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Observatio anatom.-medica singularis mulieris cuiusdam calend. Januarii A*1 M.DCXLIV. tres filios naturalis magnitudinis viventes enixae. Puerpera vero retentis secundinis, extremum quasi halitum spirabat...foeliciter evasit / [Michael Rupert Besler].

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Observatio anatom.-medica singularis mulieris cuiusdam calend. Januarii A*1 M.DCXLIV. tres filios naturalis magnitudinis viventes enixae. Puerpera vero retentis secundinis, extremum quasi halitum spirabat...foeliciter evasit / [Michael Rupert Besler].