The History of medicine comprising a narrative of its progress from the earliest ages to the present timeLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 483 pages |
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... the athlete has in many instances recoiled on the heads of the malevolent , as was signally exemplified in the case of the ambitious Pythagoreans METRODORUS . 17 during the revolt of Crotona . * 16 HISTORY OF MEDICINE .
... the athlete has in many instances recoiled on the heads of the malevolent , as was signally exemplified in the case of the ambitious Pythagoreans METRODORUS . 17 during the revolt of Crotona . * 16 HISTORY OF MEDICINE .
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... instances confounded the tendons of muscles with them , and regarded the brain as a mere excrescence of the spinal marrow , and not as nervous matter . He first assigned to the heart the origin of the blood - vessels , but failed to ...
... instances confounded the tendons of muscles with them , and regarded the brain as a mere excrescence of the spinal marrow , and not as nervous matter . He first assigned to the heart the origin of the blood - vessels , but failed to ...
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... instance , in the fingers , or the toes , & c .; and many with the deprivation of these , and some even with that of their eyes , escaped with their lives . Nor were there wanting those who , on recovery , laboured under an utter ...
... instance , in the fingers , or the toes , & c .; and many with the deprivation of these , and some even with that of their eyes , escaped with their lives . Nor were there wanting those who , on recovery , laboured under an utter ...
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... instance , like the Egyptian Orus , was supposed to possess a supernatural knowledge of future events , imparted to him by Egeria during their nightly meetings in the sacred grove ; and to have founded a sacerdotal college of augurs ...
... instance , like the Egyptian Orus , was supposed to possess a supernatural knowledge of future events , imparted to him by Egeria during their nightly meetings in the sacred grove ; and to have founded a sacerdotal college of augurs ...
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... instance of this blind and super- stitious reliance is recorded by Livy in relation to the plague which occurred about 296 years B. C. The senate , deputed to consult the Books on the occasion , discovered a command that the worship of ...
... instance of this blind and super- stitious reliance is recorded by Livy in relation to the plague which occurred about 296 years B. C. The senate , deputed to consult the Books on the occasion , discovered a command that the worship of ...
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