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important discoveries; but when with licentious activity it links together objects,
otherwise discordant,by some sanciful similitude; it may indeed collect ornaments
for wit and poetry, but philosophy and truth recoil from its combinations. The want
...
important discoveries; but when with licentious activity it links together objects,
otherwise discordant,by some sanciful similitude; it may indeed collect ornaments
for wit and poetry, but philosophy and truth recoil from its combinations. The want
...
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There are some modern pračtitioners, who declaim against medical theory in
general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direét a
method of cure to a person labouring under disease without thinking, that is,
without ...
There are some modern pračtitioners, who declaim against medical theory in
general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direét a
method of cure to a person labouring under disease without thinking, that is,
without ...
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When these repulsions prevail over the attractions, they may cause the diffusions
of light and of odours, the explosions of some bodies, and the flower
decomposition of others, and occasion our ideas of fluidity; when the attractions
prevail over ...
When these repulsions prevail over the attractions, they may cause the diffusions
of light and of odours, the explosions of some bodies, and the flower
decomposition of others, and occasion our ideas of fluidity; when the attractions
prevail over ...
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This observation may throw some light on the medical treatment of deaf people;
as it may be learnt from their dreams whether the auditory nerve be paralytic, or
their deafness be owing to some defect of the external organ. It rarely happens ...
This observation may throw some light on the medical treatment of deaf people;
as it may be learnt from their dreams whether the auditory nerve be paralytic, or
their deafness be owing to some defect of the external organ. It rarely happens ...
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SEN's Arion is an exertion or change of the central parts of the sensorium, or of
the whole of it, beginning at some of those extreme parts of it, which reside in the
muscles or organs offense. Volrtion is an exertion or change of the central parts
of ...
SEN's Arion is an exertion or change of the central parts of the sensorium, or of
the whole of it, beginning at some of those extreme parts of it, which reside in the
muscles or organs offense. Volrtion is an exertion or change of the central parts
of ...
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| Title | Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life ... Volume 1 of Zoonomia; Or, The Laws of Organic Life, Erasmus Darwin |
| Author | Erasmus Darwin |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1801 |
| Length | 516 pages |
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