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Lucina sine concubitu. A letter humbly address'd to the Royal
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and antiquarian. Despite Hill's merits as a scientist (at a time when many
Fellows had no scientific background) and his relations, his election to the title of Fellow failed to materialise.
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and vegetable medicines. He was known for his "pectoral balsam of honey" and "tincture of bardana".
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