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The history of four-footed beasts and serpents. (1658)

Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?, Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565, Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604, Rowland, John, M.D · London, Printed by E. Cotes, for G. Sawbridge [etc.] · leaf 966

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edicine: they fmell likeTarce, tafte like Cedar, as Nicander reporteth. Their virtue confifts in burning the body, caufing a cruft, or (as Diofcorides will have it) tocorrode, caufe exulceration, and provoke heat; and for that reafon are ufed mingled with me-dicines that are to heat the Lepry,…

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