Book Review: History and Iconography of Endemic Goitre and Cretinism

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History and iconography of endemic goitre and cretinism

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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

سال: 1985

ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095

DOI: 10.1177/014107688507800327