A chemico-physiological essay, disproving the existence of an æriform function in the skin, and pointing out, by experiment, the impropriety of ascribing absorption to the external surface of the human body / By Joseph Klapp.

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Klapp, Joseph, 1783-1843

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A chemico-physiological essay, disproving the existence of an æriform function in the skin, and pointing out, by experiment, the impropriety of ascribing absorption to the external surface of the human body / By Joseph Klapp.