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 17, 2024.

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For a Quartane Ague.

TAke Red-Wine, and new-Milk, of a Cow that is all of one Colour, of each of them a pottle; then take 3 or 4 handfuls of Mouse-ear, of Lettice, and Strawberry-leaves, of each 2 handfulls, well picked and washed, strip them into the Wine and Milk, and tem∣per them all together, and let them stand so for the space of one night; then put them in∣to a fair still, and so distill them with a soft fire, then take the Water and put it into a Glass, and set it where it may stand in the Sun for the space of five dayes, and let the Patient when he is dry in his Ague, drink thereof 3 or 4 times, and he shall be rid of his Ague, and this drink will quench his thirst be he never so drie.

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