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Excerpt from The Science of Gems, Jewels, Coins, and Medals: Ancient and Modern Another 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 wa...

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Excerpt from First Principles of Medicine The first step towards treating disease successfully, is to ascertain as far as possible, the nature of the alteration which has taken place in the seat of the disease, or what has been called technically the proximate cause, in default of this knowledge which is sometimes unattainable, we can only depend upon analogies, drawn from what we know to be the fact in other cases, and from physiology, which...

This 1867 work on gemmology traces the history of carving in miniature back to the seal-stones of the Egyptians.

Excerpt from First Principles of Medicine Being an Outline of the leading Facts and Principles of the Science, as Taught in a Course of Lectures delivered In the Marischal College of Aberdeen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digita...

The science of gems, jewels, coins, and medals, ancient and modern is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. 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 a...

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Excerpt from First Principles of Medicine I 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...