A touch-stone for physick, directing by evident marks and characters to such medicines, as without purgers, vomiters, bleedings, issues, minerals; or any other disturbers of nature, may be securely trusted for cure in all extreamities, and be easily distinguished from such as are hazardous ... exemplyfied by ... remarkable cures / [William Walwyn].

  • Walwyn, William, 1600-1681
Date:
1667
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A touch-stone for physick, directing by evident marks and characters to such medicines, as without purgers, vomiters, bleedings, issues, minerals; or any other disturbers of nature, may be securely trusted for cure in all extreamities, and be easily distinguished from such as are hazardous ... exemplyfied by ... remarkable cures / [William Walwyn]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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