The natural history of lac, amber, and myrrh : with a plain account of the many excellent virtues these three medicinal substances are naturally possessed of, and well adapted for the cure of various diseases incident to the human body: and a restorative balsamic tincture ... / By John Cook.

  • Cook, John, approximately 1705-1777.
Date:
1770
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Credit: The natural history of lac, amber, and myrrh : with a plain account of the many excellent virtues these three medicinal substances are naturally possessed of, and well adapted for the cure of various diseases incident to the human body: and a restorative balsamic tincture ... / By John Cook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I PREFACE. ‘hi Wherefore Parable Remedies as Boyle xalls them, are very handy, and ufeful, xafily obtained, without applying to the apothecaries (hops (which are not every where near, nor always furniflied with them ), as thofe of other tradefmen. Thus with bricklayers or mafons we meet .with quicklime, whofe bare infufion in water, about a pound to a gallon, is of itfelf a good medicine for the fcurvy, diarrhoeas, diabetes, &c. and may be made the bafis of feveral other good remedies, for inward* and outward ufes befides. Thus lintfeed oil, oil of turpentine, ex- prefled oil of walnuts, Venice foap, water that has flood long on filings of iron, tar- water, and feveral other fucl^, are all .good, ready, and effedual remedies in the .hands of the fkilfu), , I Laflly, I wifh phyficians would employ dimple medicines as much as conveniently * Are fuch medicines as are eafily procured, as being jfllways prepared ready at hand. J3 may