A laboratory course of pharmacy and materia medica : including the principles and practice of dispensing adapted to the study of the British Pharmacopoeia and the requirements of the private student / by William Elborne.

  • Elborne, William.
Date:
1890
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Credit: A laboratory course of pharmacy and materia medica : including the principles and practice of dispensing adapted to the study of the British Pharmacopoeia and the requirements of the private student / by William Elborne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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