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 June 14, 2024.
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Martubium, Horehound:* 1.1 the iuice thereof taken vp into the nostrils, purgeth the Iaundise. Dioscori∣des. and Galenus. The iuice of horehound drawne into the nostrils, purgeth the Iaundise: or the same iuice dryed and mixed with honie and put into the nostrils, doth cure the same. Pet. Bayrus. The decoction of horehound cureth all kinds of Iaun∣dise, if the decoction be made with white pure wine, and giue foure ounces of the straining with sugar in the morning. Marcus Gatmaria.
Millipedae▪ the loop,* 1.2 or the worme with many feet drunke in wine, cureth the Iaundise. Dioscorides, Paulus. Vnder vessels of water there are found loops which being brused and drunke with mulsa, cureth
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the Iaundise. Galenus. Those millepedae drunke in wine, cureth those that are sicke of the Iaundise. A∣dam. Lonicerus. I (saith the Auth or) haue bruised those loops lightly, & bound them in a thinne peece of linnen, adding thereto wine, or the decoction of horehound, and being pressed, I giue thereof to the sicke in the morning, as he lieth in his bedde, and this I doe for some daies together; and for the taste sake, I adde a little cinamon and sugar, and this saith the Author is our experiment.