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Dates:
1941
Abstract:
This is a biographical sketch of Dercum, who was a specialist in neurology and president of the American Philosophical Society (1927-1981). Dercum practiced medicine in Philadelphia and made the first contribution to understanding adiposis dolorosa, or Dercum's disease. This essay was presented before the Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases of the American Medical Association, in Cleaveland, June 4, 1941.
Call #:
Mss.B.D448t
Extent:
1 volume(s)
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