Recent advances: Paediatrics
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Recent Advances in Paediatrics –23
subtitle reflects the editors' belief that the most important use of a collection of medical quotations is " seeing, in brief, what views—of physicians and patients, of diseases and treatments—were held in other times and places. " They justify this new publication by suggesting that previous collections of quotations did not fully cover the growth of concepts of normal bodily functions and dis...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0959-8138
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.322.7300.1469