Volume 3
Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, or, a body of medicines, containing a thousand select prescripts. Answering most intentions of cure. To which are added, useful scholia, a catalogue of remedies, and copious index, for the assistance of young physicians / Done into English out of Latin by the author ... with large additions.
- Thomas Fuller
- Date:
- 1714
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, or, a body of medicines, containing a thousand select prescripts. Answering most intentions of cure. To which are added, useful scholia, a catalogue of remedies, and copious index, for the assistance of young physicians / Done into English out of Latin by the author ... with large additions. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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