Antidotaria; or, a collection of antidotes against the plague, and other malignant diseases. Together with some decent and useful remarks, on the late Pharmacopeia Londinensis, in a letter to the President and College of Physicians; shewing the necessity of a farther reformation of their new London dispensatory ... / [Joseph Browne].

  • Browne, Joseph, active 1700-1721.
Date:
1721
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Credit: Antidotaria; or, a collection of antidotes against the plague, and other malignant diseases. Together with some decent and useful remarks, on the late Pharmacopeia Londinensis, in a letter to the President and College of Physicians; shewing the necessity of a farther reformation of their new London dispensatory ... / [Joseph Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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