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A60272 Zenexton ante-pestilentiale. Or, A short discourse of the plague its antidotes and cure, according to the placets of the best of physicians, Hippocrates, Paracelsus, and Helmont. By W. Simpson, Philo-Medico-Chymic. Simpson, William, M.D. 1665 (1665) Wing S3839; ESTC R221491 29,432 107

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