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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50698	Self-conviction, or, An enumeration of the absurdities, railings against the college, and physicians in general (but more especially, the writers against the apothecaries), non-sence, irrational conclusions, falsities in matters of fact, and in quotations, concessions, &c. of a nameless person and also, an answer to the rest of Lex talionis / collected and made by Christopher Merrett ...	Merret, Christopher, 1614-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing M1841; ESTC R1984	16,813	34

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