The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A.

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The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A.
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A. B.
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London :: printed by T.R. and N.T. and are to be sold by the booksellers, and by the author, at the sign of the Angel against the Church-door at the upper end of Thredneedle-street, near the Royal-Exchange,
M DC LXXIV. [1674]
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"The sick-mans rare jewel wherein is discovered a speedy way how every man may recover lost health, and prolong life, how he may know what disease he hath, and how he himself may apply proper remedies to every disease, with the description, definition, signs and syptoms [sic] of those diseases. (Viz.) The scurvy, leues venerea, gonorrhea, dropsies, catarrhs, chollick, gouts, madness, frensies of all sorts, fever, jaundise, consumptions, ptisick, swoundings, histerick passions, pleurisies, cachexia's, worms, vapours, hypochondriack melancholly, stone, strangury, with the whole troop of diseases most afflicting the bodies of men, women and children; with a supply of suitable medicines; ... a piece profitable for every person and family, and all that travel by sea or land. By B.A." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A25287.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.

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For the Green-sickness

TAke the Roots of Peo••••y, and also the Seeds hulled, of each one Dram, Red Roses half a Dram, a Nutmeg tosted two Scruples, Bay-berries half a Dram, the Powder of Schaenanth and of Saffron, f each one Scruple▪ the inward kin of the Gizard of a Cock one Dram, Crocus Marti Aperitive one Dram and a half, Cinamon one Scruple; make of it all a fine Powde, of which as much as will lie upon a six Pence may be taken every Morning, and Exercise upon it to the warming of the whole Body.

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