A defence of John St. John Long ... in the cases of the late miss Catherine Cashin, and mrs. Colin Campbell Lloyd. To which is added, A short review of mr. Long's press enemies. By a graduate of Trinity college Cambridge |
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Page 23 - The lobes of this lung were adherent to one another " by more ancient adhesions ; and at its upper part it .*' contained a cicatrix similar in form, appearance, " structure, and magnitude, which was about that of '* a walnut, to the cicatrix of the left lung, but