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Med Hist. 2003 October; 47(4): 493–516.
PMCID: PMC1044666
The Mexican response to high altitudes in the 1890s: the case of a physician and his "magic mountain".
Ana Cecilia Rodríguez de Romo and José Rogelio Pérez Padilla
Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UNAM, Brasil 33, CP 06020, Mexico City.
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