Organotherapy
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The sensational claims of over-zealous followers of the early teaching of Brown-Sequard has undoubtedly hindered the development of what bids fair to be a very important field of therapeutics. The great triumph which the thyroid treatment of myxcedema has justly secured makes the failure of reasonable expectations in other directions the more disappointing. This book gives an account of the physiology of the glands of the body with special reference to internal secretion, and it
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دوره 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016