The new good Samaritan: or, domestic practical physician ... To which is prefixed a physiological account of pulses. Of the properties ... of milk ... Of the recovery of persons supposed to be drowned. Likewise, for the use of married ladies is added the practical midwife / [Stephen Freeman].

  • Freeman, Stephen, M.D
Date:
[1780?]
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Credit: The new good Samaritan: or, domestic practical physician ... To which is prefixed a physiological account of pulses. Of the properties ... of milk ... Of the recovery of persons supposed to be drowned. Likewise, for the use of married ladies is added the practical midwife / [Stephen Freeman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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