Observations on the principles of the old system of physic, exhibiting a compend of the new doctrine : the whole containing a new account of the state of medicine from the present times, backward, to the restoration of the Grecian learning in the western parts of Europe / by a gentleman conversant in the subject [i.e. John Brown].

  • John Brown
Date:
Anno 1787
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Credit: Observations on the principles of the old system of physic, exhibiting a compend of the new doctrine : the whole containing a new account of the state of medicine from the present times, backward, to the restoration of the Grecian learning in the western parts of Europe / by a gentleman conversant in the subject [i.e. John Brown]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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