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A39862 The womans doctour, or, An exact and distinct explanation of all such diseases as are peculiar to that sex with choise and experimentall remedies against the same : being safe in the composition, pleasant in the use, effectuall in the operation, cheap in the price / faithfully translated out of the works of that learned philosopher and eminent physitian Nicholas Fontanus.; Syntagma medicum de morbis mulierum. English Fonteyn, Nicolaas. 1652 (1652) Wing F1409; ESTC R7033 90,953 268

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