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A30805 The artificial spaw, or, Mineral-waters to drink imitating the German spaw-water in its delightful and medicinal operations on humane bodies, &c. / by T. Byfield. Byfield, T. (Timothy) 1684 (1684) Wing B6396; ESTC R24245 13,506 81

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