Is chicken soup an essential drug?

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 161, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1532-1533

  Ohry, Abraham ^a   Tsafrir, Jenni ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLUID THERAPY; NOMENCLATURE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0033554809     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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