A relation of the great sufferings and strange adventures of Henry Pitman, chyrurgion to the late Duke of Monmouth, containing an account ...

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A relation of the great sufferings and strange adventures of Henry Pitman, chyrurgion to the late Duke of Monmouth, containing an account ...
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Pitman, Henry.
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London :: Printed by Andrew Sowle, and are to be sold by John Taylor ...,
1689.
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These Medicines are all Prepared and Sold (with Printed Directions, giving a more full Account of their Virtues, &c.) by Henry Pitman, at the Sign of the Ship in St. Paul's-Church-Yard.

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