An inaugural essay on the effects of cold upon the human body : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the medical professors and trustees, of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 12th day of May, 1797 / by John Edmonds Stock, of Gloucestshire, England ; member of the medical and natural history societies of Edinburgh.

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