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Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al biuo por Christoual Acosta ... En el qual se verifica mucho de lo que escriuio el doctor Garcia de Orta / [Cristóbal Acosta].

Of the spleen, its description and history, uses and diseases, particularly the vapors, with their remedy. Being a lecture read at the Royal College of Physicians, London, 1722. To which is added some anatomical observations in the dissection of an elephant / [William Stukeley].

An elephant and figure with a halo alongside numbers and shapes

Observations on the manners, habits and natural history, of the elephant / By John Corse.

The elephants : die Rüssel-Tiere, Proboscidea, Sslonn(u) : (a zoological mnemonic) / by Richard John Anderson.

Lac-elephantis, or, medicated milk of elephants : an effectual cure for debility, seminal-weakness, gleets, impotency, spasmodic stricture, blindness, and the venereal disease, in both sexes : with a plain prescription, whereby all persons affected by impure connexion, can radically cure themselves for five shillings, the first day : under the caveat of government, to guard youth against ignorant pretenders, and pretended institutions, for curing these complaints / by P. Campbell.

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Elephants

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An elephant and figure with a halo alongside numbers and shapes

Observations on the manners, habits and natural history, of the elephant / By John Corse.

The elephants : die Rüssel-Tiere, Proboscidea, Sslonn(u) : (a zoological mnemonic) / by Richard John Anderson.

Of the spleen, its description and history, uses and diseases, particularly the vapors, with their remedy. Being a lecture read at the Royal College of Physicians, London, 1722. To which is added some anatomical observations in the dissection of an elephant / [William Stukeley].