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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Sambucus, the Elder: the iuice of the roote of the elder,* 1.1 being drunke in wine the weight of two ounces, driueth out water. Paulus. The roote of the elder boyled in wine, and giuen in meate, hel∣peth those that haue the dropsie.
The common sort are wont to prepare this fol∣lowing decoction against the dropsie: They take two handfulls of the inward rinde of the elder tree with a pint and a halfe of Rhenish wine, and they suffer it to boyle to a pinte, then they aromatise the straining with a drachme of cinamon, and giue it to drinke.