Hardwicke's Science Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 29. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1893 |
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... possess some peculiar merits . The boar's bladder , " writes Howard , vol . i . p . 358 , " has been re- puted by physi- cians a specific for the epilepsy ; and the tush of the wild boar still passes with some as of great efficacy in ...
... possess some peculiar merits . The boar's bladder , " writes Howard , vol . i . p . 358 , " has been re- puted by physi- cians a specific for the epilepsy ; and the tush of the wild boar still passes with some as of great efficacy in ...
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... possess virtues every way suited to the cure of a dysentery which does not proceed from a putrid state of the humours ... possesses , going by the same authority ( pp . 498–500 ) , the least serum of all and a great deal of cream . Its ...
... possess virtues every way suited to the cure of a dysentery which does not proceed from a putrid state of the humours ... possesses , going by the same authority ( pp . 498–500 ) , the least serum of all and a great deal of cream . Its ...
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... possessing unequal rear spines to the lorica . Like valga , too , these bear a resemblance to aculeata in their ... possesses it as a short stump with dilated base , ( Fig . 8 ) capable of being easily overlooked . Joliet's name may ...
... possessing unequal rear spines to the lorica . Like valga , too , these bear a resemblance to aculeata in their ... possesses it as a short stump with dilated base , ( Fig . 8 ) capable of being easily overlooked . Joliet's name may ...
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... possesses so many , will not only be in- terested in the statement , but will not deny it . It is to the effect that nearly all the greatest men of the world , in all ages , have had blue eyes . Amongst them are enumerated Socrates ...
... possesses so many , will not only be in- terested in the statement , but will not deny it . It is to the effect that nearly all the greatest men of the world , in all ages , have had blue eyes . Amongst them are enumerated Socrates ...
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... possesses a keen eye for all kinds of strange things , sent me a butterfly , in a somewhat battered condition , which he took on the outskirts of this valley , and which I had no difficulty in identifying as the black - veined white ...
... possesses a keen eye for all kinds of strange things , sent me a butterfly , in a somewhat battered condition , which he took on the outskirts of this valley , and which I had no difficulty in identifying as the black - veined white ...
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