Discourses on tea, sugar, milk, made-wines, spirits, punch, tobacco, etc. With plain and useful rules for gouty people / By Thomas Short, M.D.

  • Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772.
Date:
1750
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Credit: Discourses on tea, sugar, milk, made-wines, spirits, punch, tobacco, etc. With plain and useful rules for gouty people / By Thomas Short, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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