Praxis Catholica; or the countryman's universal remedy. Wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man ... / Written by Robert Couch, sometimes practitioner in physick and chyrurgery, at Boston in New-England. Now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack.

  • Couch, Robert.
Date:
1680
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Credit: Praxis Catholica; or the countryman's universal remedy. Wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man ... / Written by Robert Couch, sometimes practitioner in physick and chyrurgery, at Boston in New-England. Now published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ee a [ 127 ] tained in the Body’, as the matter of Worms, cc. the Arcazum or Powder e- radicates It, Or takes it away by the root. They are genera ited from corrupted Chyle, and they difier according to the place where they are made. If inthe Stomach little fmall Worms. In thellion long and flender like earth- worms. In the Colon, little fhort thick worms, much like the Botsin Horfes. This Pow- der doth not only takeaway Difeafes when they areon, but likewi.e > prevent them, if it be given in health, for this violent Di- feafe in Children, I verily think there is not a better remedy under the Heaven, if ic be timely given; for it carries off all that may be the occafion of the Difeafe or Worms, one Grainis fuficient, and that’s but fix pence. The laft a ‘the worl, and fometimes the longeft has uring. If ech soa (Oe they encompafs themfelves into a Ci/tis or Bladder, which they run out and into, asa Coney into her Burrough, whereby they defend them- felves from the inju: -y of any ching that is fent into the place to killthem. For the two former the Powder cures them