The Cure.
The best thing is Potable sil∣ver, taken 6 grains at night, and a dram of Elixir Proprieta∣tis, Elixir Vitae, Essentia Mag∣na, Essence of Saffron, Syrupus Alkermes or Spiritus Analepti∣cus in the morning. The Chy∣mical
Physick refin'd, or, A little stream of medicinal marrow flowing from the bones of nature wherein several signs, particular rules, and distinct symptoms whereby the most ordinary diseases may be distinctly known, and truly judged, are perspicuously delineated : and the most proper way, safe method, and simpathetical care, whereby nature may be helped, the sick eased, and languishing patients relieved (without the use of poysonous purging potions, and venomous medicaments) is succinctly demonstrated / by John Yarwood.
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- Physick refin'd, or, A little stream of medicinal marrow flowing from the bones of nature wherein several signs, particular rules, and distinct symptoms whereby the most ordinary diseases may be distinctly known, and truly judged, are perspicuously delineated : and the most proper way, safe method, and simpathetical care, whereby nature may be helped, the sick eased, and languishing patients relieved (without the use of poysonous purging potions, and venomous medicaments) is succinctly demonstrated / by John Yarwood.
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- Yarwood, John, 17th cent.
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- London :: Printed for Tho. Passinger,
- 1683.
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"Physick refin'd, or, A little stream of medicinal marrow flowing from the bones of nature wherein several signs, particular rules, and distinct symptoms whereby the most ordinary diseases may be distinctly known, and truly judged, are perspicuously delineated : and the most proper way, safe method, and simpathetical care, whereby nature may be helped, the sick eased, and languishing patients relieved (without the use of poysonous purging potions, and venomous medicaments) is succinctly demonstrated / by John Yarwood." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67767.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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oyles of Cinanion, Cloves, or Rosemary, given to the quantity of 8 drops at once in wine or warm broth, is excel∣lent. So are flowers of Anti∣mony (corrected) 6 grains, at night taken in London Treacle, Take Black Hellebore, salt of Tartar, and as much white wine as will work them into stiff past, put it in a glass, stop the Air from it, and after it is two months old, give 5 or 6 grains at a time in a pill and increase the dose. Twenty grains of Matthews Pill is excellent.