Author: Cawthorne, Nigel, Title: THE CURIOUS CURES OF OLD ENGLAND.
Description: Portrait, London, 2006, reprint, [vi], 266pp, line drawings in text, coloured endpapers, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a collection of the strange and sometimes alarming treatments in use by the British medical profession in historical times, the majority having no scientific basis and certainly did more harm than good but a few of which had some beneficial effect which is still in use today although probably in a more refined form, fine in a fine dustwrapper,
Keywords: british history medicine ailments cures herbs
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- Book number: 43012
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