Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...

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Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...
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Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
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London : Printed for J. Dawks ... and sold by S. Sprint [and 6 others] ...,
M.DC.XCVIII [1698]
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Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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1. The Purging Pills.

FINE Aloes lbxv. Colo∣quintida in pouder lbiv. Tur∣peth-Mineral, Cambogia, A. lbiii. dissolve the Aloes and Cambogia in a strong decoction of Coloquintida, and evaporate to the consistency of Honey; to which add the pouders of Coloquintida, and Tuxpeth; and make with Oil of Caraways a mass of Pills.

They purge all Humors, chiefly serous and watery; as also Choler and Phlegm very much; they are a specifick in a Gonorrhaea, and the Whites in Women: they are given with great effect in the Dropsy, Gout. Scurvy, Kings-Evil, Rheuma∣tism, Cachexy, Jaundies, Ob∣structions of the Liver, Spleen, Mesentery, Womb, and Reins; and chiefly to such which can∣not be purged with gentler Me∣dicines: they are good against all impurities of the Brain, Sto∣mach, Bowels, and Blood, Dose, à ℈ i, ad ʒ ss. in the morning fasting.

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