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  • Lorenz Heister, an eighteenth-century German physician, once described a mastectomy in his clinic as if it were a sacrificial ritual: Many females can stand the operation with the greatest courage and without hardly moaning at all.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Lorenz Heister, an eighteenth-century German physician, once described a mastectomy in his clinic as if it were a sacrificial ritual: Many females can stand the operation with the greatest courage and without hardly moaning at all.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Lorenz Heister, an eighteenth-century German physician, once described a mastectomy in his clinic as if it were a sacrificial ritual: Many females can stand the operation with the greatest courage and without hardly moaning at all.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Popper's papers (1946-7, 1947) are still worth reading; see Schroeder-Heister 1984 for critical discussion and Koslow 1999 for a modern approach reminiscent of Popper's.

    Logical Constants MacFarlane, John 2009

  • Schroeder-Heister (1987) conjectured that the first-order portion of Frege's system (i.e., the system which results by adding Basic Law V to the first-order predicate calculus) was consistent and this was proved by T. Parsons (1987) and Burgess

    Frege's Logic, Theorem, and Foundations for Arithmetic Zalta, Edward N. 2009

  • Ecoregions 72g and 72l act as the transition between the Interior River Valleys and Hills (72) and the Ozark Highlands (39); they contain many Ozarkian and southern plants and animals that are rare or absent elsewhere in Illinois (Neely and Heister, 1987, p. 30). 72a.

    Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA) 2008

  • Wooded valleys in Ecoregion 72f are important nighttime roosting areas for wintering bald eagles (Neely and Heister, 1987, p. 30).

    Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA) 2008

  • In the early 19th century, level uplands were dominated by tall-grass prairie; no other level III ecoregion in Illinois had as much prairie as Ecoregion 54 at the time of settlement (Neely and Heister, 1987, p. 28 and 30; Schwegman, 1973, p. 14-15).

    Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA) 2008

  • Ecoregion 52 is characterized by distinctive northern plants (Neely and Heister, 1987, p. 28; Schwegman, 1973, p. 10).

    Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA) 2008

  • Cool, shaded ravines support mesic forests composed of trees including red oak, beech and sugar maple, and contain relict plant species with northern affinities (Neely and Heister, 1987, p. 31; Schwegman, 1973, p. 28).

    Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA) 2008

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