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A96154 Cosmeticks or, the beautifying part of physick. By which all deformities of nature in men and women are corrected, age renewed, youth prolonged, and the least impediment, from a hair to a tooth, fairly amended. With the most absolute physical rarities for all ages. Being familiar remedies, for which every one may be his own apothecary. / All extracted out of that eminent physician John Jeams Wecker, never yet extant in the English tongue before, but was promised to the world by Mr. Nic. Culpeper. Wecker, Johann Jacob, 1528-1586.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654, attributed name. 1660 (1660) Wing W1235; Thomason E2140_3; ESTC R208368 51,507 157

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