Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum, or, A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases : obtained by labour, confirmed by practice, and published out of good will to mankind : being a work of great use for the publick / written originally in Latine by ... Hadrianus à Mynsicht ...; and faithfully rendred into English by John Partridge ...

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Title: Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum, or, A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases : obtained by labour, confirmed by practice, and published out of good will to mankind : being a work of great use for the publick / written originally in Latine by ... Hadrianus à Mynsicht ...; and faithfully rendred into English by John Partridge ...
Author: Mynsicht, Adrian von, 1603-1638.
Publication: London :: Printed by J.M. for Awnsham Churchill ...,; 1682.
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Subject terms: Dispensatories.; Pharmacopoeias.
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Pilulae Polychrestae, or Pills good for many things.

Take of our Extractum Polychrestum, Scammony ro∣sated, of each half an ounce; Tartar vitriolated a dram. Mix them, and with Oyl of Aniseeds make a mass; from which afterward with Oyl of Marjoram make Pills.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. They are called Polychrestae, because they are proper to most affects of the whole body, and do almost purge all humors in it: For which reason they are highly approved in complica∣ted and Chronical Feavers, Quartans, Melancholy, Apoplexy, Epilepsie, and various diseases of the Head, Eyes, Ventricle, Liver and Spleen; for they purge Flegm and both kinds of Choler. They are also of excellent use in the Gout and pains of the Joynts. The dose from a scruple to half a dram and two scruples, especially in robust bodies.