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Lectures on the materia medica: Containing the natural history of drugs, their virtues and doses: Also directions for the study of the materia medica; and an appendix on the method of prescribing. Published from the manuscript of the late Dr. Charles Alston...by John Hope. 2 vols.

Publication Details

London: Edward and Charles Dilly & Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1770 CE.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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Entry Number	#12733
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Publication places: London; Edinburgh