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Medicine, Popular - Early works to 1800

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  • Medical extracts: on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / By a friend to improvements [R.J. Thornton].
  • Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.
  • Medical extracts: on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / By a friend to improvements [R.J. Thornton].
  • Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.
  • Medical cautions : chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases, the dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, an enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, on quacks, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.
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    Proposals for printing a medicinal dictionary : designed as a body of physic and surgery both with regard to theory and practice. Compiled from the best writers ancient and modern: with useful observations. Illustrated with copper plates. / By R. James, M.D.

    James, R. (Robert), 1703?-1776 | Date: [1741]
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    Advertisement : There is lately found out at Norwood in the Parish of Croydod, in the country of Surry, at Biggen Farm, at Richard Jacksons, an excellent purging water.

    | Date: [1675?]
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    Approved medicines of little cost, to preserve health and also to cure those that are sick : provided for the souldiers knap-sack, and the country mans closet. Written by Richard Elkes Gent. Student in the art of physick, living at Bagshot in the county of Surry.

    Elkes, Richard | Date: 1651
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    At the Golden-Ball in Duke-Street in the Old-Artillery without Bishops gate, advice & medicines may be had of J. Spinke, physician.

    Spinke, John | Date: [1700?]
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    Advertisement of a powder which is a most safe and speedy help for the stone and gravel, and those miseries which attend them : as pain in the back, stoppage of urine, cholick, &c. of which, in short, take this impartial account.

    | Date: [1700?]
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