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  • Christi eiusque Matris Pietate servata : provisores salutis clodiae : si parte di questa città, per la iddio gratia, libera d'ogni mal contagioso gl'infrascritti per andar ... / Ioan. Bapt. Vianellus Not. Dep.
  • Janus head or two-faced man
  • The plague in Shakespeare's London / by F.P. Wilson.
  • The great plague in London in 1665 / by Walter George Bell with thirty illustrations comprising contemporary prints, plans, & drawings.
  • MONSTROSITY: Winged Monster. Ulisse Aldrovandi,
  • Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
  • Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
  • Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinis, Malabaricis, Arabicis, et Bramanum characteribus hominibusque expressas ... addita ... descriptione, qua ... praecipuae in medicina vires ... demonstrantur / Adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein [sic] et Johannem Casearium [vols. III-V, J. Munnicks, vol. VI, T.J. van Almeloveen] .... Notis adauxit et commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen [vols. II-XII, J. Commelinus]. [Vols. VII-XII, In ordinem redegit et Latinitate donavit Abrahamus a Poot].
  • Bando : essendosi dilatato il Male Contagioso anche in Neustat, e Praga, & in altre città della Germania, per la quale dilatazione da signori della Sanità di Venezia sono state bandite le dette città, e loro vicini ...  / G.M. Estense Tassoni.
  • Prohibitione di comercio di tutto il Trentino e de Siginori Griggioni : essendo ragguagliati li Signori Conservatori di Sanità per lettera del Magistrato della Sanità di Brescia in data delli 7. corrente che habbino havvuto li medesimi Signori di Brescia ordine da Venezia d'interdire come di fatto hanno interdetto il comercio de Signori Trentini, e Griggioni ... / G.M. Estense Tassoni.
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    Processo agli untori : Milano 1630, cronaca e atti giudiziari in edizione integrale / a cura di Giuseppe Farinelli e Ermanno Paccagnini.

    | Date: 1988
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    The seventeenth-century transformation of the hysteric affection, and Sydenham's Baconian medicine / Jeffrey M.N. Boss.

    Boss, Jeffrey M. N. | Date: 1979
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    The emergence of the social sciences, 1642-1792 / Richard Olson.

    Olson, Richard, 1940- | Date: [1993], ©1993
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    Vida y obra del Doctor Juan Gutiérrez de Godoy / [Fermín Palma Rodríguez].

    Palma Rodríguez, Fermín. | Date: 1967
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    René Goupil, surgeon : the first of the Jesuit martyrs / G.O. Prieur.

    Prieur, G. O. | Date: 1947
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