Volume 1
A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe].
- William Wagstaffe
- Date:
- 1719
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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