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.

The Womb, its remedies.

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••

••••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.

A purgation for the flux humora••.

Take two drams of Mirabolanes dryed on tile, half a scruple ••f Agarick in trochisk, half •• ounce of Syrup, of Mintes, or two ounces of ••••ater of bawm, and make a potion to be re∣••ived three or four hours afore meat.

For the suffocation of the matrice.

The matrice in a woman oftentimes mounteth ••wa••ds the mid••••ffe and the stomack with in∣••••lerable pain & is called suffocation, because 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it is choaked, ov••rcharged with some evil •• superfluous matter, as by stopping of due ••g••tions or too much abstenence of Venus, ••hereby often chanceth shortness of breath, ••••in of the head, swooning, trembling of the ••••art, contraction of members, and otherwhiles ••••th without remedy.

A drink for pain of the mother.

Take one dram of Mithridate and dissolve in an ounce and a half of water of wormwoo•• and give it her to drink afore she go to me•• four hours.

Another to provoke the flux of the Matrice.

See the Marigolds, nept and savine in good al•• and drink it with a good quantity of Saffr•• and a little honey and sugar. Item fifteen bla•• seeds of Piony drunken in wine with safir•• purgeth the Matrice of humors, and other f••teen of the red seeds stancheth it again or a••∣other Flux of ••he mother. These He••bs a•• good to purge the Matrice, Rue, Piony, Savin•• Betony, nept, Valerian, Maydenhair, Hor•• hound, Savary, Parsley, Gromel, Alisa¦der, Marigolds, Smalledge and Time.