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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleAmong his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the causes of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Finger, Stanley,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2006
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 45 illus.
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