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An hospitall for the diseased : Wherein are to bee founde 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 health. Very necessary for this time of common plague and immortality, and for other times when occasion shall require. With a newe addicion. / Gathered by T.C.
T. C., active 1579Date: 1579
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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. Published in Latin by the learn'd Theoph. Bonet, physician at Geneva. And now rendred into English, with an addition of many considerable cases, and excellent medicines for every disease. Collected from Dr. Waltherus his Sylva medica. by one of the Colledge of Physicians, London. To which is added. The office of a physician, and perfect tables of every distemper, and of any thing else considerable. Licensed, November 13h. 1685. Robert Midgley.
Bonet, Théophile, 1620-1689Date: MDCLXXXVI. [1686]
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The art of curing diseases by expectation : with remarks on a supposed great case of apoplectick fits : also most useful observations on coughs, consumptions, stone, dropsies, fevers, and small pox : with a confutation of dispensatories, and other various discourses in physick / by Gideon Harvey.
Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?Date: 1689
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A boke of the propertyes of herbes the whiche is called an harbal [sic].
Date: [M. D. XLi.] [1541]
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Seplasium : the compleat English physician, or, the druggist's shop opened : explicating all the particulars of which medicines at this day are composed and made, shewing their various names and natures ... in x books / by William Salmon.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: 1693
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A plain introduction to the art of physick : containing the fundamentals, and necessary preliminaries to practice ... : to which is added, The materia medica contracted, and alphabetical tables of the vertues of roots, barks, woods, herbs, flowers, seeds, fruits, juices and gums ... : also a collection of choice medicines chymical and Galenical, together with a different way of making the most celebrated compositions in the apothecaries shops / by J. Pechey.
Pechey, John, 1655-1716Date: 1697
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A boke of the propertyes of herbes the whiche is called an herbal.
Date: [1539?]]
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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: 1679
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An hospitall, for the diseased : wherein are to be founde most 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 bodily health : very necessary for this time of common plague and mortalitie, and for other times, when occasion shall require ... / gathered by T.C.
T. C., active 1579Date: [1587?]
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The pharmacopœian physician's repository : accomodated with elaborate medicinal arcana's, appositely serving to the whole practice of physick : exhibited as an exemplar, for imitation and incitation, to the industrious professors in this faculty / by E. Maynwaringe.
Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?Date: 1670
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A briefe treatise, called Caries farewell to physicke : wherein thou shalt find rare and speciall helpe for manie common diseases : herevnto also is to be referred a gentle remedie against the collicke, named The hammer for the stone / by the same W.C.
Cary, Walter, active 1580-1611.Date: 1583
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Here begynneth a newe marer [sic], ye whiche sheweth and treateth of ye vertues [and] propertes of herbes, the whiche is called an herball : Cum priuilegio.
Date: Ye. xxv. day of Iune. The yere of our lorde. M.CCCCC.[and]xxvi. [1526]]
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The English physician or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation : Being 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 onely as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed, 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, decoctions, julips, or waters of all sorts of physical herbs, that you may have them ready for your use at all times of the year. 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physick) that groweth in England. 3. The time of gathering all herbs, but [sic] vulgarly, and astrologically. 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year. 5. The way of keeping the juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping all kinde 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 afficted. By N. Culpeper, student in physick and astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 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, 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: 1676
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Theory eydokoyntoz : the great preserver of mankind which is alexicacus, spirit of salt of the world, now philosophically prepared and purged from all hurtfull or corroding qualities, for beyond any thing yet known to the world, being both safe and persistant for the use of all men, women and children / Emanuel Rhodocanaces.
Rhodokanakēs, Kōnstantinos, 1635-1689Date: [1670?]
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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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The countrey-man's apothecary, or, a rule by which countrey-men may safely walke in taking physicke. Not unusefull for cities. A treatise, shewing what herbe, plant, root, seed, or minerall, may be used in physick in the room of that which is wanting. Published for the good of the kingdome.
Rondelet, Guillaume, 1507-1566Date: 1649
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A newe booke entituled the gouernement of healthe : wherein is vttered manye notable rules for mannes preseruacion, with sondry symples and other matters, no lesse fruiteful then profitable: colect out of many approued authours. Reduced into the forme of a dialogue, for the better vnderstanding of thunlearned. Wherunto is added a sufferain regiment against the pestilence. By VVilliam Bulleyn.
Bullein, William, -1576Date: [1558]
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A boke of the propreties of herbes called an herball : wherunto is added the time [the] herbes, floures and sedes shoulde be gathered to be kept the whole yere, with the vertue of [the] herbes whe[n] they are stylled. Also a generall rule of al manner of herbes drawen out of an auncient boke of physycke by W.C.
Date: [1559?]]
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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. Culpepper.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1681
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The copie of a letter sent by a learned physician to his friend : wherein are detected the manifold errors vsed hitherto of the apothecaries, in preparing their compositions, as sirropes, condites, conserues, pilles, potions, electuaries, losinges, &c: wherein also the reader shall finde a farre better manner how to preserue and correct the same.
I. W., active 1586Date: [1586?]
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A brief discovery of the chief causes, signs, and effects of that most reigning disease, the scurvy : together with the causes, symptoms, & effects, of several other dangerous diseases most usually afflicting mankind. Whereunto is added, a short account of those imcomparable, and most highly approved pills; called pilulæ in omnes morbos: or, pills against all diseases. Being the only famous medicine of this age against the scurvy, and most other curable distempers. Prepared and set forth for the publick benefit, by M. Bromfield.
Bromfield, MDate: Printed anno Dom. 1679
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Alexicacus, spirit of salt of the world which vulgarly prepared 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 hurtful and 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: MDCLXX [i.e. 1670]
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A boke of the propreties of herbes called an herball : wherunto is added the time ye herbes, floures and sedes shold be gathered to be kept the whole yere, with the vertue of ye herbes when they are stilled. Also a general rule of al maner of herbes drawen out of an auncient boke of phisyck by W.C.
Date: [1555?]]
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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, oynments, oyls, pultisses, syrrups, 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