The ethnology of the sixth sense : studies and researches into its abuses, perversions, follies, anomalies, and crimes / by Dr. Jacobus X.

  • X, Jacobus
Date:
1899
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Credit: The ethnology of the sixth sense : studies and researches into its abuses, perversions, follies, anomalies, and crimes / by Dr. Jacobus X. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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