Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated ... and illustrated with notes, by Peter Shaw.

Date:: 1730

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

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