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People/Characters: Sir William Osler
Important places: McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Montréal, Québec, Canada; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Genres: Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature, History
DDC/MDS: 610.92 — Applied Science & Technology Medicine & health Medicine and health History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
LCC: R489 .O7 .C8 — Medicine Medicine (General) History of medicine. Medical expeditions
BISAC: SCI SCIENCE Life Sciences Botany

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Published: 1956
Genres: Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature, History
DDC/MDS: 610.92
LCC: R489 .O7 .C8

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