Approved medicines of little cost, to preserve health and also to cure those that are sick provided for the souldiers knap-sack and the country mans closet / written by Richard Elkes, Gent. ...

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Approved medicines of little cost, to preserve health and also to cure those that are sick provided for the souldiers knap-sack and the country mans closet / written by Richard Elkes, Gent. ...
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Elkes, Richard.
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London :: Printed for Robert Ibbitson, and are to be sold by Tho. Vere ...,
1651.
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Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.
Self-care, Health -- Early works to 1800.
Therapeutics.
Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
Medicinal plants.
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"Approved medicines of little cost, to preserve health and also to cure those that are sick provided for the souldiers knap-sack and the country mans closet / written by Richard Elkes, Gent. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39240.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.

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13. Of the Flux of bloud in wounds, and the remedies thereof.

IF the Flux be little it is the easier re∣strained, but if it flow out abundantly, there must be speedy remedy, for bloud is the treasure of life, sometimes it chanceth in the inward parts, sometimes outwardly, inwardly by violent moving, and such like may breake a veine, outwardly by

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Swords, Guns, Pikes, and other Instru∣ments; also it doth happen by venomous medicines applyed to wounds, corrupting the veines, which cause a Flux; if the Flux happen in the inward parts, as in the Li∣ver, Lungs, Reines, and Bladder, it is of hard curation, yet it must not be neg∣lected, for which purpose all stipticke and conglutinating things must be used, as Cum∣frey roots, knot-grasse roots, Gum Draga∣gante, Terra Lemnia, Bolearmoniacke, Rice, Quinces, Lentils, Pomgranats, and such other cooling drinkes are best, and broths made with the above-named sim∣ples may help forward the cure, but this Medicine following I have proved; Rec. Pomgranat Rindes ℥j. Pulveris. Bolearmonack ℥ ss. Terra Sigillata ℥ij. Knot-grasse and Cumphrey roots pounded, and the juyce pres∣sed out, Gum Dragagantess. intused in that juyce, make the said Powders into Pills, like little Bullets with this infusion, and give the sick six of them in a day, three fasting in the morning, and three of them last at night, continuing this ten dayes, and it will make you whole.

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