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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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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T. C., fl. 1579.
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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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Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
Plague -- Treatment.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 May 15, 2024.
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A good medicine for an Ague, bee it quotidian, or quarten.
TAke of Smallage, and of Fetherfewe, of ether of thē the quantitie of a handfull, stampe theim and straiue theim, and then take halfe so muche as the iuice of the same is, of small ale, and beyng mixed together, drinke it warme a little before the tyme that the fitte shall come, that is to saie, when you perceiue any grudgyng. This must bee dronke three seuerall tymes, the pacient goyng to bedde, and clothes enough laied vpon hym.
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