Observations on the prevention and treatment of the epidemic fever, at present prevailing in this metropolis and most parts of the United Kingdom : to which are added, remarks on some of the opinions of Dr. Bateman, and others, on the same subject / by Henry Clutterbuck, M.D.
- Henry Clutterbuck
- Date:
- 1819
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Credit: Observations on the prevention and treatment of the epidemic fever, at present prevailing in this metropolis and most parts of the United Kingdom : to which are added, remarks on some of the opinions of Dr. Bateman, and others, on the same subject / by Henry Clutterbuck, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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