Remembering the famous and forgotten in medicine.

Anesth Analg

From the Departments of Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Pharmacology, Emergency Medicine, Community Health and Epidemiology, and Medical Humanities, Dalhousie University, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Published: November 2014

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