Materia Indica; Or, Some Account of Those Articles which are Employed by the Hindoos and Other Eastern Nations in Their Medicine, Arts and Agriculture: Comprising Also Formulae with Practical Observations...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826 |
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