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is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It describes itself as the oldest continuously published medical journal in the world.

The seal ("little signature") of the Massachusetts Medical Society is a figure of Aesculapius in his proper habit pointing to a wounded hart nipping the herb proper for his cure, with the motto ...