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  • Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris: or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To which is added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs and spinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly pretended / By Edward Tyson.
  • Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris: or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To which is added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs and spinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly pretended / By Edward Tyson.
  • Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon].
  • Fleta minor. The laws of art and nature in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals. In two parts. The first contains essays of Lazarus Erckern ... in V books: originally written by him in the Teutonick language, and now translated into English. The second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses by Sir John Pettus ... Illustrated with 44 sculptures ... / [Sir John Pettus].
  • Methodus curandi febres, propriis observationibus superstructa / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • Ars chirurgica. A compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery. In seven books ... To which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica; or the medical store, Latin and English: which contains ... choice preparations or medicaments, fitted for the compleat ... practice both of physick and chirurgery / By William Salmon.
  • A further discovery of bees. Treating of the nature, government, generation and preservation of the bee. With the experiments and improvements arising from the keeping them in transparent boxes, instead of straw-hives. Also proper directions (to all such as keep bees) as well to prevent their robbing in straw-hives, as their killing in the colonies / By Moses Rusden. Pub. by His Majesties especial command, and approved by the Royal Society at Gresham Coll.
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • Transisalano-Daventriensis Dissertatio de arthritide: mantissa schematica: de acupunctura: et orationes tres, I. De chymiae ac botaniae antiquitate et dignitate. II. De physiognomia: III. De monstris. Singula ipsius authoris notis illustrata / [Willem ten Rhijne].
  • Aimatiasis; or, The true way of preserving the bloud in its integrity, and rectifying it, if at any time polluted and degenerate : wherein Dr. Willis his errour of bleeding is reprehended ... and certain opinions of Dr. Betts in physick rejected ... phlebotomy ... declared to be destructive. Whereunto are added a stomachical spirit. Diaetetical instructions. The nature and cure of the griping of the guts.
  • Methodus curandi febres, propriis observationibus superstructa / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • Orders conceived and published by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the City of London, concerning the infection of the plague.
  • Ars chirurgica. A compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery. In seven books ... To which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica; or the medical store, Latin and English: which contains ... choice preparations or medicaments, fitted for the compleat ... practice both of physick and chirurgery / By William Salmon.
  • Methodus curandi febres, propriis observationibus superstructa / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • 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.
  • Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man : exactly delineating all the parts ... With the severall diseases thereof. Also their ... cures / By R.T. [i.e. Robert Turner].
  • De morbis acutis infantum / autore Gualtero Harris.
  • A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants ... Illustrated with many schemes ... engraven in seventy four ... plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited ... / [Samuel Collins].
  • Orders conceived and published by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the City of London, concerning the infection of the plague.
  • A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants ... Illustrated with many schemes ... engraven in seventy four ... plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited ... / [Samuel Collins].
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • A dialogue between alkali and acid: containing divers philosophical and medicinal considerations wherein ... a late ... new hypothesis asserting alkali the cause, and acid the cure of all diseases, is proved groundless and dangerous ... Being a specimen of the ... mistakes and great ignorance of ... John Colbatch / by T.E. chirurgo-medicus.
  • Mathematicall magick. Or, the wonders that may be performed by mechanicall geometry in two books, concerning mechanical powers [and] motions : being one of the most easie, pleasant, useful, (and yet most neglected) part of mathematicks ... / By J. Wilkins.
  • 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.
  • The English physitian enlarged. With three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • Aimatiasis; or, The true way of preserving the bloud in its integrity, and rectifying it, if at any time polluted and degenerate : wherein Dr. Willis his errour of bleeding is reprehended ... and certain opinions of Dr. Betts in physick rejected ... phlebotomy ... declared to be destructive. Whereunto are added a stomachical spirit. Diaetetical instructions. The nature and cure of the griping of the guts.
  • Aimatiasis; or, The true way of preserving the bloud in its integrity, and rectifying it, if at any time polluted and degenerate : wherein Dr. Willis his errour of bleeding is reprehended ... and certain opinions of Dr. Betts in physick rejected ... phlebotomy ... declared to be destructive. Whereunto are added a stomachical spirit. Diaetetical instructions. The nature and cure of the griping of the guts.
  • De morbis acutis infantum / autore Gualtero Harris.
  • Orders conceived and published by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the City of London, concerning the infection of the plague.
  • A systeme of anatomy, treating of the body of man, beasts, birds, fish, insects, and plants ... Illustrated with many schemes ... engraven in seventy four ... plates. And after every part of man's body hath been anatomically described, its diseases, cases, and cures are concisely exhibited ... / [Samuel Collins].