Directions for the Composing of that incomparable Medcine called the Golden Balm.
Take Olei Terebinth. lb. 4. Mirrhae ℥ 2 ss. Mastices ℥ 1. arcocllo
A compendious enchiridion touching most distempers incident to the body of man, with the best and easiest cures thereof Wherein the author desires the reader seriously to consider the particulars before censure be passed. [I]n all my travels with Salvator Winter, and many years after with that famous phisitian and chirurgeon John Ponteus; I never exacted on, or denied the poor my skill and medicines gratis, but still my house to them was as free as an hospital; the like never hath been performed but by your friend and neighbor John Church. [Ge]ntlemen take notice, that besides the old tract I gave you; I have now added for the good and benefit of my countrymen, a true way of making some cheap and necessary medicines; as balsomes, plaisters. Oyntments, diascordium and mithridate. [Wi]th the number of all the bones, veins,, [sic] muscles and arteries in the body of man.
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- A compendious enchiridion touching most distempers incident to the body of man, with the best and easiest cures thereof Wherein the author desires the reader seriously to consider the particulars before censure be passed. [I]n all my travels with Salvator Winter, and many years after with that famous phisitian and chirurgeon John Ponteus; I never exacted on, or denied the poor my skill and medicines gratis, but still my house to them was as free as an hospital; the like never hath been performed but by your friend and neighbor John Church. [Ge]ntlemen take notice, that besides the old tract I gave you; I have now added for the good and benefit of my countrymen, a true way of making some cheap and necessary medicines; as balsomes, plaisters. Oyntments, diascordium and mithridate. [Wi]th the number of all the bones, veins,, [sic] muscles and arteries in the body of man.
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- Church, John, fl. 1682.
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"A compendious enchiridion touching most distempers incident to the body of man, with the best and easiest cures thereof Wherein the author desires the reader seriously to consider the particulars before censure be passed. [I]n all my travels with Salvator Winter, and many years after with that famous phisitian and chirurgeon John Ponteus; I never exacted on, or denied the poor my skill and medicines gratis, but still my house to them was as free as an hospital; the like never hath been performed but by your friend and neighbor John Church. [Ge]ntlemen take notice, that besides the old tract I gave you; I have now added for the good and benefit of my countrymen, a true way of making some cheap and necessary medicines; as balsomes, plaisters. Oyntments, diascordium and mithridate. [Wi]th the number of all the bones, veins,, [sic] muscles and arteries in the body of man." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A79558.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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ʒ 2. Gum. Elemi ʒ 6. Gum. vel pinguedinis Palmae ℥ 7. Spirit. Vi•• Opt. lb. 2. Mix them together in a strong Glass, and infuse them i•• Balreo Mariae, 10 daies. Afterwards put to it Olei Hypper. lb. 1 •• Tereb. purissim. ʒ 4. Cerae albae ʒ 6. ellis 3. Misc. fiot Unguent. v•• alme.
This Golden Balm or Unguent, is of so great virtue, that it •• to be admired, for it's wonderful efficacie and operations, both in¦wardly and outwardly; for all great Squats, Bruses, Falls, give half drachm, or safely a whole drachm in Sack, or any convenient drink anointing the greived place outwardly.
For all wounds, new or old, make pledget of fine Tow or Lin•• the bigness of the wound, and lay on any common plaister; as Dia•• chilon, or Deminio, and if the wound be deep, you may make Tent of the same.
Also anointing any greived part, or painful swelling, it givet•• speedy ease, and asswageth.
And for all Sinewes that are contracted, or shrunken. For Cramp•• and Convulsions, anointing the Spundles of the back. Truly it woul•• require a wise Pen, and a large Volume to set down all it's healin•• Virtues, and curious Operations.