Consumption, why so fatal? : What are the means by which it can be prevented in those predisposed to, and its progress arrested in those already affected with it? The above queries solved in a manner intelligible to every reader, experience and common sense furnishing the solutions. / By John Tyrrell.

  • Tyrrell, John.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Consumption, why so fatal? : What are the means by which it can be prevented in those predisposed to, and its progress arrested in those already affected with it? The above queries solved in a manner intelligible to every reader, experience and common sense furnishing the solutions. / By John Tyrrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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