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.

The Author's PREFACE.

THE following Prescri∣ptions are a part of a Collection of Receipts and Pro∣cesses, that from Time to Time have been recommended to me by the Experience of others, or approv'd by my own: Receipts that being Parable or Cheap, may easily be made servicable to poor Country People.

For Medicines so Simple, and for the most part so Cheap, I have found all of them to be good in their kind: And though I think most of them safer than many other Medicines that are in great Request, yet I do not pre∣tend that these should play the Part of Medicines and Physi∣cians too; but that they may be usefully employed by one who knows how to administer them discreetly.

I distinguish them into three Classes or Orders, annexing to the Title of each particular Me∣dicine one of the Three first Let∣ters of the Alphabet; whereof A is the Mark of a Remedy of

the highest Classis of these, Re∣commended as very considerable and efficatious in its kind. B, Denotes a secondor inferior sort, but yet to be valuable for their good Operations. C, belongs to those Remedies that are of the lowest Order, tho' good enough not to be dispised.

Those Receipts, which were my own, are expressed in my own Terms; so also those which I received from others by word of Mouth: But them which were imparted to me in Writing, though I my self would not have worded them, as they did that I had them from, yet I often∣times made a Scruple to Correct

or Alter their Expressions, tho' not suitable to the Current Style of the Formularies of Receipts, being more concern'd that the Meaning should be close kept to, than the Style rectified.