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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4. Basil's Spirit of Wine.

Rectified Spirit of Wine, of the best Oil of Salt, ana; mix them by shaking the Vessel well. By this Spirit, a Tincture may be drawn out of Gold.

Page 192

It is one of the chiefest Se∣crets against Poison, and the true and only Bezoartick Remedy against the Infection of a Pestife∣rous Air, for which purpose, no∣thing is more efficacious; and it is also the chief, both Presérva∣tive and Curative, of the very Plague it self: it presently and powerfully cures simple Wounds, of what kind soever; becoming as it were a stupendious Miracle of Nature, because of its mighty Balsamick power, contained in its Oil, Sale, and Spirit. Dose, à gut. xij, ad xxiv. or to an agreeable and pleasant acidity.

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