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A03089 An excellent treatise teaching howe to cure the French-pockes with all other diseases arising and growing thereof, and in a manner all other sicknesses. Dravvne out of the bookes of that learned doctor and prince of phisitians, Theophrastus Paracelsus. Compiled by the learned Phillippus Hermanus, phisition and chirurgion. And now put into English by Iohn Hester in the spagiricall arte, practitioner. Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Hermanni, Philippus.; Hester, John, d. 1593. 1590 (1590) STC 13215; ESTC S108576 44,196 74

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