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Wit and Humor as Topic

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    Humour among the doctors / [John Aye].

    Aye, John. | Date: 1931
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    Fritz Spiegl's sick notes : an alphabetical browsing-book of medical derivations, abbreviations, mnemonics, and slang for the amusement and edification of medics, nurses, patients, and hypochondriacs / with a foreword by Lord Smith of Marlow ; and an introduction by Stephen Lock.

    Spiegl, Fritz. | Date: [1996], ©1996
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    Children's humor : a psychological analysis / by Martha Wolfenstein ; forward by Alan Dundes.

    Wolfenstein, Martha, 1911-1976. | Date: 1978
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    Ebraismo e psicoanalisi : il pensiero politico sociale di Freud / Cesare Musatti.

    Musatti, Cesare, 1897- | Date: [1994], ©1994
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    Physiologie des Scherzes : Bedeutung und Rechtfertigung der Ars Iocandi im 16. Jahrhundert / [Heinz-Günter Schmitz].

    Schmitz, Heinz-Günter. | Date: 1972
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