Ptåochopharmakon, seu Medicamen miseris, or Pauperum pyxidicula salutifera. Help for the poor collected for the benefit of such as are not able to make use of physitians and chiurgians, or live remote from them. Also an appendix concerning letting blood in the smallpox. By Robert Pemel, physitian of Crane-brook in Kent.
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Ptåochopharmakon, seu Medicamen miseris, or Pauperum pyxidicula salutifera. Help for the poor collected for the benefit of such as are not able to make use of physitians and chiurgians, or live remote from them. Also an appendix concerning letting blood in the smallpox. By Robert Pemel, physitian of Crane-brook in Kent.
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Pemell, Robert.
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London :: printed by J.L. for Philemon Stephens, at the Gilden-Lion, in Pauls Church-yard,
1650.
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Medicine, Rural -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"Ptåochopharmakon, seu Medicamen miseris, or Pauperum pyxidicula salutifera. Help for the poor collected for the benefit of such as are not able to make use of physitians and chiurgians, or live remote from them. Also an appendix concerning letting blood in the smallpox. By Robert Pemel, physitian of Crane-brook in Kent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70776.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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Against the Cough.
TAke of Clarified Honey four oun∣ces, and put to it of Elecampane root in fine powder, half an ounce, or three quarters of an ounce; mix them together at the fire, and being throughly hot, keep it for your use, and take often of it.
Or,
Take two hanfuls of Hyssope, Rai∣sons of the Sun stoned four ounces, Figgs cut in slices two ounces, Licoris bruised one ounce, boyl these in a sufficient quantity of water, strain it and take often thereof.
Or,
Take two or three handfuls of Horehound two ounces of Licoris bruised, boyl them in water, and be∣ing strained drink of it.
Or,
Take as much powder of Brimstone or flower thereof as will lye one a six pence, morning and evening in an egge half roasted, for the space of a week.
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