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American Journal of the Medical Sciences: The Official Journal of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation : an International Journal of Biomedical Research. (1850). United States: Lippincott Williams &
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Brussels in two rooms. He operated until a typhoid fever epidemic in February 1848 caused overcrowding. Soon after, the Provincial Ophthalmic Institute of Brabant was established and opened on 10 September 1849, on
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Inheritance in Man: Catalogs of Autosomal Dominant, Autosomal Recessive, and X-linked Phenotypes. United Kingdom: Johns Hopkins University
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In 1849, while working as a surgeon at the
Ophthalmic Institute in Brussels, he published a memoir detailing his work at the Ophthalmic Dispensary and describing the contagious
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Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London .... United Kingdom: The Society.
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de Abrêu, A. S. (1845). Compte-rendu de la clinique ophthalmologique de M. le docteur Cunier, pendant l'année 1844. Belgium: Muquardt.
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Kluyskens, H. (1859). Des hommes célèbres dans les sciences et les arts, et des médailles qui consacrent leur souvenir. Belgium: éditeur inconnu.
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Bulletin de l'Academie de médecine. (1843). France: G. Masson, Editeur, Libraire de l'Académie de médecine.
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Cunier, F. (1837). Doctrine médicale de
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Annales de médecine belge et étrangère. (1837). Belgium: Société encyclographique des sciences médicales.
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Journal des connaissances médicales pratiques et de pharmacologie. (1838). France: (n.p.).
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in August 1838, split into separate publications in 1839, with Dr. Cunier focusing on his international
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Journal de médecine, de chirurgie et de pharmacologie. (1853). Belgium: Henri
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from the Emperor of Brazil. He was an honorary member of the
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327:Dispensary
250:Nieuwpoort
198:humanities
66:1853-04-20
455:Neuchâtel
315:optometry
272:veratrine
202:Charleroi
160:Biography
148:physician
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171:Beloeil
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