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Medicinal experiments: or, a collection of choice and safe remedies, for the most part simple, and easily prepar'd: Very useful in families, and fitted for the service of country people. / By the Honourable R. Boyle, Esq; late fellow of the Royal Society. In three parts. Containing above five hundred choice receipts.

  • Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Date:
MDCCXXXI. [1731]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medicinal experiments: or, a collection of choice and safe remedies, for the most part simple, and easily prepar'd: Very useful in families, and fitted for the service of country people. / By the Honourable R. Boyle, Esq; late fellow of the Royal Society. In three parts. Containing above five hundred choice receipts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Authors, [pecially that write either Syftems or Colleétions, to fet down fiore of Prefcri- ptions dittated by their Conjectures, not their Trials; and yet without giving a diftin Charatter of almoft any of them in parti- cular: That if Ihad met therewith fome of the fame that I am {peaking of, L foould not have [elected them from a great Num-. ber of other undifiinguifl’d ones: And tis eafy to obferve, that there is a great deal of Difference betwixt being told by an Author that many things, and among the veft, but not before them, this or that Drug, or Re- ceipt, is good for fuch a Difeafe and to have particular Notice given of it; and not on= ly to be confivnrd that tis good, but to be told how good it is, and poffible aifo that it may be ufefully employ'd in other Diftempers befides thofe for which tis prefcribed in the printed Book. The moft of thefe Receipts are intended chiefly for the Use of .thofe that live in the Country, in Paces where. Phyficians are fearce, if at all, to be bad, efpecially by poor People. And because very frequently a Labour ing-Man, or a Hindicr afts- Mat, or fome Tradefinatr, has a whole Family depending upon bim, being maintained by his Pains and Induftry, and yet is difabled to help Petey and theity not “y any inter= EL