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Nature the great physician; or, Every man his own doctor : Shewing in a course of natural observations entirely new, how nature is best relieved and assisted, in all cases, and health preserved to the greatest age. With variety of philosophical resemblances, explaining the particular causes of diseases, and likewise adapted to the whole. By an old Gentleman of fourscore.

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Main Author:	Old gentleman of fourscore
Corporate Author:	Gale (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for J Crokatt next Garraway's Coffee-House in Exchange-Alley; Cornhill; and sold by M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]
Subjects:	Medicine, Popular > Early works to 1800. Self-care, Health > Early works to 1800. Electronic books.
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