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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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An account of some books: I.Ephemeridum medico-physicarum germanicarum annus IV.& V. II. Nouvelle methode en geometric pour les sections des supersicies coniques & cylindriques, &c. III. Ophthalmegraphia, A Gu. Briggs A.M. IV. Longitude found by H. Bond Sen

    Published:https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1676.0043

      This industrious collection contains 210 observations; among which not a few seem considerable and uncommon; E.g, Menses coming at 8 and 9 years of age : A prince that lived a great while with great and dangerous diseases: The errors of nature in one part, supplied by another: A preservation from drunkenness by the gaping of a suture of the head: A cure of the scurvy by a dog’s licking the patient in the parts most affected, together with the cure of that dog, becoming altogether scabby, by mercurius dulcis

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