Of Eri••ipcla, or tumour in the face, or any other part of the body, and the cure thereof.
THis disease (as experience sheweth) is caused of an hot and fiery moisture, arising in the face, arms and
Polypharmakos kai chymistes, or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian shewing the true vse of all manner of plants and minerals in which is explained the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery ... / by D. Border ...
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- Polypharmakos kai chymistes, or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian shewing the true vse of all manner of plants and minerals in which is explained the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery ... / by D. Border ...
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- Border, D. (Daniel)
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- London :: Printed by B. Alsop ...,
- 1651.
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"Polypharmakos kai chymistes, or, The English unparalell'd physitian and chyrurgian shewing the true vse of all manner of plants and minerals in which is explained the whole art and secresy of physick and chyrurgery ... / by D. Border ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28815.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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legs, for where it is, the pores are stopped, y• the said moi∣sture, cannot have expiration, whereupon cometh tumor: as also a shutting and closing up of those pores, by means of the ordinary anointing them, with fats, oils, &c. or other cold things: a common course of common Chy∣rurgians. Against this there cannot be found a more present remedy, then the spirit of wine or Aqua ardens, or bathing it with hot water: and if you wash the parts af∣flicted with our Quintaessence, the pores will be opened, and it penetrateth and assubtilateth that humidity, cau∣sing it to come forth.
Also you shall find that by drinking our Quintaessence and anointing the stomack with oleum cerae, divers are cured of a certain heat retained in the stomack.