Materia medica, Vegetable - Early works to 1800
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The English physitian enlarged : with three hundred, sixty and nine medicines made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this : being an astrologo-phisical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1683- Books
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A Book of fruits and flowers : shewing the nature and use of them, either for meat or medicine : as also, to preserve, conserve, candy, and in wedges, or dry them : to make powders, civet bagges, all sort of sugar-works, turn'd works in sugar, hollow or frutages ... and for meat ... for medicines.
Date: 1656- Books
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Approved medicines of little cost, to preserve health and also to cure those that are sick : provided for the souldiers knap-sack, and the country mans closet. Written by Richard Elkes Gent. Student in the art of physick, living at Bagshot in the county of Surry.
Elkes, RichardDate: 1651- Books
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Some observations made upon the Molucco nutts, imported from the Indies : shewing their admirable virtues in curing the collick, rupture, and all distempers proceeding from the wind. Written by a Doctor of Physick in the countrey, to Dr. Castle, one of the Royal Society in London.
Peachi, John, active 1683Date: Anno 1672- Books
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Some observations made upon the wood called lignum nephriticum imported from Hispaniola : shewing its admirable virtues in dissolving the stone in the reins and bladder, helping the strangury and stoppings in the water and easing all pains proceeding from thence, &c. / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to the president of the Colledge of Physicians in London.
Peachi, John, active 1683Date: 1694