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REM (beta) Reading Early Medicine

Chemical remedies became increasingly popular over the course the early modern period, augmenting older preparations made from plants and animal parts. Often associated with the sixteeenth-century healer Paracelsus, chemical remedies were often controversial for physicians, but popular with patients.

Aurora chymica: or A rational way of preparing animals, vegetables, and minerals, for a physical…

Bolnest, Edward
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Zenexton ante-pestilentiale. Or, A short discourse of the plague: its antidotes and cure, according…

Simpson, William
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Van Helmont’s works: containing his most excellent philosophy, physick, chirurgery, anatomy. Wherein the philosophy of…

Helmont, Jean Baptiste van
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A treatise of the great antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus and Crollius; by them called…

H., J.
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Tabidorum narratio: a treatise of consumptions Scorbutick atrophies. Tabes Anglica. Hectick fevers. Phthisicks. Spermatick and…

Maynwaringe, Everard
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The poor man’s physician, or The true art of medicine, as it is chymically prepared…

O'Dowde, Thomas
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Oriatrike or, Physick refined. The common errors therein refuted, and the whole art reformed & rectified…

Helmont, Jean Baptiste van
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The method of chemical philosophie and physick

[author not specified],
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Medicina instavrata, or; A brief account of the true grounds and principles of the art…

Bolnest, Edward
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The marrow of chymical physick; or, The practice of making chymical medicines. Divided in three…

Thrasher, William
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