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 4, 2024.
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76. An Excellent Medicine for clammy Humors of the Eyes.
TAke New Milk, and let it stand till it hath got a little Cream upon it, then let the Patient when he is in Bed, take up with his Fin∣ger a little of the Cream (and not of Milk) and shutting his Eye∣lids, besmear his Eyes with it, ha∣ving a care that very little or none get into his Eyes, because it would make them smart; let this Cream lye on till the next Morning, and in case the Patient chance to wake in the Night, he may, if he finds cause, lay on a little more, and wash all off in the Morning.
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