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Open Access
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Medical History
- Vol. 29 (2) , 210-217
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025727300044033
Abstract
No abstract availableThis publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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