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Gideon Harvey. Line engraving by P. Philippe, 1663.

Gideon Harvey. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).

Gideon Harvey. Line engraving by A. Hertocks, 1672.

Gideon Harvey. Line engraving, 1822, after P. Philippe.

Gideon Harvey : sidelights on medical life from the Restoration to the end of the XVII century / by H.A. Colwell.

The conclave of physicians, detecting their intrigues, frauds, and plots, against their patients. Also a peculiar discourse of the Jesuits bark: the history thereof, with its true use, and abuse. Moreover, a narrative of an eminent case in physick / By Gideon Harvey.

Little Venus unmask'd : or, a perfect discovery of the French pox Together with ... twelve different ways ... of curing that disease / [Gideon Harvey].

The art of curing diseases by expectation : with remarks on a supposed great case of apoplectick fits. Also most useful observations on coughs, consumptions, stone, dropsies, fevers, and smallpox; with a confutation of dispensatories, and other various discourses in physick / By Gidean Harvey.

A discourse of the plague : containing the nature, causes, signs, and presages of the pestilence in general, together with the state of the present contagion : also most rational preservatives for families, and choice curative medicines both for rich and poor, with several waies for purifying the air in houses, streets, etc. / published for the benefit of this great city of London, and suburbs by Gideon Harvey.

The vanities of philosophy and physick : together with directions and medicines easily prepared by any of the least skill, whereby to preserve health, and prolong life, as well in those that live regularly, as others that live irregilarly : comprising moreover hypotheses diffrent from those of the schools throughout almost the whole art of physick, and particularly relating to indigestion, and other diseases of the stomach, fevers, consumption, stone, gravel, suppression of urine, apoplexy, palsie, madness, diseases of the eyes, and others : with variety of medicines, and rules whereby to make particular choice out of them : the whole being a work very useful to all, but especially to those that have any relation to the art of physick / by Gideon Harvey.

A theoretical and chiefly practical treatise of fevors, wherein it's made evident, that the modern practice of curing continual fevers is dangerous and very unsuccessful. Hereunto are added several important observations and cures of malignant fevers, not inserted in the former impression / Written in Latin by Gideon Harvey ... Now rendered into English by J.T. And surveyed by the author.

The art of curing diseases by expectation : with remarks on a supposed great case of apoplectick fits : also most useful observations on coughs, consumptions, stone, dropsies, fevers, and small pox : with a confutation of dispensatories, and other various discourses in physick / by Gideon Harvey.

The conclave of physicians : in two parts, detecting their intrigues, frauds, and plots, against their patients, and their destroying the faculty of physick : also a peculiar discourse of the Jesuits bark, the history thereof, with its true use and abuse : moreover an account of some eminent cases and new principles in physick, of greater use than any yet known / by Gideon Harvey.

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The art of curing diseases by expectation : with remarks on a supposed great case of apoplectick fits : also most useful observations on coughs, consumptions, stone, dropsies, fevers, and small pox : with a confutation of dispensatories, and other various discourses in physick / by Gideon Harvey.