Essays medical and experimental ... To which are added, select histories of diseases, with remarks; and proposals for establishing more accurate and comprehensive bills of mortality / [Thomas Percival].

  • Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.
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Essays medical and experimental ... To which are added, select histories of diseases, with remarks; and proposals for establishing more accurate and comprehensive bills of mortality / [Thomas Percival]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for Joseph Johnson ..., 1773.

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xvi, 267 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : tables ; (8vo)

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With a half-title including the statement: 'Vol. II.', and a final advertisement leaf.
Copy 1 Note: Author's presentation inscription on flyleaf.
Copy 2 Note: Bound with his Philosophical, medical, and experimental essays. 1776.

Contents

(From t.p.) 1. On the columbo root -- 2. On the orchis root -- 3. On the waters of Buxton and Matlock in Derbyshire -- 4. On the medicinal uses of fixed air -- 5. On the antiseptic and sweetening powers, and on the varieties of factitious air -- 6. On the noxious vapours of charcoal -- 7. On the atrabilis -- 8. On sea salt -- 9. On coffee.

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