The Hunterian Oration: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on the 14th of February, 1879On Dr. Hunter's work and methods. |
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... animal world , past and present , in health and disease , in variety and reparation . It was the centre about which his thoughts re- volved ; and it forms the leading idea in all his works , in his Principles of Surgery , no less than ...
... animal world , past and present , in health and disease , in variety and reparation . It was the centre about which his thoughts re- volved ; and it forms the leading idea in all his works , in his Principles of Surgery , no less than ...
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... animal and vegetable bodies . These are products which no chemistry will make . Fermentation will resolve them , but will not produce them . " He , at one time , speaks of life as producing , at another , as proceeding from , these ...
... animal and vegetable bodies . These are products which no chemistry will make . Fermentation will resolve them , but will not produce them . " He , at one time , speaks of life as producing , at another , as proceeding from , these ...
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... animal matter without life . Set it upright , it acquires a new property , the property of attraction and repulsion , at its different ends . Now , is this any substance added , or is it a certain change which takes place in the ...
... animal matter without life . Set it upright , it acquires a new property , the property of attraction and repulsion , at its different ends . Now , is this any substance added , or is it a certain change which takes place in the ...
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... animals , which he regards as only a new modification , or species , of matter , of the immutability of an abso- lute existence , & c . , it requires no great stretch of imagination to think that his mind was feeling its way towards ...
... animals , which he regards as only a new modification , or species , of matter , of the immutability of an abso- lute existence , & c . , it requires no great stretch of imagination to think that his mind was feeling its way towards ...
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... animal economy , " and that to understand either thoroughly , we must study it in relation to the other , and watch closely the tran- sition of one into the other . It is on the steady prosecution of research in this direction that our ...
... animal economy , " and that to understand either thoroughly , we must study it in relation to the other , and watch closely the tran- sition of one into the other . It is on the steady prosecution of research in this direction that our ...
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