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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For the flux of the w••mb.
In all fluxes of the belly, cause the excre∣ments to be duly searched, for if the disease be such, that the meat cometh forth, as it was received, or not half digested, the said Flux is called Lienteria, if great abundance of watery humours have their I••••••e below, the said Flux is named Diarhaea, which is as much to say as Flux humoral, and if blood or matter appear with the excrements in the sickness, then they call it dysenteria, which is a great dis∣ease and dangerous fo•• to cure.
Take the rindes of Mirabolane cirtin ba••e••
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••••e dram, Rubarb a little dryed, half a dram, ••rup of quinces one ounce, water of plantain three ounces, mingl•• altogether & let the pati∣••••t drink th••m, ••our hour••s before meat, and ••hen give him a Clyster Retentive made thus, ••ake oyl of roses or quinces, of mastick of ••ach ••e three ounces, ••ole a••moniack in powder a ••••ains, meddle alltogether & give it as a Clyst∣••••, here is to be noted that the Clyster: that ••e given to stop a Flux must be very little in ••uantity.
Ye may heal the Flux dysenteria as the flux ••um••ral, and take afore your re••ast two d••ams ••f conserves of quinces, and he ought to drink ••••ter wherein hath been quenched gads of ••eel, ye must avoyd diversitie of meats.
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