Copy 1, Volume 1
The physician's pulse-watch; or, an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch ... To which is added, an extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese art of feeling the pulse. (An appendic. I. An essay to make a new sphygmologia ... II. An inquiry into the nature ... of the respirations ... III. A letter concerning the rupture in the lungs) / [Sir John Floyer].
- John Floyer
- Date:
- 1707-1710
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The physician's pulse-watch; or, an essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch ... To which is added, an extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese art of feeling the pulse. (An appendic. I. An essay to make a new sphygmologia ... II. An inquiry into the nature ... of the respirations ... III. A letter concerning the rupture in the lungs) / [Sir John Floyer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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