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A33546 The uncertainty of the art of physick together with an account of the innumerable abuses practised by the professors of that art, clearly manifested by a particular relation of the original and progress thereof : also divers contests between the Greeks and Arabians concerning its authors / written in Italian by the famous Lionardo di Capoa ; and made English by J.L., Gent.; Ragionamenti intorno alla incertezza de' medicamenti. English Di Capua, Lionardo, 1617-1695.; J. L. (John Lancaster) 1684 (1684) Wing C481; ESTC R12934 42,783 114

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