An inaugural dissertation on the production of animal heat : read and defended at a public examination, held by the medical professors, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. L.L.D. president, and the governors of Harvard College, for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, July 10, 1797 / by Lyman Spalding.
- Lyman Spalding
- Date:
- Jun. 1797
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the production of animal heat : read and defended at a public examination, held by the medical professors, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. L.L.D. president, and the governors of Harvard College, for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, July 10, 1797 / by Lyman Spalding. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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