Dr. Willis's practice of physick being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same : fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader : with forty copper plates.
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Dr. Willis's practice of physick being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same : fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader : with forty copper plates.
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Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
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London :: Printed for T. Dring, C. Harper, and J. Leigh,
1684.
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Medicine.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"Dr. Willis's practice of physick being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same : fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader : with forty copper plates." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66516.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 24, 2025.
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2. Flower of Antimony.
Take a quantity of choice Antimony, that is pulverized, and sublime it in Cucurbita with * 1.1 an Alembick, or in Earthen Vessels made on purpose, upon a moderate Fire, either by it self, or with Sand or Dust of Bricks, or calcined Tartar mixed among it: the Flower rise yellow, Citron coloured and white; of which gather up the whitest and keep them for your use.
In this Preparation of Antimony the salt and sulphureous parts, having separated * 1.2 themselves from the watery and earthy ones, arise and knit together; by which means when the Mineral Body is much loosened and dissolved, and the most active parts
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(the duller, that rebate their force, being laid aside) are joined into one Body, this be∣comes an excessive strong Vomit and not very safe to take. The Dose is gr. ij. iij. or iv.