Volume 1
A manual of surgery / in treatises by various authors ; edited by Frederick Treves.
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of surgery / in treatises by various authors ; edited by Frederick Treves. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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