Sensation and pain : A lecture delivered before the New York Academy of Sciences, March 21st, 1881; being one of the public course for 1880-81 / by Charles Fayette Taylor.
- Charles Fayette Taylor
- Date:
- 1881
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sensation and pain : A lecture delivered before the New York Academy of Sciences, March 21st, 1881; being one of the public course for 1880-81 / by Charles Fayette Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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