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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To binde in Fluxes of the Belly, and to comfort withall the Stomack.

TAke a quarter of an ounce of Ising-glasse, which lay to steep in water 12. houres, after boil the same in a quart of milk, wherunto put a slack or two of Mace,

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two Dates sliced in the middle with the stones; keep it stirring till the one half be consumed: take hereof 7. or 8. spoonfuls morning and evening: use to take the same for a week or ten days together, if occasion so require; you may therefore provide a bet∣ter quantitie of the aforesaid things, as 1. ounce of Ising-glasse, half an ounce of Dates, 3. or 4. penyworth of Mace. So long as you may use hereof, take withall these Waters mixt together as followeth.

Of Baum-water half a li. and a like quan∣tity of Hysop-water; dissolve therein, a quar∣tern of Sugar over the fire; strain, and take thereof five spoonfuls one houre after din∣ner, wherunto put 4. or 5. drops of Cynamon-water. If the aforesaid do not sufficiently binde, put a little Cynamon, or the cups of Akhorns powdered therein.

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