The Kitchin-physician, or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health wherein are described the natures, causes, and symptoms of all diseases, inward and outward, incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : prescribing natural, useful and proper medicines, both in physick and chirurgery, as well for the prevention as speedy cure of the said distempers : adorned with sculptures ... / published for the common good ... by T.K., Doctor in Physick.

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The Kitchin-physician, or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health wherein are described the natures, causes, and symptoms of all diseases, inward and outward, incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : prescribing natural, useful and proper medicines, both in physick and chirurgery, as well for the prevention as speedy cure of the said distempers : adorned with sculptures ... / published for the common good ... by T.K., Doctor in Physick.
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T. K., Doctor in physick.
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London :: Printed for Samuel Lee ...,
1680.
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Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Kitchin-physician, or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health wherein are described the natures, causes, and symptoms of all diseases, inward and outward, incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : prescribing natural, useful and proper medicines, both in physick and chirurgery, as well for the prevention as speedy cure of the said distempers : adorned with sculptures ... / published for the common good ... by T.K., Doctor in Physick." In the digital collection Early English Books Online Collections. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47169.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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Take distilled water of Radish-seed, and of great Spear-Root, (having been soaked before four days in the Sun in water,) stil∣led Oil of Egg-shels, Oil which is pressed out of the Seed of Cotton-herb, the juice of the Root, and little Berries of Briony or wild Vine, the juice of Ladies-mark, with fig-bean-meal, (which is a kind of

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Pulse, of an harsh and bitter tast,) the fresh Flowers of Jasmin, (being rubb'd in pieces upon the place of the distemper,) Pidgeons dung, being soaked in strong Wine-vinegar, Meal of Fitches, and seed of the Herb Rocket, mingled with honey, oyl and water of Roses, with fresh Butter, and Pignut-Roots, made to a Salve, Lentiles boyled soft, and mixed with the juice of Pomegranate.

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