The history of ruptures, and rupture-curers, etc ... Occasion'd by a letter from a physician at Paris, to a physician at London, concerning a new and never-failing way of curing all sorts of ruptures ... by an infallible remedy, a secret. With a genuine receipt of the whole secret ... as also of a famous stiptick ... / By R[obert] H[ouston], M.D., F.R.S.
- Houston, Robert, -1734.
- Date:
- 1726 [i.e. 1727]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of ruptures, and rupture-curers, etc ... Occasion'd by a letter from a physician at Paris, to a physician at London, concerning a new and never-failing way of curing all sorts of ruptures ... by an infallible remedy, a secret. With a genuine receipt of the whole secret ... as also of a famous stiptick ... / By R[obert] H[ouston], M.D., F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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