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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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1875. This volume discusses gems, jewels, coins and medals of ancient and modern times. At almost all times, gem engravers have cut devices on precious stones so that in fact, as jewels are gems, not all gems are jewels. They are treated the same in this work. Billings writes about the history of coins and medals, some of which are found in archeological sites. The appendix is a translation by Mrs. Billings of the Autobiography of Benedetto Pi...

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Excerpt from The Science of Gems, Jewels, Coins, and Medals: Ancient and ModernAnother form of seal is the very primitive one of a flattish round chalcedony pebble, with sufficient ground off one edge to afford space for engraving a subject, and a hole being made through the middle to receive a string, as a chalcedony, brought from Nineveh, having a very rough attempt in intaglio of a winged horse, the Phoenician symbol Sometimes the hole was ...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from First Principles of MedicineI found that the former editions were more pleasing to fully educated medical men and men of experience than to the tyro. This was not my original intention, and I have therefore taken pains to render the work more intelligible and useful to the latter, and have added much to suit the taste of both.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at...

Excerpt from First Principles of MedicineThe color of the blood is caused by red particles diffused through a transparent ¿uid which is called serum (whey), from its resemblance to that ¿uid when blood is first drawn the red particles may be seen ¿oating about by the means of a microscope, but when it stands they settle down to the bottom and form a cake or clot (called cruor or crassamentum).Some capillaries are too small to admit the red par...

Excerpt from First Principles of MedicineIt does not appear to me that I used too strong an expression for merly in speaking of the confusion which has existed in medicine, and, as an example, I need only refer to the striking fact noticed in this work, that the two words, in¿ammation and irritation, which are most frequently in the mouths of medical men, are up to this day perpetually used in a double or equivocal sense. In¿ammation is correc...

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First Principles of Medicine is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publi...