An account of a most efficacious medicine for soreness, weakness, and several other distempers of the eyes / By Sir Hans Sloane.
- Hans Sloane
- Date:
- 1745
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of a most efficacious medicine for soreness, weakness, and several other distempers of the eyes / By Sir Hans Sloane. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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