Volume 1
Praxis medicinæ, or, the physicians practise: wherein are contained all inward diseases from the head to the foot. Explaining the nature of each disease, with the part affected: and also the signes, causes, and prognostiques, and likewise what temperature of the ayre is most requisite for the patients abode, with direction for the diet he ought to obserue, together with experimentall cures for euery disease. Practised and approued of and now published for the good, not onely of physicians, chirurgions, and apothecaries, but very meete and profitable for all such which are solicitous of their health and welfare / [Walter Bruel].
- Bruele, Gualtherus
- Date:
- 1632
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Praxis medicinæ, or, the physicians practise: wherein are contained all inward diseases from the head to the foot. Explaining the nature of each disease, with the part affected: and also the signes, causes, and prognostiques, and likewise what temperature of the ayre is most requisite for the patients abode, with direction for the diet he ought to obserue, together with experimentall cures for euery disease. Practised and approued of and now published for the good, not onely of physicians, chirurgions, and apothecaries, but very meete and profitable for all such which are solicitous of their health and welfare / [Walter Bruel]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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