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The reputed antipyretic action of camphor

E M BOYD, K G W SEYMOUR

    Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (New York, N.Y.)
    |October 29, 2010
    PubMed
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    Keywords:
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