Gentleman's magazine, the advent of medical electricity, and disorders of the nervous system

Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 257-270

  Locke, Hannah Sypher ^a   Finger, Stanley ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-70967-3_19     Document Type: Chapter

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