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Medicine in literature

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59 works

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    Body language : medicine and the eighteenth-century comic novel / Kathleen Tamayo Alves.

    | Alves, Kathleen Tamayo | Date: [2026]
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    Mysterious medicine : the doctor-scientist tales of Hawthorne and Poe / edited by L. Kerr Dunn.

    | Date: [2016]
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    Illness and literature in the Low Countries : from the Middle Ages until the 21st century / Jaap Grave, Rick Honings, Bettina Noak (eds.).

    | Date: [2016]
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    Ode read at the centenary dinner of the Royal Medical Society, February 17th, 1837.

    | Robert Mortimer Glover | Date: [1837]
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    Doctors in the darkness : reading race, gender, and history in the popular medical romance / by Archana Rampure.

    | Rampure, Archana | Date: 2005
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Medicine in Literature
History, 19th Century
Diseases in literature
19th-20th centuries
Medicine
History of Medicine
Literature and medicine
Physicians

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