Physic and Physicians: A Medical Sketch Book, Exhibiting the Public and Private Life of the Most Celebrated Medical Men of Former Days; with Memoirs of Eminent Living London Physicians and Surgeons. In Two Parts, Del 1G.B. Zieber & Company, 1845 |
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