The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... cavity in it , and carry it into the blood . They are denominated according to the liquids which they convey , as Lacteals , or Lymphatics ; the former con- veying chyle , a milky fluid , from the intes- tines , the latter lymph , a ...
... cavity in it , and carry it into the blood . They are denominated according to the liquids which they convey , as Lacteals , or Lymphatics ; the former con- veying chyle , a milky fluid , from the intes- tines , the latter lymph , a ...
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... cavities 30 feet deep , with an area of 20 feet square , in which the shells containing the bodies are closely packed in rows over each other , without any intermediate earth , and with only a slight superficial covering of soil , not ...
... cavities 30 feet deep , with an area of 20 feet square , in which the shells containing the bodies are closely packed in rows over each other , without any intermediate earth , and with only a slight superficial covering of soil , not ...
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... cavities of agates . It is composed of Seleca ......... ...... 97.50 Alumina ....... 0.25 Oxyd of iron ......... 0.50 and a Trace of mangenese-- 98.25 It is found abundantly in different parts of Saxony : also in the Hartz , in the ...
... cavities of agates . It is composed of Seleca ......... ...... 97.50 Alumina ....... 0.25 Oxyd of iron ......... 0.50 and a Trace of mangenese-- 98.25 It is found abundantly in different parts of Saxony : also in the Hartz , in the ...
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... cavity ; a doctrine main- tained by many eminent anatomists , and , in general , assented to by the greatest phy- siologists , as Boerhaave , Haller , & c . & c . and only occasionally called in question on viewing in some animals of ...
... cavity ; a doctrine main- tained by many eminent anatomists , and , in general , assented to by the greatest phy- siologists , as Boerhaave , Haller , & c . & c . and only occasionally called in question on viewing in some animals of ...
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... cavity . His brother , Mr. John Hunter , also demands mention in this place , as an accurate and minute dis- sector , and a patient experimentalist . He surveyed in his researches the whole field of animated nature ; and greatly ...
... cavity . His brother , Mr. John Hunter , also demands mention in this place , as an accurate and minute dis- sector , and a patient experimentalist . He surveyed in his researches the whole field of animated nature ; and greatly ...
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