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 16, 2024.
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Medicines for the gout appropriate in all cases.
Take Cowes dung and seethe it in sweet milk, and lay a plaster to the gout hot, a••so the yelks of eggs, womans milk, lins••ed and Saffron, alto∣gether in a plaster swageth the diseases of the gout
And if ye be disposed to break the skin, and so let the humors issue, as by such many one is eas••d ye shall make a plaster of b••ack sope and Aqua vitae, which will blister it with••ut any great pain. Also very old hard cheese cut and sodden in the broth, of a gamon of bacon, and afterward stamped with a little of the br••th and made in manner of a plaster, is a singular remedy for diseases of the gout, and was first practised by Galen the prince of all Physicians.
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