A treatise, vvherein is declared the sufficiencie of English medicines, for cure of all diseases, cured with medicines. Whereunto is added a collection of medicines growing (for the most part) within our English climat, approoued and experimented against the iaundise, dropsie, stone, falling-sicknesse, pestilence
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- A treatise, vvherein is declared the sufficiencie of English medicines, for cure of all diseases, cured with medicines. Whereunto is added a collection of medicines growing (for the most part) within our English climat, approoued and experimented against the iaundise, dropsie, stone, falling-sicknesse, pestilence
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- Bright, Timothie, 1550-1615.
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- At London :: Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Tho. Man,
- 1615.
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- Materia medica -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
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"A treatise, vvherein is declared the sufficiencie of English medicines, for cure of all diseases, cured with medicines. Whereunto is added a collection of medicines growing (for the most part) within our English climat, approoued and experimented against the iaundise, dropsie, stone, falling-sicknesse, pestilence." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16851.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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To the gentle Reader.
I Would not haue thee igno∣rant (gentle Reader) of the affection wherewith I sette foorth this small Treatise. It is not with any carping minde, I as∣assure thee, against any person or state, or with desire to publish a new toy, thereby to seeme to bee some bodie. But considering the benefits which might arise of the truth of this matter, which seemeth to me most true, I was willing easily to yeeld vnto the re∣quests of certaine, vvho thought it good I should make it common with thee: which so much the more wil∣lingly I doe, in that I hope this my enterprise shal be a meanes to prouoke others to deale with the same Argu∣ment more plentifully, and kindle in
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vs a greater diligence to inquire after the medicines of our owne Countrie yeeld, & more care to put thē in prac∣tice. The case is neither mine nor thine onely, but the Common-wealths, the benefit whereof all are bound who are members thereof, according to their place & calling, most diligently to seek. And this I desire of thee: if thou art of another mind then I am in this matter, thou wouldest keepe moderation of thy affections towards my person: & in the searching out of truth ioyn with me: and as I giue thee leaue to thinke in this point what listeth thee, so dis∣daine not him who easily giueth his eare to reason, and hath dedicated his daies to serue thy commodity; which if he misseth of, his good will yet re∣maineth with thee, which hee also re∣quireth to bee yeelded on thy part to him againe. Farewell.