Surgical observations on diseases resembling syphilis; : and on diseases of the urethra. / By John Abernethy, F. R. S. Honorary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and of the medical societies of Paris, Philadelphia, &c.,surgeon to Christ's Hospital, assistant surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, professor of anatomy and surgery, to the Royal College of Surgeons, and teacher of anatomy and surgery.
- John Abernethy
- Date:
- 1814
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Credit: Surgical observations on diseases resembling syphilis; : and on diseases of the urethra. / By John Abernethy, F. R. S. Honorary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and of the medical societies of Paris, Philadelphia, &c.,surgeon to Christ's Hospital, assistant surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, professor of anatomy and surgery, to the Royal College of Surgeons, and teacher of anatomy and surgery. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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