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 May 23, 2024.

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I. For Convulsions, especially in Children.

TAke Earth-worms, wash them well in White∣wine to cleanse them, but so as that they may not die in the Wine: Then, upon hollow Tiles, or between them, dry the Worms with a moderate heat, and no further than that they may be conveniently reduc'd to Pow∣der; to one Ounce of which add

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a pretty number of Grains of Am∣bergrise, both to perfume the Pow∣der, (whose scent of it self is rank) and to make the Medicine more Efficacious. The Dose is from one Dram to a Dram and half in any convenient Vehicle.

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