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Excerpt from An Inaugural Dissertation, on the Chemical and Medical Properties of the Persimmon Tree, and the Analysis of Astringent Vegetables: Submitted to the Examination of the Revd. John Ewings, S. T. P. Provost; The Trustees and Medical Professors, of the University of Pennsylvania; For the Degree of Doctor of Medicine
I have chofen the Perfimmon tree for an inaugural dif fertation, on the one hand, merely to avoid a thread-bare worn out fubjea, and on the other, that I might have an opportunity of laying fomething on a tree, of which, little more is known than the name.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0260237515
- ISBN 13 9780260237514
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages38
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