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A71263 Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, The operations of medicines in humane bodies. The second part. With copper plates describing the several parts treated of in this volume. By Tho. Willis, M.D. and Sedley Professor in the University of Oxford.; Pharmaceutice rationalis. Part 2. Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675. 1679 (1679) Wing W2850; ESTC R38952 301,624 203

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