Observations on the cure of gonorrhoea, : and some other effects of the venereal virus. / By Samuel Foart Simmons, M. D. F. R. S. Member of the College of Physicians, London; and of the Royal Medical Society at Paris.

  • Simmons, Samuel Foart, 1750-1813.
Date:
M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]
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Credit: Observations on the cure of gonorrhoea, : and some other effects of the venereal virus. / By Samuel Foart Simmons, M. D. F. R. S. Member of the College of Physicians, London; and of the Royal Medical Society at Paris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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