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- ↑ Adel Omrani et al, Ibn Imran's 10th century Treatise on Melancholy, Journal of Affective Disorders 141 (2012), pp.116-9.
- ↑ Angus Gowland, Burton's Anatomy and the Intellectual Traditions of Melancholy, Revue Babel 25 (2012), pp.221-57.
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