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A50963 Medicina militaris, or, A body of military medicines experimented by Raymundus Mindererus ... ; Englished out of High-Dutch.; Medicina militaris. English Minderer, Raymund, 1570?-1621. 1674 (1674) Wing M2189; ESTC R20182 52,898 167

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