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  • The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • The Dutch anatomist Steven Blankaart (1650-1704) performing a dissection in an anatomy theatre, with seven observers. Engraving, 1687.
  • Opera omnia. Nitidius, quam unquam hactenus edita, plurimum emendata, indicibus rerum copiosissimis, ac distinctione characterum exornata / Studio et opera Gerardi Blasii.
  • [A new booke entyteled the regiment of lyfe: with a syngular Treatise of the pestilece].
  • Historia medicinae, in qua, si non omnia, pleraque saltem, medicorum ratiocinia, dogmata, hypotheses, sectae, &c. ... quae ab exordio medicinae usque ad nostra tempora inclaruerunt, pertractantur / J. Conr. Barchusen.
  • The whole works of that excellent practical physician Dr. Thomas Sydenham wherein not only the history and cures of acute diseases are treated of, after a new and accurate method; but also the shortest and safest way of curing most chronical diseases / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • An anatomical dissection by Pieter Pauw in the Leiden anatomy theatre. Engraving by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.
  • Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.
  • Thomae Sydenham ... Opera universa : in quibus non solummodò morborum acutorum historiae & curationes novâ & exquisitâ methodo diligentissimè traduntur, verùm etiam morborum ferè omnium chronicorum curatio brevissima, pariter ac fidelissima in publici commodum exhibetur / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
  • A learned physician with a library of Latin books writes a prescription but cannot save his patients from death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
  • Ḥeleḳ riʼshon [shelishi] mispar ha-ʻolamot o maʻaśeh ṭoviyah / [Tobias Cohen].
  • Friderici Hoffmanni consiliarii regis Borussiae intimi, et archiatri ... Opera omnia physico-medica denuò revisa, correcta et aucta, in sex tomos distributa, quibus continentur doctrinae solidis principiis physico-mechanicis, et anatomicis, atque etiam observationibus clinico-practicis superstructae. Methodo facili ac demonstrativa deductae, & per experientiam LVII. annorum stabilitae : Cum vita auctoris [by J. H. Schultze] et ejus praefatione de differente medicinae et medicorum statu. Atque conditione, & criteriis boni ac periti medici / [Friedrich Hoffmann].
  • Medicina diastatica or sympatheticall mumie: containing, many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick. By the construction, extraction, transplantation and application of microcosmical & spiritual mumie. Teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, etc / Abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus: by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... Translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst.
  • The Fasciculo di medicina, Venice, 1493 / with an introduction etc., by Charles Singer.
  • Ḥeleḳ riʼshon [shelishi] mispar ha-ʻolamot o maʻaśeh ṭoviyah / [Tobias Cohen].
  • Thomae Sydenham med. doct. ac practici Londinensis celeberrimi Opera medica / [Thomas Sydenham].
  • A man absurdly well-prepared for the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the overabundance of questionable remedies and protections against cholera. Watercolour, c. 1832.
  • The anatomist Felix Platter, seated at a table covered with surgical instruments in a room with two other men, below which are the figures of Hippocrates and Galen. Engraving, 1656.
  • Pandora : das ist, die edlest Gab Gottes, oder der Werde vnd heilsame Stein der Weysen, mit welchem die alten Philosophi, auch Theophrastvs Paracelsvs, die vnvollkommene Metallen durch gewalt des Fewrs verbessert sampt allerley schedliche vnd vnheilsame Kranckheiten, innerlich vnnd eusserlich haben vertrieben. Ein guldener Schatz, welcher durch einen Liebhaber dieser Kunst, von seinem Vndergang erzettet ist worden, vnd zu Nutz allen Menschen fürnemlich den Liebhabern der Paracelsischen Artzney, jetzt widerumb in Truck verfertiget / [Franciscus Epimetheus].
  • Processus integri in morbis ferè omnibus curandis / A. D..̊ Thoma Sydenham, M.D. conscripti. Quibus accessit graphica symptomatum delineatio.
  • Of the reconcileableness of specifick medicines to the corpuscular philosophy. To which is annexed a discourse about the advantages of the use of simple medicines / by Robert Boyle.
  • Dr. Sydenham's practice of physick: the signs, symptoms, causes and cures of diseases. With many additions from the second edition of the Latin copy. His discourses of consumptions and gouts, etc. never before published / Faithfully translated into English, with large annotations and practical observations. By William Salmon.
  • The regiment of life, wherevnto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the booke of children / newly corrected and enlarged by Thomas Phaire.