Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge. [With] Supp, Volumen2 |
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... cause he was of another profeffion , and because he publifhed nothing upon the fubject . He is confidered by the Doctor as by far the best ana , tomift and phyfiologist of his time ; and was cer- tainly the first man we know of who ...
... cause he was of another profeffion , and because he publifhed nothing upon the fubject . He is confidered by the Doctor as by far the best ana , tomift and phyfiologist of his time ; and was cer- tainly the first man we know of who ...
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... cause and nature of dif- efes ; and thereby be enabled to reftore the health of many , who are now , from our more confined knowledge , faid to labour under incu- rable diforders . By fuch an intimate acquaintance with the economy of ...
... cause and nature of dif- efes ; and thereby be enabled to reftore the health of many , who are now , from our more confined knowledge , faid to labour under incu- rable diforders . By fuch an intimate acquaintance with the economy of ...
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... cause of the heat of the body , or what is called animal beat . ( 366 ) Next to the prefervation of life , the most important ufe of refpiration feems to be , that of forming the voice and speech . The ancients and almost all the ...
... cause of the heat of the body , or what is called animal beat . ( 366 ) Next to the prefervation of life , the most important ufe of refpiration feems to be , that of forming the voice and speech . The ancients and almost all the ...
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... to be the mode of action of the heart and its vef- fels . ( 379. ) The cause of this action has , like all o- ther intricate and interesting subjects , been differ- ently ( in this cafe termed the buff ) ; and 62 PART V. ANATOMY .
... to be the mode of action of the heart and its vef- fels . ( 379. ) The cause of this action has , like all o- ther intricate and interesting subjects , been differ- ently ( in this cafe termed the buff ) ; and 62 PART V. ANATOMY .
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... cause of inflammation to lentor and obftructions . But from the late Mr Hewfon's experiments it appears , that when the action of the arteries is increased , the blood , instead of be- ing more vifcid , is , on the contrary , more fluid ...
... cause of inflammation to lentor and obftructions . But from the late Mr Hewfon's experiments it appears , that when the action of the arteries is increased , the blood , instead of be- ing more vifcid , is , on the contrary , more fluid ...
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Página 242 - ... in a bed of water. In order, however, to be more certain, we sent in a Levantine mariner, who, by the promise of a good reward, ventured, with a flambeau in his hand, into this narrow aperture.
Página 377 - I think, The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost A drop of Grecian blood : The end crowns all ; And that old common arbitrator, time, Will one day end it.
Página 125 - Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Página 231 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Página 242 - ... to our view. We quickly perceived, that what the ignorant natives had been terrified at as a giant was nothing more than a sparry...
Página 242 - Our candles being now all lighted up, and the whole place completely illuminated, never could the eye be presented with a more glittering, or a more magnificent scene. The whole roof hung with solid icicles, transparent as glass, yet solid as marble.
Página 242 - They struck us with the more amazement, as we knew them to be mere productions of nature, who, hitherto in solitude, had, in her playful moments, dressed the scene, as if for her own amusement.
Página 307 - ... practised surgery, and could breathe a vein as well as mow a beard: such a staff being to this day, by every village practitioner, put into the hand of a patient undergoing the operation of phlebotomy. The white band, which encompasses the staff, was meant to represent the fillet thus elegantly twined about it." In confirmation of this opinion the reader may be referred to the cut of the barber's shop in Comenii Orbis Pictus, where the patient under phlebotomy is represented with a pole or staff...
Página 245 - Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. When truth or virtue an affront endures, Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours.
Página 330 - But, as he rode round the walls, pensive, angry and disappointed, he observed a stork, preparing to leave her nest in one of the towers and to fly with her infant family towards the country. He seized with the ready penetration of a statesman this trifling incident which chance had offered to superstition; and exclaimed in a loud and cheerful tone, that...