A cheap, sure, and ready guide to health, or, A cure for a disease call'd the doctor : instructing, how to prevent being cheated and destroyed by the exactions and unmerciful usage of ignorant and oppressive physicians and apothecaries : and to prepare at home the proper medicines for usual distempers : with the prices, to save ninteen shillings in twenty, and expend little more tha a penny a dose : likewise a new account of the connection of distempers, a key to al physic, and to know any disease / set forth by the benefaction of a very worthy private gentleman, to contain more than any book of the kink, at the lowest rate, as necessary for all families, and all persons.

Date:
1742
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A cheap, sure, and ready guide to health, or, A cure for a disease call'd the doctor : instructing, how to prevent being cheated and destroyed by the exactions and unmerciful usage of ignorant and oppressive physicians and apothecaries : and to prepare at home the proper medicines for usual distempers : with the prices, to save ninteen shillings in twenty, and expend little more tha a penny a dose : likewise a new account of the connection of distempers, a key to al physic, and to know any disease / set forth by the benefaction of a very worthy private gentleman, to contain more than any book of the kink, at the lowest rate, as necessary for all families, and all persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from Snails, or Vipers? or from the Flefi of Capons and Phea* fants. As they are not able to preferve themfelvesmany Months* they are by being Elementary and Simple without Mixture ungrateful to the Stomach, vappid and palling to it. They remain there crude and oppreffive, and cannot afterwards - move themfelves from the Blood either by Sweat or Urine. The Aromatick and Acrid, and the Hot Scorbutical Plants, and the Fetid will make the Simple Water talte a little of thofe Qualities. But they are an Amufement and Impofitior? which fhall be more fully treated of in another Place, and do not equal either in Smell, Tafte or Virtue, the Tincture of thefe Plants made by Infufion either Cold or with Heat$ in the Water of the Spring. The late corrected iDifpcnfatones of Holland and Paris ad~ vife but few Simple Waters, as of Carduus, Fennel, Hyffop, J\Aarjora?n, Baum, Spear Mint, Parjly, Penny-Royal, Rue, of the Flowers of Lavender, Rofes, and the Lime Tree. If you add Orange Flower-Water, of Gamomil Flowers, of Coivflips, Elder-Flowers, Meadow-Sweet, Black Cherries, Mugwort, you will have a large Collection to pleafe your Fancy in Compounding juleps • but the Stomach, the Blood and Spirits fhall be better pleas’d and ftrengthed ■with the Infujions or TirMures made in the Water of the Foun ain. The Simple Milk Water may be drawn fweet and well feented ar any Time of the'Year, to ferve as a Vehicle for the other Waters of the ftronger Sorts, or to receive any Spirits, Tinctures, or Oyls diffolved in Sugar. The Price of all, except two of them, is very low, be- ing bought at Six pence the Pint. The Compound Waters. There arc Twenty eight pointed. Whereof (here are now in Ufe thofe of Gentianf Wormwood, Angelica, Horfe Radifh, Peicny, Plague -Water, Hyjierical, Aiirabilis, Steven's, of the Earth worms. Snails, Treacle-Welter, the Bezoard>ck, and of Lavender. They are fold in the Shop at Two-Shillings the Pint, except the two laft at a greater Value, but you may compute your Ex- pence, if you will Charge your felf with more than one Penny at a Time, by the Number of the Ounces you will take. ’ 1 They