Language
en
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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Chris Curnow, Eleni Christofaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2013-09-28
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1862–1943
A British physician, pharmacist, and popular writer, he turned medical history, old remedies, poisons, and even magic into lively reading for a wide audience. His books mix scholarship with curiosity, making the strange corners of science and folklore feel wonderfully close at hand.
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