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Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne (1573-1655), physician. Oil painting by Jacob Andries Beschey after Sir P.P. Rubens.

Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne. Mezzotint by J. Simon after Sir P. P. Rubens.

Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne. Line engraving, 1731, after F. Diodati.

Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne. Line engraving by W. Elder.

Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne. Stipple engraving by W. Read.

Conway letters : the correspondence of Anne, viscountess Conway, Henry More, and their friends, 1642-1684 / Collected from manuscript sources & edited with a biographical account by Marjorie Hope Nicolson.

Some explanatory notes to Mr. H.M. Fraser's article about Moufet's Theatrum Insectorum / by Bernhard Milt.

A sketch of the career of Theodore Turquet de Mayerne : physician to four kings, spagyric therapeutist, and pioneer in the compilation of elaborate records of clinical cases / by Thomas Gibson.

Mayerne and his successors : Huguenot physicians under the Stuarts / Randolph Vigne.

The complete midwife's practice enlarged ... With instructions of the Queen of France's midwife [Louise Bourgeois].

Insectorum sive minimorum animalium theatrum / olim ab Edoardo Wottono, Conrado Gesnero, Thomaque Pennio inchoatum: tandem Tho. Moufeti Londinatis opera sumptibusque maximis concinnatum, auctum, perfectum: et ad vivum expressis iconibus supra quingentis illustratum.

A treatise of the gout / Written originally in the French tongue [by T. de Mayerne] ; Englished ... by Thomas Sherley ... ; Whereunto is added, advice about hypochondriacal-fits.

The Compleat midwife's practice enlarged : in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man : containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children, from the experience of our English authors, viz. Sir Theodore Mayerne, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper, and others of foreign nations : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... touching the practice of the said art ... the whole illustrated with copper plates.

Praxeos mayernianæ : in morbis internis præcipue gravioribus & chronicis syntagma, ex adversariis, consiliis ac epistolis ejus, summâ curâ ac diligentiâ concinnatum.

La pratique de medecine. ... Avec le regime des femmes grosses. Et un traité de la goutte / [Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne].

The complete midvvife's practice enlarged : in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing a perfect directory, or rules for midwives and nurses. As also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children: from the experience of our English viz. Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich Culpeper. and others of forreign nations. With instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter, a little before her death, touching the practice of the said art. The fourth edition enlarged, with the addition of Sir Theodore Mayerns rare secrets in midwifry, with the approbation of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifry now living in the city of London, and other places, viz. R.C. J.D. M.S. T.B.W.C.M.H. practitioners of the said art. With a further discovery of those secrets kept close in the breast of Mr. Nich. Culpeper, and other English writers; never made publick till now.  A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. Illu.

The distiller of London: with the clavis to unlock the deepest secrets of that mysterious art. With many additions of the most excellent cordial waters / Which have been pen'd by our most able doctors and physicians ... [Examined and corrected by T. de Mayerne and T. Cademan].

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Praxeos mayernianæ : in morbis internis præcipue gravioribus & chronicis syntagma, ex adversariis, consiliis ac epistolis ejus, summâ curâ ac diligentiâ concinnatum.

La pratique de medecine. ... Avec le regime des femmes grosses. Et un traité de la goutte / [Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne].

The distiller of London: with the clavis to unlock the deepest secrets of that mysterious art. With many additions of the most excellent cordial waters / Which have been pen'd by our most able doctors and physicians ... [Examined and corrected by T. de Mayerne and T. Cademan].