Plagues and pestilence in Polynesia: the nineteenth-century Cook Islands experience.
@article{Lange1984PlaguesAP,
title={Plagues and pestilence in Polynesia: the nineteenth-century Cook Islands experience.},
author={Robert Lange},
journal={Bulletin of the history of medicine},
year={1984},
volume={58 3},
pages={
325-46
}
}3 Citations
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