Nine books of physick and chirurgery written by that great and learned physitian, Dr Sennertus. The first five being his Institutions of the whole body of physick: the other four of fevers and agues: with their differences, signs, and cures.

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Nine books of physick and chirurgery written by that great and learned physitian, Dr Sennertus. The first five being his Institutions of the whole body of physick: the other four of fevers and agues: with their differences, signs, and cures.
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Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637.
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London :: printed by J.M. for Lodowick Lloyd, at the Castle in Corn-hill,
1658.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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The milder Purgers of Melancholy and black humours.

INdian myrobolans are of the same nature with the rest of them, onely that these purge melancholy. * 1.1

Polipodie evacuates adust choler, as also Phlegme; tis profitable in diseases of the splcene, and Hypocondries, * 1.2 the Dose is from a Drachme to three Drachmes, in infusion to an Ounce and above,

Epithymum purges a dust choller, * 1.3 and Melancholy with∣out trouble, and is profitable in Diseases proceeding from hence; yet because tis hot and dry in the third degree, tis sa∣fer to be used in Winter, then in Summer, tis given in the substance from two Drachmes, to three Drachmes in infusi∣on from halfe an ounce to an ounce.

Sena is as it were the middle betwixt the stronger and weaker, hot in the second, dry in the first, * 1.4 tis a very usefull medicine, which not onely evacuates adust humours, but also choler and Phlegme; cleanseth all the bowels, and is con∣venient for all ages, when tis more dry tis not inconveniently corrected with the flowers of Violets and Burrage, Ginger, or Cinamon, or the fourth part of Galingale is added to it, the powder is given from a Drachme to two Drachmes, in in∣fusion from halfe an ounce to an ounce.

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