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REM (beta) Reading Early Medicine

Many an advertisement was for a practitioner, not a specific remedy. Itinerant healers in particular would print up a bunch of handbooks when they arrived in town, advising of their arrival, while established healers might also advertise in broadsides, or, more subtly in the prefaces to their books.

The skilfull mountebanke. Or, Come, and I’le cure you. It hath not so much power…

Baptista Guardano Lodovico Puncto, Johannes
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Soli deo gloria know all men by these present, that I, Richard Kellicke, professor of…

Kellicke, Richard
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Moreouer yf any be diseased with the pockes, ... let hym come to maister Geruaes, which…

Gervaes, Maister
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Pharmaco-pinax, or A table and taxe of the pryces of all vsuall medicaments, simple…

Gordon, William
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Be it knowne vnto all men, that I Nicholas Bowden chirurgion, cutter of the stone…

Bowden, Nicholas
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The trumpet of Apollo: sounding out the sweete blast of recouerie, in diuers dangerous and…

Clarke, John
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An approved medicine against the deserued plague

Anderson, Anthony
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The castell of health, corrected and in some places augmented by the fyrst author thereof…

Elyot, Thomas
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An advertisement, concerning those most excellent pills called pilulæ radiis solis extractæ. Being an universal…

Lockyer, Lionel
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That famous friendly pill, electuary, and balsam of balsams of Dr. George Jones of Hatton…

Russel, Eliz
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