The Lord Bacons relation of the sweating-sickness examined, in a reply to George Thomson ... Together with a defence of phlebotomy in general, and also particularly in the plague, smallpox, scurvey, and pleurisie in opposition to the same author and the author of Medela medicinae [i.e. M. Nedham], Doctor Whitaker, and Doctor Sydenham. Also a relation concerning the strange symptomes happening upon the bite of the adder: and a reply, by way of preface to the calumnies of Eccebolius [i.e. Joseph] Glanvile / [Henry Stubbe].

Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.

Date:: 1671

Credit: The Lord Bacons relation of the sweating-sickness examined, in a reply to George Thomson ... Together with a defence of phlebotomy in general, and also particularly in the plague, smallpox, scurvey, and pleurisie in opposition to the same author and the author of Medela medicinae [i.e. M. Nedham], Doctor Whitaker, and Doctor Sydenham. Also a relation concerning the strange symptomes happening upon the bite of the adder: and a reply, by way of preface to the calumnies of Eccebolius [i.e. Joseph] Glanvile / [Henry Stubbe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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