Some receipts of medicines for the most part parable and simple, sent to a friend in America.

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Title
Some receipts of medicines for the most part parable and simple, sent to a friend in America.
Author
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication
London, printed :: [s.n.],
1688.
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Subject terms
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Pharmacopoeias.
Dispensatories.
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"Some receipts of medicines for the most part parable and simple, sent to a friend in America." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29044.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.

Pages

VIII. An Amulet against the Cramp.

A. ℞ the Root of Mechoacan, and having reduc'd it to Powder, fill with this Powder a little square Bag or Sacket of Sarcenet, or some such slight Stuff; which Bag is to be about three Inches square, and to be hung by a string about

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the Patient's Neck, so as that it may reach to the Pit of the Stomach, and immediately touch the Skin.

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