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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A very good Syrrop to be taken against cold dis∣eases of the Brain and Sinews, as the Pal∣sey, Falling-sicknes, the Cramp, and water distilling out of the head lying.

TAke of the Flowers of Stechados 4 ounces, of Time, Calamint, Origanum, of each 1. ounce and half, of Sage, Bettony-flowers, and Rosemary of each half an ounce, of the Seeds of Rue, Pyony, Fennel of each 3 drachms. Boil them in 10 pound of water till half be consu∣med; When the decoction is strained, boil it again to a syrrop with sugar, and honey, of each 2 li. and candie it with Cynamon, Ginger, Ca∣lamus aromaticus, or Nutmeg, of each two drachms, which being bound up in a course cloth with open threeds, must be hanged in the syrope.

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