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An address on the clinical measurement of diastolic blood pressure and cardiac strength : opening address of the Winter Session at the North-East London Post-Graduate College, October 27th, 1910 / by Sir Lauder Brunton.
Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.Date: 1910