Unpalatable Truths: Food and Drink as Medicine in Colonial British India
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0022-5045,1468-4373
DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jry011