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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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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Bahia (Brazil : State). Secretaria das Minas e Energia. Diretoria de Distribuição.
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London :: Printed by Tho. Maxey for Nath. Ekins ...,
1656.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35865.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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For the Head Ache sundry Medicines.
The juice of Ground Ivy cast into the nostrils purgeth the head and taketh a∣way the pain.
If the Rheume come of a cold cause, lay hot Callamint or running time brui∣sed to the head.
Hisop boiled on embers, and laid to the head, stoppeth the Rheume.
The juice of Coleworts cast into the nostrils cleanseth and purgeth the head.
The juice of onions cast into the no∣strils, also doth the like.
This Plaister was proved for dizziness in the head, and is good for any ache in the head: Take of Opium and of Saffron, of each one dram, of Roses four drams, and thereof with Vinegar make a Plai∣ster.
He that useth to take three Pills of Alloes, and the juice of Coleworts the bignesse of a bean, shall never have the Head ache.
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