British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volume 171844 - Medicine |
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... respects its elements , and the activity of respiration , reciprocally influence each other ; theory in this instance confirming and explaining the results of experience . Oxygen has an interest of the highest importance , distinct from ...
... respects its elements , and the activity of respiration , reciprocally influence each other ; theory in this instance confirming and explaining the results of experience . Oxygen has an interest of the highest importance , distinct from ...
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... respects calcium , potassium , sulphur , & c . At the same time it is equally true that these elements require to be supplied to the animal system in certain forms of combination . We cannot depend upon phosphorus , or sulphur , or any ...
... respects calcium , potassium , sulphur , & c . At the same time it is equally true that these elements require to be supplied to the animal system in certain forms of combination . We cannot depend upon phosphorus , or sulphur , or any ...
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... respecting which our information is at present very defective . 2. The mucilaginous principle . Numerous vegetable substances em- ployed as food contain gum , in proportions varying from 1 , as in rice , to 19 37 per cent . , as in the ...
... respecting which our information is at present very defective . 2. The mucilaginous principle . Numerous vegetable substances em- ployed as food contain gum , in proportions varying from 1 , as in rice , to 19 37 per cent . , as in the ...
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... respect to the story told by Hasselquist , the traveller above referred to , any opinion founded upon the use of a substance such as gum , in its crude state , and under the cir- cumstances described , must be inconclusive . Gum senegal ...
... respect to the story told by Hasselquist , the traveller above referred to , any opinion founded upon the use of a substance such as gum , in its crude state , and under the cir- cumstances described , must be inconclusive . Gum senegal ...
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... respects they supply what may possibly be regarded as omissions in the one at the head of our list , which we have chosen as a text . That the particular kinds of food employed by different nations , and in various climates and regions ...
... respects they supply what may possibly be regarded as omissions in the one at the head of our list , which we have chosen as a text . That the particular kinds of food employed by different nations , and in various climates and regions ...
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