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Daniel Turner. Line engraving by G. Vertue, 1732, after J. Richardson.

Daniel Turner. Line engraving by G. Vertue after J. Richardson.

Daniel Turner. Line engraving by J.G. Schmidt after J. Richardson.

Surgeon "turned" physician : the career and writings of Daniel Turner (1667-1741) / Philip Kevin Wilson.

The power of the mother's imagination over the foetus examin'd. In answer to Dr. Daniel Turner's book, intitled 'A defence of the XIIth chapter of the first part of a treatise, De morbis cutaneis' / [James Augustus Blondel].

The navy-surgeon: or, a practical system of surgery ... To which is added, a treatise on the venereal disease ... an enquiry into the origin of that distemper; in which the dispute between Dr. Dover, and Dr. Turner, concerning crude mercury, is fully consider'd ... Also an appendix, containing physical observations on the heat, moisture, and density of the air on the coast of Guiney; the colour of the natives; the sicknesses which they and the Europeans trading thither are subject to / [John Atkins].

Daniel Turner. Line engraving by G. Vertue, 1717, after J. Richardson.

Syphilis : a practical dissertation on the venereal disease.

Apologia chyrurgica. A vindication of the noble art of chyrurgery, from the gross abuses offer'd thereunto by mountebanks, quacks, barbers, pretending bone-setters, etc. ... / [Daniel Turner].

Aphrodisiacus. Containing a summary of the ancient writers on the venereal disease ... Extracted from the two tomes of Aloysius Luisinus, which by the direction of Dr. Boerhaave, were lately revised and reprinted at Leyden. Together with an index of all others omitted in that collection ... from the beginning of the sixteenth century down to the present time. With a large preface, by Daniel Turner.

De morbis cutaneis. A treatise of diseases incident to the skin ... With an appendix concerning the efficacy of local remedies ... / [Daniel Turner].

Encomium argenti vivi: a treatise upon the use and properties of quicksilver ... With some remarks upon the animadversions of Dr. Turner upon Belloste / By a gentleman of Trinity College, Cambridge [i.e. T. Dover].

Traité des maladies de la peau en general; avec un court appendix sur l'efficacité des topiques dans les maladies internes ... / Traduit ... par M.***.

The ancient physician's legacy impartially survey'd : and his practice prov'd repugnant ... With practical observations ... To which is added ... A discourse on quicksilver, as now commonly taken ... As also, a particular account of Monsieur Bellost's pill compar'd with the author's. And the case of Barton Booth ... as the same was communicated to the author by Mr. Alexander Small ... / By Daniel Turner.

Syphilis. The second part. Containing some farther observations on the veneral disease, in two commentaries. The one upon the practice of Dr. Astruc ... The other on that of Dr. Desault ... With a preface ... the author's vindication of his first part ... from the censure past thereon, by the former of these gentlemen ... / [Daniel Turner].

Apologia chyrurgica : A vindication of the noble art of chyrurgery, from the gross abuses offer'd thereunto by mountebanks, quacks, barbers, pretending bone-setters, with other ignorant undertakers. Wherein their fraudulent practices are plainly detected by several remarkable observations, their fair promises prov'd fictions, their administrations pernicious, their confident pretences injurious and destructive to the welfare of the people. By Daniel Turner, practitioner in chyrurgery. Imprimatur. Datum in comitiis censoriis ex ædibus collegii nostri, Jan. 11. 1694. John Lawson, president. Samuel Collins, Richard Torless, Edward Tyson, Martin Lister, censores.

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Encomium argenti vivi: a treatise upon the use and properties of quicksilver ... With some remarks upon the animadversions of Dr. Turner upon Belloste / By a gentleman of Trinity College, Cambridge [i.e. T. Dover].

Traité des maladies de la peau en general; avec un court appendix sur l'efficacité des topiques dans les maladies internes ... / Traduit ... par M.***.