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A prize medal of the Medical Society of London; on the front is Queen Charlotte and on reverse is Hygieia with a serpent. Engraving by R.G. Reeve.

The Medical Society of London: John Coakley Lettsom presenting to the society the deeds of 3 Bolt Court, City of London. Stipple engraving by N.C. Branwhite, 1801, after S. Medley, 1800.

Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. 1 / [John Coakley Lettsom].

Inaugural address delivered on the ninety-seventh anniversary of the Medical Society of London / by John Gay.

Introductory address delivered before the Medical Society of London on Monday, March 13, 1882 / by Francis Mason.

The Medical Society of London 1773-2003 / Penelope Hunting.

The Committee appointed by the Medical Society of London, to revise their laws, deliver in the following code, as appropriated to the plan of the Society / John Coakley Lettsom ; James Sims.

Incipit clarificatoriu[m] ioha[n]nis de tornamira super nono alma[n]soris cu[m] textu ipsius Rasis.

En postremum tibi damus, candide lector, Ioannis Manardi medici Ferrariensis, sua tempestate omnium medicinae professorum per uniuersam Italiam, in Galeni doctrina & Arabum censura celeberrimi, & optimè meriti, Epistolarum medicinaliu[m] libros XX. : è quibus ultimo duo in hac editione primu[m] accesserunt, unà cum epistola, iandudum desiderata, de morbis interioribus, quam utinam immatura morte non praeuentus, totam absoluere potuisset. Eiusdem in Ioan. Mesue de simplicia & composita annotationes & censur[a]e, omnibus practicae studiosis adeò necessariae, ut sine harum cognitione aegrotantibus recte consulere nemo possit. Adiecto indice Latino & Graeco, utroq[ue] copiosissimo.

De affectionibus cordis libri tres / Hannibalis Albertinii.

Paraphrasis, in nonum librum Rhazae medici Arabis clariss. ad Regem Almansorem, de singularu[m] corporis partium affectuum curatione, / autore Andrea Wesalio Bruxellensi Medicin[a]e candidato.

Le chirurgie françoise recueillie des antiens médecins et chirurgiens. Avec plusieurs figures des instrumens necesseres pour l'opération manuelle / Par Iacques Guillemeau.

Polypharmakos kai chymistēs: or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian : shewing the true use of all manner of plants and minerals. In which is explained, the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery. Wherein is contained, 1. The cure of any internal disease, which hath taken effect, and brought forth symptoms, ... 2. The making of diverse rare and excellent balsames, oyls, plaisters, and waters, with the effects thereof. 3. The making, and use of purges, vomits, drinks, and clisters, ... 4. The nature and temperarure [sic] of herbs, plants, and vegetables, ... 5. The way to extract the spirits and quintaessences of several sorts of herbs and minerals, and the rare operations they have. 6. The making of salt of wormwood, balm, or any other herb. 7. The cure of any wound, contusion, puncture, or ulcer in any part of the body. All which have been prescribed and practised by several learned doctors and chyrurgians. / By D. Border, practitioner in physick.

L'ordre et regime qu'on doit garder et tenir en la cure des fièvres: avec ung chapitre singulier contenant les causes & remedes des fievres pestilentielles. Plus, ung dialogue contenant les causes, jugemens, couleurs et hypostases des urines, lesquelles adviennent le plus souvent a ceus qui ont la fièvre. / Compose par M. Sebastien Colin medecin a Fontenay le Comte en Poitou.

Hydrophilacium novum, seu discursus de aquis salubribus mineralibus vere novus : in quo aquae minerales tam potabiles quam balneabiles omnes cujuscunque sine indolis tam theoretice quam practice methodo hactenus nunquam tradita enucleantur, ususque earum verus assignatur; opusculum, uti medicis hactenus multum desideratum, ita & necessarium ac summe utile  / authore Jo. Jacobo Francisco Vicario.

De vita conservanda / [Albertino Bottoni].

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De vita conservanda / [Albertino Bottoni].

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Paraphrasis, in nonum librum Rhazae medici Arabis clariss. ad Regem Almansorem, de singularu[m] corporis partium affectuum curatione, / autore Andrea Wesalio Bruxellensi Medicin[a]e candidato.

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