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A virtual view of history
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The hidden history of homesickness
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Writing in remission
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The smile catchers
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Division of Medical Sciences - Reference Guide
Date: 1993Reference: WF/M/PB/49/02/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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A manual of scientific terms, pronouncing, etymological, and explanatory : chiefly comprising terms in botany, natural history, anatomy, medicine, and veterinary science : with an appendix of specific names. Designed for the use of junior medical students, and others studying one or other of these sciences / by James Stormonth.
Date: 1879- Books
The Philadelphia medical dictionary: containing a concise explanation of all the terms used in medicine, surgery, pharmacy. Botany, natural history, chymistry, and materia medica. Compiled from the best authorities ... / [John Redman Coxe].
Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864.Date: 1808- Books
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A summary of geography and history, both ancient and modern; containing, an account of the political state, and principal revolutions of the most illustrious nations in ancient and modern times; their Manners and Customs; the Local Situation of Cities, especially of such as have been distinguished by Memorable Events: With An Abridgement of the Fabulous History or Mythology of the Greeks. To which is Prefixed, An Historical Account of the Progress and Improvements of Astronomy and Geography, from the Earliest Periods to the time of Sir Isaac Newton: Also, a brief Account of the Principles of the Newtonian Philosophy, occasionally compared with the Opinions of the Ancients, concerning the General and Particular Properties of Matter; the Air, Heat and Cold, Light, and its effects; the Laws of Motion; the Planetary System, &c. - With a Short Description of the Component Parts of the Terraqueous Globe, according to the Notions of the Ancients, and the more accurate discoveries of Modern Chemists. Designed chiefly to connect the study of classical learning with that of general knowledge. By Alexander Adam, LL. D. Rector of the High School of Edinburgh.
Adam, Alexander, 1741-1809.Date: 1794- Books
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Encyclopaedia metropolitana; or, universal dictionary of knowledge, comprising the twofold advantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical arrangement, with appropriate engravings / Edited by Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, and Henry John Rose.
Date: 1845