Jacob Mendez Da Costa - bibliography

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Biography

American internist, born February 7, 1833, St. Thomas, West Indies; died 1900.

Bibliography

  • Medical Diagnosis, with special reference to practical medicine.
    Philadelphia, JB Lippincott, 1864.
  • Address before the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, June 27, 1893.
    Boston, G. H. Ellis, 1893.
  • J. C. Wilson:
    Memoir of J M Da Costa. Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Third Series, 1902, 24: 82-92.
  • M. A. Clark:
    Memoir of J M Da Costa.
    American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1903, 125: 318-329.
  • C. F. Wooley:
  • Jacob Mendez Da Costa: Medical teacher, clinician, and clinical investigator.
    The American Journal of Cardiology, 1982, 50: 1145-1148.
  • Desmond G. Julian:
    Jacob Mendez Da Costa. Journal of Medical Biography, 1993, 1 (4): 248-252.

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