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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Raphanus, the Radish:* 1.1 The vse of the Radish is commended in the dropsie, because it hath power to purge by vrine.
Ricinus, or Palma Christi,* 1.2 purgeth the water in the dropsie by vomit and stoole. There is giuen fiue graines, or at the most eight, in the decoction of Fenell and Raisins, adding a little Suger and Cina∣mon. Also the graines whole in Suger melted, and ••rapt in Hony, and so swallowed, gently purgeth water with little or no offence of the stomack. Fer∣nelius.
Rosae pallidae, whiteroses, or damask,* 1.3 the iuice therof
doth euacuate yellow water in the dropsie. Ferneli∣us. But because they prouoke the menstrues, we must take heed how we giue it to women with childe. Io. Hernius.
* 1.4Ruta, Rue: the decoction thereof taken for ma∣ny daies together, is reported to cure the dropsie Timpanites. Anton. Fumanellus.