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In the case of the rabbit in which nitrous oxid was substituted for sleep, the appearance of the brain-cells resembled that in but one other group experimentally examined—the brain-cells of hibernating woodchucks.

From Origin and Nature of Emotions by Crile, George W. (Washington)

This method of anesthesia consists in the employment of nitrous oxid or "laughing gas," and will be fully considered in this chapter.

From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.

Seed may also be treated with red copper oxid or semesan.

From The Tomato by Work, Paul

A still better dressing is made with 1 ounce vaseline, 2 drams oxid of zinc, and 20 drops iodized phenol.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

The liberation of chlorin gas is brought about by the action of sulphuric acid, either on a mixture of chlorid of sodium and black oxid of manganese or on bleaching powder.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry