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 1Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Arts |
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... cavity in it , and carry it into the blood . They are de- nominated according to the liquids which they convey , as Lacteals , or Lymphatics ; the former conveying chyle , a milky fluid , from the intestines ; the latter a lymph , a ...
... cavity in it , and carry it into the blood . They are de- nominated according to the liquids which they convey , as Lacteals , or Lymphatics ; the former conveying chyle , a milky fluid , from the intestines ; the latter a lymph , a ...
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... cavities 30 feet deep , with an area of 20 feet square , in which the shells con- taining the bodies are closely packed in rows over each other , without any inter- mediate earth , and with only a slight su- perficial covering of soil ...
... cavities 30 feet deep , with an area of 20 feet square , in which the shells con- taining the bodies are closely packed in rows over each other , without any inter- mediate earth , and with only a slight su- perficial covering of soil ...
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... cavities of agate . It is composed of 97.50 0.25 0.50 Silica . Alumina . Oxide of iron and a Trace of manganese 98.25 It is found abundantly in different parts of Saxony : also in the Hartz , in the Ura- lian mountains , and in the East ...
... cavities of agate . It is composed of 97.50 0.25 0.50 Silica . Alumina . Oxide of iron and a Trace of manganese 98.25 It is found abundantly in different parts of Saxony : also in the Hartz , in the Ura- lian mountains , and in the East ...
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... cavity ; a doctrine main- tained by many eminent anatomists , and , in general , assented to by the greatest physiologists , as Boerhaave , Haller , & c . & c . and only occasionally called in ques- tion , on viewing in some animals of ...
... cavity ; a doctrine main- tained by many eminent anatomists , and , in general , assented to by the greatest physiologists , as Boerhaave , Haller , & c . & c . and only occasionally called in ques- tion , on viewing in some animals of ...
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... cavity . His brother , Mr. John Hunter , also de- mands mention in this place , as an accu- rate and minute dissector , and a patient experimentalist . He surveyed , in his re- searches , the whole field of animated na- ture , and ...
... cavity . His brother , Mr. John Hunter , also de- mands mention in this place , as an accu- rate and minute dissector , and a patient experimentalist . He surveyed , in his re- searches , the whole field of animated na- ture , and ...
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