An account of a most efficacious medicine for soreness, weakness, and several other distempers of the eyes / By Sir Hans Sloane, bart. physician to his majesty, &c.
- Hans Sloane
- Date:
- [1750?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of a most efficacious medicine for soreness, weakness, and several other distempers of the eyes / By Sir Hans Sloane, bart. physician to his majesty, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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