The American Medical Intelligencer: A Concentrated Record of Medical Science and Literature, Volume 4Robley Dunglinson J.J. Haswell, 1841 - Medicine |
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... artery and vein being on the outer side , parallel with , and along the external side of the adductor longus muscle , and feeling with my finger its point on the back part of the thigh , turned the edge of the knife towards the median ...
... artery and vein being on the outer side , parallel with , and along the external side of the adductor longus muscle , and feeling with my finger its point on the back part of the thigh , turned the edge of the knife towards the median ...
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... arteries were plainly and distinctly felt beating on each side of the neck of the sac , which was about one and a quarter inch in width ( from side to side ) and three quarters of an inch thick ( vertically ) . Not having such an ...
... arteries were plainly and distinctly felt beating on each side of the neck of the sac , which was about one and a quarter inch in width ( from side to side ) and three quarters of an inch thick ( vertically ) . Not having such an ...
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... arterial systems , & c . & c . But in its present state , the mother's breath , food , and beverage , and other support , is that of the child . Its birth changes the scene ; the child then acts for itself : it changes a temperature of ...
... arterial systems , & c . & c . But in its present state , the mother's breath , food , and beverage , and other support , is that of the child . Its birth changes the scene ; the child then acts for itself : it changes a temperature of ...
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... artery beats from 80 to 84 times in the same period . His abdomen presents nothing peculiar ; it is yielding and tolerably nor- mal in its developement and form . In the genital organs , nothing marked is to be observed . The ...
... artery beats from 80 to 84 times in the same period . His abdomen presents nothing peculiar ; it is yielding and tolerably nor- mal in its developement and form . In the genital organs , nothing marked is to be observed . The ...
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... arteries , veins , nerves and absorbents -the arteries designed to secrete the fluid it contains , and the absorbents to remove it , but this office of the absorbents is very rarely indeed performed . The superincumbent parts are not ...
... arteries , veins , nerves and absorbents -the arteries designed to secrete the fluid it contains , and the absorbents to remove it , but this office of the absorbents is very rarely indeed performed . The superincumbent parts are not ...
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