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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832 by Various
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erection of the Club House, and Dining Rooms, &c., situate in
Bell Yard, which is an addition subsequently made to the original
building.

[2] The best remains of Ionic buildings at Athens are the temples of
Erecthens and Minerva Pulias in the Acropolis, and the little
temple on the banks of the Ilissus; but in Asia Minor the examples
of this order are far more numerous; and some of the finest are to
be found amongst the magnificent ruins at Brauchidia, at Priene,
and at Teos, &c.

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SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY

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VAPOUR-BATHS.


Among the remedies for cholera, or perhaps we should rather say attempted
remedies, the vapour-bath is conspicuous over all the other means of cure,
external and internal: stimulants, frictions, rubefacients, blisters, have
that for their indirect object which the vapour-bath accomplishes directly,
namely, to produce heat on the surface of the body, and thus restore that
correspondence between the temperature of the interior and exterior parts,
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