Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
@article{GouldAnomaliesAC,
title={Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine},
author={George Milbry Gould and Walter Lytle Pyle},
journal={Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal (1883)},
volume={16},
pages={55 - 57}
}^ one of the means for the progress of science; but, as we cnr> .he complained that in his day "a substantial and severe ection of the heteroclites or irregulars of Nature, well ' artjined and described, I find not." We have here a praisea 1 "y effort to form such a collection for medical science. an??st any section might be expanded into a separate treatise, we may add that almost every section is a good resume of
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