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| Title | The Hunterian Oration: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on the 14th of February, 1879 Hunterian oration |
| Author | Sir George Murray Humphry |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1879 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 6 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 38 pages |
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