An essay on the effects of carbonate, and other preparations of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that and other diseases to which it bears a relation / by Richard Carmichael.

  • Richard Carmichael
Date:
1809
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Credit: An essay on the effects of carbonate, and other preparations of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that and other diseases to which it bears a relation / by Richard Carmichael. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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