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... LATE PRESIDENT OF THE WESTMINSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY ; CORRESPONDING member of thE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF BALE , OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF ST . ANDREWS , OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF HAMBURG , ETC .; ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO , AND ...
... LATE PRESIDENT OF THE WESTMINSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY ; CORRESPONDING member of thE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE OF BALE , OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF ST . ANDREWS , OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF HAMBURG , ETC .; ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO , AND ...
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... late investigations , it ap- pears that we are constantly generating this agent , and that quoad the supply of electric matter , man far exceeds the torpedo or the electric eel , and is only prevented from emitting a benumbing shock ...
... late investigations , it ap- pears that we are constantly generating this agent , and that quoad the supply of electric matter , man far exceeds the torpedo or the electric eel , and is only prevented from emitting a benumbing shock ...
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... late the effects of the lightning flash can it exist without fulfilling some important purpose ? Natura nihil agat frustra is a universally admitted axiom ; nor must we presume otherwise even C - when the subject we are investigating ...
... late the effects of the lightning flash can it exist without fulfilling some important purpose ? Natura nihil agat frustra is a universally admitted axiom ; nor must we presume otherwise even C - when the subject we are investigating ...
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... late researches of his countryman , Prof. Matteucci . PROP . 1.- " Muscular contractions are excited by the development of a fluid in the animal ma- chine , which is conducted from the nerves to the muscles without the concurrence or ...
... late researches of his countryman , Prof. Matteucci . PROP . 1.- " Muscular contractions are excited by the development of a fluid in the animal ma- chine , which is conducted from the nerves to the muscles without the concurrence or ...
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... late talented countryman , Sir Humphry Davy , resolved many bodies previously considered simple into their constituent elements , and quite changed the face of chemistry ; and still more recently , directed by the gifted genius and vast ...
... late talented countryman , Sir Humphry Davy , resolved many bodies previously considered simple into their constituent elements , and quite changed the face of chemistry ; and still more recently , directed by the gifted genius and vast ...
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