An Account of the tenia, and method of treating it / [Signed Lassone, etc. and translated by S.F. Simmons].
- Date:
- 1778
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An Account of the tenia, and method of treating it / [Signed Lassone, etc. and translated by S.F. Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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