Remarks on the uses of some of the bazaar medicines and common medical plants of India : with a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India : to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites, &c / by Edward John Waring.
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on the uses of some of the bazaar medicines and common medical plants of India : with a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India : to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites, &c / by Edward John Waring. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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