BLACK’S MEDICAL DICTIONARY 41ST EDITION

Edited by

Dr Harvey Marcovitch

A & C Black • London

41st edition published 2005

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ISBN 0–7136–6146–1

eISBN-13: 978-1-4081-0419-4

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In its earlier editions Black’s Medical Dictionary was edited by:

J. D. Comrie, MD—first to seventeenth editions, 1906–1942

H. A. Clegg, FRCP—eighteenth edition, 1944

W. A. R. Thomson, MD—nineteenth to thirty-fourth editions, 1948–1984

C. W. H. Havard, FRCP—thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth editions, 1987 and 1990

G. Macpherson, MB, BS—thirty-seventh to fortieth editions, 1992–2002

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