The 'Regiment of Skeletons': A first world war medical collection

Social History of Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 108-133

  Alberti, Samuel J M M ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

military medicine; museums; pathology; Royal College of Surgeons of England

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929168229     PISSN: 0951631X     EISSN: 14774666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hku038     Document Type: Review

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