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Lungs - Diseases - Early works to 1800

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    A treatise of consumptions : in which their nature, causes and symptoms are briefly explained, and a new and extraordinary method by specifick medicines is proposed for the cure of consumptions, even such as proceed from ulcers of the lungs / by Thomas Nevett.

    Nevett, Thomas | Date: 1697
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    Observations, anatomical, physiological and pathological, on the pulmonary system: with remarks on some of the diseases of the lungs, viz. on haemorrhage, wounds, asthma, catarrh, croup, and consumption; tending to establish a new pathology of the lungs, founded on the anatomy and physiology of the parts. Some remarks Are introduced on the broken-wind of Horses. And to the whole is added an appendix, containing observations on some of the articles of the materia medica, viz. On the rosa rubra, flores chamaemeli and sarsaparilla; as also on the cicuta, stramonium, hyosciamus and aconitum. By William Davidson.

    Davidson, William, 1765- | Date: 1795
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