Clinical lectures on mental diseases : To which is added, an Abstract of the statutes of the United States, and of the several states and territories, relating to the custody of the insane / by Charles F. Folsom.
- Thomas Clouston
- Date:
- 1884
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Credit: Clinical lectures on mental diseases : To which is added, an Abstract of the statutes of the United States, and of the several states and territories, relating to the custody of the insane / by Charles F. Folsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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