Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies for the most part simple and easily prepared, useful in families, and very serviceable to country people / by R. Boyle ; to which is annexed a catalogue of his theological and philosophical books and tracts.
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Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies for the most part simple and easily prepared, useful in families, and very serviceable to country people / by R. Boyle ; to which is annexed a catalogue of his theological and philosophical books and tracts.
Author
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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London :: Printed for Sam. Smith ...,
1693.
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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Pharmacopoeias.
Dispensatories.
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"Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies for the most part simple and easily prepared, useful in families, and very serviceable to country people / by R. Boyle ; to which is annexed a catalogue of his theological and philosophical books and tracts." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28994.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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