Heilanstalt für Kretinen und blödsinnige Kinder, Interlaken, Switzerland. Wood engraving.

121 pages, [1 leaf of plates] : illustrations, frontispiece, portrait ; 26 cm

Die Heilung und Verhütung des Cretinismus und ihre neuesten Fortschritte : Mittheilungen an die Schweizerische Naturforschende Gesellschaft / von Dr. med. J. Guggenbühl.

Der Cretinismus, philosophisch und medicinisch untersucht / von D. August Ernst Iphofen.

Extracts from the first report of the institution on the Abendburg, near Interlachen, Switzerland, for the cure of cretins / J.J. Guggenbuehl ; translated by W. Twining.

Traité des dégénérescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l'espèce humaine et des causes qui produisent ces variétés maladives : atlas de xii planches / par B.A. Morel.

Some account of cretinism, and the institution for its cure, on the Abendberg, near Interlachen, in Switzerland / by William Twining.

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Die Heilung und Verhütung des Cretinismus und ihre neuesten Fortschritte : Mittheilungen an die Schweizerische Naturforschende Gesellschaft / von Dr. med. J. Guggenbühl.

Der Cretinismus, philosophisch und medicinisch untersucht / von D. August Ernst Iphofen.

Extracts from the first report of the institution on the Abendburg, near Interlachen, Switzerland, for the cure of cretins / J.J. Guggenbuehl ; translated by W. Twining.

Traité des dégénérescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l'espèce humaine et des causes qui produisent ces variétés maladives : atlas de xii planches / par B.A. Morel.

Some account of cretinism, and the institution for its cure, on the Abendberg, near Interlachen, in Switzerland / by William Twining.

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Die Heilung und Verhütung des Cretinismus und ihre neuesten Fortschritte : Mittheilungen an die Schweizerische Naturforschende Gesellschaft / von Dr. med. J. Guggenbühl.

Der Cretinismus, philosophisch und medicinisch untersucht / von D. August Ernst Iphofen.

Extracts from the first report of the institution on the Abendburg, near Interlachen, Switzerland, for the cure of cretins / J.J. Guggenbuehl ; translated by W. Twining.

Traité des dégénérescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l'espèce humaine et des causes qui produisent ces variétés maladives : atlas de xii planches / par B.A. Morel.

Some account of cretinism, and the institution for its cure, on the Abendberg, near Interlachen, in Switzerland / by William Twining.

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