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John Birch

English surgeon

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  • An essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice of entertaining / by George Adams.
  • An essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice of entertaining / by George Adams.

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  • John Birch. Line engraving by C. Lewis after T. Phillips.
  • A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).
  • A monster being fed baskets of infants and excreting them with horns; symbolising vaccination and its effects. Etching by C. Williams, 1802(?).

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    An essay on electricity : explaining the principles of that useful science, and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice entertaining : illustrated with six plates. To which is added, a letter to the author, from Mr. John Birch, surgeon, on the subject of medical electricity / by the late George Adams.

    George Adams Jr. | Date: 1799
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    An essay on the medical application of electricity.

    John Birch | Date: 1803
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    Considerations on the efficacy of electricity, in removing female obstructions : to which is now added a description of the manner of applying it / by John Birch, surgeon.

    John Birch | Date: 1780
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    Serious reasons for uniformly objecting to the practice of vaccination : in answere to the report of the Jennerian Society, etc.

    John Birch | Date: 1806
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    An essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice of entertaining / by George Adams.

    George Adams Jr. | Date: 1792
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