Leprosy: In Its Clinical & Pathological Aspects
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Armauer Hansen and Dr. Carl Looft. Translated by Norman Walker, M.D. Pp. xi., 162. Bristol: John Wright & Co. 1895. The clinical history of leprosy has been long and well written; but until recently no scientific description of its etiology and pathology could be held worthy of much estimation, because the discovery of the bacillus of leprosy, though made by Hansen as far back as 1871, was not clearly demonstrated until several years later, when improvements in the construction of immersion
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