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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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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
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A treatise of the great antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus and Crollius ... called the elixir proprietatis : known by all physicians to be the greatest cordial and onely medicine in the world for long and sound life ... / written by J.H., a lover of truth, and made publick for the good of all people.
J. H., lover of truth.Date: 1667
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Culpeper's last legacy : left and bequeathed to his dearest wife for the publike 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 ... / by Nicholas Culpeper.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1657
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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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Traité de la transpiration des humeurs, qui sont les causes des maladies. Ou la methode de guerir les malades sans le triste secours de la frequente saignée. Discours philosophique. / [Louis Cusac].
Cusac, Louis, active 1682-1692.Date: M. DC. LXXXII. [1682]
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A treatise of the great antidote of Paracelsus, Van Helmont, Croulius, and by them called the elixir proprietatis : shewing the true way of preparing of it, and the wonderfull cures they have performed thereby. And also this authours experience thereof. Written by J. H. a lover of truth, and made publique for the good of all that stand in need thereof.
J. H., lover of truth.Date: 1666
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Some observations made upon the Bengala bean imported from the Indies : shewing its admirable virtues in curing all sorts of hemorrages, and particularly spitting of blood / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to one of his patients in London.
Peachi, John, active 1683Date: 1694
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Praxis medicorum antiqua & nova : the ancient and modern practice of physick examined, stated, and compared, the preparation and custody of medicines as it was the primitive custom with the princes and great patrons of physick asserted and proved to be the proper charge and grand duty and every physician successively, the new mode of prescribing and filing recipe's with apothecaries manifested an imprudent invention and pernicious innovation, demonstrated from the treble damage and disadvantages that arise thence to physician, patient and the medical science : with enforcing arguments for a return and general conformity to the primitive practice ... / by E. Maynwaring.
Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?Date: 1671
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Bazilica chymica, & Praxis chymiatricæ, or, Royal and practical chymistry : in three treatises : wherein all those excellent medicines and chymical preparations are fully discovered, from whence all our modern chymists have drawn their choicest remedies : being a translation of Oswald Crollius, his Royal chymistry, augmented and inlarged by John Hartman : to which is added his Treatise of signatures of internal things, or, A true and lively anatomy of the greater and lesser world : as also, The practice of chymistry of John Hartman, M.D., augmented and inlarged by his son / all faithfully Englished by a lover of chymistry.
Croll, Oswald, approximately 1560-1609Date: 1670
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Medicus microcosmus, seu spagyria microcosmi : exhibiens medicinam corpore hominis tùm vivo, tùm extincto doctè eruendam, scitè præparandam, & dextrè propinandam. / Autore Daniele Beckhero, Dantisc. Medic. Licentiat. Professore publico in acad. regiomont. & physico reipubl. cniphov. regiom. ordinario. Cum indice continente medicamenta ad curandos morbos desumpta ex corpore humano tam vivo quam mortuo.
Beckher, Daniel, 1594-1655Date: MDCLX. [1660]
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Dr Sydenham's practice of physick : the signs, symptoms, causes, and cures of diseases : with many additions from the second edition of the Latin copy, his discourses of consumptions, gouts &c. never before publish'd / faithfully translated into English with large annotations, animadversions, and practical observations on the same by William Salmon.
Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689Date: 1695
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The poore-mans plaster-box : Furnished with diverse excellent remedies for sudden mischances, and usuall infirmities, which happen to men, women, and children in this age. Whereunto is added certaine directions, whereby a man may knovv by what meanes a person (being found dead) came by his death. Very fitting to be knowne of all such as are called to be iurers upon life and death. Published for the common good of all such as stand in need, at the request of some well disposed persons.
Hawes, Richard, writer on popular medicineDate: 1634
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Some observations made upon the Calumba wood, otherwise called Calumback: imported from the Indies : shewing its admirable virtues in curing the gout, and easing all sorts of rhumatical pains. Written by a Doctor of Physick in the countrey, to the President of the Colledge of Physicians at London.
Peachi, John, active 1683Date: printed in the year 1694
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Some observations made upon the herb called Perigua, imported from the Indies : shewing its admirable virtues in curing the diabetes. Written by a Dr. of Physick in the countrey to Dr. Burwell, President of the Colledge of Physitians at London.
Peachi, John, active 1683Date: printed in the year 1694
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The excellent virtues and uses of the great antidote of Van Helmon, Paracelsus, and Crollius; by them called the elixir proprietatis : Known by all physicians to be the greatest cordial and only medicine in the world for long and sound life: restoring nature even at the point of death, and effectually taking away the seeds of all diseases. / Written by J.H. a lover of truth; and made publick for the good of all people.
Date: Printed Anno Domini 1674
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Febrilia, or, A treatise of feavers in generall / by Nicholas Culpeper.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1656
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Composita, or, A synopsis of the chiefest compostitions in use now with Galenists / collected by Nich. Culpepper.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1656
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An advertisement, concerning those most excellent pills called pillulæ radijs solis extractæ : Being an universal medicine, especially in all chronical and difficult distempers, as by the ensuing discourse will most clearly appear. / Truly and only prepared by Lionel Lockier, licensed physitian.
Lockyer, Lionel, 1600?-1672Date: [1664]
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An advertisement, concerning those most excellent pills called pilulae radiis solis extractae : being an universal medicine, especially in all chronical and difficult distempers as by the ensuing discourse will most clearly appear. / Truly and only prepared by Lionel Lockyer, licensed physitian.
Lockyer, Lionel, 1600?-1672Date: [1667]
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Medicus microcosmus, seu, Spagyria microcosmi : exhibens medicinam corpore hominis tùm vivo, tùm extincto doctè eruendam, scitè præparandam, & dextrè propinandam / autore Daniele Beckhero ... ; cum indice continente medicamenta ad curandos morbos desumpta ex corpore humano tam vivo quam mortuo.
Beckher, Daniel, 1594-1655Date: 1660
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An advertisement concerning those most excellent pills, called pilulae radiis solis extractae : being an universal medicin, especially in all chronical and difficult distempers as by the ensuing discourse will most clearly appear. / Truly and only prepared by me Lionel Lockyer.
Lockyer, Lionel, 1600?-1672Date: [1676]
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The ladies directory in choice experiments & curiosities of preserving in jellies, and candying both fruits & flowers : Also, an excellent way of making cakes, comfits, and rich court-perfumes. With rarities of many precious waters; among which, are Doctor Stephens's water, Dr. Matthias's palsie-water; and an excellent water against the plague: with severall consumption drinks, approved by the ablest physicians. / By Hanna Wolley.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1662
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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 treatise of the great antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus and Crollius; by them called the elixir proprietatis : known by all physicians to be the greatest cordial and onely medicine in the world for long and sound life, restoring nature even at the point of death, and effectually taking away the seeds of all diseases. And an examination of authors concerning its true preparation: as also, a ready way to volatise salt of tartar, by which this elixir is truly prepared. Written by J.H., a lover of truth, and made publick for the good of all people.
J. H., lover of truth.Date: 1668