A course of lectures on physiology / as delivered by Prof. Küss at the Medical School of the University of Strasbourg ; edited by Mathias Duval ; translated from the 2nd rev. ed. by Robert Amory.

Küss, Émile, 1815-1871.

Date:: 1876

Credit: A course of lectures on physiology / as delivered by Prof. Küss at the Medical School of the University of Strasbourg ; edited by Mathias Duval ; translated from the 2nd rev. ed. by Robert Amory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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