A cheap, sure, and ready guide to health, or, A cure for a disease call'd the doctor : instructing, how to prevent being cheated and destroyed by the exactions and unmerciful usage of ignorant and oppressive physicians and apothecaries : and to prepare at home the proper medicines for usual distempers : with the prices, to save ninteen shillings in twenty, and expend little more than a penny a dose : likewise a new account of the connection of distempers, key to all physic, and to know any disease / set forth by the benefaction of a very worthy private gentleman, to contain more than any book of the kind, at the lowest rate, as necessary for all families, and all persons.

Date:
1742
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A cheap, sure, and ready guide to health, or, A cure for a disease call'd the doctor : instructing, how to prevent being cheated and destroyed by the exactions and unmerciful usage of ignorant and oppressive physicians and apothecaries : and to prepare at home the proper medicines for usual distempers : with the prices, to save ninteen shillings in twenty, and expend little more than a penny a dose : likewise a new account of the connection of distempers, key to all physic, and to know any disease / set forth by the benefaction of a very worthy private gentleman, to contain more than any book of the kind, at the lowest rate, as necessary for all families, and all persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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