A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd ... Being receipts and concerts of several natures ... / Collected by J. W., a lover of artificial conclusions.
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- [1677]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd ... Being receipts and concerts of several natures ... / Collected by J. W., a lover of artificial conclusions. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![a pn rin CE ed ea RECEIPT LxIl. Of the rare vertue and operation of the Quinteffence of Honey, for many difeafes, with the Oylof Wax. Ou muft underftand, that Honey is rather a liquour Divine, than Humane, becaufe i¢ fall- eth from Eicaven, upon Hearbs and Flowers, and is fuch a {weet thing,that the like cannot be found up- on the earth 5 this Quinteffence is of {uch vertue,thae if any be almoft dead, and driok 2 or 3 Drams there~ of, he will prefently recover.If you wath any wound therewith, or other fore, it will quickly heal. [ris excellent againft the Cough, Catarrhe, or pain of the Mile and many other Difeafes, it helpeth the Falling- ficknefs, the Palfic, and preferyeth the body from putrefaction. | The Oy] of Wax worketh in wounds moft mira- culouily , healing them, bé the fame never fo big and wide, ( being before wide fiitched up, ).in the {pace of cleven or twelve days: but {taller wounds. in three or four days,by anoynting the fame there- with, and laying a cloath thereon wet in the fame. Morcover, for inward Difeafes it is excellent > Ie prvoketh Urine which is flopped,it helpeth ftitches, and pain in the loyns, if you drink one dram there. of in white Wine, it helpeth the: cold Gour, ox Sci- atica, and allother gricfs coming of cold,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30327672_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
