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The girl with no name
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
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Observations and discoveries made upon horses with a new method of shoeing. Containing, I. The exact Anatomy of a Horse's Foot. II. The History of the Causes and Seat of different Diseases, said to be in the Hip, or Shoulder, which lame the Horse, and are demonstrated to be in the Foot. III. The extraordinary Effects of the Powder of Puff-Balls, in the stopping of Blood in a few Minutes; and the Arteries cicatrised by this Means only. IV. The new Method of shoeing Horses, both for preserving their Feet, and to prevent their slipping upon smooth Pavements. By the Sieur La Fosse, Farrier to the King of France. Presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences. Illustrated with several copper plates.
La Fosse, Étienne-Guillaume, -1765.Date: M,DCC,LV. [1755]- Books
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The medicinal observations of Jodocus Lommius. In three books. The First contains the most accurate Description of the Symptoms, of such Diseases, as affect the whole Body. The Second the Symptoms, of such, as affect each distinct Part, from the Head to the Foot. The Third gives the Prognostics, or Presages of Life, and Death, in both acute, and chronical Diseases, as fully as Prosper Alpinus in his Twelve Books of Presages. The Whole is a most masterly Collection from the Greek, Arabian, and Latin Physicians, particularly Hippocrates, Galen, and Celsus Now rendered into English for the benefit of all such practitioners, as have not had the happiness of a liberal education. With a letter and preface by J. Wynter, M.D.
Lommius, Jodocus, approximately 1500-approximately 1564.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]
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Sole of the foot with florid skin disease. Watercolour, ca. 1900.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 672814iPart of: Patients and diseases. Paintings commissioned by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, ca. 1891-1906.
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Diseases and deformities of the foot / by John Joseph Nutt.
Nutt, John Joseph, 1870-Date: 1913- Books
Diseases of the foot / by Emil D.W. Hauser.
Hauser, Emil D. W. (Emil Daniel William), 1897-Date: 1950