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Page 268 - Summary of the Transactions of the Co'llege of Physicians of Philadelphia. From May 18th, 1870, to Feb.
Page 290 - THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES, EDITED BY ISAAC HAYS, MD, is published Quarterly, on the first of January, April, July, and October. Each number contains at least two hundred and eighty large octavo pages, handsomely and appropriately illustrated, wherever necessary.
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