An inaugural dissertation on universal dropsy : submitted to the examination of the Revd. John Ewing, S.T.D. provost ; the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine : on the twelfth day of May, A.D. 1791 / by Elijah Perkins. A.B. of Connecticut, Member of the American Medical Society, at Philadelphia.

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