F••r suppression or retaining of the flowers or M••••struus.
If the blood be too gross and thick you mu•• every month give her the syrup of sumito•••• with the decoction of borage and bugloss a••••
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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- 1658.
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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 1, 2024.
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••ther bath her self with fresh water hot. And ••hen she goeth out of the bath into the bed ••e must receive the afor••said Syrup and de∣••••tion of the Herb called Rubea tinctorum or ••••adder, s••dden in clear water. In stead of Sy∣••ps ye may take the very juice or decoction the Herbs.
And if the womans blood be slimie, cold, ••nd Phlegmatick, then she must drink Syrup of ••••echados and of oxymel diuretick and after∣••••rds take the pills called Faetidae and of Aquae ••••rick, and every morning after she must ••••ke a dram of Trochiskes of M••rrhe with two ••••nces of the decoction of Iuniper berries ••d thereupon drink two ounces of water of ••••gwort.
Moreover it is a proved & expert Medicine, •• give the first day of the new Moon a ••••im of powder made of Borax, which the••••ldsmiths do occupie, with asmuch Cinnamon ••••d a little water of smallage.
It is good to help and provoke the said pur∣tion by such things as open, which must be ••en at such time of the Moon as the said wo∣••••n were wont to have the same.