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An itinerant medicine vendor and his assistants being pelted off stage with stones from an angry audience. Engraving by C.F. Stoelzel, 1798, after J. Schenau.
Schenau, Johann Eleazar, 1737-1806.Date: 1798Reference: 20882i
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People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.
Franklin, John, active 1800-1861.Reference: 6924i- Books
Il medico saltimbanco : vita e avventure di Buonafede Vitali, giramondo instancabile, chimico di talento, istrione di buona creanza / Giorgio Cosmacini.
Cosmacini, Giorgio.Date: 2008
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Medicina magica tamen physica: = magical, but natural physick. Or A methodical tractate of diastatical physick. : Containing the general cures of all infirmities: and of the most radical, fixed, and malignant diseases belonging, not only to the body of man, but to all other animal and domestick creatures whatsoever, and that by way of transplantation. With a description of a most excellent cordial out of gold, much to be estimated. / Published by Samuel Boulton, Salop.
Boulton, Samuel.Date: 1656- Books
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The astrological physitian : Shewing, how to finde out the cause and nature of a disease, according to the secret rules of the art of astrology. Also generall rules and instructions, teaching how to discover what part of the body is afflicted. With a perfect description of the diseases and infirmities, signified by the planets, in any of the twelve zodiacall constellations, together with a most exact method, shewing how to finde whether the sick shall live or dye, according to naturall causes; with an exact way how to finde the true crysis, judiciall or criticall dayes. Being of excellent use for all such as study physick. / By Wil: Andrevvs student in the Mathematicks and Astrology.
Andrews, William, approximately 1635-1713Date: 1656