Encyclopaedia Americana. A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography. A New Ed.; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the 7th Ed of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volume 13Lea & Blanchard, 1849 |
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... body it- self , or by violent mental excitements , in- fluencing the physical functions , which , in turn , react upon the mind . These principles will be found to account for many spectral illusions of which we have authentic accounts ...
... body it- self , or by violent mental excitements , in- fluencing the physical functions , which , in turn , react upon the mind . These principles will be found to account for many spectral illusions of which we have authentic accounts ...
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... body . It is a state bordering closely upon dream- ing , though the vision occurs while the person is in the waking state . 4. Errone- ous impressions , connected with bodily disease , generally disease in the brain . The illusions , in ...
... body . It is a state bordering closely upon dream- ing , though the vision occurs while the person is in the waking state . 4. Errone- ous impressions , connected with bodily disease , generally disease in the brain . The illusions , in ...
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his mutilated body dragged with a hook and thrown into the Tiber , A. D. 69 , after a reign of one year ... body of repub- lican troops , attracted by his old reputa- tion . He now joined Iturbide ; but , as his wishes were ...
his mutilated body dragged with a hook and thrown into the Tiber , A. D. 69 , after a reign of one year ... body of repub- lican troops , attracted by his old reputa- tion . He now joined Iturbide ; but , as his wishes were ...
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... body , are , at different times and in dif- ferent instances , affected by it . In this state , the patient does not walk steadily : his gait resembles jumping or starting : he sometimes cannot walk , and seems palsied ; nor can he ...
... body , are , at different times and in dif- ferent instances , affected by it . In this state , the patient does not walk steadily : his gait resembles jumping or starting : he sometimes cannot walk , and seems palsied ; nor can he ...
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... body of sounds produced by the organs of respiration , especially the larynx of men or animals . It can , therefore , only be found in animals in which the system of respiration is devel- oped , and the lungs and larynx actually exist ...
... body of sounds produced by the organs of respiration , especially the larynx of men or animals . It can , therefore , only be found in animals in which the system of respiration is devel- oped , and the lungs and larynx actually exist ...
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