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" ... believe attended with much pain. The appearance of the infant, however, while in this state of compression, is frightful, and its little black eyes, forced out by the tightness of the bandages, resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released... "
The Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science - Page 478
1834
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The Columbia River: Or, Scenes and Adventures During a Residence ..., Volume 1

Ross Cox - 1832 - 370 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds...stronger aversion to a Round-head than these savages.* * Doctor Swan, on examining the skulls I had taken, candidly confessed that nothing short of ocular...
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The Journal of Health, Volume 4

1832 - 402 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds an inch in thickness. It never afterward recovers its rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty, and the most devoted...
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Adventures on the Columbia River: Including the Narrative of a Residence of ...

Ross Cox - 1832 - 334 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds an inch in thickness. It never afterward recovers its rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty, and the most devoted...
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A natural history of quadrupeds, and other mammiferous animals

William Charles Linnaeus Martin - 1840 - 438 pages
...resemble those of a Mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds...essential point of beauty ; and the most devoted adherent to our first Charles never entertained a stronger aversion to a round-head than these savages." t Simia,...
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On the Relation Between the Holy Scriptures and Some Parts of Geological Science

John Pye Smith - 1840 - 566 pages
...in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the tipper part of it seldom exceeds an inch in thickness. It...rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty.' " Linnaeus Martin's Nat. Hist. of the Mammalia, vol. I. p. 207. In the American Journal of Science,...
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American Antiquities and Researches Into the Origin and History of the Red Race

Alexander Warfield Bradford - 1841 - 446 pages
...in this manner upwards of a year. * * When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds an inch in thickness."* The Charibs compressed the heads of their infants by boards and ligatures, and rendered the forehead...
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On the Relation Between the Holy Scriptures and Some Parts of Geological Science

John Pye Smith - 1843 - 576 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds...rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty.' " Linnaeus Martin's Nat. Hist, of the Mammalia, vol. I. p. 207. In the American Journal of Science,...
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The Relation Between the Holy Scriptures and Some Parts of Geological Science

John Pye Smith - 1848 - 436 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds...rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty.' " Linnseus Martin's Nat. Hist, of the Mammalia, vol. ip 207. In the American Journal of Science, edited...
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On the relation between the holy Scriptures and some parts of geological ...

John Pye Smith - 1852 - 576 pages
...resemble those of a mouse choked in a trap. When released from this inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom, exceeds...rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty.' " Linnaeus Martin's Nat. Hist, of the Mammalia, vol. ip 207. In the " American Journal of Science,"...
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Kidd's Own Journal, Volume 4

1853 - 390 pages
...resemble those of a mouse in a trap. When released from the inhuman process, the head is perfectly flattened, and the upper part of it seldom exceeds an inch in thickness. It never after recovers its rotundity. They deem this an essential point of beauty, and the most devoted adherent...
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