The true preserver and restorer of health being a choice collection of select and experienced remedies for all distempers incident to men, women, and children : selected from and experienced by the most famous physicians and chyrurgeons in Europe : together with Excellent directions for cookery ... : with the description of an ingenious and useful engin for dressing of meat and for distilling th[e] choicest cordial waters with-out wood coals, candle or oyl : published for the publick good / by G. Hartman.

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The true preserver and restorer of health being a choice collection of select and experienced remedies for all distempers incident to men, women, and children : selected from and experienced by the most famous physicians and chyrurgeons in Europe : together with Excellent directions for cookery ... : with the description of an ingenious and useful engin for dressing of meat and for distilling th[e] choicest cordial waters with-out wood coals, candle or oyl : published for the publick good / by G. Hartman.
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Hartman, G. (George)
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London :: Printed by T.B. for the author,
1682.
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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800.
Cookery, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"The true preserver and restorer of health being a choice collection of select and experienced remedies for all distempers incident to men, women, and children : selected from and experienced by the most famous physicians and chyrurgeons in Europe : together with Excellent directions for cookery ... : with the description of an ingenious and useful engin for dressing of meat and for distilling th[e] choicest cordial waters with-out wood coals, candle or oyl : published for the publick good / by G. Hartman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42984.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.

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Another Drink, which cures all Pains, Inflamati∣ons, Soreness and Defluctions in the Eyes. Much approved of by Sir Kenelm Digby.

Take a handful of Ground-Ivy-leaves, and stalks, wash it clean, and swing it in a Cloth; then shred it, and stamp it a little; then boyl it in a quart of good Ale to a pint; then strain it; and take half a pint of it in the Morning fasting, and the other half at Night going to Bed.

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This is as admirable also to cure all Head-ach, Coughs of the Lungs, Consumptions, Stone and Gravel. It also cures the Jaundies, Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen.

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