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Saint Cecilia's Hall in the Niddry Wynd - A chapter in the history of the music of the past in Edinburgh is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. 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...

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Excerpt from Edward Jenner and Vaccination The year 1810 was a sad one for Jenner: his eldest son died, and that noticeably depressed his health. In 1823 be presented a paper to the Royal Society on the migration of birds, a subject not even yet fully cleared up. On January as, in the same year, he was stricken with paralysis 'on the right side and died within twenty-four hours. His body was buried in the chancel of the parish church of Berke...

Excerpt from Saint Cecilias Hall in the Niddary Wynd Vii copies of his works on musical subjects, but placed at my disposal, for purposes of illustration in this work, his interesting collection of portraits of musicians, as well as several unique musical relics, amongst which I would specially mention the manuscript copy of the 'index to the whole Musick belonging to the Edinburgh Musical Society, i7sz.' From this precious volume, the only o...

Excerpt from Nerves The following pages express in a sense a pioneer effort, they attempt to explain in non-technical language the place and powers of the nervous system. They do not form an essay in physiology, because the activities of only one great system of the body are discussed. Nor do they deal with psychology -the science of consciousness and behaviour for that is the subject Of another volume Of this library. What follows is an exp...

Excerpt from The Functional Inertia of Living Matter: A Contribution to the Physiological Theory of Life It is two hundred and thirty years ago since Francis Glisson, M.D., of Cambridge, formally gave us the concept of irritability of living matter, more especially that of muscle. 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...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...