British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Practial Medicine and Surgery, Volume 321863 - Medicine |
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... less than 637 ! The informa- tion therein contained has become more or less obsolete , owing to the more accurate information contained in the works of Weddell , Howard , Karsten , and others , laid under contribution in the compilation ...
... less than 637 ! The informa- tion therein contained has become more or less obsolete , owing to the more accurate information contained in the works of Weddell , Howard , Karsten , and others , laid under contribution in the compilation ...
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... less numbers , of long wood cells " bast cells " traversing a matrix of cellular tissue , into which also the medullary or pith rays of the wood are prolonged . Within the liber is a layer of growing tissue , called the cambium ...
... less numbers , of long wood cells " bast cells " traversing a matrix of cellular tissue , into which also the medullary or pith rays of the wood are prolonged . Within the liber is a layer of growing tissue , called the cambium ...
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... less species , C. Pahudiana . Many plants have since been raised from seeds presented by Drs . Weddell and Karsten , and with a liberality that contrasts most favourably with the former practices of the Dutch Government in similar ...
... less species , C. Pahudiana . Many plants have since been raised from seeds presented by Drs . Weddell and Karsten , and with a liberality that contrasts most favourably with the former practices of the Dutch Government in similar ...
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... less than one hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred were in preparation , under Mr. M'Ivor's care . This gentleman's method of culture is described in an interesting report , dated July , 1862 , and printed in the second part of ...
... less than one hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred were in preparation , under Mr. M'Ivor's care . This gentleman's method of culture is described in an interesting report , dated July , 1862 , and printed in the second part of ...
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... less * Since the above was written , Mr. Markham , in a paper read at the Society of Arts , March 27th , 1863 , mentions that 35,000 plants have already been ordered by companies and private planters . The reader is referred to that ...
... less * Since the above was written , Mr. Markham , in a paper read at the Society of Arts , March 27th , 1863 , mentions that 35,000 plants have already been ordered by companies and private planters . The reader is referred to that ...
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Page 264 - He makes extension backwards and downwards, while the assistant draws laterally. The dislocation is thus reduced with surprising facility, the agency of chloroform not being required. The advantage of this modification is that extension backwards may be far more easily executed than when the patient is in the supine position ; and this is the direction required in dislocation forwards, which prevails in the great majority of cases. For dislocation backwards, which is very rare, Cooper's procedure...