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Remarks on hydrophobia, or, The disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal / by Robert Hamilton, M.D. member of the Royal College of Physicians, London; of the Royal Medical and Physical Societies, Edinburgh, of the Medical Society, London; and late physician to the Army. In two volumes.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1749-1830.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Remarks on hydrophobia, or, The disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal / by Robert Hamilton, M.D. member of the Royal College of Physicians, London; of the Royal Medical and Physical Societies, Edinburgh, of the Medical Society, London; and late physician to the Army. In two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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