The last alcoholic days of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

JAMA

Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan, 100 Simpson Institute, Box 0724, 100 Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0725, USA.

Published: May 2009

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