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Diseases - Causes and theories of causation - History

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    Observations on the muscularity of the hepatic and cystic ducts, as explanatory of the production of jaundice by moral causes / [Robert Knox].

    | Robert Knox | Date: [1836]
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    The decline of therapeutic bloodletting and the collapse of traditional medicine / K. Codell Carter.

    | Kay Codell Carter | Date: [2012]
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    Miscellaneous works of the late Robert Willan : Comprising An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition: and detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications. / Edited by Ashby Smith.

    | Robert Willan | Date: 1821
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    Il normale e il patologico. Norme sociali e comportamenti patologici nella storia della medicina / [Georges Canguilhem].

    | Georges Canguilhem | Date: 1975

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