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A practical treatise on foreign bodies in the air-passages.

Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1854.

First systematic study of the subject. In this celebrated work Gross laid down principles concerning symptoms which are still fundamental, despite the advent of roentgenology.

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Entry Number#3264
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Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia