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B01783 A brief seasonable warning with some tymous remedies to ptevent [sic] the putrefing maladies of pur [sic] oresent [sic] distemper amongst all ranks of professors in Scotland. 1600-1699? (1699) Wing B4647A; ESTC R176329 4,232 8

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