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A43010 The art of curing diseases by expectation with remarks on a supposed great case of apoplectick fits : also most useful observations on coughs, consumptions, stone, dropsies, fevers, and small pox : with a confutation of dispensatories, and other various discourses in physick / by Gideon Harvey ... Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700? 1689 (1689) Wing H1056; ESTC R15429 64,822 230

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