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Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City. Wood engraving.
Reference: 18458i
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Lectures on the principles of surgery : delivered at Bellevue Hospital Medical College / ed. by L.A. Stimson.
Van Buren, W. H. (William Holme), 1819-1883.Date: 1884
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Convalescent relief work at Bellevue Hospital, New York.
Bellevue Hospital.Date: [1908]
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Enzymes / by Otto Cohnheim ... six lectures delivered under the Herter Lectureship Foundation at the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
Cohnheim, Otto, 1873-1930.Date: 1912- Journals
Collected reprints from the Department of Experimental Surgery of the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]