Physical rarities containing the most choice receipts of physick, and chyrurgerie, for the cure of all diseases incident to mans body. Being a rich jewell, kept in the cabinet of a famous doctor in this nation; stored with admirable secrets, and approved medicines. Published by Ralph Williams, practitioner in physick and chyrurgerie.

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Physical rarities containing the most choice receipts of physick, and chyrurgerie, for the cure of all diseases incident to mans body. Being a rich jewell, kept in the cabinet of a famous doctor in this nation; stored with admirable secrets, and approved medicines. Published by Ralph Williams, practitioner in physick and chyrurgerie.
Author
Williams, Ralph.
Publication
London :: Printed for J.M. and are to be sold by George Calvert, at the half Moon in Watling-street neer S. Austins Gate,
1651.
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Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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"Physical rarities containing the most choice receipts of physick, and chyrurgerie, for the cure of all diseases incident to mans body. Being a rich jewell, kept in the cabinet of a famous doctor in this nation; stored with admirable secrets, and approved medicines. Published by Ralph Williams, practitioner in physick and chyrurgerie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96604.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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Page 137

For the Dropsie that swelleth.

TAke and eat water Cresses, and Raysons, and this shal make the malady come down to the Legs and Toes, then when it is in the Legs or Feet, take the green bark of Older in Winter, and the Crops in Summer, and Oatmeal, and lay it to thy Legs being sodden in fair water, and this will heal thee.

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