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A treatise on foreign vegetables. Containing ... such as are now commonly used in the practice of physick ... / Chiefly taken from the Materia medica of S.F. Geoffroy. By R. Thicknesse.
- Étienne François Geoffroy
- Date:
- 1749
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on foreign vegetables. Containing ... such as are now commonly used in the practice of physick ... / Chiefly taken from the Materia medica of S.F. Geoffroy. By R. Thicknesse. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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