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Can Onions Cure Ear-Ache? : Medical Advice from 1769

ISBN: 9781851243822 | 1851243828
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PRESS
Pub. Date: 3/1/2013

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Summary
Although plenty of Dr Buchan's advice is still sound today, much is amusing, and some is downright dangerous, this edited selection from one of the first medical self-help manuals gives a fascinating insight into popular treatments of the eighteenth century, derived both from folklore and the emerging medical science of the day.

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