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 16, 2024.

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Take the grounds of strong Ale two gallons, of the Lees of Sack two quarts, a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds, bruise them and put them together and distill the water, then put into the water an ounce of Cinnamon, a dozen bruised Cloves, one Race of sliced Ginger, a quarter of a pound of prunes dried fair but not washed, 2. quarts of thunder baggs or corn rose leaves with the bottoms cut off. Then sun it a

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Moneth and if the water be not of a deep Crimson then renew the Leaves and sun them a while longer, take of these a spoonful at a time, an hour after a second, and an hour after a third.

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