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A38822 Panacea, or, The universal medicine being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe : with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery / by Dr Everard, &c. Everard, Giles. 1659 (1659) Wing E3530; ESTC R1871 56,313 160

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