Volume 1

A circular invitatory letter to all orders of learned men, but more especially to the professors of physick and surgery, in Great Britain. Concerning an attempt ... towards an history of the lives ... of the most celebrated British Physical and chirurgical authors / [Edward Milward].

Edward Milward

Date:: 1740

Credit: A circular invitatory letter to all orders of learned men, but more especially to the professors of physick and surgery, in Great Britain. Concerning an attempt ... towards an history of the lives ... of the most celebrated British Physical and chirurgical authors / [Edward Milward]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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