The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts, 11. köideA. and C. Black, 1860 |
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... regional life . In the higher animals , the special actions of the several organs are as completely subordinated to that of the body as a whole , as are the powers of local corporations to the central government in any well - ordered ...
... regional life . In the higher animals , the special actions of the several organs are as completely subordinated to that of the body as a whole , as are the powers of local corporations to the central government in any well - ordered ...
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... region . The same artificial shape of skull was also pointed out to me in one of the encased mummies ; but these were evidently exceptional specimens . The super - occipital or inter - parietal wormian bone represented by Dr Wilson , on ...
... region . The same artificial shape of skull was also pointed out to me in one of the encased mummies ; but these were evidently exceptional specimens . The super - occipital or inter - parietal wormian bone represented by Dr Wilson , on ...
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... region of perpetual snow ; and in every one of which there is a cat , with this speciality , that all these cats are black . This peculiarity I quote on the authority of General San Roman , the present Minister of War in this country ...
... region of perpetual snow ; and in every one of which there is a cat , with this speciality , that all these cats are black . This peculiarity I quote on the authority of General San Roman , the present Minister of War in this country ...
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... region . of the Andes , where cold prevails all the year through , goitre is never endemic ; and cretinism is very rare in Peru , even in those parts where goitre abounds . Thus , in the valleys of Cusco and Huanuco , those affected ...
... region . of the Andes , where cold prevails all the year through , goitre is never endemic ; and cretinism is very rare in Peru , even in those parts where goitre abounds . Thus , in the valleys of Cusco and Huanuco , those affected ...
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... in Patas , where her husband had mines . Finding that both she and her husband and their daughter ( ten years old ) became affected with goitre , they abandoned their mines , and retired to the colder regions 30 Peruvian Gleanings .
... in Patas , where her husband had mines . Finding that both she and her husband and their daughter ( ten years old ) became affected with goitre , they abandoned their mines , and retired to the colder regions 30 Peruvian Gleanings .
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