An hospitall for the diseased wherein are to bee founde moste excellent and approued medicines, as well emplasters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receptes, bothe for the restitution and the preseruation of bodily healthe : very necessary for this tyme of common plague and immortalitie, and for other tymes when occasion shall require : with a newe addition / gathered by T.C.

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Title: An hospitall for the diseased wherein are to bee founde moste excellent and approued medicines, as well emplasters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receptes, bothe for the restitution and the preseruation of bodily healthe : very necessary for this tyme of common plague and immortalitie, and for other tymes when occasion shall require : with a newe addition / gathered by T.C.
Author: T. C., fl. 1579.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: For Edward White, at the little northdore of Paules Churche, at the signe of the gun, and are there to bee solde,; 1579.
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Subject terms: Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.; Plague -- Treatment.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "An hospitall for the diseased wherein are to bee founde moste excellent and approued medicines, as well emplasters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receptes, bothe for the restitution and the preseruation of bodily healthe : very necessary for this tyme of common plague and immortalitie, and for other tymes when occasion shall require : with a newe addition / gathered by T.C." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17489.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.

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To make a drinke for an extreame beate or drought.

Take a pottle of fayre water, a handfull of Succorie, a handfull of Endife, a handfull of Violet leaues, a handfull of Burrage, halfe a handfull of Letice, two Fenell rootes, two Parsely rootes, put them all in your pottle of water, and let them seeth from a pottle to a quarte, then take it off any put a litle Sugar to it, and let it haue two wallops more, then drinke of it as you list.