Deafness Resulting from Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis
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Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis
or the first volume of the Journal of Hygiene would have enabled him to write a more correct history of the disease rather than blindly follow Hirsch's history from his splendid but now out of date book on Geographical Pathology. After all this is a minor blemish, for otherwise the book gives a singularly full account of the clinical history, the laboratory diagnosis, the blood-pressure and the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1908
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591570800100921