Enchiridion medicum containing an epitome of the whole course of physicke: with the examination of a chirurgion, by way of dialogue betweene the doctor and the students. With a treatise contaning a definition of all those difenses that do chiefly affect the body of a man, and an antidotary of many excelllent and approued remedies for all diseases. Published for the benefit of young students in physicke, chirurgian, and apothecaries.
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Enchiridion medicum containing an epitome of the whole course of physicke: with the examination of a chirurgion, by way of dialogue betweene the doctor and the students. With a treatise contaning a definition of all those difenses that do chiefly affect the body of a man, and an antidotary of many excelllent and approued remedies for all diseases. Published for the benefit of young students in physicke, chirurgian, and apothecaries.
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Pomarius, Petrus.
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London :: Printed by Henry Ballard for George Potter, and are to be sold at his shop at the North doore of Paules,
1609.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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"Enchiridion medicum containing an epitome of the whole course of physicke: with the examination of a chirurgion, by way of dialogue betweene the doctor and the students. With a treatise contaning a definition of all those difenses that do chiefly affect the body of a man, and an antidotary of many excelllent and approued remedies for all diseases. Published for the benefit of young students in physicke, chirurgian, and apothecaries." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14264.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.
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Of those things that are ta∣ken in a meane forme, and consistance.
Doct.
PRoceed to those medicines that are taken in a meane forme.
Stud.
Those medicines that are giuen * 1.1 in a meane forme, are Electuaries liquid, which are commoly called Opiats: not because they consist of opium, but be∣cause they haue that body that Opiats haue, and they are prepared partly for purging, and partly for alteration of hu∣mors. And such Electuaries are Diapru∣num simplex, and solutiuum, Diaphaenicon, confectio hamech Catholicon, which doth purge putrisied and rotten humors, euen as Mithridat & Treacle which are great opiats, not onely for their consistence, but also because it is confected with opi∣um, & haue a property to resist venom and putrifaction.
Doct.
How may these Electuaries bee prepared?
Stud.
Vpon necessitie they may bee prepared, taking some pouder or species with some kind of syrup, as of conserues
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