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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A plaster called plaster Emanuel, chief for impostumes and other malodies, it hath more vertues then man can tell▪ I healeth wounds anon▪

Take Litarge one pound, and one dram of gum Armoniak, a dram of Galbanum, Mirrhe two drams, Verdigreece one dram, Frankin∣cense one dram, Bdellion one dram, Mastick half a dram, Opoponax half a dram, Arisolgie three ounces, of old oil olive one pound and an half. Take the gums and beat thm mall and fry them in a skillet on the fire and cleanse them, And then do thereto thy Litarge, and thy ver∣digreece and do in these things by and by one after another, alwayes stir it well, and last put in the Aristologie and so boil it unto a plaster, this plaster may soon heal Marmole on the legs and all manner of diseases and impostumes, this plaster cometh of God and not of man.

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