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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
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Six personal health zines that might change your life
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The antidote: Or, The Preservative of Health and Life, And the Restorative of Physick to its Sincerity and Perfection. The Useful and Pernicious Medicines: The Natural and Artificial Cures: The Natural and Artificial Deaths are distinguish'd. And the Necessity Asserted of Reviving the former constant Practice of Physicians Preparing and Improving their most valued Medicines, and the Apothecaries delivering in their Shops the common general Remedies. By R. Pitt, M.D. Fellow and Censor of the College of Physicians, and Fellow of the Royal Society, and Physician of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Pitt, Rob., 1653-1713.Date: 1704- Books
Evaluating health promotion : practice and methods / edited by Margaret Thorogood and Yolande Coombes.
Date: 2010
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The horse, in health and disease; or, Suggestions on his natural and general history, varieties, conformation, paces, action, age, soundness, stabling, condition, training, and shoeing, with a digest of veterinary practice / By James W. Winter.
Winter, James W.Date: 1846- Books
The standards of practice for acupuncture / British Acupuncture Council.
Date: 2009- Books
The antidote: or, the preservative of health and life, and the restorative of physick to its sincerity and perfection. The useful and pernicious medicines: the natural and artificial cures: the natural and artificial deaths are distinguish'd. And the necessity asserted of reviving the former constant practice of physicians preparing and improving their most valued medicines, and the apothecaries delivering in their shops the common general remedies ... / [Rob Pitt].
Pitt, Rob., 1653-1713.Date: 1704