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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A singular good Medicine to cure the Strangury.

TAke red Bramble-berries, (but take them before they become black) and like∣wise Ivie-berries and Acorns; put these into two severall pots, and let them stand in an Oven to dry untill they be fit to be beaten into powder: Then take Sitia Alexandrina, Persley-seeds, Grommelseeds, Broom-seeds, Corian∣der-seeds, and of the inward part or pith of Ashen-keyes, of each of these a like quantity, add thereunto twice as much Licorish finely scraped, as the weight or substance of all these cometh to: Afterward beat them all in∣to powder, and mix them all together, and use to drink hereof both morning and even∣ing in Posset-drink, made with White-wine or else with Renish wine. Use this drink twice or thrice a week at the least, and you will find great ease, and comfort thereby.