A Note on the Work of Dr. P. L. Simond on the Transmission and Epidemiology of Plague
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a post-graduate lecture on plague, and in doing so read the chapters on plague in several standard textbooks of medicine. In these chapters the portions relating to the early researches on plague at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century appeared rather unsatisfactory, and therefore a study was made of the original publications. This study made more clear the unsatisfactory nature of the published account of the work of
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دوره 77 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1942