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A11156 The Queenes vvelles That is, a treatise of the nature and vertues of Tunbridge water. Together, with an enumeration of the chiefest diseases, which it is good for, and against which it may be vsed, and the manner and order of taking it. By Lodvvick Rovvzee, Dr. of Physicke, practising at Ashford in Kent. Rowzee, Lodwick, b. 1586. 1632 (1632) STC 21426; ESTC S116278 26,141 88

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