The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volumen9James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1870 |
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... common opinion that luminous phosphorus exhibited the phenomenon of light without heat , Melloni sought to disprove the similar idea sometimes entertained with regard to the light of the moon . The pile he employed was formed of thirty ...
... common opinion that luminous phosphorus exhibited the phenomenon of light without heat , Melloni sought to disprove the similar idea sometimes entertained with regard to the light of the moon . The pile he employed was formed of thirty ...
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... common to the Isles of Greece , and was used by the early Greek physicians as a sedative in various ways . The plant is said to be more determinate in its action than belladonna , and the odour is much more unpleasant . Very soon after ...
... common to the Isles of Greece , and was used by the early Greek physicians as a sedative in various ways . The plant is said to be more determinate in its action than belladonna , and the odour is much more unpleasant . Very soon after ...
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... common in this country , and in various parts of the Continent , to rob the beehive of its rich contents without destroying the industrious occupants of the hive , by subjecting the bees to the fumes of the fungus , called in common ...
... common in this country , and in various parts of the Continent , to rob the beehive of its rich contents without destroying the industrious occupants of the hive , by subjecting the bees to the fumes of the fungus , called in common ...
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... common sensibility , so that a blow may be administered to a person under it without exciting either pain or anger . Snow notices yet another author who recommends a volatile anæsthetic . This author is the famous Theodoric of the thir ...
... common sensibility , so that a blow may be administered to a person under it without exciting either pain or anger . Snow notices yet another author who recommends a volatile anæsthetic . This author is the famous Theodoric of the thir ...
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... common parlance , know only that sometimes they or theirs may have to be put " under chloroform , " should know these and all other facts correctly , and intelligently ; should know what agents are used and the relative value of each ...
... common parlance , know only that sometimes they or theirs may have to be put " under chloroform , " should know these and all other facts correctly , and intelligently ; should know what agents are used and the relative value of each ...
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