Volume 1

Observations on the use of bathing; warm and cold: and the diseases it will cure without a doctor. With an account of the Cicer Venereum, or ... ; the celebrated restorative among the antient Greeks, used in their baths and at their tables. Illustrated with its figure.

Date:
1759
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the use of bathing; warm and cold: and the diseases it will cure without a doctor. With an account of the Cicer Venereum, or ... ; the celebrated restorative among the antient Greeks, used in their baths and at their tables. Illustrated with its figure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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