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A50701 A short view of the fravds, and abvses committed by apothecaries, as well in relation to patients, as physicians, and of the only remedy thereof by physicians making their own medicines by Christopher Merret ... Merret, Christopher, 1614-1695. 1670 (1670) Wing M1844; ESTC R650 40,249 81

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