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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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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An expert Medicine to drive away Lice.

Take the grounds and dregs of oil, or in lack of it fresh swines gr••ase, a sufficient quantity, wherein ye shall cha••e an ounce of quicksilver till it be all sunk into the grease, then take powder of Stavisacre, searce and mingle all to¦gether make a girdle of woollen list meet for the midle of the patient and all to anoint it over with the said Medicine, then let him wear it continually next his skin, for it is a sing••lar remedy to chas•• away the vermin. The onely odour of quicksilver killeth lice.