Treatise on the injuries of the head : to which is added observations on the scrofula, popularly, but improperly called the "King's-evil" / by Jordan Roche, Surgeon.

Roche, Jordan

Date:: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

Credit: Treatise on the injuries of the head : to which is added observations on the scrofula, popularly, but improperly called the "King's-evil" / by Jordan Roche, Surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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