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... probably fupplied with ftill more minute arteries and veins . This feems to be proved by the inflammation of which they are fufcepti- ble ; and the painful fwellings which fometimes take place in lym- phatic veffels , prove that they ...
... probably fupplied with ftill more minute arteries and veins . This feems to be proved by the inflammation of which they are fufcepti- ble ; and the painful fwellings which fometimes take place in lym- phatic veffels , prove that they ...
Page 14
... probably conveyed upon this princi- ple , as far as the first pair of valves , which feem to be placed not far from the orifice of the absorbing veffel , whether lymphatic or lacteal : and the fluid will then be propelled forwards by a ...
... probably conveyed upon this princi- ple , as far as the first pair of valves , which feem to be placed not far from the orifice of the absorbing veffel , whether lymphatic or lacteal : and the fluid will then be propelled forwards by a ...
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... probably comprehend the general principles on which it is conftructed from the following de- fcription . The apparatus confifts of three diftinct glass veffels , in the first or lowest of which the effervefcing fubftances are to be put ...
... probably comprehend the general principles on which it is conftructed from the following de- fcription . The apparatus confifts of three diftinct glass veffels , in the first or lowest of which the effervefcing fubftances are to be put ...
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... probably diffolve , or fufpend only a determi- nate and moderate quantity of fixed air ; when it were once faturated with it , it would no longer deprive the liquor in the uppermoft veffel of any part of the fixed air which it had im ...
... probably diffolve , or fufpend only a determi- nate and moderate quantity of fixed air ; when it were once faturated with it , it would no longer deprive the liquor in the uppermoft veffel of any part of the fixed air which it had im ...
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... probably exercised only in thofe parts of our bodies in which life feems peculiarly to refide . That fome procefs exifts in living animal bodies , by which heat is produced , and which is different from the common proceffes of ...
... probably exercised only in thofe parts of our bodies in which life feems peculiarly to refide . That fome procefs exifts in living animal bodies , by which heat is produced , and which is different from the common proceffes of ...
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