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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- ADVERTISEMENT
- Lately published, BY THE AUTHOR
- Contents
- PART III
- PREFACE
- ERRATA
- Observations on the State of Population in Manchester and other adjacent Places
- On the Small-Pox and Measles
- On the different Quantities of Rain, which fall at different Heights over the same Spot of Ground
- On the Solution of human Calculi by Fixed Air
- On the Nature and Composition of Urinary Calculi
- On the Effects of Fixed Air on the Colours and Vegetation of Plants
- On the Action of different Manures
- On different Absorbents
- On the internal Regulation of Hospitals
- Miscellaneous Observations, Cases and Inquiries
- PART IV
- Index
On different Absorbents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- ADVERTISEMENT
- Lately published, BY THE AUTHOR
- Contents
- PART III
- PREFACE
- ERRATA
- Observations on the State of Population in Manchester and other adjacent Places
- On the Small-Pox and Measles
- On the different Quantities of Rain, which fall at different Heights over the same Spot of Ground
- On the Solution of human Calculi by Fixed Air
- On the Nature and Composition of Urinary Calculi
- On the Effects of Fixed Air on the Colours and Vegetation of Plants
- On the Action of different Manures
- On different Absorbents
- On the internal Regulation of Hospitals
- Miscellaneous Observations, Cases and Inquiries
- PART IV
- Index
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- The Works, Literary, Moral, and Medical, of Thomas Percival, M.D.To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life and Writings, and a Selection from his Literary Correspondence, pp. 161 - 169Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013