Rambotham was an early opponent of a anesthesia but convinced it its validity in the 1850's. This book however deals with childbirth without the benefits of anesthesia. 
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This book contains compact biographies of 5500 composers, performers, instrument makers, and music theorists, from Pietro Aaron to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Though many of these entries concern figures from the world of classical or art music, 20th century jazz, rock, and pop musicians are also represented, as well as hymn and show tune writers. 
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"Brian Reade contributes an illuminating biography, and an engrossing analysis of Beardsley's aims and achievements as an artist...a single volume presenting all his better-known prints and drawings as well as many of his less familiar but equally important ones." 
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"This beautifully illustrated manual for weavers who know the basics was conceived in a study group exploring new and creative applications for familiar weaving patterns, structures, and techniques. Chapters are arranged by subject matter and cover a wide range of special interests for weavers – functional fabrics for clothing, upholstery, and drapery, as well as new ideas for accessories, woven toys, wall hangings, and sculptural. Designed for any weaver who wants stimulation and information at the same time, the suggestions are presented in a clear and precise manner with a wealth of illustrative material for each example, including diagrams, drafts, and photographs of both the front and reverse sides of many of the weaves." 
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"Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery -aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches- finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him." 
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"Rickey asked over three hundred veterans to supply information about their army experiences by answering questionnaires and writing personal accounts. Many who survived through the mid-fifties contributed much more through personal interviews.". 
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The plates are moslty of surgical instruments and the human eye. Friedrich Philipp Ritterich., was born on June 4th 1782 in Leipzig, studied in Jena and Leipzig and went 1810 to Vienna in order to study with Professor Beer, specialist in the area of ophthalmology. He became in 1820 a professor in Leipzig and established a private institute. In 1845 celebrated this Institute its 25 year anniversary and Ritterich composed. a commemorative volume. This Institute became an obligatory school of t Ophthalmology in the year 1853 and consequently the first apprenticeship for ophthalmology in Germany – Austria excluded .

Ritterich was also interested and taught in the fields of physiology and pathology. He was one of the first physicians to perform eye extractions and studied eye muscles and wrote a book on it although it wasn't finished. Towards the end of the 1850's he went blind and had to abandon his practice. In 1866, he died.

Approximate translation with apologies from Wikisource. 
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Large folding map at rear of book, missing one of two maps. The Disquisition was first published in 1791 and was his last work written before his death. Robertson was a member of the General Assembly. He was encouraged by his friend Edward Gibbons, based on his other historical works, to write a history of ancient India.  
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