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A20928 A discourse of the preseruation of the sight: of melancholike diseases; of rheumes, and of old age. Composed by M. Andreas Laurentius, ordinarie phisition to the King, and publike professor of phisicke in the Vniuersitie of Mompelier. Translated out of French into English, according to the last edition, by Richard Surphlet, practitioner in phisicke; Discours de la conservation de la veüe. English Du Laurens, André, 1558-1609.; Surflet, Richard, fl. 1600-1616. 1599 (1599) STC 7304; ESTC S110934 175,205 211

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