To Stamp Out "So Terrible a Malady": Bovine Tuberculosis and Tuberculin Testing in Britain, 1890-1939

Medical History

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-48

  Waddington, Keir ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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