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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A speciall good Medicine to heal, and cure the Canker in a Womans Brest.

TAke the Juice of Selandine, and Goose-dung of each an equal proportion; then take

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Pellitory of the Wall, Garlick, and Rie-meal: stamp them in a Mortar, & fry or boil them all together in good pure Wine vineger, and let it boil untill it be thick like a Salve: then make a Plaister thereof, and apply it to the Sore, and so let it continue untill you per∣ceive that it be white: then take a good quantity of Pimpernel, and grinde it very small, and adde thereunto a good quantitie of English honey, and make a Plaister thereof, and lay it to the Sore, and it will heal it in a very short time.

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