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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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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Mynsicht, Adrian von, 1603-1638.
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London :: Printed by J.M. for Awnsham Churchill ...,
1682.
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Dispensatories.
Pharmacopoeias.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51671.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Pilulae Terebinthinae, or Pills of Turpentine.

Take Cyprus Turpentine washed in juyce of Lemmons an ounce and a half, juyce of Purslain made thick six drams, Extract of the roots of Liquorish and Rhubarb, Tartar vitriolated, of each three drams; the spongy brush that grows upon sweet Bryars, the stones of Med∣lars, of each a dram and a half; Salt of white Amber, Nitre prepared, of each a dram; Magistery of the

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Peach stone, Crabs eyes, of each half a dram. Mix them, and make a mass according to Art; from which afterward with rectified Oyl of Citrons make Pills.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. They are admirably good to break the stone in the Reins, and provoke Urine, and this chiefly to those of a hot Constitution; for they expel the Tartar and Sand even to a miracle. They cure the Running of the Reins, and such like Fluxes, and open the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen. The dose is from half a dram to a dram ta∣ken a good distance of time before and after meat.

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