Scurvy - England - Early works to 1800
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At the sign of the moon and stars in Leopard's Court in Baldwins-Gardens near Holborn, lives a gentleman, who by the benefit of a learned education in the University of Louvain, daily study and 30 years practice and travels : has arrived to a greater perfection in several arts than the common practioners in physick and astrology can justly pretend to.
Date: [1690?]- Books
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At the blew ball in Great Knight-Rider-Street, by Doctors Commons Back Gate : liveth a physitian which hath a pill far beyond any medicament yet ever known, or at least published; which cureth those diseases so many pretend to, and so few do understand, called the French Pox, and gonnorhea.
Date: [1680?]- Books
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Pray vouchsafe it the reading over elixir stomachicum: or, the great cordial elixir for the stomach : of a delicate flavour, and pleasing (tho' bitterish) taste, not purging but cordial.
Stoughton, Richard, 1665-1716Date: [1700?]- Books
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Over against the Golden-Faulcken in French-Alley in Goswel-Street, near Old-Street, liveth a chymist that prepareth that famous cordial spirit : which is daily approved by several people to be of great virtue: It takes away the scurvy out of the body, root and branch, and the dropsie to admiration.
Date: [1685?]- Books
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The true spirit of scurvy-grass, both plain and purging, who is to be sold for six pence the glass : being as much, and as good, as any that is sold for a shilling.
Date: [1695?]