MR. BURKITT AND AFRICA.
by Glemser, Bernard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a good dj (spine label)
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: World Publishing Co.,, (1970). Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a good dj (spine label). First printing. An account of the discovery by an Irish doctor working in Uganda of a previously undiagnosed form of cancer which was killing children in Africa - and his search for an effective treatment for it. At the time this book was written the cure rate for Burkitt's lymphoma was greater than 60%; it is now 85-90%. Map, photographs. xii, 236 pp.
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- Seller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 86588
- Title
- MR. BURKITT AND AFRICA.
- Author
- Glemser, Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a good dj (spine label)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- World Publishing Co.,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1970)
- Keywords
- Burkitt's lymphoma, cancer,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine, health and the medical profession;
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