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Health and medicine

20 Topics

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

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