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Jan bondesons most popular book is a cabinet of medical curiosities. You can find an entire chart for arm pain or something like that, then you can check out possible diseases. The 1980s book series that literally claimed it had to be. A very interesting catalogue of some of the greatest medical mysteries and curiosities of our time. In this book he clearly shows that much of what we think in terms of medical advancement is lacking. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or anything else.

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