Tractatus de simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus. = A treatise of the nature and qualities of such simples as are most frequently used in medicines,: both purging, and others. Methodically handled, for the benefit of those that understand not the Latine tongue. To which is added: many compound medicines for most diseases incident to mankinde: as also two alphabeticall tables, very necessary for the reader. Together with, the explanation of all hard words or termes of art, whereby the vulgar may the better understand it.
Pemell, Robert.
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Ammoniacum purgeth thick Flegme from the Head, Nerves, Stomach, Mesenterie, and also from the Joynts. It much pre∣vailes in Asthma, and Orthropnaea, that is, in shortnesse of the breath, and in Diseases comming of Flegme. It is good in old paines of the head, and against stoppings of the Liver: it pro∣vokes the termes in Women, and Urin, and is good in any kinde of Gout, whether Sciatica, or Joynt-Gout, as also in the Falling Sicknesse. It killeth Wormes called Ascarides, and is excellent a∣gainst the hardnesse of the Liver or Spleen. It bringeth away the dead Childe.
