Select observations on English bodies of eminent persons in desperate diseases. / First written in Latin by Mr. John Hall, physician: after Englished by James Cook, author of The Marrow of Chirurgery. To which is now added, an hundred like counsels and advices, for several honourable persons; with all the several medicines and methods by which the several cures, by the blessing of God, were effected; and they be of great use to several practitioners in physick and others: by the same author. In the close is added, Directions for Drinking of the Bath-Water, and Ars Cosmetica, or Beautifying Art: by H. Stubbs, physician at Warwick.

  • Hall, John, 1575-1635.
Date:
1683
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Credit: Select observations on English bodies of eminent persons in desperate diseases. / First written in Latin by Mr. John Hall, physician: after Englished by James Cook, author of The Marrow of Chirurgery. To which is now added, an hundred like counsels and advices, for several honourable persons; with all the several medicines and methods by which the several cures, by the blessing of God, were effected; and they be of great use to several practitioners in physick and others: by the same author. In the close is added, Directions for Drinking of the Bath-Water, and Ars Cosmetica, or Beautifying Art: by H. Stubbs, physician at Warwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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