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Self-care, Health - Early works to 1800

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    Approved medicines of little cost, to preserve health and also to cure those that are sick : provided for the souldiers knap-sack and the country mans closet / written by Richard Elkes, Gent.

    Elkes, Richard | Date: 1651
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    Nature the great physician; or, Every man his own doctor: Shewing in a course of natural observations entirely new, how nature is best relieved and assisted, in all cases, and health preserved to the greatest age. With variety of philosophical resemblances, explaining the particular causes of diseases, and likewise adapted to the whole. By an old Gentleman of fourscore.

    Old gentleman of fourscore. | Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]
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    Directions tending to health and long life, &c.

    Byfield, T. (Timothy). | Date: 1717
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