An alphabetical book of physicall secrets for all those diseases that are most predominant and dangerous (curable by art) in the body of man. Collected for the benefit, most especially of house-holders in the country, who are either farre remote, or else not able to entertaine a learned physician: as likewise for the help of such ladies and gentlewomen, who of charity labour to doe good. Whereunto is annexed a small treatise of the judgement of vrines. By Owen Wood.

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An alphabetical book of physicall secrets for all those diseases that are most predominant and dangerous (curable by art) in the body of man. Collected for the benefit, most especially of house-holders in the country, who are either farre remote, or else not able to entertaine a learned physician: as likewise for the help of such ladies and gentlewomen, who of charity labour to doe good. Whereunto is annexed a small treatise of the judgement of vrines. By Owen Wood.
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Wood, Owen, fl. 1639.
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Printed at London :: By Iohn Norton for Walter Edmonds and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Crowne neer Ludgate,
1639.
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Subject terms
Medicine -- Formuoae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Urine -- Early works to 1800.
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"An alphabetical book of physicall secrets for all those diseases that are most predominant and dangerous (curable by art) in the body of man. Collected for the benefit, most especially of house-holders in the country, who are either farre remote, or else not able to entertaine a learned physician: as likewise for the help of such ladies and gentlewomen, who of charity labour to doe good. Whereunto is annexed a small treatise of the judgement of vrines. By Owen Wood." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15684.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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Pills of excellent vertue to purge all Phleg∣maitck Feavers or Agues.

TAke Agarick, Aloes, Acorus, Turbith, ana i ʒ Esula di. Coloquintida i. graine

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salt Gem Mastick, Ginger, Wormwood, Let∣tice, Raysons mundified, Bdellium ana iiij ʒ, let syrupe of Roses be made up with these Pills, the Dos is ij ʒ more or lesse, according to the Patients strength, give them after you have used the other syrupe ix dayes to di∣gest it. These be good in any Tertian Ague, if you adde to them this following in any Phlegmatick Fevers or diseases, viz.

Item, Rubarbe ij ʒ, Spiknard dj. ʒ, Dia∣gridij, Mastick ana i ʒ, mixe these with the aforesaid, the Dos is di. ʒ more or lesse as the strength of the Patient is, and the vee∣moneis of the Fever.

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