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Trypanosoma brucei brucei

An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies / By John Arbuthnot.

Immunoflourescence: Trypanosome brucei brucei

Flagellum of Trypanosoma brucei brucei

Chinese woodcut: Abscess obstructing the throat

Paediatric finger diagnosis chart: Fishbone vein pattern

Trypanosoma brucei brucei

Evolution and disease / by J. Bland Sutton ; with 136 illustrations.

Galens art of physick : wherein is laid down, 1. A description of bodies, healthful, unhealthful, and neutral. 2. Signs of good and bad constitutions. 3. Signs of the brain, heart, liver, testicles, temperature, lungues, stomach, &c. being too hot, cold, dry, moist, hot and dry, hot and moist, cold and dry, cold and moist. 4. Signs and causes of sickness. With many other excellent things, the particulars of which, the table of chapters will specifie. Translated into English, and largely commented on. Together with convenient medicines for al [sic] particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their condition, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them. By Nich. Culpeper, gent. student in physick and astrology.

Clinical report on dropsies : with observations explanatory of their pathology and therapeutics ; with an appendix on the theory and treatment of organic disease in general / by Robert Venables.

The store-house of physical practice : being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies : together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them, by method, medicine and diet : to which is added, for the benefit of young practicers, several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians / by John Pechey.

Revelations of Egyptian mysteries : history of the Creation, the causes and the progress of the degeneration of nature, the conflagration and manner of the resurrection of the world, as allegorically represented by the Egyptian philosophy: showing the justice of the inculcations of the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, teaching that salt was fatally hurtful to human nature : with a discourse on the maintenance and acquisition of health, on principles in accordance with the wisdom of the ancients / by Robert Howard.

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Diseases - Causes and theories of causation

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Evolution and disease / by J. Bland Sutton ; with 136 illustrations.

Clinical report on dropsies : with observations explanatory of their pathology and therapeutics ; with an appendix on the theory and treatment of organic disease in general / by Robert Venables.

Diseases - Causes and theories of causation

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Evolution and disease / by J. Bland Sutton ; with 136 illustrations.

Clinical report on dropsies : with observations explanatory of their pathology and therapeutics ; with an appendix on the theory and treatment of organic disease in general / by Robert Venables.

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