Most excellent and approved medicines & remedies for most diseases and maladies incident to man's body, lately compiled and extracted out of the originals of the most famous and best experienced physicians both in England and other countries, by A. R. Doctor in Physick decesased. And since revised by an able practitioner in the same science, and now published for the universall good and benefi [sic] of this Common-wealth.:
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Most excellent and approved medicines & remedies for most diseases and maladies incident to man's body, lately compiled and extracted out of the originals of the most famous and best experienced physicians both in England and other countries, by A. R. Doctor in Physick decesased. And since revised by an able practitioner in the same science, and now published for the universall good and benefi [sic] of this Common-wealth.:
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Read, Alexander, 1586?-1641.
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London :: Printed by J.C. for George Latham Junior, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bishops head in St. Pauls Church-yeard,
1652 [i.e. 1651]
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"Most excellent and approved medicines & remedies for most diseases and maladies incident to man's body, lately compiled and extracted out of the originals of the most famous and best experienced physicians both in England and other countries, by A. R. Doctor in Physick decesased. And since revised by an able practitioner in the same science, and now published for the universall good and benefi [sic] of this Common-wealth.:." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A92202.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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An Alphabeticall TABLE Directing to the Principall Matters contained in this Book.
A
FOr an Ach in the Back. Pag. 59.
For the Head-ach. p. 27, 88.
For the Tooth-ach. p. 72, 111
For an Ague. p. 67, 79.
For a Tertian Ague. p. 60.
For a Quartan Ague. p. 86.
An Almond-milk to cool and induce sleep. p. 68.
For an Apoplexie. p. 45.65, See Palsie
How to make Aqua-vitae. p 63.
B.
FOr the heat of the Back. p. 77
For Pain in the Back. p. 59
A soverain Balsam for 22. several diseases p. 86
How to make a Barley Cream. p. 68.
A Bath to cleanse the skin of Scabs, Scurf, Maun∣ginesse. p. 28.
A Bath for cold Diseases or Palsies. p. 30
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To bind the Belly in Fluxes, or to stop or stay the loosenes of the Belly. p. 32, 43, 51, 81. See Looseness, Scowring.
To loosen the Body of one that is hard bound in the Belly. p. 36, 39. See Loosen.
For young children that are hard bound in the Belly and troubled with Wormes. p. 100.
To ripen and supporate Biles and Tumors. p. 33 See Fellon, Swelling, Whitflaw.
Against the Biting of a mad Dog. p. 87. 95.
Against the Biting or stinging of any Venemous Beast p. 95.
For one that Bleedeth inwardly. p. 104.
To astringe in Bleeding, or to stay & stanch Blee∣ding. p. 44, 94.
To stanch the Bleeding of any VVound. p. 44, 94.
To stanch Bleeding at Nose. p. 44, 94, 104, 105.
Tor those that spit Blood. p. 93,
To restore good Blood. p. 1
Against congealed Blood. p. 15.
To cleanse, temper, and purifie the Blood. p. 52. r53, 54, 55, 59, 84.
For the Bloody-Flux p. 67, 74.
For cold Diseases of the Brain and Sinews. p. 57.
To comfort the Brain. p. 14, 15.
To cleanse and purge the head or Brain by the
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Nose. p. 45, 128.
To make a sweet Breath, and to cure a stinking and unsavory Breath. p. 14, 15, 36.
For short-Breathing. p. 56.
For a VVoman that hath great Brests. p. 125.
For a VVomans sore Breast. p. 126.
To increase or procure Milk in a Womans Brest p. 49, 126.
To dry up Milk in a Womans Brest. p. 49.
For Bruises p. 15, 33, 87. 99.
For a Burning or scalding. p. 74, 87, 110.
For one that is Burst in the Belly or Cods. p. 96.
C.
FOr the Canker upon a Mans Yard. pag. 100
For the Canker in a Womans Brest. p. 129.
For a Canker in the Mouth. p 130, 131.
For a Canker in any part of the body. p. 88, 130.
To purge Choler. p. 1, 9, 10. 43.
An opening and cooling Julip for Choler, and burnt humors. p. 11.