The biology of the internal secretions : the endocrine factor in development, in subnormalities, in neoplasms and malignancy, in nervous and mental diseases and in heredity / by Francis X. Dercum.

  • Dercum, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931.
Date:
1924
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Credit: The biology of the internal secretions : the endocrine factor in development, in subnormalities, in neoplasms and malignancy, in nervous and mental diseases and in heredity / by Francis X. Dercum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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