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Editorial
. 2008 Dec;101(12):574-6.
doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2008.080337.

Sudden whitening of the hair: an historical fiction?

Anne-Marie Skellett, George W M Millington, Nick J Levell
Editorial

Sudden whitening of the hair: an historical fiction?

Anne-Marie Skellett et al. J R Soc Med. 2008 Dec.
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The first page of the Vilna Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot, folio 2a
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Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1779, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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