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... MEDICAL CHEMISTRY . With numer- ous Engravings on Wood . Second Edition . Feap . 8vo . 68. 6d . FRESENIUS ' INSTRUCTION IN CHEMICAL ANALYSIS . QUALITATIVE . Third Edition . 8vo . 9s . QUANTITATIVE . 8vo . 148 . FOWNES ' CHEMISTRY , AS ...
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... Medical Review , after saying that " none of the easy solutions which have been offered of the difficult problem presented by the appearance of this acarus , can be admitted , " proceeds to make a few remarks much to the above purpose ...
... Medical Review , after saying that " none of the easy solutions which have been offered of the difficult problem presented by the appearance of this acarus , can be admitted , " proceeds to make a few remarks much to the above purpose ...
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... Medical Gazette , 1845 , p . 867 . If the human race be of one species , yet have teeth so different , it may be asked of Professor Owen , how should fossil equidæ be distinct species with dentine peculiarities of smaller amount ? Why a ...
... Medical Gazette , 1845 , p . 867 . If the human race be of one species , yet have teeth so different , it may be asked of Professor Owen , how should fossil equidæ be distinct species with dentine peculiarities of smaller amount ? Why a ...
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... Medical and Surgical Journal . " No one is more distinguished for the elegance and recherché style of his publica- tions than Mr. Churchill . " - Provincial Medical Journal . " Mr. Churchill's publications are very handsomely got up ...
... Medical and Surgical Journal . " No one is more distinguished for the elegance and recherché style of his publica- tions than Mr. Churchill . " - Provincial Medical Journal . " Mr. Churchill's publications are very handsomely got up ...
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... MEDICAL TImes and Gazette is favoured with an amount of Literary and Scientife support which enables it to reflect fully the progress of Medical Science , and insure for it a character , an influence , and a circulation possessed at the ...
... MEDICAL TImes and Gazette is favoured with an amount of Literary and Scientife support which enables it to reflect fully the progress of Medical Science , and insure for it a character , an influence , and a circulation possessed at the ...
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Page lx - Thus, the production of new forms, as shewn in the pages of the geological record, has never been anything more than a new stage of progress in gestation, an event as simply natural, and attended as little by any circumstances of a wonderful or startling kind, as the silent advance of an ordinary mother from one week to another of her pregnancy.
Page 329 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature...