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A Protocol of Manual Tests to Measure Sensation and Pain in Humans

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Linda L Emanuel^1,2, Martin J Hatlie³, Vicki Jackson^4,5

¹Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

Journal of Palliative Medicine

|September 7, 2017

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