Phylaxa medicina: a supplement to the London-Dispensatory, and Doron: being, a cabinet of choice medicines collected, and fitted for vulgar use ... / [William Salmon].

  • William Salmon
Date:
1688
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Credit: Phylaxa medicina: a supplement to the London-Dispensatory, and Doron: being, a cabinet of choice medicines collected, and fitted for vulgar use ... / [William Salmon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    36 Stains , Pimples ;~Morphew ,| Scurf and a general Weaknefs and Faintnefs all over the whole Body ; infomuch at laft , that it gets into the Bones , and infeéts the very Marrow of them ; this cruel difeafe thefe Family-Pills cure at a few times taking. IiI. They wonderfully cure the Dropfy and Gout,’ fpeedily taking away the .Water in the one , andthe Pain in the other though never fo great; and be- yond expettation giving prefent eafe , relief and comfort ; work- ing gently by Stool and Urine , and fometimes by Vomit , if the Stomach be very foul, thereby curing moft curéable Difeafes. By thefe Family-Pills , we have cured hundreds of perfons, both of Dropfies and Gouts.,,and that which have been given over as uncurable; others have gone a- bove a dozen years upon Crutchs és, and never heard to this day, that they ever mift the cure of one perfon, although I have ufed thein near this twenty years. IV. They are admirable good againft Confumptions;. not {0 much from their adding of Mat- ter, asby taking away the ob- ftructions which hinder the Nou- rifhment from going to its ref- peétive parts : in which Difeafe , asalfointhe KIN GS-E VIL, whether in old or young , they pele {carcely been known’ to ail. ; V. Thefe Family-Pillsare an excellent Head-purge, for all Difeafes therein, as Aeadach’, Megrim, Vertigo or Giddinefs , lancholy, dimnefs of Sight, Rbeums tn the Eyes, &c. beyond any Me- dicine ever yet known.' © VI. They are an excellent help ‘againit Rifings, Fapours , Cloggings , Stuffings, Gnawings , or illnefs at Stomach, for fuch as all:fuch as have loft their Complex ions by the Scurvy ,: Faundice o¥ Greenficknefs , fach as ate over taken with lingring Difeafes ; growing worfe and worfe’ every year than other ; with’ ftoppages on, till fuch time as they fall in- to Dropfies , the Faundice hedick Fevers, or deep Confumptions} lingring and wafting away with dry Coughs , Wheerings, faint Sweats, and the like. »Thefe our Family- Pills carry off alt thofe Difeafes the right way, by Month, Vil. They purge by Stool., Flegm, Choler and “Melancholy. They difpofe old vicers, Fiftula’s; ruuning Sores , fore Breajfts , fore Eyes , {eald Heads’, K ings-Evil- fores, Wounds ,° Gangreens , Can- cers, Tettars Ringworms, Scabs, jalt humors, or any other breakings out , as Pufbes, Boyls , Wheals E feed them. , Vill. Thefe: Family-Pills are“ of ‘excellent’ ufé for all” Tra? ill Airs and moift Places. and neat? ~s rib oh as foc ut as puta sable] Soury {harp qmaty, andr Sein, Reins Pars; of, thi eale,fa none | of, X ting trang Cte ull jetts, ever, Xl; Aties