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Primary Source​s

Alighieri, Dante, Robert Hollander, and Jean Hollander. Inferno. New York: Doubleday, 2000.

Charcot, J. M., and George Sigerson. Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System. Second Series. New York: Hafner          Pub., 1962.

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