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Hydrocephalus

Disorder characterized by an abnormal increase of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain

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  • West Indian sugar-growers making gin for the British market at the expense of Scottish grain farmers. Aquatint by Samuel de Wilde, 1808.

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    Dissertatio medica inauguralis de hydrocephalo acuto ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Gulielmus Barry.

    Barry, John William. | Date: 1823
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    The boy with no brain.

    | Date: 2016
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    Disputatio medica inauguralis, de hydrocephalo acuto ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Thomas Petter Powell.

    Powell, Thomas Petter, -1802. | Date: 1795
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    Proceedings of the Innsbruck Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida, 1986 / edited by S. Variend and B. Tew.

    Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida. | Date: 1986
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    Studies in hydrocephalus and spina bifida : proceedings of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida, Hull, 24-26th June 1971.

    Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida. | Date: 1971

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