Off Sick
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While I was confined to bed with the flu, my partner went to the local library to find me " something decent to read. " He returned with a kid's book! It's not often children's book makes it to the pages of a professional and academic journal, but Gael Jennings' humorous, yet informative, take on the gorier aspects of the history of medicine makes a fine exception. Jennings spent more than 10 y...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1971
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.28.4.405-a