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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Title: 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 ...
Author: Salmon, William, 1644-1713.
Publication: London : Printed for J. Dawks ... and sold by S. Sprint [and 6 others] ...,; M.DC.XCVIII [1698]
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Subject terms: Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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13. Powers of Harts Horns and Hoofs.

℞ Oil of the Hoofs and Horns ℥ j. Spirit of Sal Armoniack ℥ ij. Tincture of Salt of Tartar ℥ viij. mix, and digest.

They are Hysterick and Cepha∣lick, for which cause they take away all kinds of Hysterick-fits, even the most vehement; as also the pain and compression of the Praecordia. And in Fits of the Mother, where all the parts are irritated, and the Disease become as it were desperate, they have a most sanative power; for they destroy even the Cause of this most violent Disease, and of all other the most vehement preci∣pitations or disorders in the Wombs of Women; whether they arise from the retention of the Seed, or any other cause; which as they powerfully repress, so they perfectly quiet. Dose, à gut. x, ad xx. or ʒss. in white Wine, or some Hysterick-liquor.