Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge. [With] Supp, Volumen2 |
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... fome authors juftly ftile it HUMAN ANATOMY , and COMPARATIVE ANATOMY . The former of thefe is ufually applied to the examination of the ftructure and parts of the human body : the latter to that of the brute creation alone . ( 3 ...
... fome authors juftly ftile it HUMAN ANATOMY , and COMPARATIVE ANATOMY . The former of thefe is ufually applied to the examination of the ftructure and parts of the human body : the latter to that of the brute creation alone . ( 3 ...
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... fome of the emunctories ; a redundancy is removed by fome fpontaneous beeding ; a bleeding naturally stops of itfelf ; and a great loss of blood , from any caufe , is in fome meature compenfated , by a contracting power in the vafcular ...
... fome of the emunctories ; a redundancy is removed by fome fpontaneous beeding ; a bleeding naturally stops of itfelf ; and a great loss of blood , from any caufe , is in fome meature compenfated , by a contracting power in the vafcular ...
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... fome are ufeful in articulation . These are called cotyloid when they are deep , as is the cafe with the os in ... fome of which in the scull remain to the greatest age . It also happens fome- times , that while a bone is oflifying from ...
... fome are ufeful in articulation . These are called cotyloid when they are deep , as is the cafe with the os in ... fome of which in the scull remain to the greatest age . It also happens fome- times , that while a bone is oflifying from ...
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... fome fubjects we meet with another mufcle , which , from its having nearly the fame origin , infertion , and ufe as this , has been named -boideus alter . ( M ) So named from its arifing near the dentes molares ( v ) , and its being ...
... fome fubjects we meet with another mufcle , which , from its having nearly the fame origin , infertion , and ufe as this , has been named -boideus alter . ( M ) So named from its arifing near the dentes molares ( v ) , and its being ...
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... fome writers , this muscle has gotten its name from its resemblance to the fpleen ; others derive it from fplenium splint . ( p ) So named on account of its complicated ftructure . ( q ) So named from its origin from the neck ( reanos ) ...
... fome writers , this muscle has gotten its name from its resemblance to the fpleen ; others derive it from fplenium splint . ( p ) So named on account of its complicated ftructure . ( q ) So named from its origin from the neck ( reanos ) ...
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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.
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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...
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