Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man, exactly delineating all the parts according to the best anatomists. With the severall diseases thereof. Also their particular and most approved cures. / by R.T. doctor of physick.
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- Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man, exactly delineating all the parts according to the best anatomists. With the severall diseases thereof. Also their particular and most approved cures. / by R.T. doctor of physick.
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- Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.
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- London,:: Printed for Edward Archer ...,
- 1654.
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- Body, Human -- Early works to 1800.
- Diseases -- Early works to 1800.
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TO THE NOBLE, VERTUOUS, AND RELIGIOUS LADY, THE LADY
THOROWGOOD, VVife to the Right VVorshipfull, SirJohn Thorowgood ofKensington, Knight. - To the Christian Reader.
- Authours used in this Booke.
- Characters for brevity used heerein.
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ΜΙΚΡΟΚΟΣΜΟΣ, A Description of the little World.-
CHAP. I. Shewing the Definition of Chyrurgery, the qua∣lifications of a Chyrurgion, and Anatomy of the simple Members. -
CHAP. II. Of the compound members:1. Of the head. -
CHAP. III. Of the face. -
CHAP. IV. Of the Neck. -
CHAP. V. Of the Armes and Shoulders. -
CHAP. VI. Of the Breast, Heart, and Back. -
CHAP. VII. Of the Lungs, Bowels, and Belly. -
CHAP. VIII. Of the Buttocks, Haunches, and Secret-Members. -
CHAP. IX. Of the Thighes, Legs, and Feet.
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Choyce and select Receipts and Secrets for all manner of Diseases, Gun-shot, and preser∣vatives against the Plague.
- What Wounds are.
- Of the Syncope passion, or swounding through the cause of wounds.
- Of Luxation, or Dislocation, and their differences.
- How the luxated joynt is to be reduced to his naturall and proper place.
- How the member brought to his naturall place, may be conserved in the same.
- Of the Cure of broken and fractured bones.
- To keep the bones that they fall not out againe.
- To Conglutinate and Joyne together the fractured bones.
- To remove the accidents which may happen to fractured bones.
- A secret powder to stay the flux of bloud in a wound.
- Of Wounds made with Gunshot.
- Of healing wounds made with Gunshot.
- A plaister good to extract such things as are fixed in wounds.
- To cure a simple wound in the head made with gunshot.
- Of wounds compound in the head through shot.
- recipe
- Of wounds in the breast with gunshot.
- Of wounds with gunshot in the belly.
- Of wounds in the legs and armes made with gunshot.
- Of burnings with gunpowder.
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Receipts for severall Diseases.
- An excellent preservative against the Plague.
- Remedies against the Plague.
- A Drinke for the Plague.
- A Cordiall Water.
- For burning or scalding.
- For stinging of Adders and Snakes.
- For the Scurvy.
- For pain in the head, and to cause sleep.
- For a Canker, or any other heat in the mouth.
- For the pin and web, or any other Rheume in the eyes.
- For a woman that hath not her termes.
- A Powder for the green sicknesse.
- A Purge.
- For the Ptisick, or shortness of breath.
- An excellent Drinke for the Ptisick and Consumption.
- For the Dropsie.
- A Plague Water.
- For heat in the Ʋrine.
- Another for the same.
- For a strain causing one to spit bloud.
- A Bag for purging Ale.
- For to stay vomiting.
- A secret Powder for wounds.
- Of the Sciatica.
- Against a stinking mouth.
- For a stinking breath.
- To make an aking tooth fall out of himselfe, without any instrument or pain.
- An excellent purging Ale called the Ale of health and strength.
- A Medicine for the Gout to be taken in order.
- For a straine.
- For a Flux.
- For a Pin and Web, or any other Rheume in the Eyes.
- Another for Rheume in the eyes.
- For blear'd and watry eyes.
- For heat in the Eyes.
- A water for sore Eyes.
- An Electuary for a Consumption.
- A Julip for a Consumption, or any weak body.
- For a Cough, or shortness of breathing.
- A Sirrup for a Consumption and Cough.
- For the Chine Cough.
- Another for the same.
- For the Spleene.
- For a Flux.
- Another for the same, being also good for a weak back.
- For a weake back, or the whites.
- A Plaister for the swelling of the stones.
- Another for the swelling of the stones.
- Another for the same in the beginning of the griefe.
- A Pultis for a sore breast.
- Another for the same.
- For an Ague in the breast, as also to dry up the Milke.
- For a swell'd face.
- For any ordinary sorenesse.
- For a Fistula.
- For a Felon or Boyle.
- For a Burn or Scald.
- Another for the same.
- For the Mother.
- For the same.
- To cure Cornes in the feet, and the cause of them.
- An excellent Oyntment for the Stone and Chollick.
- For winde or chollick in the belly.
- For inflamations in Wounds.
- Against the swelling of the Leggs.
- An excellent Preservative against the Plague.
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An excellent Plaister to dissolve Tumors, which King
Henry the Eight used for the swelling in his Legs. - A marvelous remedy to cure the Pestilence, Carbuncles, and such like.
- How a man may preserve himselfe in time of Pestilence against infectious Ayres.
- To breake the Stone.
- A very approved good exciccative Plaister for all kinds of Ʋlcerations, as well of the legs, as other parts of the body.
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A good Cerate called
Hydrelaeon Galeni. - Another for Rhumatick Passions and greene Wounds, it doth exciccate and dry.
- A precious Oyntment good for all kind of Scia∣ticaes, dry itches, straines of sinews or vains, for any burning with gun∣powder, shingles, blisters, venoms.
- For Aches, Bruises, Gouts, Stitches, Pal∣sies, Cramps, &c.
- For the falling sicknesse.
- To draw out the Ague from any sore or in the legs.
- For an old sore running with thinne matter.
- For swelling in the knees or any other place that commeth of winde.
- To dissolve any knob or hard swelling.
- For the Gout, and all manner of Aches and Bruises, an Oyntment.
- For a Ringworm in the neck.
- For the Sciatica.
- For a Sore festred with bloud.
- A green Salve to heale any Sore.
- A Salve for a new wound.
- A Medicine for the Ague to apply to the Wrists.
- For the green sicknesse approved.
- A purging dyet Ale for the Dropsie, Scurvy, and to open the Liver and Spleen.
- A Drinke for the Rickets.
- For the Plague.
- For old Wounds, Ʋlcers, Cankers, Scabs, Itch, or Fistulaes.
- For the Megrim.
- To procure easie delivery in Women.
- An Oyntment for Rheumatick Eyes.
- For a Quinzie.
- Against the trembling of the Heart, and Convulsion fits.
- To boyle Turpentine, for the running of the Reynes.
- To prevent miscarrying, and stop the Reds.
- To stay vomiting bloud by reason of an in∣ward bruise.
- To breake a Boyle or Felon.
- For a Child broken in the belly.
- For the falling sicknesse.
- For the Collick.
- For bleeding at Nose.
- A Water to take away Wheales, Pushes, Ker∣nels, Swellings, Bunches, and Warts.
- A Water for the head ach, and to cause rest in weakness, or childbed women.
- An Oyntment to swage a swelled sore Breast, or any other swelling.
- For bleeding Gums.
- For the dead Palsie.
- For the Gout stitches, and to open obstructions, most excellent.
- For a Plurisie of winde.
- For the Wind, Mother, or Convulsions.
- A soveraigne Water for old Ʋlcers.
- Ʋse this defensive Plaister.
- For heat in the Back.
- For the head ach.
- To dry up a Sore that issues with water.
- For the Mother.
- For the Piles.
- For the Rickets.
- An oyntment for the Rickets.
- Sirrup for the Rickets.
- Pils to stay vomitting and cleanse the stomacke.
- The Palsie oyle to make to anoynt twice a day for any ach or benummedness.
- For the Stone in the Kidneyes, and them that make bloudy water.
- For a Burn or Scald.
- Jay powder for the falling sickness.
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Flos Unguentorum, or the flower of Oyntments. -
The manner how to cut the Plaisters of this Medicine to cure these Diseases under written,
viz. - For shortnesse of breath or Ptisike.
- For scabs in Childrens heads.
- For a swellyng or bruise.
- For the Lungs, and Gonorrhea.
- For a perrillus Cough.
- Stinging of an adder or snake.
- To procure easie delivery.
- To heale a scald or burne.
- Flux of Bloud to stay.
- For noyse in the eares, or tongue swelled.
- To purge the head with Ceny.
- For itch, scabs, and the like.
- A Balsome for wounds, swellings, venom, bi∣tings, and Apostumations, oldsores, fretting ulcers. &c.
- To heale watring Eyes.
- To expell Rheume in the face.
- For the Chollick, or griping in the belly.
- For the Passion of the Heart.
- To purge choller.
- A Purge for the Kings Evill.
- For the Dropsie.
- An excellent Medicine for the Dropsie.
- The Oyntment for the Dropsie.
- For a sore breast in great anguish.
- For a Bruise.
- To stay bleeding at the Nose.
- For the same.
- For a cold Stomack, and hot Liver.
- For the Falling-sickness.
- An excellent Oyntment for the Spleene, or Spraine, or for Winde, or Stitch in the side, & good for any inward bruise, to annoynt outwardly.
- For paine in the Head.
- For the same.
- For the Megrim.
- Against Drunkennesse.
- For a Worme in the Somack.
- For scalding, burning, itch, scabs, scald head, or any heat.
- For the Piles approved.
- For a Chin-cough.
- The most excellent Plaister, called Leaden Plaister.
- For a bruise on the Stones.
- For the Dropsie.
- To coole the Liver.
- For displacing the Mother, or Whites with a Serringe.
- A Receipt of pills.
- For asore throat.
- An oyntment for a joynt Ague.
- To skin nipples.
- For the same.
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Unguentum Album,
to make. - A gargle for the throat for flegme.
- For the Morphew.
- To help fainting fits in lying in.
- For the Palsey, and to stay Rhume.
- For the Yellow Jaundies most excellent in great extremity.
- For one that pisses bloud.
- A Clyster for the bloudy Flux.
- An approved Searecloth for aches.
- To comfort the hart.
- For a Consumption.
- For a scald head.
- For the black Jaundies.
- For St. Anthonies fire.
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Of the twelve Signes. The division, nature, and expositions of the twelve signes of theZodiack, according to the twelve months in the yeare. - The Table.