Choice and rare experiments in physick and chirurgery, or, A discovery of most approved medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of men, women, and of children together with an antidotary of experiments never before published / found out by the studie and experience of Thomas Collins, student in physick neer the city of Gloucester.

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Choice and rare experiments in physick and chirurgery, or, A discovery of most approved medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of men, women, and of children together with an antidotary of experiments never before published / found out by the studie and experience of Thomas Collins, student in physick neer the city of Gloucester.
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Collins, Thomas, Student in physick.
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London :: Printed by J.T. for Francis Eglesfield ...,
1658.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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For Dizziness in the head.

Take Pilulae Cochiae one ounce, temper it with twenty drops of oyl of Anniseeds, and make seven pills of it, and swallow them and keep warm in your Chamber till it have done working, then eat any warm broth, made of Veal, Mutton, or Chicken, and comfortable Herbs. After this purge so used, this Electua∣y following.

Take Betony-flowers, and Rosemary-flow∣ers, three ounces, powder of Carduus benedictu leaves, powder of Marigold leaves one ounce, boil them with one pound of beaten Sugar, and half a pint of Bugles-water, and Marje∣rom-water, and Betony-water, and Balm-water of each two ounce, boil together over a gentle fire to the thickness of honey, and use thereof as much as a Nut morning and evening till it be spent▪ Probat. Chew every morning Cloves fasting, or whole Mace, and use Coriander Comsits or the seeds prepared, and use after meat Marmalade of Quinces to clse the stom∣ack,

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and repress the vapors that fume up thence to the brain.

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