Medicorum priscorum de signatura imprimis plantarum doctrina : commentationis de necessitudine quae inter morphologiam et pharmacologiam regni vegetabilis intercedit pars prima.

  • Gohren, Friedrich Ludwig August Hermann de.
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[1840]
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