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Medicine made to agree with the institutions of nature, or A new mechanical practice of physick ... / by Dav. Stephenson, M.A.

Stephenson, David, M.A., Benjamin Cole · 1744 · London : Printed by J. Hart for the author, MDCCXLIV [1744] · 9 pictures

A 1744 London medical treatise by David Stephenson, printed by J. Hart for the author, arguing a mechanical account of physick, with plates engraved by Benjamin Cole for physicians and instrument makers. Line-engraved plates show seated patients strapped into weighted traction frames, pulleys, levers and gauges, plus cutaway barometer and pump diagrams with numbered scales and figure keys.

Medical instruments and apparatus

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