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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Aqua ex Corde Cervi, or Water of a Stags Heart.

Take a Stags heart cut into small pieces, Cinamon half an ounce, Cloves, Cardamoms the less, Galangal the less, Mace, Oriental Saffron, of each two drams; wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, Citron peels, seeds of Basil that smells like Avens, of each a dram and a half; flow∣ers of Lavender, Rosemary, Balm and Sage, of each a dram. Let them be macerated all night in Spanish

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Wine, and in the morning distil them in an Alem∣bick in Balneo.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It comforts the Heart, and preserves it from trembling and other dangerous ac∣cidents; sometimes also it cures the loss of Reason and the defect of the Mind: For by its nourishing and increasing quality it raiseth both the vital and na∣tural Spirits, and relieves the Heart as speedily as any thing. The dose is from one spoonful to two or three.

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