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Hippocrates upon air, water, and situation; : upon epidemical diseases; and upon prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydidesʼs account of the plague of Athens, the whole translated, methodisʼd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: MDCCXXXIV [1734].
Call number: 657735
Creator: Hippocrates(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Dr. W. Bruce and Lois B. Fye, June 2021.
Dimensions: 20 cm (8vo)
Associated people: Thucydides. (-1763,); Watts, John, (-1736,); Clifton, Francis,; Soranus,; Fye, Bruce,; Fye, Lois B.,
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