The London dispensatory, reduced to the practice of the London physicians wherein are contain'd the medicines, both Galenical and chymical, that are now in use ... / by John Pechey ...

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The London dispensatory, reduced to the practice of the London physicians wherein are contain'd the medicines, both Galenical and chymical, that are now in use ... / by John Pechey ...
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Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
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London :: Printed by F. Collins for J. Lawrence ...,
1694.
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Dispensatories.
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"The London dispensatory, reduced to the practice of the London physicians wherein are contain'd the medicines, both Galenical and chymical, that are now in use ... / by John Pechey ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53916.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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Oyl of Scorpions, in Latin, Oleum Scorpi∣onum.

Take of live Scorpions of a middle size, catched while the Sun enters Leo, number thirty, of Oyl of bitter Almonds, a quart, set them in the Sun forty days, strain the Oyl, and keep it for use.

Virtues. It is good for the Kings-evil, cancers, old sores, cures inflammations, and vices of the skin, it gives ease in the stone, the reins being anointed with it, and cures the bitings of poysonous Beasts.

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