Apologia chyrurgica. A vindication of the noble art of chyrurgery, from the gross abuses offer'd thereunto by mountebanks, quacks, barbers, pretending bone-setters, etc. ... / [Daniel Turner].

  • Daniel Turner
Date:
1695
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Credit: Apologia chyrurgica. A vindication of the noble art of chyrurgery, from the gross abuses offer'd thereunto by mountebanks, quacks, barbers, pretending bone-setters, etc. ... / [Daniel Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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