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 June 12, 2024.
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2. Salt of Alum.
It is drawn forth of the Caput mortuum, by the help of common Water. Sweet Alum is made of the crude Alum, being dissolved in fair Water, digested, and cry∣stallized, and repeated three times, till the Alum grows sweet.
This Salt is a Febrifuge and Sudorifick, and is given before the Paroxysm, à gr. vj, ad xvj. afterwards it is given morning and evening in some Antifebri∣tick Vehicle. The Saccharum is profitable in Diseases of the Brest, but chiefly in such as are contracted from Mineral fumes: it is profitable also in the cure of Wounds and old Ulcers, as also the Tooth-ach, being ap∣plied to the part affected. Dose, à gr. viij, ad xvj. in some pro∣per Vehicle.
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