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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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    Tl. 4 choice Plaifter to firengthen the Foints after the Gout, and haften the go~ ing off of the Pain. | mT AKE of Paracelfas and. Diabalmaana, melt them and incorporate them ex- actly together, and {pread the Mixture very thin upon fine Leather, to be us’d as a Plai- _ fter to the Part affected. ve AV. Avery good Drink in continual Fevers. A AKE a Decoétion of the Leaves of Rue . in fair Water, till the Liquor tafte pretty ftrong of the Plant: This being ftrain- ed, is to be made fomewhat palatable with Liquorice, or a little Sugar, or Aromatick Bo- dy: To half a Pint of this add about io Drops of Spirit (not Oil) of Vitriol: Let the Patient ufe this for his ordinary Drink. V. A good Drink to be frequently ufed in Fevers, efpecially continual ones. AQ XIVE in half a pint of fome fmall conve- “= nient Drink, half an Ounce of Hart’s- horn, busnt to great Whitenefs ; whichis to be a 6. a little