Volume 1

The dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated from the Latin, and illustrated with notes, by Peter Shaw.

Date:: 1727

Credit: The dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated from the Latin, and illustrated with notes, by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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