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George Baehr

Born  1887
Died  1978

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American physician, 1887–1978

Biography of George Baehr

Bibliography

  • Paul Klemperer, G. Baehr, and A. D. Pollack:
    Diffuse collagen disease; acute disseminated lupus erythematosus and diffuse scleroderma.
    Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 1942, 119: 331-332.
    Klemperer, Pollack and Baehr combined a number of diseases, hitherto regarded as unrelated, into an entity which they termed diffuse collagen disease.

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