Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians

William K. David

CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

INDEX.

PART I. MISCELLANEOUS. Gelatine Copying Pad.

PART II. STAGE ILLUSIONS. The Three-Headed Woman.

PART III. MEDICAL. Prescriptions of Eminent Physicians.

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SECRETS
OF
WISE MEN, CHEMISTS
AND
GREAT PHYSICIANS.

COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY

WM. K. DAVID,

AUTHOR OF

THE SHORT-RULE ARITHMETIC
AND ACCOUNTANT’S REFEREE, PERPETUAL
DISK CALENDARS, ETC.

Thirty-Eight Illustrations.

1889.

WM. K. DAVID

PUBLISHER,

LOCK BOX 507,
CHICAGO.

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SECRETS OF WISE MEN, CHEMISTS,

AND

GREAT PHYSICIANS,

By Wm. K. David.
Bound in cloth, price...............................................................$1.25.

DAVID’S SHORT-RULE ARITHMETIC

AND

ACCOUNTANT’S REFEREE.

A practical work containing the shortest and most simple rules and
labor saving tables ever devised. The most original arithmetical
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giving all dates for one hundred years.
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