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Guaiac

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  • The preparation of the medicine guaiacum from a tree (right), and a man in bed suffering from syphilis, drinking a decoction of the medicine (left). Line engraving by P. Galle after J. van der Straet.
  • The preparation of the medicine guaiacum from a tree (right), and a man in bed suffering from syphilis, drinking a decoction of the medicine (left). Line engraving by P. Galle after J. van der Straet.
  • The preparation of the medicine guaiacum from a tree (right), and a man in bed suffering from syphilis, drinking a decoction of the medicine (left). Line engraving by P. Galle after J. van der Straet.
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    De morbo Gallico·.

    Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523 | Date: M.D.XXXIII. [1533] Cum priuilegio
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    The preparation of the medicine guaiacum from a tree (right), and a man in bed suffering from syphilis, drinking a decoction of the medicine (left). Line engraving by P. Galle after J. van der Straet.

    Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605. | Date: [1600?] | Reference: 5444i
    Part of: Nova reperta
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    On the guaiacum process for the detection of blood in medico-legal cases : the antozone test / by Alfred S. Taylor.

    Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880. | Date: 1868
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    Vlrichi de Hutten De guaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus.

    Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523. | Date: Anno Virginei partus. M.D.XXI. [1521]
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    Of the vvood called guaiacum : that healeth the frenche pockes, and also helpeth the goute in the feete, the stone, palsey, lepre, dropsy, fallynge euyll, and other diseses. Made in latyn by Vlrich Hutten knyght, and translated in to englysh by Thomas Paynel.

    Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523 | Date: Anno .M.D.XL. [1540]
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