Symptomatology; or the art of detecting disease: a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request ... To which are added, tables of symptoms / [A.P. Buchan].

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1824
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Symptomatology; or the art of detecting disease: a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, and published according to their request ... To which are added, tables of symptoms / [A.P. Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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