Observations on the nature and properties of fixible air : and on the salutary effects of the aqua salubris, in preserving health, and preventing diseases : to which are added, strictures on the present practice of physic, pointing out the causes which greatly obstruct the improvement of the healing art / By John Melvill.
- Melvill, John.
- Date:
- [1787]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the nature and properties of fixible air : and on the salutary effects of the aqua salubris, in preserving health, and preventing diseases : to which are added, strictures on the present practice of physic, pointing out the causes which greatly obstruct the improvement of the healing art / By John Melvill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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