William Cullen (1710-1790) and Robert Whytt (1714-1766) on the nervous system

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 85-98

  Rocca, Julius ^a  

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