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Pharmacologia, seu, Manuductio ad materiam medicam : in qua medicamenta officinalia simplicia, hoc est mineralia, vegetabilia, animalia earúmque partes in medicina officinis usitata, in methodum naturalem digesta succinctè & accurate describuntur : cum notis generum characteristicis, specierum synonymis, differentiis & viribus : opus omnibus medicis, philosophis, pharmacopœis, chirurgis, & pharmacopolis utilissimum / a Samuele Dale.
Dale, Samuel, 1659?-1739Date: 1693
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Certaine workes of chirurgerie / newly compiled and published by Thomas Gale.
Gale, Thomas, 1507-1587Date: 1586
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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-physical 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 ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1653
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[An hospitall for the diseased] : [wherein are to bee founde most excellent and approved medicines, aswell emplaisters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receiptes, bothe for the restitution, and the preservation of bodily health, very necessarie for this tyme of common plague and mortalitie, and for other tymes, when occasion shall require : newly augmented and inlarged / gathered by T.C.].
T. C., active 1579Date: [1584?]
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Alexicacvs spirit of salt of the vvorld, which vulgarly prepair'd is call'd the spirit of salt., or, The transcendent virtue of the true spirit of salt : long look'd for, and now philosophically prepared and purified from all hurtfull or coroding qualities, far beyond any thing yet known to the world : being both safe and pleasant for the use of all men, women, and children / by Constantine Rhodocanaces.
Rhodokanakēs, Kōnstantinos, 1635-1689Date: In the year 1667
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On simples, attributed to Dioscorides : introduction, translation, concordances / by John G. Fitch.
Fitch, John G.Date: [2022]
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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-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation: containing a compleat method of physick, wherby a man may preserve his bo- [sic] 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. Herein is also shewed these seven things: viz 1 The way of making plaisters, oyntmeuts [sic], oyls, pultisses, syrups, decoctions, juleps, or waters, of al sorts of physical herbs ... 7 The way of mixing medicines according to cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1656
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Bulleins bulwarke of defe[n]ce : againste all sicknes, sornes, and woundes, that dooe daily assaulte mankinde, whiche bulwarke is kepte with Hillarius the gardiner, Health the phisician, with their chyrurgian, to helpe the wounded soldiors. Gathered and practised fro[m] the moste worthie learned, bothe old and newe: to the greate comforte of mankinde: doen by Williyam Bulleyn, and ended this Marche. anno salutis. 1562.
Bullein, William, -1576Date: [1562]
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Macers herbal· : Practysyd by Doctor Lynacro· Translated out of laten, in to Englysshe, which shewynge theyr operacyons [and] vertues, set in the margent of this boke, to the entent you myght knowe theyr vertues.
Date: [1552?]]
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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 untill this. Being an astrologo-physical 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. Herein is also shewed these seven things, viz. 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, decoctions, juleps or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, ... 7. The way of mixing medicines according to the cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1684
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[A lytel herball of the properties of herbes newly amended and corrected, with certayne addiciions at the ende of the boke [as] appoynted in the almanacke, made in M.D.L. the xii. day of February by A. Askham.].
Date: [In the yeare of our Lorde M.D.L. the twelfe day of Marche] [1550]
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Macers herbal : Practysyd by Doctor Lynacro· / Translated out of laten, in to Englysshe, which shewynge theyr operacyons [and] vertues, set in the margent of this boke, to the entent you myght knowe theyr vertues.
Date: [1552?]
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Pharmacopoeus et chymicus, symmystæ, seu, Pharmacopoeiachymica : in quâ medicamenta alphabeticè digesta tàm chymica quàm officinalia ... lectori subjiciuntur / authore Joshua Lasher.
Lasher, Joshua, 1647-1729Date: 1698
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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: the epistle will inform you how to know this impression from any other. Being an astrologo-physical 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. Herein is also shewed th[e]se seven things, viz. 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, decoctions, juleps, or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs,... 7. The way of mixing medicines according to cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1662
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Tria peirēteria ankōusta. Sive Experimenta admiranda cum observationibus insolitis medico-chymicis : in quibus materia medica, ejusq; manufactura philosophica ampliùs examinatur, in tribus tractatulis contenta: in loimotomiæ synopsi in gratiam alienigenarum, lythocolo, splenotomia. Per doctissimum authorem Georgium Thompsonum, longiùs ante obitum scriptis tantundem ob commodum universale; cum ap,pendice [sic] aliquorum remediorum Dr. Thompsoni & aliorum, in lucem editis per Richardum Hope, philo-chymicum.
Thomson, George, active 1648-1679Date: 1680
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De specificorum remediorum cvm corpvscvlari philosophia concordia : Cui accessit Dissertatio de varia simplicivm medicamentorvm utilitate et usu.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691Date: [1686]
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Pharmaceutice rationalis, sive, Diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore / authore Tho. Willis.
Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675Date: M. DC. LXXIV [1674]
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Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, The operations of medicines in humane bodies : The second part. With copper plates describing the several parts treated of in this volume. By Tho. Willis, M.D. and Sedley Professor in the University of Oxford.
Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675Date: 1684
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Pharmaceutice rationalis, sive Diatriba de medicamentorum operationibus in humano corpore. Pars secunda. Autore Tho. Willis M.D. in Univ. Oxon. Prof. Sedleiano.
Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675Date: M.DC.LXXV. [1675]
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A plain and candid relation of the nature, uses and doses of that approved medicine, spiritus mundus / truly prepared by Charles Marshall ; published to the intent the afflicted with sickness may have the benefit thereof.
Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698Date: [1681?]
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Experiments in consort of the luctation arising from the affusion of several menstruums upon all sorts of bodies : exhibited to the Royal Society, April 13 and June 1, 1676 / by Nehemiah Grew.
Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712Date: 1678
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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-physical 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 fir for English bodies. Herein is also shewed these seven things, viz 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, ... 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree ... 3. The time of gathering all herbs, ... 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all year. 5. The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping all kind of useful compounds made of herbs. 7. The way of mixing medicines according to the cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1698
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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 as astrologo-physical 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 geing most fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed these seven things: viz. 1 The way of making plaisters, ointments, oils, ... 2 What planet governeth every herb or tree ... 3 The time of gathering all herbs, ... 4 The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year. 5 The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6 The way of making and keeping all kind of usefull compounds made of herbs. 7 The way of mixing medicines according to cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1666
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A boke of the propreties of herbes called an herball : wherunto is added the time [the] herbes, floures and sedes shold be gathered to be kept the whole yere, wyth the vertue of [the] herbes when they are stilled. Also a generall rule of all maner of herbes drawen out of an auncyent booke of phisyck by W.C.
Date: [1552?]]
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De virtute opii diaphoretica dissertatio / Michaelis Ettmüller.
Ettmüller, Michael, 1644-1683.Date: [1682?]