Medical misconceptions - Early works to 1800
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Iacobi Primirosii, Doctoris Medici, de vulgi in medicinâ erroribus libri quatuor : Lib. I. De erroribus circa medicos. Lib. II. De erroribus circa morbos quosdam & eorum curationem. Lib. III. De erroribus circa victûs rationem sanorum, & ægrorum. Lib. IV. De erroribus circa remediorum usum.
James PrimroseDate: 1638- Books
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Popular errours, Or the errours of the people in physick, first written in Latine by the learned physitian James Primrose Doctor in Physick. Divided into foure bookes. viz. 1. The first treating concerning physicians. 2. The second of the errours about some diseases, and the knowledge of them. 3. The third of the errours about the diet; as well of the sound as of the sick. 4. The fourth of the errours of the people about the use of remedies. Profitable and necessary to be read of all. To which is added by the same authour his verdict concerning the antimoniall cuppe. Translated into English by Robert Wittie Doctor in Physick.
James PrimroseDate: 1651- Books
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Observations in chyrurgery and anatomy : With a refutation of divers mistakes and vulgar errors in chyrurgery and anatomy. In which the many absurdities, gross errors, and ignorance of some great pretenders are display'd. Written chiefly for the benefit of young tyroes and students in chyrurgery. By James Young chyrurgeon.
James YongeDate: 1692- Books
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The true relation of two wonderfull sleepers : The one a woman in the little old Baily, her name Elizabeth Iefkins, who to the great admiration of the beholders, did sleep from Munday about 4 in the afternoone, July 25. untill the Saturday following, being August the first, at which time she dyed, with a particular relation of the strange passages during the time of her sleep, and the manner of her death. The other, being a man in Gravell-lane, by name John Underwood, hath already slept full nine dayes and nights, and doth still continue sleeping, with the most wonderfull manner of it.
Date: 1646