Some account of two cases of inflammatory tumour, produced by the deposit of the larva of a large fly (OEstrus humanus) beneath the cutis, in the human subject : accompanied with drawings of the larva / by John Howship.

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Some account of two cases of inflammatory tumour, produced by the deposit of the larva of a large fly (OEstrus humanus) beneath the cutis, in the human subject : accompanied with drawings of the larva / by John Howship.