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Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.

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Title: Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.
Author: Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
Publication: London :: Printed for Matthew Gilliflower ... and James Partridge...,; 1685.
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Subject terms: Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. -- Early works to 1800.; Recipes.; Home economics -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. I.

HOw to recover Health, and to know which of the four Humours hath Dominion over the sick Person, Pag. 1.
A wonderful Cure for a Fistula, 2.
A remarkable Receipt made of a man's skull, ib.
Against the bloody Flux; and how to draw the Tincture of Coral. ibid.
The manner of making the Syrup, 3.
Another way to draw Tincture of Coral, ib.
Against the Stone, 4.
An excellent Receipt for the Gravel, ib.
Another for the same, 5.
For the same, 6.
For the same, ib.
To cure all Ruptures; a Remedy much approved by the Cardinal de la Roche foucaut, ib.
For the same, whether Man or Woman, though aged: Experienc'd by one who was bursten thirty years, 7.
For Ruptures, Probatum, 8.
For the Wind in the Kidneys, Probatum, ib.
To stop the Ʋrine of those that piss in bed, 9.
A sure and ready Sudorifick. ib.
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The Receipt of the Antidote call'd Orvietan, ib.
To cause one to piss, and to cure the Kings Evil, 10.
To cure the Cholick, and that it shall return no more. ib.
For the same, ib.
Another for the same, 11.
Another for the same, ib.
Another for the same, ib.
An admirable Remedy for the Bloody-flux, ib.
For the same, ib.
Another for the same, 12.
For the same, ib.
To make one piss, though he have not made wa∣ter in a fortnight, and to cause one to void the Gravel and Stone, ib.
For a Tertian Ague, 13.
For the same, ib.
For the same, ib.
For the same, ib.
An assured Remedy for a Quartan Ague, 14.
For the same, ib.
For the same, ib.
An Astringent to stop the blood in a wound, or at Nose, 15.
For the same, ib.
For all intermitting Fevers, ib.
For the same, 16.
To purge gently, and chiefly those troubled with a Dropsie, ib.
For the Dropsie, ib.
For the watry Dropsie, 17.
For the same, ib.
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To cure a Bruise quickly, ib.
For Apoplecticks, 18.
For the Bowels fallen down, ib.
To cure the Gonorrhea and Carnosity, probatum. ib.
Otherwise, ib.
An excellent Ptisan for the French Pox, 19.
Pills of Lytharge for the Venereal Disease, 20.
An Emplaister for the Lungs and Stomach, which will keep two years, 21.
For the Wind, and also for the Lungs, ib.
An excellent Remedy for the Lungs, and against a Cough, and shortness of Breath, 22.
A wonderful Opiate to refresh the Liver, and pu∣rifie the Blood, ib.
To temper the heart of the Liver, 23.
A Remedy for all sorts of Fluxes of Blood, up∣wards or downwards, or for Veins broken in the Body, 24.
For Men or Women that have an extraordinary Flux, ib.
For a Rupture; tryed upon a Man of seventy years of Age, ib.
For pains of the Head, Falling-sickness, Vertigo, and Megrim, 25.
For the same, ib.
Another for the same, Probatum. ib.
For the same, and to cause Sleep. ib.
To dissolve all sorts of Catarrhs and Tumors, 26.
To make one sneeze, ib.
A Bath for the Feet and Leggs to cause sleep, 27.
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For Deafness, Probatum, ib.
To preserve the eyes from weeping, and keep them fair and clear. ib.
For a pain in the Eyes, ib.
An Emplaister to be apply'd to an Artery, which the King made use of, 28.
For the pain of the Eyes, ib.
For the same, ib.
For the same: a Secret of Marshal de Thor∣stexson in Swedland, 29.
For the same, ib.
For the same, ib.
Another for the same, 30.
For Deafness and Noise in the Ears, ib.
A Water of great vertue to comfort the Teeth, preserve the Gums from Putrefaction, and cure watry Eyes, ib.
To appease the Tooth-ach, 31.
For the same, ib.
For the same, ib.
Another for the same. Probatum. ib.
An admirable Secret to make a Tooth fall out without Pain, 32.
For the Jaundies, ib.
For the Falling Sickness, 33.
Another infallible Receipt for the same, ib.
For the Spleen, 34.
For a Pain in the Side, ib.
For the Pleurisie, ib.
For the beating of the Heart, 35.
For those that are poyson'd by some Metal or Mi∣neral, ib.
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To cure a swell'd and inflam'd Knee, ib.
Against the Plague, ib.
Another against the Plague, 36.
To take away the marks of the Plague, ib.
For swell'd Gods, 36.
For the same, ib.
A Preservative against the Plague, ib.
Against the Plague; approved, 37.
A Remedy whereby Madam the Marchioness of Chenoise cured divers Phrensical People. 38.
For a Noli me tangere, 39.
To Cure all sorts of Ʋlcers and Gangreens, ib.
An admirable Plaister for Wounds, Ʋlcers, Can∣cers, Kings-evil, Bubo's, Corns in the feet, and Tumors that come in such Places, approved, ib.
For all sorts of old Ʋlcers, 40.
For the Hemorrhoids, ib.
For the same, ib.
Another for the same, 41.
For Corns in the feet, ib.
Another for the same, ib.
To kill great and small Warts, ib.
For a Burn, 42.
For the same, ib.
For the same, ib.
For all sorts of Pains in the Joints, even for the Gout, ib.
A most excellent Balsam, 43.
For the Gout and Pox, 45.
For the hot or cold Gout or other pains, ib.
Against the Sciatica, 46.
For the Gout in the feet, ib.
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An Emplaister for a Rupture, ib.
The black Plaister of Catalonia, 47.
An Oyl for all Plurisies, Bruises, Palsie of the Nerves, and pain of the Stomach, ib.
Arceus his Balsam, ib.
A red Oyntment, 48.
For a scall'd Head, ib.
For a Paraphymosis, 49.
A most Sovereign Remedy for Persons that lose their Blood, from what part soever, either Man or Woman, ib.
For the Ptysick, ib.
To bind or stay a Loosness, ib.
A gentle Purge, 50.
A Ptysan that purges gently, ib.
Foelix his Ptysan, ib.
A Medicine that purges gently, ib.
Excellent purging Lozenges, 51.
A Syrup for such as are subject to swooning fits, ib.
Madam the Countess of Daillon's Water; by Monsieur de Forgeray, Med. ib.
The same another way, 52.
To preserve Health, ib.
Magistery of Pearls, ib.
An Aurum Potabile, an inestimable Treasure, which cures Leprosies, Falling-sickness, the Pox, the Palsie, and all otherwise incurable Maladies, 54.
Another manner of Aurum Potabile, 55.
A most excellent preparation of Antimony, and its vertue, ib.
To incite Venery, 58.
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Another for the same, 59.
To bereave one of his Wits, and restore them a∣gain, ib.
For the same, and to amaze a Person, ib.
Against the Wind in the Belly, ib.
Dormitive Pills, to be burnt to cause profound sleep, 60.
Oyl of Butter for a cold Gout and other pains, ib.
To cleanse and incarnate the Teeth and Gums, ib.
To preserve the Gums, and fasten loose Teeth, ib.
For the marks of the Small Pox, 61.
To make Antimony purge only downward, ib.
To keep one from growing fat, ib.
The singular vertues of the Herb Fluellin, 62.
A wonderful Receipt for the Kings Evil, and other Wounds, 63.
To make a Plaister call'd Manus Dei, ib.
For the Megrim, 66.

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