Late Modern English Medical Texts 1700–1800: A corpus for analysing eighteenth-century medical English

Irma Taavitsainen; Turo Hiltunen; Anu Lehto; Ville Marttila; Päivi Pahta; Maura Ratia; Carla Suhr; Jukka Tyrkkö

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Late Modern English Medical Texts 1700–1800: A corpus for analysing eighteenth-century medical English

ICAME Journal

Volume 38 (2014): Issue 1 (April 2014)

By: Irma Taavitsainen, Turo Hiltunen, Anu Lehto, Ville Marttila, Päivi Pahta, Maura Ratia, Carla Suhr and Jukka Tyrkkö

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