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Blagrave's supplement; or, enlargement, to Mr. Nich. Culpeper's English physician : Containing a description of the form, names, place, time, celestial government, and virtues, all such medicinal plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book, called The English-physician. And supplying the additional virtues of such plants wherein he is defective. Also with the virtues of all drugs as are found in any part of the world, and brought to be sold in our druggists and apothecaries shops, with their dangers and corrections. By Joseph Blagrave of Reading, student in physick and astrology.
Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682Date: 1677
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Experiments in consort of the luctation arising from the affusion of several menstruums upon all sorts of bodies : to which is added the nature, causes, and power of mixture. Exhibited to the Royal Society. By Nehemiah Grew, M.D. and fellow of the Royal Society.
Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712Date: 1678
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A discourse upon Sr Walter Rawleigh's great cordial / by N. le Febure ... ; rendred into English by Peter Belon.
Le Fèvre, Nicaise, 1610-1669Date: 1664
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Here begynnyth a newe mater, the whiche sheweth and treateth of ye vertues [and] proprytes of herbes, the whiche is called an herball : Cum gratia [and] priuilegio a rege indulto.
Date: Ye. xxv. day of Marche. The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.[and]xv. [1525]]
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A guide to the practical physician : shewing from the most approved authors, both ancient and modern, the truest and safest way of curing all diseases, internal and external, whether by medicine, surgery, or diet / lately published in Latin by Theoph. Bonet, M.D. ; and now rendred into English ... ; to which is added, an appendix concerning the office of a physician, by the same author.
Bonet, Théophile, 1620-1689Date: 1684
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A briefe tre[atise,] called Caries fare[well to] physicke ... / published by Walter Carie, for the common vse and benefit of his countrie.
Cary, Walter, active 1580-1611.Date: 1583
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An hospitall for the diseased : wherein are to bee founde moste excellent and approued medicines, as well emplasters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receptes, bothe for the restitution and the preseruation of bodily healthe : very necessary for this tyme of common plague and immortalitie, and for other tymes when occasion shall require : with a newe addition / gathered by T.C.
T. C., active 1579Date: 1579
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The first part of the key of philosophie : Wherein is contained moste ex- [sic] excellent secretes of phisicke and philosophie, divided into twoo bookes. : In the firste is shewed the true and perfect order to distill ... In the seconde is shewed the true and perfect order to prepare, calcine, sublime, and dissolue all maner of mineralles ... / First written in the Germaine tongue by the moste learned Theophrastus Paraselsus, and now published in the Englishe tongue by Ihon [sic] Hester practitioner in the arte of distillation.
Date: 1580..
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A briefe treatise / published by Walter Cary 1587, and now the fift time 1609. newly imprinted ; wherein are to be found diuers good and speciall helpes for many diseases ; and for any thing herein mentioned, as heretofore I referred the patientes to M. Gray, so now (he being dead) I referre them to M. Clapham.
Cary, WalterDate: 1609
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Jo. Friderici Cartheuser medicin. doct. ... Fundamenta materiae medicae : tam generalis quam specialis.
Cartheuser, Johann Friedrich, 1704-1777.Date: 1767
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Culpeper's last legacy : left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publicke good, being the choicest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publisht till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in severall sciences, more especially, in chyrurgery and physick, viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrrups, oyles, electuaries, conserves, salts, pils, purges, and trochischs. With two particular treatises; the one of feavers; the other of pestilence; as also other rare and choice aphorisms, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. Never publisht before in any of his other works. By Nicholas Culpeper, late student in astrology and physick.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1655
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Bulleins bulwarke of defence : against all sicknesse, soarenesse, and vvoundes that doe dayly assaulte mankinde: which bulwarke is kept with Hilarius the gardener, [and] Health the phisicion, with the chirurgian, to helpe the wounded soldiours. Gathered and practised from the most worthy learned, both olde and new: to the great comfort of mankinde: by VVilliam Bullein, Doctor of Phisicke. 1562.
Bullein, William, -1576Date: 1579
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The path-vvay to health : wherein are to be found most excellent and approved medicines of great vertue, as also notable potions and drinks, with the art of distilling divers precious waters, for making of oyls, and other comfortable receit, for the health of the body, never before printed. First gathered by Peter Levens, Master of Arts in Oxford, and student in Physick and Chirurgery, and now newly corrected and augmented.
Levens, Peter, active 1587Date: 1654
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The method of physick : containing the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body, from the head to the foot : whereunto is added, the form and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physicians commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantity, and names of each medicine / by Philip Barrough.
Barrough, Philip, active 1590Date: 1652
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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. Herein is also shewed these seven things, viz. 1 The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, decoctions, julips, 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 astrologie: living in Spittle Fields.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1653
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The compleat herbal of physical plants : containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey.
Pechey, John, 1655-1716Date: 1694
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Alexicacus, spirit of salt of the world, which vulgarly prepar'd is call'd spirit of salt, or, The transcendent virtue of the true spirit of salt long looked for : and now philosophically prepared and purified from all hurtfull or corroding 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: 1664
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The garden of health : conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, practitioner in phisicke.
Langham, WilliamDate: 1579 [i.e. 1597]
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Penotus palimeis, or, The alchymists enchiridion : in two parts : the first containing excellent experienced chymical receipts and balsoms for healing and curing most diseases incident to the body of man &c. : the second part containing the Practica mirabilis for the accomplishing and obtaining ... the white and red elixir ... : together with a small treatise ... written by that very ancient philosopher Arislaus, concerning the philosophers stone : to which second part is prefix'd an apologetic introduction, written by that very ancient philosopher Arislaus, concerning the philosophers stone : to which second part is prefix'd an apologetic introduction, written in answer to a scurrilous libel ... by D. Nicholaus Guibertus ... / the whole written in Latin by Bernardus Penotus a Portu Sanctae Mariae Aquitani ; and now faithfully englished and claused by B.P. Philalethes.
Penot, Bernard Georges, -1617?Date: 1692
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A newe herball of Macer, translated out of Laten in to Englysshe.
Date: [1543?]
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Medicina hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks applyed to the materia medica : Shewing, how by the weight that divers bodies, us'd in physick, have in water; one may discover whether they be genuine or adulterate. To which is subjoyn'd, a previous hydrostatical way of estimating ores. / By the Honourable Robert Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691Date: 1690
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A boke of the propertyes of herbes the whiche is called an herbal.
Date: [1541?]]
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Pharmaceutice rationalis, or, An exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies : shewing the signs, causes, and cures of most distempers incident thereunto : in two parts : as also a treatise of the scurvy, and the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes, and cure / by Tho. Willis.
Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675Date: M DC LXXX IV [1684]
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A litle herball of the properties of herbes, newly amended [and] corrected, wyth certayn additions at the ende of the boke, declaring what herbes hath influence of certain sterres and constellations, whereby maye be chosen the best and most lucky tymes and dayes of their ministracion, according to the moone beyng in the signes of heaue[n] the which is daily appoi[n]ted in the almanacke, made and gathered in the yeare of our Lorde God. M.D.L. the. xii. daye of February, by Anthony Askha[m] physycyon.
Date: [1561]]
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An hospitall for the diseased : Wherein are to be found moste excellent and approued medicines, as well emplaisters of speciall vertue, as also notable potions or drinkes, and other comfortable receiptes, both for the restitution and the preseruation of bodely healthe. Very necessary and profitable for this time of common plague and mortalitie, and for other times when occasion shall require. / Gathered by T.C.
T. C., active 1579Date: 1578