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Medicine and Medical Doctors

Author: Patrick Weston Joyce

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  1. The full text of the book is available in .PDF format on www.archive.org and in .HTML format on http://www.libraryireland.com/SocialHistoryAncientIreland/Contents.php.
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Patrick Weston Joyce Medicine and Medical Doctors in , Ed. Patrick Weston Joyce A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland. Longmans, Green, & Co., London; New York; Bombay, (1906) chapter 14

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Created: by Patrick Weston Joyce (1906)

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Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [GA] Many words are in Irish.
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