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that if they are not in cutting
It is very necessary to remove these deep brachial veins, for the reason that if they are not, in cutting the artery for injection, they will be cut also, resulting in a flow of venous blood into the incision. How to Locate, Raise and Inject the Radial Artery.
— from Anatomy and Embalming A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to this Subject by Albert John Nunnamaker

therapeutics is to aid nature in combating
To this end also the "statistical method," introduced by Louis and his followers, largely contributed; and by the close of the first third of our century the idea was gaining ground that the province of therapeutics is to aid nature in combating disease, and that this may often be accomplished better by simple means than by the heroic measures hitherto thought necessary.
— from A History of Science — Volume 4 by Edward Huntington Williams

then if they are not in charge
Well for them then if they are not in charge of the State machinery.
— from Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire by Edward Jenkins

the idea that a nobleman is called
So definite is the idea, that a nobleman is called after his estate—he is So-and-so of So-and-so.
— from The Quiver, 1/1900 by Anonymous


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