Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 2 of 2Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)
History
Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 2 of 2
Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas)
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History; Physicians -- Great Britain
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=Plodding On: or, The Jog-trot to= Fame and Fortune. Illustrated by
the Life-Stories of
GEORGE PEABODY,
JOHN KITTO,
ROBERT CHAMBERS,
CHARLES KNIGHT,
HUGH MILLER,
GEORGE ROMNEY,
M. W. WATSON,
THOMAS BRASSEY,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By HENRY CURWEN, Author of “A History of Booksellers,” etc.
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