An exact collection of the choicest and more rare experiments and secrets in physick and chyrurgery (both cymick and Galenick) viz. of Leonard Phioravant, Knight and doctour in physick and chyrurgery, his Rational secrets and chyrurgery &c. : whereunto is annexed Paracelsus's One hundred and fourteen experiments : with certain excellent works of G.B. áa ortu Aquitano ; also Isaac Holandus, his secrets concerning his vegetal and animal work : with Quercetanus his Spagyrick antidotary for gun-shot : also certain collections out of some manuscripts of Dr. Edwards and other physitians of note ...

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An exact collection of the choicest and more rare experiments and secrets in physick and chyrurgery (both cymick and Galenick) viz. of Leonard Phioravant, Knight and doctour in physick and chyrurgery, his Rational secrets and chyrurgery &c. : whereunto is annexed Paracelsus's One hundred and fourteen experiments : with certain excellent works of G.B. áa ortu Aquitano ; also Isaac Holandus, his secrets concerning his vegetal and animal work : with Quercetanus his Spagyrick antidotary for gun-shot : also certain collections out of some manuscripts of Dr. Edwards and other physitians of note ...
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Fioravanti, Leonardo, 1518-1588.
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London :: Printed for William Shears,
1659.
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Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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A Table for the Treatise concerning the Plague and Small Pox.
  • VVHat the Plague is 1
  • Cause of the Plague ibid
  • Warnings of the Plague to come 3
  • How to prevent the Plague 4
  • A good perfume in Summer season 5
  • A good perfume in Winter Season ibid
  • An excellent good preservative against the Plague 6
  • Another preservative ibid
  • Another very good 7
  • An Excellent Quil or Bag 8
  • Another Bag ibid
  • A Pomander good in the Summer time 9
  • Another for the Winter season ibid
  • ...

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  • A good Nodule for the Summer season ibid
  • Another Nodule for the Winter season ibid
  • A Nosegay for the same purpose 10
  • A Suppository ibid
  • A good Clyster 11
  • How to make Raisins laxative ibid
  • A good Ointment to keep one soluble ibid
  • Good Pills to keep one soluble, and they doe also resist the Pestilence 12
  • Pills good to purge 13
  • A good purging Potion ibid
  • A Purging powder for such as cannot take Pills 14
  • Flours stopt, how to provoke them ibid
  • Issues commended against the Plague ibid
  • What diet we ought to keep 15
  • What for your Pottage you may take in the Summer 16
  • What exercise and Order is to be kept 17
  • What Orders Magistrates and Rulers of Cities and Towns shall cause to bee observed 18
  • What you must doe when you go to visit the sick 19
  • The signs of the Infection 21
  • Good signs ibid
  • Evill signs ibid
  • The means how to cure the Plague 23
  • An excellent Powder to expell the Plague 26
  • Another good powder ibid
  • A good Opiat to expel Venome, and to provoke sweat 27
  • Another excellent good means for the same ibid
  • An excellent good water against the Plague, and divers other dis∣eases, which is to be made in May or June 28
  • Directions what the Patient must doe after the taking of the Cor∣diall ibid
  • A good defensative Ʋnguent 29
  • Epithemation ibd
  • Another ibid
  • A Quilt for the Heart 30
  • A Cordial Julip ibid
  • Another ibid
  • A Julip to quench thirst 31
  • ...

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  • A Julep to quench thirst, and to resist Venenositie 32
  • A good purgation in a strong body 33
  • Another in a plethorick and full bodie ibid
  • A good purgation for a weak bodie ibid
  • Another gentle purgation 34
  • A good Cordial to be taken after Purging ibid
  • Another good Cordial to be given where great heat is ibid
  • A good Cordial Potion ibid
  • What Symptoms often chance, and the manner how to help them 35
  • For lightnesse of the head through want of sleep ibid
  • An Ointment to provoke sleep ibid
  • For raving and raging ibid
  • A good Sacculus for raving and raging 36
  • An Aphtham to help it ibid
  • A good Gargarism for the mouth ibid
  • Vomiting extreamly how to help it ibid
  • A good Bag for the Soomack 37
  • Yex, or yexing to stay it ibid
  • Flix how to stop it 38
  • Epithemation for the heart ibid
  • The generall cure of a Botch when it appeareth outwardly 39
  • A good Maturative ibid
  • Another ibid
  • Another where no Inflammation is 40
  • A Digestive ibid
  • A Digestive Cataplasm ibid
  • How to bring the Botch out, that lieth deep within the body or flesh 41
  • A good Maturative Cataplasm ibid
  • Another 42
  • Another which is sooner made ibid
  • A Vesicatorie ibid
  • When the Botch will not come to Maturation, but continueth al∣wayes hard 43
  • An Epithemation ibid
  • A Digestive ibid
  • What is to be done when the Botch strikes in again 44
  • How to draw, a Botch from one place to another, and so to discuss

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  • him without breaking ibid
  • Epithemation 45
  • How to know a Carbuncle or blain, as also the cure of the same 46
  • The cure of the Carbuncle 47
  • A Maturative Cataplasm ibid
  • Mundificative Anodines ibid
  • Another Mundificative ibid
  • When the Carbuncle doth come with great pain and Inflammation 48
  • A Bag good against it ibid
  • A Cataplasm 49
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