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A28996 Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies, for the most part simple and easily prepared very useful in families and fitted for the service of country people : the third and last volume, published from the author's original manuscripts : whereunto is added several other useful notes explicatory of the same / by ... R. Boyle ... Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. 1694 (1694) Wing B3992; ESTC R1739 19,675 120

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