The York-shire spaw, or a treatise of four famous medicinal wells, viz. the spaw, or vitrioline-well; the stinking, or sulphur-well; the dropping, or petrifying-well; and St. Mugnus-Well, near Knaresborow. In York-shire ... / [John French].
- John French
- Date:
- 1652
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The York-shire spaw, or a treatise of four famous medicinal wells, viz. the spaw, or vitrioline-well; the stinking, or sulphur-well; the dropping, or petrifying-well; and St. Mugnus-Well, near Knaresborow. In York-shire ... / [John French]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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