Letters on the cause and treatment of the gout : in which some digressive remarks on other medical subjects are interspersed / by the late Robert Hamilton, M.D.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1721-1793.
Date:
1806
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Credit: Letters on the cause and treatment of the gout : in which some digressive remarks on other medical subjects are interspersed / by the late Robert Hamilton, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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