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Historical Medicine Archive is an independent catalogue of ebooks made available for reading and research. Every effort has been made to present accurate bibliographic information, but errors may occur. Catalogue descriptions, categories, authorship attributions, publication details, and supplementary notes are subject to revision. Works digitised from printed originals may contain OCR errors, transcription mistakes, formatting inconsistencies, or file-conversion artefacts. Some texts preserve historical language, spelling, and viewpoints that are no longer current or that may be considered offensive; they are presented as historical documents and do not reflect the views of the catalogue.
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