The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.

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Title: The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.
Author: Bahia (Brazil : State). Secretaria das Minas e Energia. Diretoria de Distribuição.
Publication: London :: Printed by Tho. Maxey for Nath. Ekins ...,; 1656.
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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To stanch Blood.

Take the lean of salt Bief, so much as you think will goe into the wound, and lay it in the Embers of the fire, and let it roast till be red hot, and thrust it in∣to the wound hot, and bind it up fast, and if the wound be in the foot, bind him about the Anckle; if in the legg, about the knee, if in the knee, bind the thigh; if in the hand, about the wrists; if in the arme, about the bought of the arme with a g••od list or Garter two or three times about, and it will stanch bleeding.