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... skin and com- plexion , conferring the freshness of youth : the clear eye , the sweet and wholesome breath : all these united to the foregoing , produce a ZEALOUS ADVOCATE , anxious for others to share his benefits : at least this has ...
... skin and com- plexion , conferring the freshness of youth : the clear eye , the sweet and wholesome breath : all these united to the foregoing , produce a ZEALOUS ADVOCATE , anxious for others to share his benefits : at least this has ...
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... Skin for skin , yea , all that a man hath will he give for his life . ' It is an admitted fact , that disease has increas- ed , and the duration of human life decreased , from the time of the Patriarchs down to our own days , and more ...
... Skin for skin , yea , all that a man hath will he give for his life . ' It is an admitted fact , that disease has increas- ed , and the duration of human life decreased , from the time of the Patriarchs down to our own days , and more ...
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... skin , or the least mark which indicated that such eruption had for- merly existed . " Their wounds heal with re- markable facility , without any applications . It abounds with a great number of old men , many of whom , by the loss of ...
... skin , or the least mark which indicated that such eruption had for- merly existed . " Their wounds heal with re- markable facility , without any applications . It abounds with a great number of old men , many of whom , by the loss of ...
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... skin , etc. It was the chief remedy which the intuitive instinct of man suggested to him in all prevalent diseases and as long as he was acquainted with no other remedy for those purposes , and his life was in accordance with nature ...
... skin , etc. It was the chief remedy which the intuitive instinct of man suggested to him in all prevalent diseases and as long as he was acquainted with no other remedy for those purposes , and his life was in accordance with nature ...
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... skin of her arm : it betokened a bad state of the blood . I shall send you something for it , said he . He now began a course of medicine , to which the old lady very willingly submitted ; at length it amounted to nine pounds , he ad ...
... skin of her arm : it betokened a bad state of the blood . I shall send you something for it , said he . He now began a course of medicine , to which the old lady very willingly submitted ; at length it amounted to nine pounds , he ad ...
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