Some observations made upon the root called nean, or ninsing, imported from the East-Indies.  Shewing its ... virtue, in curing consumptions, ptissicks, shortness of breath, distillation of rhume ...  Publisht by a doctor of physick in York-shire [i. e. Robert Wittie], in a letter to Mr. Colwell, a member of the Royal Society, 1680.

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Simpson, W. (William), active 1665-1677.

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