Trigeminal Neuralgia: Disease Characterization and Prediction of Response to Surgical Intervention

André N. Observations pratiques sur les maladies de l’urethre, et sur plusieurs faits convulsifs, & la guérison de plusieurs maladies chirurgicales avec la décomposition d’un remede propre à réprimer la dissolution gangréneuse & cancéreuse, & à la réparer; avec des principes qui pourront servir à employer les différens caustiques. Par m. André, .. chez Delaguette, imprimeur du Collége & de l’Acad. Roy. de chir. rue S. Jacques, à l’Olivier; 1756.

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