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Notes

  1. Bernard (1957).

  2. Bernard (1947).

  3. Spiro (1985).

  4. Kostis (2008).

  5. Moskowitz (1983).

  6. Oliver (1982).

  7. Ibid.

  8. Feinstein et al. (1994).

  9. Ibid.

  10. Love (1982).

  11. Simon (2002).

  12. Ibid.

  13. Ibid., p. 365.

  14. Ibid., p. 366.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Thompson et al. (2004).

  17. Ibid.

  18. Kannell and Abbott (1984).

  19. Adlin (1998).

  20. Medical Tribune (1992).

  21. Ibid.

  22. Medical World News (1988).

  23. Cholesterol Screening in Children (1923).

  24. Lipid Controversy Builds Up (1992).

  25. Love (1997).

  26. Lown (2006).

  27. Hippocrates, Epidemics, Book I, Section 2, par.xi.

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Based on an article published in the American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 102: Spring 2009.

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Moskowitz, R. Diagnosis. Medicine Studies 2, 121–137 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12376-010-0043-3

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