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... temperature : it is increased by cold , but it exists in spite of an elevated temperature ; it arises from an internal cause , and is not to be counteracted by external heat . While the patient experiences the sensation of cold , there ...
... temperature : it is increased by cold , but it exists in spite of an elevated temperature ; it arises from an internal cause , and is not to be counteracted by external heat . While the patient experiences the sensation of cold , there ...
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... temperature and other atmospheric phenomena in the district visited by the disease ; but this cause is too general to account for the exceeding local character of the disease in many instances . Cases are recorded in which the ...
... temperature and other atmospheric phenomena in the district visited by the disease ; but this cause is too general to account for the exceeding local character of the disease in many instances . Cases are recorded in which the ...
Page 71
... temperature should be gradually increased from 50 ° to 65 ° or 70 ° Fahr . Some also approve of a bottom heat , and recommend the pots to be plunged in a bed of leaves or tan . The fig - tree is very apt to throw off its fruit before it ...
... temperature should be gradually increased from 50 ° to 65 ° or 70 ° Fahr . Some also approve of a bottom heat , and recommend the pots to be plunged in a bed of leaves or tan . The fig - tree is very apt to throw off its fruit before it ...
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... temperature , and that they should neither be exposed to fuse , nor to undergo chemical decomposition , when submitted to the action of fire . Of course all woods are excluded from the class of incombustible materials ; but it must be ...
... temperature , and that they should neither be exposed to fuse , nor to undergo chemical decomposition , when submitted to the action of fire . Of course all woods are excluded from the class of incombustible materials ; but it must be ...
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... temperature necessary for the perfect volatilisation of any of the essential oils - another division of the fatty ... temperatures . [ Cocos , in NAT . HIST . Div . ] Cod - liver oil . From the liver of the common cod - fish . [ Morrhua ...
... temperature necessary for the perfect volatilisation of any of the essential oils - another division of the fatty ... temperatures . [ Cocos , in NAT . HIST . Div . ] Cod - liver oil . From the liver of the common cod - fish . [ Morrhua ...
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