Treatments for bubonic plague: Reports from seventeenth century British epidemics

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 322-324

  Holland, Bart K ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMETIC AGENT;

BEZOAR; EPIDEMIC; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; PLAGUE; SHORT SURVEY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034130697     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014107680009300616     Document Type: Short Survey

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