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TO our readers the announcement of the death of this distinguished physiologist will come with surprise. To those who knew Preyer it might have seemed as if he, with that appearance of overflowing vigour, might have looked forward to a long lease of life. It was otherwise, for Preyer died at the comparatively early age of fifty-six of Bright's disease.
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Thierry William Preyer. Nature 56, 296 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056296a0
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