Observations on the nature and treatment of the variolous abscess, with remarks on the modern practice of inoculation, and a review of the principal writers on that important subject ... in a letter to Dr. Buchan / By Peter Clare.
- Peter Clare
- Date:
- 1781
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Credit: Observations on the nature and treatment of the variolous abscess, with remarks on the modern practice of inoculation, and a review of the principal writers on that important subject ... in a letter to Dr. Buchan / By Peter Clare. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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