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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Title: 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.:
Author: Read, Alexander, 1586?-1641.
Publication: 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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An excellent Receit for an Ague.

TAke Dragon, Salendine, Burrage, Buglosse, Angelica, Succory, Endive, Sorrell, Betony, Pimpernell, Scabius, Agrimony, White honey-suckles that grow among the graft a and Red honey-suckles of the same sort, of each of these a handfull, of Carduus Benedictus 2 handfuls dryed or green; shred them and boyl them very small, then set them to steep in a pottle of White-wine over night, and still it the next day in a dry still, the first is the best, and the small Water is very good though not so strong; then give it to the sick party 1 hour before the fit doth come, 6 or 7 spoonfuls, warming it first, and let the sick go into a warm bed to sweat presently, and he will find help hereby. This hath been truly pro∣ved.