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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9. Emplaster of Tobacco, or Plaster of many Virtues.

Tobacco, green, and bruised lbv. Sheeps-suet lbij. boil for two or three hours with a very gentle fire, and press out: to which add, Wax, Rosin, Ship-pitch, Frankincense, Venice-Turpentine, a. ℥ xv. mix, and make an Emplaster.

It cleanses all sorts of Ulcers and Wounds, whether new or old, fills them with Flesh, and heals them; it eases vehement pains of the Gout, and ripens Apostems.

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