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  • An experimental dissertation on the chemical and medical properties of the Nicotiana tabacum of Linnaeus, commonly known by the name of tobacco. By Edward Brailsford, of Charleston, South-Carolina, member of the Medical and Chemical Societies of Philadelphia.

    • Brailsford, Edward, -1856.
    Date
    1799
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  • Tentamen inaugurale, de nicotianae viribus in medicina; ut et de ejus malis effectibus in usu communi et domestico, examen. Quod, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. academiæ Edinburgenæ præfecti, nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicæ decreto, pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Robertus Hamilton, Hibernus, societatis physicae socius honorarius. Ad diem 24. Junii, hora locoque solitis.

    • Hamilton, Robert, 1749-1830.
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    M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]
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  • The triall of tabacco : Wherein, his worth is most worthily expressed: as, in the name, nature, and qualitie of the sayd hearb; his speciall vse in all physicke, with the true and right vse of taking it, aswell for the seasons, and times, as also the complexions, dispositions, and constitutions, of such bodies, & persons, as are fittest: and to whom it is most profitable to take it. By E.G. Gent. and practicioner in physicke.

    • Gardiner, Edmund.
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    1610
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  • Medical reports of the effects of arsenic, in the cure of agues, remitting fevers, and periodic headachs; By Thomas Fowler, M. D. Physician to the General Infirmary of the County of Stafford. Together with a letter from Dr. Arnold, of Leicester, and another from Dr. Withering, describing their experience of the effects of arsenic in the cure of intermittents.

    • Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801.
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    MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
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  • Medical reports, of the effects of tobacco, principally with regard to its diuretic quality, in the cure of dropsies, and dysuries: together with some observations, on the use of clysters of tobacco, in the treatment of the colic: by Thomas Fowler, M.D. Physician to the General Infirmary of the County of Stafford.

    • Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801.
    Date
    MDCCLXXXV. [1785]
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  • Phisicall and approved medicines, aswell in meere simples, as compound obseruations : With a true and direct iudgement of the seuerall complexions of men, & how to minister both phisicke and medicine, to euery seuerall complexion. With the making of many excellent vnguents, and oyles, as also their applications, both for gargarismes & inflamations of the face, and other diseases incident to the body of man, aswell chiurugicall as phisicall. With the true vse of taking that excellent hearbe tabacco, aswell in the pipe by sume, as also in phisicke, medicine and chirurgerie.

    • Gardiner, Edmund.
    Date
    1611
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  • Medical reports, of the effects of tobacco, in the cure of dropsies and dysuries, or cases of pain and difficulty of passing urine. By Thomas Fowler, M.D. ... Together with observations on the medicinal effects of tobacco, ...

    • Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801.
    Date
    1788
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  • Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifics, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism, by Thomas Fowler, M.D., of York; Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c. Author of Medical Reports of the effects of Tobacco; in the cure of Dropsies and Dysuries, and of arsenic in the cure of Agues; and lately Physician to the General Infirmary, at Stafford.

    • Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801.
    Date
    MDCCXCV. [1795]
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