American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 12Mitchell, Ames and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... observed . There is an unwillingness to move about , and the patient often trips and stumbles . The legs involuntarily cross each other . The power of directing the feet to any exact point is then lost , and the natural sensibility of ...
... observed . There is an unwillingness to move about , and the patient often trips and stumbles . The legs involuntarily cross each other . The power of directing the feet to any exact point is then lost , and the natural sensibility of ...
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... observed . The mus- cles should be relaxed , by extending the knee , and bending the thigh on the pel vis : they may also be surrounded with a roller , a compress being placed just a- bove the upper portion of the broken bone . The ...
... observed . The mus- cles should be relaxed , by extending the knee , and bending the thigh on the pel vis : they may also be surrounded with a roller , a compress being placed just a- bove the upper portion of the broken bone . The ...
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... observe , that the squaring of the circle has not hitherto been per fected ; though we have arrived so near- ly to ... observed that , in all inclined fi- gures , the altitude is ascertained by a per- pendicular from the base , as at C ...
... observe , that the squaring of the circle has not hitherto been per fected ; though we have arrived so near- ly to ... observed that , in all inclined fi- gures , the altitude is ascertained by a per- pendicular from the base , as at C ...
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... observed . The surveyor draws a line on the paper , in the direction of the brass rule , from the exact centre of the plain - table , and notes down at the side of that line , what its length may be in chains , links , & c . ac- cording ...
... observed . The surveyor draws a line on the paper , in the direction of the brass rule , from the exact centre of the plain - table , and notes down at the side of that line , what its length may be in chains , links , & c . ac- cording ...
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... observed attentively , during the crisis of parturition . The hog was unknown in America when that quarter of the world was discovered by the Spaniards , but now abounds in every part of it . The Chinese breed is most valued in England ...
... observed attentively , during the crisis of parturition . The hog was unknown in America when that quarter of the world was discovered by the Spaniards , but now abounds in every part of it . The Chinese breed is most valued in England ...
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