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Stephen Coleridge

1916 | Vivisection, A Heartless Science



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Source DocumentsStephen Coleridge, Vivisection, A Heartless Science London & New York, 1916; Digitized by Google, 2007).


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[1854-1936] Stephen Coleridge
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