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  • Vaccinæ vindicia; or, defence of vaccination : containing a refutation of the cases, and reasonings on the same, in Dr. Rowley's and Dr. Moseley's late extraordinary pamphlets against vaccination. In two letters to Dr. Moseley. With the Report of the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society. And the debate in the House of Commons (July 2, 1806) on a motion by Lord Henry Petty, for enlightening the people of England on the subject of vaccination, [&c] / By Robert John Thornton.

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1806
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  • The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians, London ... / translated from the Latin edition of 1817, and rendered more convenient ... by the addition of the properties, doses, & c. of each preparation ... By R.J. Thornton.

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1817
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  • Vaccinae vindicia; or, defence of vaccination: containing a refutation of the cases, and reasonings on the same, in Dr. Rowley's and Dr. Moseley's late extraordinary pamphlets against vaccination. In two letters to Dr. Moseley. With the Report of the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society. And the debate in the House of Commons (July 2, 1806) on a motion by Lord Henry Petty, for enlightening the people of England on the subject of vaccination ... / [Robert John Thornton].

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1806
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  • Bee Larkspur (Delphinium sp. var.): flowering stem with separate labelled floral segments. Engraving by J. Caldwall, c.1805, after P. Henderson.

    • Henderson, Peter, active 1799-1829.
    Date
    1 January 1805
    Reference
    18315i
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  • March 1st, 1799, will be published, The new illustration of the sexual system of Linnæus. By Robert John Thornton, M.D. ...

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1799]
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  • Medical extracts : on the nature of health, with practical observations, and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / by a friend to improvements.

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1796
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  • Dr. Thornton's medical, botanical, and political works. I. The philosophy of medicine: or Medical extracts, on the nature of health and disease, ... the fourth edition, ... II. Facts decisive in favour of the cow-pock: ... III. A new illustration of the sexual system. ... IV. The politician's creed: or political extracts: ... These works may be had of the following booksellers: H.D. Symonds, Paternoster-row.

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    [1799?]
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  • A new illustration of the sexual system of Linnæus By Robert John Thornton, M.D. late of Trinity College, Cambridge. Physician to the general dispensary: Fellow of the London Medical Society, lecturer on medical botany at Guy's Hospital; author of Medical extracts on the nature of health and Letters to Dr. Beddoes on the application and theory of pneumatic medicine.

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1799
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  • On the 1st of August 1803, will be published, ... number I. of Plants of Great Britain; arranged after the reformed sexual system of Sir Charles Linnaeus; ... And on the same day will be published, ... number I. of An introduction to the science of botany. By Robert John Thornton, M.D.

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    [1803?]
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  • Practice of physic ... / with notes ... To which are added, the discoveries made in physic since the time of Dr. Cullen ... Including also the laws of the animal economy, and doctrines of pneumatic medicine. By R.J. Thornton.

    • Cullen, William, 1710-1790.
    Date
    1816
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  • Medical extracts : on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems / by a friend to improvements.

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1796-1797
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  • Medical extracts: on the nature of health, with practical observations: and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems, by a friend to improvements. ...

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1796
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  • Medical extracts. Being a concentrated view of some late discoveries in chemistry, and the new theory and practice of physic, thereby introduced / By a friend to improvements [i.e. R.J. Thornton].

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1794
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  • Facts decisive in favour of the cow-pock: including an account of the inoculation of the village of Lowther / [Robert John Thornton].

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1802
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  • A grammar of botany : containing an explanation of the system of Linnaeus, and the terms of botany, with botanical exercises, for the use of schools and students : illustrated by forty-five engravings : multum in parvo / by Robert John Thornton, M.D.

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1818
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  • Regular groups of detailed pollen grains from twenty different named flowering plants. Engraving by J.-Z.Mazel, c.1807, after Geoffroy.

    • Geoffroy, active 1807-1847.
    Date
    August 1807
    Reference
    18326i
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  • The philosophy of botany, being botanical and philosophical extracts, including A new illustration of the sexual system of Linneæus. By Robert John Thornton, M.D. late of Trinity College, Cambridge Physician to the General Dispensary: Fellow of the London Botanical Society[,] Lecturer on Medical Botany at Guy's Hospital[,] author of Medical extracts on the nature of health: and

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1799
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  • Preuves de l'efficacité de la vaccine ... / [R.J. Thornton].

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    [1807?]
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  • Tobacco plants (Nicotiana rustica and N. paniculata): flowering and fruiting stem of both species with their respective floral segments.Engraving by J.Caldwall, c.1805, after P.Henderson.

    • Henderson, Peter, active 1799-1829.
    Date
    1 July 1805
    Reference
    18320i
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  • Elementary botanical plates, illustrative of the science of botany : adapted to Lee's "Introduction to botany"; - Rose's "Introduction to Botany ..." But more particularly intended to illustrate "Botanical extracts; or the philosophy of botany." / [Robert John Thornton].

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1810
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  • Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck; with a view of the Pantheon, Paris. Stipple engraving by J. Hopwood, 1805, after J. L. David and by S. Porter.

    • David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825.
    Reference
    5216i
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  • A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton].

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1814
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  • The philosophy of medicine: or, medical extracts on the nature of health and disease, including the laws of the animal oeconomy, and the doctrines of pneumatic medicine. By a friend to improvements. ...

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1799-1800
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  • Medical extracts. On the nature of health, and the laws of the nervous and fibrous systems. With practical observations: by a friend to improvements. ...

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1798
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  • Preuves de l'efficacité de la vaccine, suivies d'une réponse aux objections formées contre la vaccination, contenant l'histoire de cette découverte, etc., à l'usage des familles / Traduction littérale de l'anglais, par M. Duffour ... [with 'Éloge d'É. Jenner, extrait d'un discours par Dr. Lettson'.

    • Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
    Date
    1807
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