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Chirurgical facts relating to wounds and contusions of the head, fractures of the skull, &c. With remarks. By John Batting, surgeon.
Batting, John.Date: [1765?]- Books
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Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds. I. Of Generals. Of procuring adhesion. Of wounded arteries. Of gun-shot wounds. Of the medical treatment of wounds. II. Of Particulars. Of wounds of the breast. Of wounds of the belly. Of wounds of the head. Of wounds of the throat. III. Of dangerous wounds of the limbs. Of the question of amputation. By John Bell, Surgeon.
Bell, John, 1763-1820.Date: 1795- Books
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England's bloody tribunal: or, popish cruelty displayed. Containing a compleat account of the lives, religious principles, cruel persecutions, sufferings, tortures, and triumphant deaths, of the most pious English Protestant martyrs, Who have sealed the Faith of our Holy Religion with their Blood. Exhibiting A full View of Popery, with all its superstitious and horrid Practices; and tending to promote the Protestant Religion, by displaying the Errors of Popish Idolatry, and confirming the true Believer in the Faith of Our Blessed Redeemer, who was crucified for our Sins, and rose again for our Justification, and now sitteth at the Right Hand of God, making Intercession for us. To Which IS Added, A faithful Narrative of the many hortid Cruelties and Persecutions that have been inflicted by the Roman Catholics on the Protestants of Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. With A particular Description of the various Tortares and Barbarities, that are practiced by the Inquisition in Different Parts of the World. Also The Lives of the Primitive Reformers, whose Effigies are given in the Frontispiece to the Work. Together With A full and plain Refutation of the Errors of the Romish Church, laid down in such a Manner as to enable the unlearned Protestants to confute the chief Arguments of the most artful Popish Priests and their Emissaries. By the Reverend Matthew Taylor, D. D. By the King's Authority.
Taylor, Matthew, D.D.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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A new treatise on the different disorders arising from external injuries of the head; illustrated by eighty-five (selected from above fifteen hundred) practical cases. By Mr. O'Halloran, M.R.I.A. Honorary Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, In Ireland; and of the Physico Chirurgical Society, and Surgeon to the County of Limerick Hospital.
O'Halloran, Sylvester, 1728-1807.Date: 1793- Books
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A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body : with other precepts of the same arte, / practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in phisicke & chirurgery: and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion. Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, neuer before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern. And also the description of the emplaister called dia chalciteos, with his vse and vertues. With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.
Arcaeus, Franciscus, 1493-1573?Date: 1588