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A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd ... with a competent number of medicines for every stage / By Peter Shaw.

Peter Shaw

Date:: 1738

Credit: A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd ... with a competent number of medicines for every stage / By Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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