Medical botany : a course of lectures delivered at Sussex Hall, during 1850 / by A.I. Coffin.

  • Albert Isaiah Coffin
Date:
[1851?]
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Credit: Medical botany : a course of lectures delivered at Sussex Hall, during 1850 / by A.I. Coffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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