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  • Die Karikatur und Satire in der Medizin : mediko-kunsthistorisches Studie / von Dr. Eugen Holländer ... Mit 10 farbigen Tafeln und 223 Abbildungen im Text.
  • The art of preserving beauty: containing instructions to adorn and embellish the ladies, remove deformities, and preserve health, etc. ... / By a physician.
  • Illustrated price list of electro-medical apparatus / K. Schall.
  • A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders ... To which are addded, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by ... J.R. Farre, M.D.
  • The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it in three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [pseud.] With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.
  • État des prisons, des hôspital et des maisons de force / par John Howard ; Traduit de l'anglois [by Louise Félicité Guinement de Kéralio?].
  • A compleat treatise of the muscles : as they appear in humane body, and arise in dissection; with diverse anatomical observations not yet discover'd. Illustrated by near fourty copper-plates, accurately delineated and engraven / By John Browne.
  • Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places / [Walter Thornbury].
  • A woman's example: and a nation's work : A tribute to Florence Nightingale / [Frederick Milnes Edge].
  • Aphasia and kindred disorders of speech / by Henry Head.
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals ... / By Sir Charles Linné: translated from Gmelin, Fabricius, Willdenow, &c. Together with various modern arrangements and corrections. With a life of Linné ... and a dictionary ... of the terms ... of natural history, by William Turton.
  • The animal kingdom arranged after its organization. Forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy / By the late Baron Georges Cuvier, Tr. and adapted to the present state of science. The Mammalia, birds, and reptiles, by Edward Blyth, the fishes and Radiata, by Robert Mudie, the molluscous animals by George Johnston, M.D., the articulated animals, by J. O. Westwood, F.L.S.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • An essay on the sea-scurvy: wherein is proposed an easy method of curing that distemper at sea; and of preserving water sweet for any cruize or voyage ... / [Anthony Addington].
  • A compleat treatise of the muscles : as they appear in humane body, and arise in dissection; with diverse anatomical observations not yet discover'd. Illustrated by near fourty copper-plates, accurately delineated and engraven / By John Browne.
  • Diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints and their treatment by a new and efficient method / by Hugh Owen Thomas.
  • A general system of surgery in three parts : containing the doctrine and management: I. Of wounds, fractures, luxations, tumors, and ulcers, of all kinds: II. Of the several operations performed on all parts of the body: III. Of the several bandages applied in all operations and disorders ... To which is prefixed an introduction concerning the nature, origin, progress, and improvements of surgery with such other preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the younger surgeons. Translated into English from the Latin / of Laurence Heister.
  • The byrth of mankinde, otherwise named The womans booke. : Set foorth in English by Thomas Raynalde phisition, and by him corrected, and augmented. Whose contents yée may reade in the table following: but most plainely in the prologue.
  • The experimental chemotherapy of spirilloses : (syphilis, relapsing fever, spirillosis of fowls, framboesia) / by Paul Ehrlich and S. Hata ; translated by A. Newbold and revised by Robert W. Felkin.
  • A briefe and necessarie treatise, touching the cure of the disease called Morbus Gallicus, or Lues Venerea, by unctions and other approoved waies of curing / newlie corrected and augmented.
  • The sack-'em-up men : an account of the rise and fall of the modern resurrectionists / by James Moores Ball.
  • Aphasia and kindred disorders of speech / by Henry Head.
  • Anatomie des formes extérieures du corps humain, appliquée à la peinture, à la sculpture et à la chirurgie / [Dr Gerdy].
  • The herball or, generall historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde.
  • The universal herbal; or, botanical, medical, and agricultural dictionary / [Thomas Green].
  • My water-cure : tested for more than 35 years and published for the cure of diseases and the preservation of health / by Sebastian Kneipp ; translated from his 36th German edition.
  • Histoire de Bicêtre (hospice-prison-asile) : d'après des documents historiques / dessins, fac-simile, plans dans le texte, pièces justificatives par Paul Bru ; préf. de M. le docteur Bourneville.
  • Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the East Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation: together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine, agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionoea muscipula: or, Venus's fly-trap / By John Ellis, F.R.S.
  • Advertisement : Here is lately arrived a doctor of physick, who by his long study and experience, both at home and in foreign countries, has acquir'd as learned and safe a method in curing all diseases incident to humane bodies ... as the nature of the distemper will permit.
  • A course of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery : in which, every thing essentially necessary to the true knowledge of that art will be fully explain'd ... / by John Leake.