Essays medical and experimental : to which are added, select histories of diseases, with remarks, and proposals for establishing more accurate and comprehensive bills of mortality / by Thomas Percival.

  • Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804
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Essays medical and experimental : to which are added, select histories of diseases, with remarks, and proposals for establishing more accurate and comprehensive bills of mortality / by Thomas Percival. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for Joseph Johnson ..., 1773.

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xvi, 267 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)

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Includes bibliographic references and index

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With a half-title including the statement: 'Vol. II.', and a final advertisement leaf.
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: RAMC

Contents

(From t.p.) 1. On the columbo root -- 2. On the orchis root -- 3. On the waters of Buxton and Matlock in Derbyshire -- 4. On the medicinal uses of fixed air -- 5. On the antiseptic and sweetening powers, and on the varieties of factitious air -- 6. On the noxious vapours of charcoal -- 7. On the atrabilis -- 8. On sea salt -- 9. On coffee.

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ESTC T58022

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