Intermarriage: or, the mode in which, and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity, from others ... / [Alexander Walker].

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852
Date:
1842
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Intermarriage: or, the mode in which, and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity, from others ... / [Alexander Walker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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