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A01822 Two treatises concerning the preseruation of eie-sight. The first written by Doctor Baily sometimes of Oxford: the other collected out of those two famous phisicions Fernelius and Riolanus; Briefe treatise touching the preservation of the eie sight Baley, Walter, 1529-1592.; Fernel, Jean, 1497-1558. aut; Riolan, Jean, 1538-1605. aut 1616 (1616) STC 1196; ESTC S114909 24,561 70

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