On fever and its treatment in general : published by command of the King of Prussia, by the Higher College of Medicine and Health of Berlin, 1800 / Gottfried Christian Reich ; translated from the German by Charles Henry Parry ; to which are added, a preface by the translator, and an appendix by Caleb Hillier Parry.
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