The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 9Grolier Incorporated, 1990 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... continued her crusade , eventually visit- ing every state east of the Rockies . In 1848 , Miss Dix went to Washington , D.C. , hoping to secure passage of a bill to apportion land for the support of the mentally ill . Such a bill was ...
... continued her crusade , eventually visit- ing every state east of the Rockies . In 1848 , Miss Dix went to Washington , D.C. , hoping to secure passage of a bill to apportion land for the support of the mentally ill . Such a bill was ...
Page 303
... continued his attack on the lib- erals in his short story An Unpleasant Incident ( 1862 ) . In his Winter Notes on Summer Im- pressions ( 1863 ) he described life in London and Paris and set down the conclusion that Russia alone could ...
... continued his attack on the lib- erals in his short story An Unpleasant Incident ( 1862 ) . In his Winter Notes on Summer Im- pressions ( 1863 ) he described life in London and Paris and set down the conclusion that Russia alone could ...
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... continued to produce eminent scholars , novelists and other literary men , scien- tists , physicians , and surgeons . It was in Edin- burgh , for example , that James Simpson first ex- perimented with anesthetics and Joseph Lister with ...
... continued to produce eminent scholars , novelists and other literary men , scien- tists , physicians , and surgeons . It was in Edin- burgh , for example , that James Simpson first ex- perimented with anesthetics and Joseph Lister with ...
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