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Pages: 250
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Language: en
Pages: 356
Pages: 356
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07-01 - Publisher: JHU Press
While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a “disease of the soul,” physicians in the period understood it to be a “cancer of the whole body.�
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-14 - Publisher: Liveright Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 247
Pages: 247
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