Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis
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Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis
or the first volume of the Journal of Hygiene would have enabled him to write a more correct history of the disease rather than blindly follow Hirsch's history from his splendid but now out of date book on Geographical Pathology. After all this is a minor blemish, for otherwise the book gives a singularly full account of the clinical history, the laboratory diagnosis, the blood-pressure and the...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1918
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-191804000-00034