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" ... varying in size from that of a walnut to that of a small child's head — the taste more or less aromatic, sweet, or subacid. It is produced on spurs, which spring from branchlets of two or more years growth, and continue to bear for a series of years. "
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge - Page 348
1888
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An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology: Designed for the ..., Volume 2

Parker Cleaveland - 1822 - 886 pages
...Lehigh, and Tobyhannah, on Broad Mountain. It is sometimes in compact, indurated, detached masses, varying in size from that of a walnut to that of a man's head — sometimes its texture is porous or spongy — and sometimes it is cellular, the cavities...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 14

1839 - 272 pages
...this opinion. During my expedition through the y alais and other parts of Switzerland, I saw goitres varying in size from that of a walnut to that of a peck loaf. Coxe here alludes to the supposed agency of water in producing these diseases. But the truth...
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A Technological Dictionary: Explaining the Terms of the Arts, Sciences ...

W. M. Buchanan - 1846 - 768 pages
...the emblem of empire. EI'GLE-STOSEB, atites; a variety of arllacooiis iron ore of a nodular form, d varying in size from that of a walnut to that of a man's head, and containing a ort of loose kernel. It obtained this tame from a supposition that the...
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The Elements of materia medica and therapeutica. v.2 pt.2 ..., Volume 2, Part 2

Jonathan Pereira - 1857 - 926 pages
...from Bombay, under the name of Katha suffaid (ie pale or white catechu). It is in lumps, which vary in size from that of a walnut to that of a small apple. The general form is rounded or oval, and somewhat flattened, the surface being very uneven,...
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Cyclopaedia of the Natural Sciences

William Baird - 1858 - 642 pages
...of Xalapo, and has a root of a roundish tuberous form, black externally, white and milky within, and varying in size from that of a walnut to that of a moderate sized turnip. It is imported in thin transverse slices, solid, hard, and heavy, and is used...
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Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, Volume 75

1897 - 336 pages
...streams of carbonic acid. Near Neubau, in Waldeck, for instance, I have seen bubbles of carbonic acid varying in size from that of a walnut to that of a man's head, bursting on the surface of springs, incessantly, day and night ; and this volcanic action...
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Clinical memoirs on abdominal tumours and intumescence

Richard Bright - 1860 - 352 pages
...kidney. The structure of the liver was nearly everywhere affected by rounded scirrhous tumours differing in size from that of a walnut to that of a small orange. The spleen was of remarkably small size, snd fleshy. The left kidney was healthy. The right...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 1

1868 - 878 pages
...3 — 6 together, in sessile umbels, and are large, white, rose-coloured externally, and fragrant. The fruit is roundish, or narrowest towards the apex,...subacid. It is produced on spurs, which spring from branchlets of two or more years growth, and continue to bear for a series of years. The fruit of the...
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Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 1

William Chambers - 1868 - 876 pages
...3 — 6 together, in sessile umbels, and are large, white, rose-coloured externally, and fragrant. The fruit is roundish, or narrowest towards the apex,...subacid. It is produced on spurs, which spring from branchlets of two or more years growth, and continue to bear for a series of years. The fruit of the...
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The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, Volume 56

1907 - 974 pages
...months' pregnancy, the walls somewhat thickened, and the cavity absolutely filled with polypoid growths, varying in size from that of a walnut to that of a small orange. The microscopical examination proved them to be small celled sarcoma. CASE III. — Pedunculated...
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