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A60776 A rebuke to the authors of a blew-book call'd, The state of physick in London which is indeed the black and blew state of physick, dated from the college, and signed by Th. G. and R.M. / written in behalf of the apothecaries and chirurgians of the city of London by William Salmon ... Salmon, William, 1644-1713. 1698 (1698) Wing S449; ESTC R22575 28,636 34

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