The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies ... to which is added a short account of those cases in which bleeding and blisters are really serviceable / [Hugh Smith].
- Hugh Smith
- Date:
- [1760]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies ... to which is added a short account of those cases in which bleeding and blisters are really serviceable / [Hugh Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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