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Library of Congress
Catalog card No. 82-84067
Dickson, Murray
Where there is no dentist.
Includes index.
Berkeley, CA: Hesperian Foundation
ISBN: 978-0-942364-05-7
First edition, November 1983
15th printing (updated), July 2012
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