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Currus triumphalis, è terebinthô, or, An account of the many admirable vertues of oleum terebinthinæ : more particularly, of the good effects produced by its application to recent wounds, especially with respect to the hemorrhagies of the veins, and arteries, and the no less pernicious weepings of the nerves, and lymphaducts : wherein also, the common methods, and medicaments, used to restrain hemorrhagies, are examined, and divers of them censured : and lastly, a new way of amputation, and a speedier convenient method of curing stumps, than that commonly practised, is with divers other useful matters recommended to the military chirurgeon, in two letters : the one to his most honoured, James Pearse, Esq, chirurgeon to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and chirurgeon general to His Majestie's Navy Royal : the other, to Mr. Thomas Hobbs, chirurgeon in London / by James Yonge.
Yonge, James, 1647-1721Date: 1679- Books
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London's medicinal-informer : Containing, I. A brief enquiry into the ancient state of the practices of physick and surgery in the world. II. The present state of those professions in London. III. Quacks rightly distinguish'd from other practicers; characteris'd, and chastiz'd. IV. The venereal disease in its cause, nature, signes, dangerous effects; best most cheap, easy, safe, and private methods of cure, truly represented; in order to prevent peoples being ruin'd either by that disease, of by unskilful pretenders to its cure. / By a London physician.
London physicianDate: 1710- Books
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A most excellent and learned vvoorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci : Lanfranke of Mylayne his briefe: reduced from dyuers translations to our vulgar or vsuall frase, and now first published in the Englyshe prynte by Iohn Halle chirurgien. Who hath thervnto necessarily annexed. A table, as wel of the names of diseases and simples with their vertues, as also of all other termes of the arte opened. ... And in the ende a compendious worke of anatomie ... An historiall expostulation also against the beastly abusers, both of chyrurgerie and phisicke in our tyme: with a goodly doctrine, and instruction, necessary to be marked and folowed of all true chirurgie[n]s. All these faithfully gathered, and diligently set forth, by the sayde Iohn Halle.
Lanfranco, of Milan, active 13th centuryDate: An. 1565
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Observations de chirurgie pratique / par M. Chabert.
Chabert, Philibert, active 1669-1703.Date: M.D.CCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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The vvhole art of chyrurgery : being the theorique and practique of the same. Briefely composed for the benefit of those that are solicitous of their [h]ealths in these dangerous times: but more especially for those that delight in the knowledge of the worthy profession of physicke and chyrurgerie. By Ed. Edw. D. Phys.
Edwards, Edward, doctor in physickDate: 1639