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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"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 May 20, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- To the READER.
- A TABLE of the several Di∣stempers incident to the Bodies of Men and Women, answering the before-going Cut; to which the several Para∣graphs in the ensuing Book do likewise particularly refer, in Arithmetical order.
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THE Kitchin-Physician: OR, A guide for good House-wifes, In maintaining The Health of their Families.
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1.
Of Medicines and other Remedies which are appropriated to the Skin, Hair, and Teeth. -
2.
How to take away Sun-burning. -
3.
How to take away Freckles and Spots. -
4.
How to take wrinkles out of the Face and Hands, and to make them white. -
5.
How to take away the Chops of the Lips and Hands. -
6.
How to make the Hands that are Yellow and Wrinkled, smooth and white. -
7.
How to take away Warts off the Face or Hands. -
8.
To take away Blood-Veins in the Face. -
9.
How to cure a Red Face. -
10.
How to heal Burning and Blistering. -
11.
How to cure the POX, and Ʋlcera∣tions thereof. -
12.
To take away Pockholes, and make the skin smooth. -
13.
To take away Scabs and Scurff, which eat into the skin. -
14.
To take away white Scabs and Sores. -
15.
How to prevent the falling of Hair, and to make Hair grow. -
16.
To make white or gray Hairs black. -
17.
How to kill Nits. -
18.
How to kill Lice. -
19.
How to cure the stinging of venemous Beasts. -
20.
A cure for the Head-ach. -
21.
How to cure inveterate Head-ach, and Ʋlcers of the Skull. -
22.
A Remedy against Madness. -
23.
A Cure for the Lethargy. -
24.
To procure Sleep. -
25.
A Cure for the dizziness of the Head. -
26.
A Cure for the Falling-sickness. -
27.
How to cure the Dead-Palsey. -
28.
How to cure the Apoplexy. -
29.
How to cure the Shaking-Palsey. -
30.
How to strengthen weak Eyes. -
31.
A Cure for the running of the Eyes. -
32.
A Cure for Weeping Eyes. -
33.
To cure the Redness or Inflammation of the Eyes. -
34.
To cure the Inflammation of the Eyes. -
35.
To take red Spots out of the Eyes. -
36.
To cleanse the Eyes of Matter. -
37.
To take Spots and Webs out of the Eyes. -
38.
To take away the pain of the Eyes. -
39.
To cure the pain of the Ears. -
40.
To help thickness of Hearing. -
41.
A Cure for Deafness. -
42.
A Cure for the Worms in the Ears. -
43.
A Cure for the noise in the Ears. -
44.
To take away little Ʋlcers from behind the Ears. -
45.
Against the Kings Evil. -
46.
A Remedy for the stopping of the Nose. -
47.
For a dropping Nose. -
48.
To procure Sneezing. -
49.
To recover the Smelling when 'tis lost. -
50.
To staunch Blood. - part - 51
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52.
Against the stinking of the Nose. -
53.
A Remedy for a stinking Mouth. -
54.
To Cure Ʋlcers and Sores in the Mouth. -
55.
Of the Cure of excessive Slabbering. -
56.
How to cleanse the Teeth, and keep them sound. - Of filthy Teeth.
- How to Cleanse the Teeth.
- How to order your Teeth before Dinner or Supper.
- After Dinner or Supper.
- Of Pickt-Teeth.
- The Causes of the Tooth-ach.
- A Powder for the Teeth.
- Preserves for the Teeth.
- A Water to make Black Teeth White.
- For to make the Teeth White.
- To preserve the Teeth from filthiness.
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57.
How to fasten the Teeth when loose. -
58.
For to prevent hollowness of the Teeth. -
59.
A Remedy against Tooth-ach. -
60.
Of Teeth set an edge. -
61.
A Cure for a stinking Breath. -
62.
A Cure for the Squinancy. -
63.
Against Hoarsness. -
64.
Of Shortness of Breath. -
65.
A Remedy for a Cough. -
66.
Against the pain in the side. -
67.
Against vomiting of Blood. -
68.
A Cure for the Consumption. -
69.
To cure the Palpitation of the Heart. -
70.
To cure the faintness of the Heart. -
71.
Against continual Burning Feavers. -
72.
Against Quotidian Feavers. -
73.
A Remedy for the Tertian Feaver. -
74.
How to Cure a Quartan Feaver. -
75.
A Cure for the Shaking in the Ague. -
76.
Against Thirst in an Ague. -
77.
A Remedy against the Plague. -
78.
A Cure for Hanging-Breasts. -
79.
A Cure for Ʋlcerated Breasts. -
80.
How to increase Milk. -
81.
How to dry up Milk. -
82.
Against any hurt by swallowing down Horse-leeches. -
83.
Against the Hiocough. -
84.
Against Belching. -
85.
To strengthen the Stomach. -
86.
Against the Loathing of the stomach. -
87.
Against Vomiting. -
88.
A Cure for the pain of the Stomach. -
89.
To kill the Worms in Children. -
90.
A Cure for the Griping of the Guts. -
91.
Against Oppilation. -
92.
A Remedy for the flux of the Belly. -
93.
How to stop the excessive bleeding of the Vein under the Tongue. -
94.
A Cure for the pain of the Paps. -
95.
Against a hot enflamed Liver. -
96.
To Cure a stopped Liver. -
97.
A Remedy for the Jaundice. -
98.
To Cure the Black Jaundice. -
99.
How to Cure the Dropsie. -
100.
A Cure for the Oppilation of the Milt. -
101.
For the pain of the Milt. -
102.
Against the pain of the Gravelish Colick. -
103.
A Remedy for the Stone of the Reins. -
104.
To take away the Stone of the Bladder. -
105.
Against Scalding Ʋrine. -
106.
To prevent Pissing in Bed. -
107.
Against Drop-Pissing. -
108.
A Remedy against painful Pissing. -
109.
Against the Inflammation of the Yard. -
110.
Against the Inflammation of the Matrix. -
111.
Against the rising of the Matrix. -
112.
Against sinking of the Matrix. -
113.
For the white Flux. -
114.
Against the Monthly Flux. -
115.
To provoke the Monthly Flux in Wo∣men. -
116.
Against Sterility or Barrenness. -
117.
To prevent Miscarrying. -
118.
To quicken the pain of a Woman in Labour. -
119.
To cause the second or after-Birth. -
120.
Against following Pains. -
121.
For a disturbed. Matrix. -
122.
Against Burstenness, or a Rupture. -
123.
A Cure for the Gout. -
124.
A Cure for Red-swellings. -
125.
For Hard-swellings. -
126.
Against Windy-swellings. -
127.
To ripen Ʋlcerated Swellings. -
128
Against Scratching, Scurvy, and other Itchings on the hands, or other parts of the body. -
129.
To bring an Ʋlcer to Distillation. -
130.
Against Ʋlcers and Swellings about the Nails. -
131.
Against Ʋleers that are hard to be Cured. -
132.
Against a Canker. -
133.
To take away Knobs. -
134.
Against an hurt by a fall. -
135.
Against blew spots. -
136.
A Cure for fresh Wounds. -
137.
Against old and new Wounds. -
138.
Of Wounds by a Bullet. -
139.
Against strained Sinews. -
140.
Against stung Sinews. -
141.
For Sinews that are cut through. -
142.
For inward Wounds. -
143.
Against the biting of a Mad-Dog. -
144.
To Cure the Biting of a Serpent. -
145.
A Cure for Kibe-heels. -
146.
A Cure for stinking Feet.
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