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Medicine - Humor - Early works to 1800

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    A Modest examination of a late pamphlet entituled, Apollo mathematicus.

    | Date: 1696
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    Doctor merry-man: or nothing but mirth. Written by S.R.

    | Samuel Rowlands | Date: 1642
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    A notable and prodigious historie of a mayden : who for sundry yeeres neither eateth, drinketh, nor sleepeth, neyther auoydeth any excrements, and yet liueth. A matter sufficiently opened and auerred, by the proceedings, examinations, and dilligent informations thereof, taken ex officio by the magistrate. And since by the order of the said magistrate printed and published in high Dutch, and after in French, and nowe lastlie translated into English. 1589.

    | Date: Anno. M.D.LXXXIX. [1589]
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    Doctor merry-man: or, nothing but mirth. Written by S.R.

    | Samuel Rowlands | Date: 1671
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    The triumvirate Or, The battel among physicians. As it is now acted in the cities of London and Westminster. Being a serious conference between Scaramouch and Harlequin. By Momophilus Carthusiensis.

    | Mead, Richard 1673-1754. | Date: 1719

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