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A58318 The judgment of urines. By Robert Record Doctor of Physick Whereunto is added an ingenious treatise concerning physicians, apothecaries, and chirurgeons, set forth by an eminent physitian in Queen Elizabeths dayes. With a translation of Papius Ahalsossa concerning apothecaries confecting their medicines; worthy perusing, and imitating. Record, Robert, 1510?-1558.; Pape, Joseph, 1558-1622. aut 1679 (1679) Wing R650A; ESTC R220684 54,269 145

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