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An inquiry into the present state of medical surgery : including the analogy betwixt external and internal disorders; and the inseparability of these branches of the same profession / by Thomas Kirkland, M.D. member of the Royal Medical Society at Edinburgh.

Thomas Kirkland

Date:: 1783- 1786

Credit: An inquiry into the present state of medical surgery : including the analogy betwixt external and internal disorders; and the inseparability of these branches of the same profession / by Thomas Kirkland, M.D. member of the Royal Medical Society at Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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