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165. A good Medicine to in∣increase Milk to those that give Suck.
MAke Pottage with Lentils (which many distinguish not from Vetches) and let the Patient use freely of it.
Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies for the most part simple and easily prepared, useful in families, and very serviceable to country people / by R. Boyle ; to which is annexed a catalogue of his theological and philosophical books and tracts.
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- Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies for the most part simple and easily prepared, useful in families, and very serviceable to country people / by R. Boyle ; to which is annexed a catalogue of his theological and philosophical books and tracts.
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- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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- London :: Printed for Sam. Smith ...,
- 1693.
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- Pharmacopoeias.
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"Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies for the most part simple and easily prepared, useful in families, and very serviceable to country people / by R. Boyle ; to which is annexed a catalogue of his theological and philosophical books and tracts." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28994.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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166. Another Medicine to in∣crease Milk in Nurses.
TAke Earth-worms, wash them well, freeing them carefully from their Excrements, and from all adhering Earth and Filth. Then dry them so as they may not stink, and yet be pulverable. Of these, reduc'd to Poúder, give half a Dram or two Scruples for a Dose, in Wine or any other proper Vehicle.
Page 119
167. A Remedy, by which many Dogs bitten by a Mad-Dog, have been all of them pre∣serv'd this Year from run∣ning Mad.
TAke three Plants (i. e. Roots and Leaves) of that Herb which is called Rose-Plantane, or by some Star-Plantane, and having chopt it small with a convenient quantity of Butter, let the bitten Dog take it the first day; the se∣cond day give him five Plants or∣der'd as before, and the next day seven.