Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India : comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East, statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different division of the army under the Madras presidency / by James Annesley.

  • Annesley, James, Sir, 1780-1847.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India : comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East, statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different division of the army under the Madras presidency / by James Annesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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