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... physician of that island , an oily fluid has often been observed on the surface of the black vomit in sporadic cases of yellow fever , there common , and that in instances where no oleaginous medicines had been administered . ] — ED . G ...
... physician of that island , an oily fluid has often been observed on the surface of the black vomit in sporadic cases of yellow fever , there common , and that in instances where no oleaginous medicines had been administered . ] — ED . G ...
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... physician could detect the fact of the patient having been bled without inquiry or an examination of the arm . * Of course the more inflam- matory or dynamic the type , the less mischief ensued . [ In a few cases during the late endemic ...
... physician could detect the fact of the patient having been bled without inquiry or an examination of the arm . * Of course the more inflam- matory or dynamic the type , the less mischief ensued . [ In a few cases during the late endemic ...
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... opportunities offered , in their after career , the solution of which would greatly advance medical science , and could not fail to improve medical practice . ] - ED . I DIVISION III . " SOME of the physicians of New 113.
... opportunities offered , in their after career , the solution of which would greatly advance medical science , and could not fail to improve medical practice . ] - ED . I DIVISION III . " SOME of the physicians of New 113.
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Daniel Blair John Davy. DIVISION III . " SOME of the physicians of New Spain admit that the epi- demics of the vomits , as well as the smallpox , are periodical in the torrid zone , and that the happy time already approaches when ...
Daniel Blair John Davy. DIVISION III . " SOME of the physicians of New Spain admit that the epi- demics of the vomits , as well as the smallpox , are periodical in the torrid zone , and that the happy time already approaches when ...
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... physician , would be the necessary earnest of success in any such undertaking . A minute inquiry into the vegetable , animal , and mineral constituents of our foreshores , should be made now , while the disease is absent , and carefully ...
... physician , would be the necessary earnest of success in any such undertaking . A minute inquiry into the vegetable , animal , and mineral constituents of our foreshores , should be made now , while the disease is absent , and carefully ...
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