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 powder for the stone and Colick or either of them.
  • Imprimis Carawayseeds two ounces.
  • Gromel seeds two ounces.
  • Anniseeds two ounces.
  • Rubarb two ounces.
  • Liquerice four ounces.
  • Parsl seeds two ounces.
  • Fennl seeds two ounces, dryed in an oven,

Elecampana roots dryed as the Rubarb, else neither of them will beat to powder, bruise all these very small and Put to them asmuch

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sugar as the quantity of them all and searce them through a sieve, then every morning take an heaped spoonful and put in your broth or what you like best.

If you cannot away with the Gromel, put the more into of the other seeds, for that doth more prevail either against the stone or Co∣lick. This receipt hath often been proved to be good either for the stone or Colick.

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