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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis

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Thunderbolts and lightning

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  • Lectures on physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons / by W. Lawrence.
  • Lectures on electricity and galvanism, in their physiological and therapeutical relations, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, revised and extended. By Golding Bird / [Golding Bird].
  • The physiognomical system of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim; founded on an anatomical and physiological examination of the nervous system in general, and of the brain in particular; and indicating the dispositions and manifestations of the mind / Being at the same time a book of reference for Dr. Spurzheim's demonstrative lectures.
  • The physiognomical system of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim; founded on an anatomical and physiological examination of the nervous system in general, and of the brain in particular; and indicating the dispositions and manifestations of the mind / Being at the same time a book of reference for Dr. Spurzheim's demonstrative lectures.
  • The evolution of anatomy : a short history of anatomical and physiological discovery to Harvey, being the substance of the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at The Royal College of Physicians of London in the years 1923 and 1924 / by Charles Singer ; with XXII plates and 117 figures in the text.
  • On rest and pain : a course of lectures on the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862 / by John Hilton ; edited by W.H.A. Jacobson.
  • Cellular pathology : as based upon physiological and pathological histology twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March, and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow ; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance ; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author.
  • Cellular pathology : as based upon physiological and pathological histology twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March, and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow ; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance ; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author.
  • Cellular pathology : as based upon physiological and pathological histology twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March, and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow ; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance ; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author.
  • Cellular pathology : as based upon physiological and pathological histology twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March, and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow ; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance ; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author.
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