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Vet Comp Orthop Traumatol 1988; 01(01): 9-12
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1633156
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Historical Editorial – Nonunion

To Heal or not to Heal –
G. Sumner-Smith
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“Why is my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, which refuseth to heal?” Jeremiah XV. 18.

 

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