Collections of acute diseases ... I. Of the smallpox and measles. II. Of the plague and pestilential fevers. III. Of continued fevers. IV. Of agues, a pleurisy, peripneumonia, quinsey, and the cholera morbus. V. ... of the bloody-flux, miscarriage, of acute diseases of women with child, etc / [John Pechey].

John Pechey

Date:: 1691

Credit: Collections of acute diseases ... I. Of the smallpox and measles. II. Of the plague and pestilential fevers. III. Of continued fevers. IV. Of agues, a pleurisy, peripneumonia, quinsey, and the cholera morbus. V. ... of the bloody-flux, miscarriage, of acute diseases of women with child, etc / [John Pechey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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