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 17, 2024.

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most singular good Medicine to keep the Eyes clear, cool, and from redness, and to kill the Itching of them.

Take a good handful of Housleck, and two andfuls of Plantaine, and stampe them well gether, and strain them, then let the juice and and settle for a little space, and when it well settled, power out the clearest from the sidue; and put thereto half as much red ose water as is of the juice, and half a quarter 〈◊〉〈◊〉 white Sugar candy beaten to fine powder,

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and then take a piece as big as a Walnut, or somewhat more of Lapis Calaminaris, and let it slake ten or twelve times in the same water and let the patient take four or five drops a he lyeth upright in his bed thereof, and put i into his eyes and it will help him. This hat been proved.

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