Minor ailments: their importance in warfare
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Some Minor Ailments—Their Importance in the Medical Curriculum *
For many years I have brought to the attention of the members of succeeding fourth-year dasses the subject of minor or common ailments. We senior practitioners know that in the training we received in medical school, patients suffering from major maladies were repeatedly demonstrated to us. But many minor ailments familiar to us by name or through personal experience failed to find their way in...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Dublin Journal of Medical Science
سال: 1915
ISSN: 0790-231X
DOI: 10.1007/bf02969615