Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
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Medicine in seventeenth century England
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عنوان ژورنال: Renaissance and Reformation
سال: 2006
ISSN: 2293-7374,0034-429X
DOI: 10.33137/rr.v30i2.9581