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A08913 A treatise of the plague contayning the causes, signes, symptomes, prognosticks, and cure thereof. Together with sundry other remarkable passages (for the prevention of, and preservation from the pestilence) never yet published by anie man. Collected out of the workes of the no lesse learned than experimented and renowned chirurgian Ambrose Parey. Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590. aut; Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644. 1630 (1630) STC 19192; ESTC S103146 56,219 88

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