Encephalology; or, A very brief sketch of dr. Hirnschädel's ologies of the cranion and phren perfected by the rationals |
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... hair , and encircling it with a coronet of flame ; from whence it reverted to herself , and settled round her own head with such violence of scintillation and decrepitation , as to wake her from her sleep ; when she found herself in the ...
... hair , and encircling it with a coronet of flame ; from whence it reverted to herself , and settled round her own head with such violence of scintillation and decrepitation , as to wake her from her sleep ; when she found herself in the ...
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... hair , which never afterwards grew . His mother perceived a slight floridity diffused over the whole of his head , which she naturally con- nected in her mind with the dream that woke her to his birth ; but which , for a long time ...
... hair , which never afterwards grew . His mother perceived a slight floridity diffused over the whole of his head , which she naturally con- nected in her mind with the dream that woke her to his birth ; but which , for a long time ...
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... hair , which never afterwards grew ; nay , without the smallest perceptible down . This total absence of a covering which appeared so necessary , since nature had supplied it so liberally in all other instances , was a source of ...
... hair , which never afterwards grew ; nay , without the smallest perceptible down . This total absence of a covering which appeared so necessary , since nature had supplied it so liberally in all other instances , was a source of ...
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... hair . But , here she ex- perienced the same resistance from her infant , as when she first offered him the breast . Distress , declared either by piercing cries or a constant whining , ac- companied always the imposition and attachment ...
... hair . But , here she ex- perienced the same resistance from her infant , as when she first offered him the breast . Distress , declared either by piercing cries or a constant whining , ac- companied always the imposition and attachment ...
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... hair , as if nature had transferred to them the portion she had thought fit to refuse to Ernst . This phenomenon , ap- peared to affect Ernst with an offence as great as the pleasure which it afforded his parents . He seemed to have a ...
... hair , as if nature had transferred to them the portion she had thought fit to refuse to Ernst . This phenomenon , ap- peared to affect Ernst with an offence as great as the pleasure which it afforded his parents . He seemed to have a ...
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Page 140 - A strange fish ! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man ; any strange beast there makes a man...
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Page 104 - ... induction are the following : 1st, That the brain is the material instrument, by means of which the mind carries on intercourse with the external world. 2d, That the brain is an aggregate of parts, each of which has a special and determinate function. 3d, That the form of the brain can be ascertained by inspecting the cranium ; and that the functions of the several parts may be determined by comparing their size with the power of manifesting the mental Faculties.