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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Remedies for the canker in the mouth of Children.

Take drie red roses and Violets, of each a like qu••ntity, make them in powder and mix them with a little hony, this medicine is very good in a young sucking childe, and many times healeth without any other thing at all. But if there be great pain and heat in the sore, ye shall make a juice of purcelaine, lettuce and nightshade and wash the sore with a fine piece of silk, this will abate the brenning, as∣swage the pain, and kill the venome of the ul∣cer, but if ye see the Cank••r yet encrease with great corruption, and matter ye shall make an ointment after this manner.

Take Mirrhe, galias, or in default of them open apples, dried Frankincense, of each a like much, of the black berries growing on the bramble, taken from the bush while they be green, the third part of all the rest, make them all in powder and mix them with asmuch hony and sa••fron as is sufficient and use it.