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A46974 Agyrto-mastix, or, Some brief animadversions upon two late treatises one of Master George Thomsons, entituled Galeno-pale, the other of Master Thomas O'Dowdes, called The poor mans physitian : with a short appendix relating to the Company of Apothecaries / by William Johnson, chymist to the Kings Colledge of Physitians in London. Johnson, William, fl. 1652-1678. 1665 (1665) Wing J854; ESTC R43321 46,440 146

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