- ROKITANSKY, BARON
- eminent physician, born at Königgrätz, professor of Pathological Anatomy at Vienna, and founder of that department of medicine (1804-1878).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
ROKITANSKY, BARON
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