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Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was in accordance with true medical principles.
In George Moody, The English Journal of Education (1858), New Series, 12 , 411.
See also:  |  Digestion (7)  |  Health (61)  |  Laughter (5)  |  Medicine (127)  |  Principle (31)

To Avogadro and Cannizzaro, as to Couper and Kekulé, the molecules and atoms considered in this great theory were real objects: they were thought of the same way as one thinks of tables and chairs.
On the Operational Interpretation of Classical Chemistry', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1955), 6, 32. In Mary Jo Nye, From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry (1993), 58
See also:  |  Atom (85)  |  Count of Quaregna Amedeo Avogadro (3)  |  Stanislao Cannizzaro (2)  |  Chair (2)  |  (Friedrich) August Kekulé (13)  |  Molecule (39)  |  Theory (179)

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