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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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    “ : | Lhe Publifber, 8c. dies againft which the faid Medicines were prefcribed; and, upon many Ex- periments carefully made, having found that frequently they have relieved thofe who ufed them, and fometimes ftrangely out-done Expectation; they addreffed themfelves with much Importunity to the noble Author, to fuffer things which were of {uch general Benefit, and fo eafi- ly to be procured by the Poor, to be made more publick. And at length he hath been prevailed with, not only to allow the former Re- printed, but hath, out of his rich Trea- fury, ftored us with a frefh Collection; which, as in Number it exceeds what we had before, fo in Quality and Virtue it . falls not fhort of it. And if what here with fuch an horeft and kind Defign is offered to the Pub- lick, be but candidly and favourably re- ceiv’d, we may {fill hope for more Blef- fings of this fort from him, who has not only a conftant Will and great Ability to do good, but hath, perhaps, obliged the Age as much as any private Perfon in THE