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| Title | The Modern Philosopher: Or Terrible Tractoration! In Four Cantos, Most Respectfully Addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, London Issue 10408 of Early American imprints |
| Author | Thomas Green Fessenden |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | From the Lorenzo Press of E. Bronson, 1806 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 May 2007 |
| Length | 271 pages |
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