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Rethinking the placebo effect
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A compleat body of distilling, explaining the mysteries of that science, in a most easy and familiar manner; containing an exact and accurate method of making all the compound cordial-waters now in use, With A particular Account of their several Virtues. As also a Directory Consisting of All the Instructions necessary for learning the Distiller's Art; with a Computation of the original Cost of the several Ingredients, and the Profits arising in Sale. Adapted no less to the Use of private Families, than of Apothecaries and Distillers. In two parts. By George Smith, of Kendall in Westmorland.
Smith, George, distiller.Date: 1749- Books
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A compleat body of distilling, explaining the mysteries of that science, in a most easy and familiar manner; Containing an Exact and Accurate Method of making all the Compound Cordial-Waters now in Use, with a particular Account of their several Virtues. As also a directory Consisting of All the Instructions necessary for learning the distiller's art; with a Computation of the original Cost of the several Ingredients, and the Profits arising in Sale. Adapted no less to the Use of private Families, than of Apothecaries and Distillers. In two parts. By George Smith, of Kendall in Westmorland.
Smith, George, distiller.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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A compleat body of distilling, explaining the mysteries of that science, in a most easy and familiar manner; containing an exact and accurate method of making all the compound cordial-waters now in use, with A particular Account of their several Virtues. As also a Directory Consisting of All the Instructions necessary for learning the Distiller's Art; with a Computation of the original Cost of the several Ingredients, and the Profits arising in Sale. Adapted no less to the Use of private Families, than of Apothecaries and Distillers. In two parts. By G. Smith, of Kendall in Westmorland.
Smith, George, distiller.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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A new digester or engine for softening bones, containing the description of its make and use in these particulars: viz, cookery, voyages at sea, confectionary, making of drinks, chymistry, and dying. With an account of the price a good big engine will cost, and of the profit it will afford / [Denis Papin].
Papin, Denis, 1647-1714.Date: 1681- Books
The cost of illness to the city of New Orleans in 1850 / Henry E. Sigerist.
Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957.Date: [1944]