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.
Author
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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London :: Printed for Sam. Smith ...,
1693.
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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Pharmacopoeias.
Dispensatories.
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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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181. A very often Experienc'd Medicine for the Small-Pox (especially in Children.).

TAke the little Balls of fresh Sheeps-düng, and having freed them from straws and dust, and other things forrain to them, put an handful of them thus cleans'd into a quart of good White-wine, and in a Vessel well stopt, let them infuse in a moderate heat for a Night, or till the Liquor be well impreg∣nated with the taste and colour of them. Strain this Infusion, and give

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of it warm about a spoonful at a time, once in two or three hours, or oftner if need require. N. B. In case of Necessity, the Infusion may be much sooner made, by putting into the Wine a greater proportion of the Sheeps-dung.

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