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A new practice of physic. Wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are describ'd, 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 ... In two volumes / by Peter Shaw.

  • Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763.
Date:
1735
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Credit: A new practice of physic. Wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are describ'd, 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 ... In two volumes / by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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