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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Title: 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.
Author: Collins, Thomas, Student in physick.
Publication: London :: Printed by J.T. for Francis Eglesfield ...,; 1658.
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The Teeth.

To help the breeding of them.

IF it come of cold Rheum, make a plaster o•• Mastick, Frankincense, Mirrhe, wine, an•• apply it to the former part of the head. ••fume of the same received in flax and laid up¦on the childs head is wholsom.

To procure easie breeding of Teeth.

Anoint the gums with the brains of an har•• mixt with asmuch capons grease and hone•• or any of these things alone is exceeding goo•• to supple the gums and the sinewes

And when the pain is intolerable wi•••• Ap••stume or Infl••mmation of the gums, m••k•• an ointment with oil of Roses with the ju••••••

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of Morrel otherwise called nightshade, and in lack of it anoint the jawes within with a l••ttle fresh butter and hony.

For lack of th•• har••s brain ye may take the conni••••, for they be also of the kinde of hares, wh••se Mawes are of the same effect in Medicine as the Mawes of Ha••es.

If the gums apostume or swell with so••t flesh full of matter and painful, the best shall be to anoint the sore place with the brain of an ha•••• and C••pons grease, equally mixed to∣gether, and after that ye have used this once or twice, anoint the gums and apostumations with hony. If this help not t••ke turpentine mixt with a little hony in equal portion. And make a bath for the head of a childe in this manner following.

Take the flowers of Camomil & dill of each an handful, and seethe them in a quart of pure running water until they be tender, and wash the head afore any meat every morning, for it purgeth the superfluity of the brain, the seames of the skull, and withdraweth humours from the sore place, finally comforteth the brain and all the vertues animal of the childe.