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  1. NLM Digital Collections - Untrodden fields of anthropology : observations on the esoteric manners and customs of ... 
    Publication: New York : American Anthropological Society, [1898?]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/0100771
    ... nephews, and therefore having no heirs, get themselves adopted as brothers by some woman outside of their family. This ...
  2. Looked-after children and young people - NCBI Bookshelf 
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK575858
    ... just with biological siblings but also non-biological siblings they were living with (biological or adopted children of the carer). However, they noted that ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - A history of the family as a social and educational institution 
    Publication: New York : The Macmillan Company, 1915
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/02431170R
    ... a deceased wife’s sister or a deceased husband’s brother, and this prohibition was adopted by the Emperor Justinian. These early regulations mark ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The passions in their relations to health and diseases 
    Publication: Boston : James Campbell, 1876
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/60441300R
    ... holy sisters of charity, these Catholic priests, have adopted as brothers and friends the MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY. 51 sick, ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - A manual of clinical medicine and physical diagnosis 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Blanchard and Lea, 1856
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63660600R
    ... with his own interests and that of his brother practitioners, remembering the maxim adopted by La Bruyere from Con- fucius—that he ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - The family and the new democracy : a study in social hygiene 
    Publication: Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders Company, 1920
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/02520360R
    ... FAMILY AND THE NEW DEMOCRACY that where the brothers committed crime, the sisters adopted prostitution. The fines and imprisonments of the women ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Uses of mental science : with addresses delivered before the American Institute of Phrenology,... 
    Publication: New York : Fowler & Wells Co., [1891]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101221907
    ... cal class on the American continent. When her brothers 0. S. and L. N. adopted phrenology as a profession they chose her as ...
  8. NLM Digital Collections - Statement of improvements in the theory and practice of the science of medicine 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Printed for the author, by John Bioren ..., 1819
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/2553039R
    ... condition of appa- rent death, from which his brother had just recovered. The same measures were adopted in his case^ and with the same happy ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Love in children and its aberrations : a book for parents and teachers 
    Publication: London : George Allen and Unwin LTD., 1924
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/49030580R
    ... the father, a narrow- minded pedant. The other brother, who was more akin to the father, adopted the latter's political views. The radical- minded brother ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - A cyclopaedia of Canadian biography: being chiefly men of the time : a collection of persons .... 
    Publication: Toronto : Rose Publishing Company, 1886-1888
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/01220160RX2
    ... and folk-lore of Africa, which have been adopted and used in public schools. Mr. Steeves has two brothers, who are masters of British iron steamers, and ...
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