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.

1. Juleps and Distilled Waters.

Take of Purslain and Poppy-water of each 6 ounces, Dragons-blood in most fine powder half * 1.1 a dram, syrup of red Poppies two ounces, spirit of Vriol of Mirs ℈ss. mix them; the dose ℥ iij. repeated once in 5 or 6 hours.

Take of Plantane-water lb. j. Gum Tragacanth and Arabick powder'd, of each ʒss. mingle and dissolve them; after adding syrup of dryed Roses ℥ j ss. make a Julep; the Dose ℥iij. or ℥iiij. every third or fourth hour.

Take of the water of Oak-buds, red Roses, Water-lillies, of each ℥iiij. of Blood-stone finely ground, Role-Armenick powder'd of each ʒss. syrup of Water-lillies, ℥ij. mix them; the dose ℥iij. or ℥iiij. three or four times aday.

Take of the Dew or almost insipid Phlegm of Vitriol lb. j. Syr. of Myrtles ℥ij. mix them, the dose ℥ij. or ℥iij, often in the day or in the night. * 1.2

Take of Cypress tops M. viij. of the leaves or flowers of Willow M. vj. the greater Comfry∣roots, Water-lillies, of each lb. ss. Pomegranate flowers M. ij. All being cut small together, pour on them lb. viij. of new Milk; let it be distill'd in common Organs, the dose ℥iij. or iiij, often in a day.

Take of this distill'd Water, and of Plantane-water, of each lb. ss. Gumm Tragacanth and Arabick of each ʒij. dissolve them; the dose is ℥iij. every third hour.

The following Mixture is prescribed by Dr. Frederick Decker, to be taken a spoon∣ful at a time in spitting blood, and seems a very beneficial one.

Take of Plantane-water ℥ij. Cinamon-water ʒij. conf. of Hyacinth ʒ i ss. distill'd Vine∣gar * 1.3 ℥, of red Coral prepar'd ʒss. Balaustins, Dragons-blood, of each ℈ss. Laudanum Opiate gr. iij. Syr. of Myrtles 1 ounce, mingle them.

Take of Plantane, red Rose, & Purslain-water, of each 4 ounces of Blood-stone & Dra∣gons blood reduced into fine-powder of each half a dram, Sugar-Candy ʒ vj. make a Julep.

A Solution of common Vit•…•…ol, or of Vitriol of Mars made in Spring-water, and applyed with a rag to a wound, wonderfully stops bleeding, but is scarcely convenient to be given in∣wardly.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Juleps.
• * 1.2

  Distilled Wa∣ters.
• * 1.3

  A Julep.