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. 1999 Dec;319(7225):1636-9.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7225.1636.

Medicine in Ulster in relation to the great famine and "the troubles"

P Froggatt

Medicine in Ulster in relation to the great famine and "the troubles"

P Froggatt. BMJ. 1999 Dec.
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Many doctors died of “epidemic or contagious diseases” during the great famine (1846-51)
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