Observations on the importance in purchases of land and in mercantile adventures of ascertaining the rates or laws of mortality among Europeans by chronic diseases and hot climates, with an appendix1826 - 80 pages |
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... faculties of the mind are double , and says , that each hemisphere of the brain contains a distinct set , and quotes Tiedman for the case of a man , who was insane on one side , and observed his insanity with the other . Gall also ...
... faculties of the mind are double , and says , that each hemisphere of the brain contains a distinct set , and quotes Tiedman for the case of a man , who was insane on one side , and observed his insanity with the other . Gall also ...
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... faculties , as in the delirium which often succeeds long continued and abstract calculation ; and the deliria to which men of ge- nius are peculiarly subject . " " We hear much of this , " says Haslam , " from those who have copiously ...
... faculties , as in the delirium which often succeeds long continued and abstract calculation ; and the deliria to which men of ge- nius are peculiarly subject . " " We hear much of this , " says Haslam , " from those who have copiously ...
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... faculties we are more likely to be deceived by the ear than through any other organ of sense . It is not unusual for those who are in a de- sponding condition , to assert that they distinctly hear the devil urging them to self ...
... faculties we are more likely to be deceived by the ear than through any other organ of sense . It is not unusual for those who are in a de- sponding condition , to assert that they distinctly hear the devil urging them to self ...
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... faculties ; and the order runs thus , with the meaning of each term beneath : - CROW - FLOWERS . NETTLES . LONG - PURPLES . DAISIES . Fayre mayde { the quick stung to Her virgin bloom . under the cold hand of death . I " A fair maid ...
... faculties ; and the order runs thus , with the meaning of each term beneath : - CROW - FLOWERS . NETTLES . LONG - PURPLES . DAISIES . Fayre mayde { the quick stung to Her virgin bloom . under the cold hand of death . I " A fair maid ...
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... faculties by presenting their natural objects . ' It would be difficult to add any thing to this excellent paper which might be useful to the general reader . The whole progress of the dis- ease is so clearly and so correctly marked ...
... faculties by presenting their natural objects . ' It would be difficult to add any thing to this excellent paper which might be useful to the general reader . The whole progress of the dis- ease is so clearly and so correctly marked ...
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