The new handbook of dosimetric therapeutics, or, The treatment of diseases by simple remedies : including symptomatology, thermometry and uroscopy, with synoptical tables epitomising important clinical cases : a work particularly designed for practitioners / by Ad. Burggraeve ; tr. from the French, and ed. by Henry Arthur Allbutt.
- Adolphe Burggraeve
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The new handbook of dosimetric therapeutics, or, The treatment of diseases by simple remedies : including symptomatology, thermometry and uroscopy, with synoptical tables epitomising important clinical cases : a work particularly designed for practitioners / by Ad. Burggraeve ; tr. from the French, and ed. by Henry Arthur Allbutt. 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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