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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34011.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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A good drink to cleanse the blood.

Take water Cresses four hands Is, Brook∣lime two handfuls scurvy gass, half a peck, sena two ounces. Rubarb an ounce and a hal, Liquerice an ounce, sweet fennel seeds two ounces, he midle bak or barbry tee an ounce, new wort three galos, Bruis all that is to be bruised, Cut the Bubarb in thin slices and cut the Herbs small, and put all together into a bag made o bouel Clath, and let it hang in the dink five dayes before you give it

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to the party, and then cause him to take it e∣very morning fasting, and about the clock n the afternoon. This drink is good against the scurvy, whosoever takes this drink spring and fall▪ needs no other Medicine.

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