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A28375 New and curious observations on the art of curing the veneral disease and the accidents that it produces in all its degrees explicatd by natural and mechanical principles with the motions, actions, and effects of mercury and its other remedies : wherein are discovered on the same subject the errours of some authors ... / written in French by Monsieur de Blegny ; Englished by Walter Harris. Blégny, Monsieur de (Nicolas), 1652-1722.; Harris, Walter, 1647-1732. 1676 (1676) Wing B3186; ESTC R23701 76,734 217

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