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Joseph Colt Bloodgood

Born  1866
Died  1935

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American physician, 1866-1935.

Biography of Joseph Colt Bloodgood

Bibliography

  • The pathology of chronic cystic mastitis of the female breast, with special consideration of the blue-dome cyst.
    Archives of Surgery, Chicago, 1921, 3: 445-452.
    Cooper’s disease I.
  • Senile parenchymatous hypertrophy of female breast.
    Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Chicago, 1906, 3: 721-730.
    Bloodgood’s theory of the causation of chronic mastitis.

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