A discourse upon prodigious abstinence occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire damosell : proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat & drink : with an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / by John Reynolds ...

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A discourse upon prodigious abstinence occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire damosell : proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat & drink : with an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / by John Reynolds ...
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Reynolds, John, of Kings-Norton.
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London :: Printed by R.W. for Nevill Simmons ... and for Dorman Newman ...,
1669.
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Taylor, Martha, b. 1651.
Fasting -- Early works to 1800.
Fasting -- Physiological effect -- Early works to 1800.
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"A discourse upon prodigious abstinence occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire damosell : proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat & drink : with an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / by John Reynolds ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57186.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

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