A compleat practice of physick.: Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick.

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Title: A compleat practice of physick.: Wherein is plainly described, the nature, causes, differences, and signs, of all diseases in the body of man. VVith the choicest cures for the same. / By John Smith, Doctor in Physick.
Author: Smith, John, doctor in Physic.
Publication: London :: Printed by J. Streater, for Simon Miller at the Star in S. Pauls Church-yard,; 1656.
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DANDRAFF. It proceeds from a salt watery blood, and also cholerick. Some hold it for a sign of a sound brain. It portends no danger.

It is cured by Generals, Topicals, softesse, afterward with Detergents, as with urine, pickle, with the decoction of Lupius, with Soot, with the juyce of Squills; Scarification and Leeches are good.