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... given the name fubcruri . They terminate on each fide of the rotula , and prevent the capfular ligament from being pinched . When they are wanting , which is very often the cafe , fome of the fors of the curreus are found adhering to ...
... given the name fubcruri . They terminate on each fide of the rotula , and prevent the capfular ligament from being pinched . When they are wanting , which is very often the cafe , fome of the fors of the curreus are found adhering to ...
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... given to all that mafs which fills the cavity of the cranium , and which is immediately furrounded by two meme branes , called Myfus , meninges , by the Greeks but matres by the Arabians , who were of opinion that these membranes were ...
... given to all that mafs which fills the cavity of the cranium , and which is immediately furrounded by two meme branes , called Myfus , meninges , by the Greeks but matres by the Arabians , who were of opinion that these membranes were ...
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... given for the vio- lent vomiting that commonly attends the nephric tic paroxyims , and for the colic and ftcnach - achs , which often precede obftructions of the menfes in women . ( 195. ) Before we proceed to the SPINAL NERVES , we ...
... given for the vio- lent vomiting that commonly attends the nephric tic paroxyims , and for the colic and ftcnach - achs , which often precede obftructions of the menfes in women . ( 195. ) Before we proceed to the SPINAL NERVES , we ...
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... given a better explanation of the manner , in which his fuppofed vis infita be- comes active ? —If it be as difficult to point out the cause of the action of the vis infita , as that of the action of the vis nervea , the admifiion of ...
... given a better explanation of the manner , in which his fuppofed vis infita be- comes active ? —If it be as difficult to point out the cause of the action of the vis infita , as that of the action of the vis nervea , the admifiion of ...
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... given in plate V. N ° 1. It confifts of a long maffy beam of iron erected perpendicularly , b , at the lower end of which are two arms , de . of equal thick- efs with the beam ( ufually called the bank , ) only that they taper towards ...
... given in plate V. N ° 1. It confifts of a long maffy beam of iron erected perpendicularly , b , at the lower end of which are two arms , de . of equal thick- efs with the beam ( ufually called the bank , ) only that they taper towards ...
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