Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...

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Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ...
Author
Couch, Robert.
Publication
London :: Printed for Robert Hartford ...,
1680.
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Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Early works to 1800.
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"Praxis catholica, or, The countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing / written by Robert Couch ... ; now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34728.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.

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Elixir Hystericum.

This is an Excellent Remedy against th Fits of the Mother, the which I never y

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knew it fail to help, it is also very profita∣ble in the Epilepsie, Convulsion, Vertigo, &c. It is to be taken three times a day, the quantity of twelve, fourteen, or fif∣teen drops at a time in a Glass of Sack, or Ale where Sack is not to be had, as also in the time, or rather upon the approach of any Fit, it may be taken to thirty or forty drops, for there is no danger of exceeding the Dose. Price 5 s. per ounce.

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