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Health and medicine
19 Topics
Bladder and kidney stones
Epsom water
Erysipelas
Fleas
Galenical medicine
Gout
Hospitals
Measles
Mithrydate
Other illnesses
Plague
Scarlet fever
Scrofula (The King's Evil)
Smallpox
Tuberculosis
Tube spectacles
Turpentine
Urine
Venice treacle