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Compendium of the practice of physic: pointing out the symptoms, causes, diagnoses, prognoses, and method of cure of diseases, 1818

This compendium of diseases includes as treatments bloodletting, cupping, emetics, enemas, mercury and many others that were commonly used by physicians in England and America.

Courtesy National Library of Medicine

Title page from Compendium of the practice of physic on faded paper.