A short discoverie of the unobserved dangers of severall sorts of ignorant and unconsiderate practisers of physicke in England profitable not onely for the deceived multitude, and easie for their meane capacities, but raising reformed and more advised thoughts in the best understandings: with direction for the safest election of a physition in necessitie ... / [John Cotta].

  • John Cotta
Date:
1612
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Credit: A short discoverie of the unobserved dangers of severall sorts of ignorant and unconsiderate practisers of physicke in England profitable not onely for the deceived multitude, and easie for their meane capacities, but raising reformed and more advised thoughts in the best understandings: with direction for the safest election of a physition in necessitie ... / [John Cotta]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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