British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Volume 28J. Churchill., 1861 |
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... regard as a fatal symptom . He had remarked protracted debility of the legs and arms as a conse- quence of the disease in many ; and he names one patient who reco- vered , after having been paralytic in the extremities for about two ...
... regard as a fatal symptom . He had remarked protracted debility of the legs and arms as a conse- quence of the disease in many ; and he names one patient who reco- vered , after having been paralytic in the extremities for about two ...
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... regard to him , have been suffered to glide towards the verge of oblivion : if , indeed , they at any time stood far apart from it , for we have no evidence that his treatise ever passed beyond a first edition , notwithstanding the ...
... regard to him , have been suffered to glide towards the verge of oblivion : if , indeed , they at any time stood far apart from it , for we have no evidence that his treatise ever passed beyond a first edition , notwithstanding the ...
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... regard to the habits and practices of the contemporary Spanisk mendicants , who are shown as a class to have been at least as savage , vicious , and unprincipled as those of that period elsewhere , of whom likewise we have preserved to ...
... regard to the habits and practices of the contemporary Spanisk mendicants , who are shown as a class to have been at least as savage , vicious , and unprincipled as those of that period elsewhere , of whom likewise we have preserved to ...
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... regard for the then more recent advances in medi- cine , in comparison with what had been received from the ancients , though not with the design of depreciating the latter , a task which he has executed with an independence of judgment ...
... regard for the then more recent advances in medi- cine , in comparison with what had been received from the ancients , though not with the design of depreciating the latter , a task which he has executed with an independence of judgment ...
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... regard what has been the width of our field , or in how far our investigation has been original , and who will judge how much , in order that the characteristic features of our theme might be preserved and yet not rendered redundant ...
... regard what has been the width of our field , or in how far our investigation has been original , and who will judge how much , in order that the characteristic features of our theme might be preserved and yet not rendered redundant ...
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