Volume 1

A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are ... described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage. And symptom thereof ... : the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham ... / by Peter Shaw.

  • Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763.
Date:
1745
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Credit: A new practice of physic; wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are ... described, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage. And symptom thereof ... : the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham ... / by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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