Botanologia. The Brittish physician, or, The nature and vertues of English plants. Exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their ... applications and vertues, physical and astrological uses, treated of, each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure ... / [Robert Turner].
- Robert Turner
- Date:
- 1664
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Botanologia. The Brittish physician, or, The nature and vertues of English plants. Exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their ... applications and vertues, physical and astrological uses, treated of, each plant appropriated to the several diseases they cure ... / [Robert Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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