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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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60561.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 31, 2024.

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8. A Cathartick Tincture.

Choice Sena ℥ iij. Ja∣lap in pouder ℥ j. Cloves, Sas∣ston, ana ʒ j. Chalybeat-Wine

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lbij. infuse for seven days, ex∣press, and filter.

It safely and certainly cures all Diseases of the Brain and Womb, removing and dissipating all Me∣lancholy Phansies and Thoughts; it is good against Semitertians, and other obstinate and inter∣mitting Fevers; for it brings forth Humors putrifying in the Body, and those chiefly Choler and Melancholy; it stops all Flu∣xes of the Belly, Bloody-fluxes, Lienteria's, Diarrhoea's, and the Hepatick-flux; by reason of the Salt and Sulphur of the Iron which it contains. It is very powerful to remove all Obstru∣ctions of the Liver and Spleen, provoke the Terms, &c. Dose, 2, 3, or 4 spoonfuls daily, for some cosiderable time.

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