Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, The operations of medicines in humane bodies. The second part. With copper plates describing the several parts treated of in this volume. By Tho. Willis, M.D. and Sedley Professor in the University of Oxford.

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Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, The operations of medicines in humane bodies. The second part. With copper plates describing the several parts treated of in this volume. By Tho. Willis, M.D. and Sedley Professor in the University of Oxford.
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Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
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London :: printed for Thomas Dring, Charles Harper, and John Leigh, booksellers in Fleet-street,
1679.
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Materia medica -- Early works to 1800.
Pharmacology -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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4. Powders and Pills.

Take of the powder of Blood-stone, Dragons-blood, ground with Rose-water on a Mar∣ble,* 1.1 Pearles, of each one dram, Bole Armenick, and Earth of Lemnos, of each half a dram, Troches of Winter-cherries two drams, make a powder, divide it into twelve parts, one part to be taken three times a day in the former distill'd water.

Take of Henbane, white Poppy-seeds, of each 10 drams, sealed Earth, red Coral, of each 5 drams, Sugar of Roses three ounces, make a powder, the dose one dram morning and evening; this composition made up with a fit Syrup into a soft consistence, was anci∣ently call'd and renowned in Germany, by the name of Helidaeus Electuary.

The aforesaid Powders with the addition of Gum Tragacanth dissolv'd, or some fit syrup,* 1.2 may be reduced into Pills or Lozenges.

The spongious excrescence usually growing to the fruit of Hipps or Dog-bryar, reduced into powder, half a dram taken twice a day, is a very profitable remedy in spitting blood.

Take of Yarrow bruised and dryed in the Summer-Sun as much as you please, reduce it into powder to be kept in a Glass; the dose from half a dram, to a dram twice a day in any convenient liquor.

Julius Caesar Scaliger's Powder, or rather that of Serapion is mightily commended. Dose four drams, twice or thrice a day.

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