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A short discourse concerning pestilential contagion, and the methods to be used to prevent it / By Richard Mead.
- Richard Mead
- Date:
- 1722
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A short discourse concerning pestilential contagion, and the methods to be used to prevent it / By Richard Mead. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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