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Edinburgh, 18th Dec. 1889. At a meeting of the Faculty of Advocates, held this day, the Dean moved, and it was unanimously agreed : "That a Committee be appointed for the purpose of considering whether the Faculty should place themselves in communication with the Universities Commission, in regard to the matter of legal education ..." Report by the Committee, in terms of the above remit ...
Faculty of Advocates (Edinburgh Scotland)Date: [1890]- Books
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An introduction to arithmetic; containing arithmetical tables; with the most useful Rules in common Arithmetic. Vulgar and decimal Fractions. - --Extraction of the Square and of the Cube Root. Rules for working on the Carpenters sliding Rule, and on Gunters Scale. - --Duodecimals, or cross Multiplication. - --Practical Questions in Mensuration. The Gregorian Calendar; with a perpetuai Almanac. - --A Table for finding on what Day of the Week, any Month begins; also a Table for Planting. A few Forms of Bills and promissory Notes; with a small Collection of miscellaneous Questions. By James Gray, Author of the Concise Spelling Book, for the use of Children.
Gray, James, -1810.Date: [1797]- Books
Anatomy : a matter of death and life / Tacye Phillipson.
Phillipson, TacyeDate: 2022- Books
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A course of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery: in which, Every Thing essentially necessary to the true Knowledge of that Art will be fully explain'd, and clearly demonstrated; particularly, those Operations which are conformable to the Principles of mechanical Motion. Of the Form, Structure and constituent Parts of the Female Pelvis. Of the Organs of Generation, and the Doctrine of Conception;-The Nutrition and Situation of the Foetus in Utero, and its gradual Increase from its Rudiments to the Time of Birth. The Pathology, Treatment and Cure of the various Diseases incident to Child-Bearing Women and Infants, with the Regimen necessary to be observed, respecting the Non-Naturals, viz. Air, Diet, Motion and Rest, Sleep and Watching, Retention, Excretion and the Passions of the Mind. The Antient and Modern Manner of delivering Women in laborious and preternatural Cases compared; with a View of the Advantages and Defects of the Means proposed for that End. - For the clearer Demonstration of Operative Midwisry (whether simply by the Hand or the Application of Instruments) the several Methods of assisting both in natural and preternatural Labours, will not only be described according to the most approved modern Practice, but likewise distinctly shewn, by an artificial Representation of each difficult Case, upon Machines for that Purpose; constructed upon new Principles, and made to the most exact Imitation of real Women and Children. The Whole will be illustrated by such anatomical Preparations as are applicable to each Lecture; together with various practical Observations, extraordinary Cases, and necessary Cautions; but particularly, by real Labours. By John Leake, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, And Physician Man-Midwife to the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital, At his House in Craven-Street, in the Strand.
Leake, John, 1729-1792.Date: 1767- Archives and manuscripts
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