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Page 29 - THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES, EDITED BY ISAAC HAYS, MD, is published Quarterly, on the first of January, April, July, and October. Each number contains at least two hundred and eighty large octavo pages, handsomely and appropriately illustrated, wherever necessary.
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Page 299 - Remarks on the Dental System of the Mastodon, with an Account of some Lower Jaws in Mr. Koch's Collection, St Louis, Missouri, where there is a Solitary Tusk on the Right Side, by William E. Horner, MD, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania," reported in favour of the publication, which was directed accordingly.
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