A Medicine for the Plague.
Take a fair onion, make a hole in it and
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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"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 16, 2024.
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take out the Inner core, then take Dragon wa∣ter, triacle and pepper and bruise them a little and put them into the onion, and rost the onion in the Embers and after bruise the onion and strain it with Malmesey and give it to the patient to drink. And if it be taken before the heart is infected, its a present Remedy. Probat.