The lancet and the gum-lancet: 400 years of teething babies

Lancet

Volumn 348, Issue 9043, 1996, Pages 1710-1711

  Dally, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEVER; GINGIVA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INCISION; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF MEDICATION; SHORT SURVEY; TOOTH ERUPTION;

EID: 0030597509     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)05105-7     Document Type: Note

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