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James, R. (Robert), 1703?-1776

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  • The muscles of the human body, seen from the front, after Eustachius. Etching by G. Bickham, 1743, after himself, after an engraving, c. 1552.
  • The bones of the ear and of hearing. Etching, 1743.
  • Particles and organisms found in vinegar and wine, as viewed under a microscope. Etching by I. Basire, 1743.
  • A medicinal dictionary; including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs ... and an introductory preface, tracing the progress of physic, and explaining the theories which have ... prevail'd in all ages / By R. James.
  • A human skeleton, seen from the back, resting the bones of its right forearm on a spade handle, after Vesalius. Etching by I. Basire, 1743.
  • The viscera (Table XIV), after Eustachius; the blood vessels of the liver (Table XV), after Glisson. Etching by I. Basire, 1743.
  • Dictionnaire universel de medecine, de chirurgie, de chymie, de botanique, de pharmacie, d'histoire naturelle, etc / Précédé d'un discours historique sur l'origine et les progres de la medecine. Traduit de l'anglois ... par Mrs Diderot, Eidous et Toussaint. Revu, corrigé et augmenté par M.J. Busson.
  • The base of the brain with part of the medulla oblongata, the blood vessels injected with wax, and the cerebellum (Table XII, figs 1-2), after Cowper in Ridley (1695); the foetal heart, the larynx and the viscera (Table XIII), after an etching by G. Vandergucht in Cheselden (1740) Etching by I. Basire, 1743.
  • The uterus, after Swammerdam, De Graaf and Cheselden. Etching, 1743.
  • A medicinal dictionary; including ... chymistry, and botany ... Together with a history of drugs ... and an introductory preface, tracing the progress of physic, and explaining the theories which have ... prevail'd in all ages / [R. James].
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