DOES "DIPHTHERIA" INCLUDE "MEMBRANOUS CROUP"?
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Croup and Diphtheria
[Concluded from page 255.] The following will be read with interest in connection with the subject discussed in last number. From it it will be seen that some of the views entertained and expressed in 1879, were precisely those held and expressed by a physician, who took no part in this recent debate, some seventeen years back. Dr. Hillier (then AssistantPhysician to the hospital for sick child...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1890
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(02)18999-9