A rich store-house or treasury for the diseased Wherein, are many approued medicines for diuers and sundry diseases, which haue been long hidden, and not come to light before this time. Now set foorth for the great benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people that are not of abilitie to go to the physitions. By A.T.

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A rich store-house or treasury for the diseased Wherein, are many approued medicines for diuers and sundry diseases, which haue been long hidden, and not come to light before this time. Now set foorth for the great benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people that are not of abilitie to go to the physitions. By A.T.
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A. T., practitioner in physicke.
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At London :: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot 2] for Thomas Purfoot [1], and Raph Blower,
Ann. 1596.
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Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.
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"A rich store-house or treasury for the diseased Wherein, are many approued medicines for diuers and sundry diseases, which haue been long hidden, and not come to light before this time. Now set foorth for the great benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people that are not of abilitie to go to the physitions. By A.T." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13300.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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Liuer.

¶A Medicine for the stopping in the Liuer.

TAKE Broth made of a Chicken, with these things in it, that is to say, Mercury and Succory, of each of them halfe a handfull, and a few great Reisons, the stones picked out, and let all these be boyled together, then take a few bitter Almonds, and blaunch them and beate them, and with the same Licquor, make Almond Milke, and so vse to drinke it euery morning first.

¶Another Medicine for the heate of the Liuer, or drinesse in the hands.

TAKE a good quantity of Strawbery-water distilled, and seeth therein a good quantity of Liuerwort, and drinke it with a good quantity of Sirop of Mints, and this will coole the heate of the Liuer.

¶A very good drinke made of Whey, for to coole the extreame heate of the Liuer and Stomacke.

TAke Violet-leaues, Sinckfoile leaues, Succory, Endiue, Scabions, and Fumitory, of each of them a good handfull, seeth all these in a pottle of Whey which hath been boyled, and so let it continue still seething, vntill a third part thereof be consumed, then straine it through a fine liunen cloth, and let the Patient drinke a good draught thereof both morning and euening, and it will helpe him. Probatum est.

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¶An approued Medicine for the Mother.

TAke a quantity of Nepe-royall, and stamp it, then take two spoonefuls of the said iuice, and a spoonefull of Sal∣let oyle, and let two parts thereof seeth away, then vnto that which remayneth, but onely the quantity of the oyle, and let the Patient anoint the place very often where the Mother doth arise.

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