A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgery. Wherin is exactly set down the definitions, causes, accidents, prognostications and cures of all sorts of diseases ... Whereunto is added the rule of making remedies which chyrurgions doe commonly use, with The Presages [and Oath] of divine Hippocrates / [Peter Lowe].

Peter Lowe

Date:: 1654 [i. e. 1655]

Credit: A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgery. Wherin is exactly set down the definitions, causes, accidents, prognostications and cures of all sorts of diseases ... Whereunto is added the rule of making remedies which chyrurgions doe commonly use, with The Presages [and Oath] of divine Hippocrates / [Peter Lowe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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