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Surgeons Coache Books on Wounds and Diseases Abroad
An advertisement listing medical books published by Joan Clarke and others. Works include a Sea Surgeon manual for the Guinea coast and treating neglected slave voyages, a Gunshot wound treatise by Le Dran, a fluxion cure by Dr Cockburn, a Latin venereal disease text translated into English, and practical surgery observations from Barbados. Prices are given in shillings and pence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Clarke
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
Sia
Guiney
T. Aubray
Price
Henry Francis le ‘Dran
Fwdrd
Paris
Cockburn
John Altruc
W. Barrowby
England
Geneva
Philip Miller
Company of Apothecaries
Botanic
Chelsea
Botanic Academy
Florence
Chelseas
John, Rivington
Bible and Crown
St. Paul's Church-Yard
James Rivington