Choice and experimented receipts in physick and chirurgery, as also cordial and distilled waters and spirits, perfumes, and other curiosities / Collected by ... Sir K. Digby ... Translated out of several languages by G[eorge] H[artman].

  • Kenelm Digby
Date:
1675
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Credit: Choice and experimented receipts in physick and chirurgery, as also cordial and distilled waters and spirits, perfumes, and other curiosities / Collected by ... Sir K. Digby ... Translated out of several languages by G[eorge] H[artman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ee (31) Card. Bened. Marigold, or the like; and fweeten it with two or three ounces (as much as will ferye) of Syrup of Citron: Drink of this a often as you have a mind to drink, a reafonable glafs-full ; to make it more Alexipharmacal to take now and then, make a Julep conteining Confect. Hyzcinthi, or of Alkermes and Treacle-water, and diapho- retic Antimony, and prepared Pearl, and what elfe you, think fit, and put a {poonful or too of this into. a draught of the Emulfion, Ue ‘this, with caution. | Ai infallible Remedy for the fame. N. a. Wine-glafs full af Sack diffolve as much ] Sheeps-dung newly taken, out of the Sheeps- gut. warm, as will make it pretty thick, yet. fo, that the Patient may drinkit: Let him: drink this, and lie quietly in his bed reafonably warm covered, This will make him fweat, and caufe the Pox or Meafles to come out kindly, and finifh the cure very f{peedily. Ta prevent Marks of tbe Small-Pox..” O prevent pitting. in the Small-Pox ; ’ boil Cream to an Oil, and with that»anoint; the wheals with a feather» as foon’ as they begin.to dty, and keep the Scabs always, moift herewith : Make your face be anointed -almoit:/every -half hour, mot before they begin to -be crufted,