The history of generation
Subtitle: examining the several opinions of divers authors : especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his discourse of bodies : with a general relation of the manner of generation, as well in plants as animals : with some figures delineating the first originals of some creatures, evidently demonstrating the rest : to which is joyned a discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy : or without any real applycation of medicines to the part affected, but especially by that powder, known chiefly by the name of Sir Gilbert Talbots powder
By: By Nath. Highmore ; lately of Trinity Colledge in Oxford, doctor of physick
Contributors: Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665; Martin, John, printer; McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: Printed by R.N. for John Martin, and are to be sold at the Bell in S. Pauls Church-yard
Published: 1651
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Embryology; Early works to 1800; Reproduction; Wounds and injuries; Treatment
Other titles: Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy
Notes: Includes a translation of Sir Kenelm Digby's Discours fait en une célèbre assemblée, touchant la guérison des playes par la poudre de sympathie.

Title page in red and black.

"A discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy" has separate, undated, title page; register and pagination are continuous.

Health Sciences Library copy: Jerome P. Webster Library of Plastic Surgery.

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In English, translated from French.