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... changes now occur , and the generative functions are perfected . Youth terminates at the age of legal majority , twenty - one years , or perhaps the period ought to be extended to twenty - five years of age , as it is with some Manhood ...
... changes now occur , and the generative functions are perfected . Youth terminates at the age of legal majority , twenty - one years , or perhaps the period ought to be extended to twenty - five years of age , as it is with some Manhood ...
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... changes usually occur in the body as to render any error practically impossible . Within a varying period , usually not more than twelve hours , the body becomes rigid , owing to the development of rigor mortis or post mortem rigidity ...
... changes usually occur in the body as to render any error practically impossible . Within a varying period , usually not more than twelve hours , the body becomes rigid , owing to the development of rigor mortis or post mortem rigidity ...
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... changes . His rigour in this Florence . of Constance , transacted a vast amount of business in that city , particular case was universally censured , but Cosimo and made very large gains . He then travelled in Germany , and would ...
... changes . His rigour in this Florence . of Constance , transacted a vast amount of business in that city , particular case was universally censured , but Cosimo and made very large gains . He then travelled in Germany , and would ...
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... changes and pupil , John Hunter ( 1728-1793 ) , was also a teacher of in the organs , and thus led to the rise of the strongly opposed anatomy , and practised as a surgeon . His immense contribu- anatomical and pathological school of ...
... changes and pupil , John Hunter ( 1728-1793 ) , was also a teacher of in the organs , and thus led to the rise of the strongly opposed anatomy , and practised as a surgeon . His immense contribu- anatomical and pathological school of ...
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... changes of the pressures of the blood of strychnine , thebaine or brucine , the tetanizing action in arteries , veins or capillaries , and in the heart itself and its of these drugs is converted into a paralysing action . The respective ...
... changes of the pressures of the blood of strychnine , thebaine or brucine , the tetanizing action in arteries , veins or capillaries , and in the heart itself and its of these drugs is converted into a paralysing action . The respective ...
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