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" ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,  "
Popular lectures on scientific subjects, tr. by E. Atkinson. [1st] - Page 127
by Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz - 1881
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The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 1

1862 - 710 pages
...not yet observed it in women or children. Small vascular nacvi or clusters of varicose capillaries from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea are also commonly found in this kind of constitution, more frequently in men than in women, however,...
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A history of the earth and animated nature with numerous notes ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1862 - 702 pages
...which, four different substances can be discovered by a lens. Those which occur most frequently vary from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea. They are of a greyish colour, sometimes inclining to brown; opaque, with a little lustre, and capable...
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Memories of New Zealand Life

Edwin Hodder - New Zealand - 1862 - 248 pages
...comparable to Australia. The nature of the gold on the dry diggings is nuggety, little round pieces varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, while the gold which is obtained in the rivers is more scaly, worn down by the water passing over it....
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Outlines of the Chief Camp Diseases of the United States Armies as Observed ...

Joseph Janvier Woodward - Communicable diseases - 1863 - 378 pages
...black. Frequently the malpighian bodies are considerably distended, and present little tumors varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea. This enlargement is more constant, and, as a general rule, more intense than the enlargement of the...
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On the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and the tumours analogous to it

Maurice Henry Collis - 1864 - 438 pages
...interspersed with radiating vessels. In cancers of the breast there may generally be seen some yellow spots, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, contained in little beds, from which they can be turned out like the yolks of hardboiled eggs. Their...
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The Works of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie: ... with an Autobiography, Volume 2

Sir Benjamin Brodie - Medicine - 1865 - 798 pages
...the body, one kidney was found to be enlarged to double its natural size, with numerous abscesses, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, imbedded in the glandular structure. The mucous membrane of the pelvis and infundibula bore marks of...
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The Science and practice of medicine v. 1, Volume 1

William Aitken - 1866 - 976 pages
...may be only congestive patches of variable size in the ileum, the solitary follicles being enlarged from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, and black with pigment deposit ; they sometimes look like yellow mustard seed sprinkled on a red ground;...
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Medical Record, Volume 9

George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - Medicine - 1874 - 688 pages
...however, made a most extraordinary and rapid recovery. On the 10th December small spiculw of bone, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, escaped from a sinus. The child is now running around in the ward of the hospital, has free motion...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 7

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 860 pages
...are termed the Graafian vesicles. Before impregnation, they vary in number from ten to twenty, and from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; but microscopic examination reveals the presence of young vesicles in large numbers. At each monthly...
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The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British ...

Medicine - 1868 - 620 pages
...induration, some of them distinctly peribronchitic, others merely fibrous indurations, which varied from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, and some of which were marked with brick-red stains. In addition, the pulmonary lobes, with the exception...
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