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... PLAGUE . J. F. PAYNE , M.D. PLAIN SONG . W. S. ROCKSTRO , Author of " The Chor- isters of S. Mary's . " PLANARIANS . Prof. LUDWIG VON GRAFF , Ph.D. , School of Forestry , Aschaffenburg . PLANTAGENET . JAMES GAIRDNER , Public Record ...
... PLAGUE . J. F. PAYNE , M.D. PLAIN SONG . W. S. ROCKSTRO , Author of " The Chor- isters of S. Mary's . " PLANARIANS . Prof. LUDWIG VON GRAFF , Ph.D. , School of Forestry , Aschaffenburg . PLANTAGENET . JAMES GAIRDNER , Public Record ...
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... PLAGUE ( λouós , Pestis , Pestilentia ) . This name has been given to any epidemic disease causing a great mortality , and in this sense was used by Galen and the ancient medical writers , but is now confined to a special disease ...
... PLAGUE ( λouós , Pestis , Pestilentia ) . This name has been given to any epidemic disease causing a great mortality , and in this sense was used by Galen and the ancient medical writers , but is now confined to a special disease ...
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... plague . ( a ) Buboes or glandular swellings are observed in all except very rapidly fatal cases . They occur in 45 or 50 per cent . of the cases in the groin , in 35 per cent . in the axilla , also less frequently in the neck or other ...
... plague . ( a ) Buboes or glandular swellings are observed in all except very rapidly fatal cases . They occur in 45 or 50 per cent . of the cases in the groin , in 35 per cent . in the axilla , also less frequently in the neck or other ...
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... plague of Moscow in 1770 . Origin and Spread of Plague . - Although the above- mentioned conditions are those in which plague originates , and may be considered in a general way essential to its continued existence , it is plain that ...
... plague of Moscow in 1770 . Origin and Spread of Plague . - Although the above- mentioned conditions are those in which plague originates , and may be considered in a general way essential to its continued existence , it is plain that ...
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... plague of London in 1603 it was said the portance is diminished by the consideration that the disease entered hardly any house but it seized all that communicability of plague , by whatever means , is always lived in it . And in 1879 ...
... plague of London in 1603 it was said the portance is diminished by the consideration that the disease entered hardly any house but it seized all that communicability of plague , by whatever means , is always lived in it . And in 1879 ...
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