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Compendium of the practice of physic: pointing out the symptoms, causes, diagnoses, prognoses, and method of cure of diseases, Philadelphia, 1818.

Author/Artist: Clarke MD, Edward Goodman, translated from Latin by R. W. Worthington

Type: Book

Topic: Diseases

Title page from Compendium of the practice of physic...

This compendium of diseases includes as treatments bloodletting, cupping, emetics, enemas, mercury and many others that were commonly used by physicians in England and America.