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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Another excellent Remedie for the Tooth-Ach.

TAke Vineger, Honey, Aqua-vitae, Henbane-roots, Long-pepper, and Round-pepper, Cam∣phire, Gum and Ivie, of each a like quantitie: Boil them all together untill they be hard, and let the Patient put some of it between his Teeth, and this will speedily ease him. But if his Teeth grow sore by reason of the extream pain, let him take a pound of Hen∣bane-roots, and boil them in a quart of White-wine-Vineger, and a pint of Rose-water, and when it's well boil'd put into it a little fine

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Sugar to sweeten it withall, then strain it, and wash your mouth often therewith, and it will asswage the pain without all doubt.

If your Tooth be hallow, take 2 or 3 drops of Aqua fortis, and dip a little lint therein, and stop the hollow place therewith, and for the space of an hour or thereabouts, it will put you to some pain, but in a very short space after it will give you ease: use this twice or thrice, and it will quite expell the pain for ever after, without perishing the tooth any thing at all.

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