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Pyaemia, 239

Qualities, the Four Primary, 33-4

Quarantine, 173, 182, 194, 197

Quetelet, Lambert (1796-1874), 168

Quinine, 281-2, 326, 330, 332

Radcliffe Infirmary, 296

Radiography, 245

Ragusa, 81

Raphael, 83

Réaumur, René Antoine de (1683-1757), 146-7, 148

Reed, W. (1851-1902), 279

Registration Act (1838), 195

Research, Method and Meaning of, 135

Respiration, 151-6, 205

Reymond, E. Du Bois-, (1818-96), 151

Rhazes of Basra (860-932), 67, 70

Rheumatism, 98, 358-9

Rhubarb, 323

Rickets, 181, 312, 313

Rochester, Minn., 248

Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad (1845-1923), 244-5

Röntgen Rays, 244-5

Rokitansky, Karl (1804-78), 158-9

Roman Empire: Medical Teaching, 41-4; Medical Services, 45-8; Hospitals, 48-50

Ross, Ronald (1857-), 283

Roux, Pierre (1853-), 263

Royal Society, 104, 118, 124, 167

Rush, Benjamin (1745-1813), 171-2

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