The expert doctors dispensatory.: The whole art of physick restored to practice. The apothecaries shop, and chyrurgions closet open'd; wherein all safe and honest practices are maintained, and dangerous mistakes discovered; and what out of subtilty for their own profits they have indeavoured to reserve to themselves, now at last impartially divulged and made common. Together with a strict survey of the dispensatories of the most renowned colledges of the world ... Containing, ... the Latine names of all simples and compounds English'd. ... the vertues, qualities, properties, quantities, and uses of all simples and componnds [sic]. ...the way of prescribing remedies; ... the nature, qualities, and symptomes of all diseases ... cautions for the applying all both internal and external medicines. To which is added by Jacob a Brunn ... a compendium of the body of physick; wherein all the medicaments vniversal and particular, simple and compound, are fitted to the practice of physick; and these forms of remedies now before prescribed by the famous P. Morellus, ...

The matter of the Causticks or Esearoticks, i. e. crust causing-Medicines.

The common matter is the lye of which sope is made, of which only it may be made, and this Heurnius prefers before all others, lib. 1. Method. prax. of whom, see the place quoted; but the particular matter is of divers kinds, so that there is scarce a Chyrurge on which will not boast of some secret way of his own in this particular; some to this lye will adde vitrioll, some mercury sublimate, orpment, salt ammoniack, salt peeter, sandever, cinis clavellatus, or ashes of vines or tartar, &c. of which they compose their divers cauteryes.