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. 2009 Oct 8;32(11):E82–E83. doi: 10.1002/clc.20388

Claudius Galen of Pergamum: Authority of Medieval Medicine

Joseph B Fullerton 1, Mark E Silverman 1,
PMCID: PMC6653675  PMID: 19816988

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