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A Smallpox Vaccination Act This pamphlet discusses the expansion of legislation concerning smallpox vaccinations in Great Britain.
Opusculum de bombyce This is the rare first edition of the first printed work dealing with the silkworm.
Tractatus de Febribus This is a first edition of a very early and rare work on fevers.
De Vinis... This is the first printed book that deals with wine. He introduced alcohol and medicinal wines into the materia medica. He also believed brandy to be the "elixir of life."
Descriptiones morborum in corpore humano existentium This is a treatise on diseases of the human body.
Incipit fasciculus medicin[ae] This work is made up of multiple medical treatises that discuss such topics as astrology, bloodletting, uroscopy, and women’s health.
Feldtbůch der Wundtartzney This book contains some of the most instructive, hand-colored pictures of early surgical procedure.
Tractacus de flobotomia. [With other tracts.] A medieval manuscript that contains several tracts.
Hortus Sanitatis Printed in 1497, this is a natural history encyclopedia that depicts plants, stones, animals, etc. that were believed to exist in the medieval world.
Proust Letter 1 This is the second of ten letters written by Marcel Proust to the Marquise (later Duchesse) de Clermont de Tonnerre.
Proust Letter 2 This is the sixth of ten letters written by Marcel Proust to the Marquise (later Duchesse) de Clermont de Tonnerre.
Tractatus de Magnete et Operationibus eius. [With other tracts.] This is a medieval manuscript consisting of several different tracts.
American Medicinal Plants This is an important botanical guide.
Regimen sanitatis cum expositione magistri Arnaldi de Villa Noua Cathellano nouiter impressus This medical work in the form of a poem discusses nutrition, hygiene, etc., and their therapeutic uses.
Regimen Sanitatis ad Regem Aragonum. [With other Tracts.] This is a medieval manuscript that contains multiple tracts.