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Were there then in plants also ‘olive-headed vine-progeny’, like the
Physics Aristotle 2002
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Various forms are employed, of which the most generally useful are the round-pointed gum-elastic or silk-web bougie, and the olive-headed metal bougie, consisting of a flexible whalebone stem, to which one of a graduated series of aluminium or steel bulbs is screwed.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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