and present years , on which occasion it was shown that the muscles were often flaccid and pale , and not firm and of a deep red colour as in health , and the brain much more white and bloodless than natural ...
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... physician , and by his statement many eminent physiologists and psychologists visited the town , and cross - examined the case on the spot . Sheets full of her ravings were taken down from her own mouth , and were found to consist of ...
... physician , and by his statement many eminent physiologists and psychologists visited the town , and cross - examined the case on the spot . Sheets full of her ravings were taken down from her own mouth , and were found to consist of ...
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... physician , however , determined to trace her past life step by step , -for the patient herself was incapable of returning a rational answer . He at length discovered a place where her parents had lived ; travelled thither , found them ...
... physician , however , determined to trace her past life step by step , -for the patient herself was incapable of returning a rational answer . He at length discovered a place where her parents had lived ; travelled thither , found them ...
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... physician succeeded in identifying so many passages with those taken down at the young woman's bedside , that no doubt could remain in any rational mind concerning the true origin of the impressions made on her nervous system . " This ...
... physician succeeded in identifying so many passages with those taken down at the young woman's bedside , that no doubt could remain in any rational mind concerning the true origin of the impressions made on her nervous system . " This ...
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agencies agent alimentary canal analogous ANATOMY animal bodies appear argue arterial auricles blood capillary carbonic acid cause cavities cells centres chemical chemical affinity CHEMISTRY circulation cloth coats coloured condition connexion consequence cyclosis dartos diastole dilatation DISEASES electricity electrometer Engravings erectile tissue evidence existence expansion extra-organic force fact Fcap fibres fibrine fluid Foolscap 8vo Foreign Medical Review frog heart heat hence HOSPITAL inorganic irritability latex laticiferous light limb manner MANUAL Medical Journal MEDICINE ments mind mode muscular action muscular contraction muscular system nature necessary nerves nervous influence nervous system OBSERVATIONS operation ordinary organic force PATHOLOGY peculiar PHARMACOPOEIAS phenomena phenomenon physical PHYSICIAN PHYSIOLOGY Plates Post 8vo practical practitioner present principle racter reason recommend relation respiration SCROFULA Second Edition sensitive plant stimulus suppose SURGERY Surgical systole Third Edition tion tissues traction treatise TREATMENT uterus vascular ventricles vessels vital motion VITAL MOVEMENTS volume voluntary muscles
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Page 132 - This possession was rendered more probable by the known fact that she was, or had been, a heretic. Voltaire humorously advises the devil to decline all acquaintance with medical men; and it would have been more to his reputation if he had taken this advice in the present instance. The case had attracted the particular attention of a young physician, and by his statement many eminent physiologists and psychologists visited the town and cross-examined the case on the spot.
Page 134 - ... that all thoughts are in themselves imperishable ; and that if the intelligent faculty should be rendered more comprehensive, it would require only a different and apportioned organization — the body celestial, instead of the body terrestrial — to bring before every human soul the collective experience of its whole past existence. And this — this, perchance, is the dread book of judgment, in whose mysterious hieroglyphics every idle word is recorded...