Choice and experimented receipts in physick and chirurgery as also cordial and distilled waters and spirits, perfumes, and other curiosities
London [Londres] : printed for the author, and are to be fold by H. Brom
Université Paris Cité. BIU Santé Pharmacie
Kenelme Digby Kt Chancellor to the Queen Mother
0009 - sn - To the right honourable George Duke of Buckingham, knight of the most noble order of the garter, and one of his majesties most honourable privy council
0013 - Page 1 - An approved remedy for all sorts of intermittend agues
0015 - Page 3 - A certain and approved cure of Tertian agues
0017 - Page 5 - A most excellent sudorifick cordial, […] it is also excellent for the hot gout
0021 - Page 9 - A diaphoretick of antimony to be used with this medicine
0022 - Page 10 - A fulep to cool in fevers
0023 - Page 11 - Cochinile for a purple fever / A certain and approved remedy for a burning fever
0024 - Page 12 - A cooling drink in a fever / A certain and often approved remedy for an ague
0025 - Page 13 - A certain and present remedy for all kind of collicks what so ever
0026 - Page 14 - For violent coughing by a sharpe thin tickling rheume / For a cold in the head, to draw rheume from the head
0027 - Page 15 - For all sorts of fluxes
0028 - Page 16 - For a bloody flux often approved
0030 - Page 18 - For any loofnefs / For Fluxes
0034 - Page 22 - An excellent clyster to cure presently any painful flux or scowring
0035 - Page 23 - For the greatest flux or loofnefs
0036 - Page 24 - An approved remedy for the obstructions of the spleen or liver / An excellent Lyme-water for obstructions and ulcers, &
0037 - Page 25 - An excellent remedy for the dropsie
0039 - Page 27 - Another remedy for the dropsie
0042 - Page 30 - A great and approved cure of the dropsie
0046 - Page 34 - For legs or other parts of the body swelled, comming by abounding of bad tumors, or by the dropsie
0047 - Page 35 - Another for the dropsie
0048 - Page 36 - For the hemorrhoides. For aches. Probat
0051 - Page 39 - Another for the piles / For the tooth-ach
0054 - Page 42 - For familiar wasbing the mouth, which confirmeth and faftneth the teeth much, and preserveth the gums found, is thus
0055 - Page 43 - For the tooth-ach / Vinegar of squils or the teeth and gums
0056 - Page 44 - To the fasten loof teeth. Probat
0057 - Page 45 - A sympathetick cure of the tooth-ach / An excellent powder for the eyes
0059 - Page 47 - A certain remedy for defluxions and all diseases of the eyes / To take away the rednefs of bloudsbot-eyes
0060 - Page 48 - To stanch bleeding / another for the same
0061 - Page 49 - A sudden and infallible cure of bleeding, either at the nose, or by a bloody-flux
0062 - Page 50 - A present certain cure of any pyson inward or outward, or for the stinging of venemous beasts in men or beasts / An approved remedy for spitting of blood
0063 - Page 51 - Remedium ad fluxum immoderatum sanguinis menstrualis
0064 - Page 52 - Contra fluorem album. Probat / An infallible remedy for the Jaundise of any kind, black or yellow
0065 - Page 53 - For the mother / For the sinews and the head
0066 - Page 54 - For deafnefs /Another for the same
0068 - Page 56 - To drive the venemous vapours […] with a familiar julep or emulsion, take the following
0069 - Page 57 - To prevent marking in the small-pox
0071 - Page 59 - An infallible remedy for the same
0072 - Page 60 - To prevent marks of the small-pox / An experimented remedy for the falling-sicknefs
0074 - Page 62 - For the falling-sicknefs and convulsions-sits of children / To cause a good delivery in a woman with child
0075 - Page 63 - A receipt of the labour-powder
0076 - Page 64 - To bring away the after-burthen […] after woman is delivered / For torn bladders
0077 - Page 65 - To prevent at the birth of a child, diseases of putrefaction ever after
0079 - Page 67 - To bring down a womans courses in an instant
0080 - Page 68 - For the brest and belly of women lying in
0081 - Page 69 - An admirable seer-cloth for a sore brest, imposthumes, fellons, green and old cuts
0082 - Page 70 - An anodyne cataplasm for cancered brests
0084 - Page 72 - For hardnefs in womens brests
0085 - Page 73 - For hard brests in women / Another medicine for the same is thus
0086 - Page 74 - To cure the tetters / Another for the quick tetters
0087 - Page 75 - For aches in any part of the body, even womens brests
0088 - Page 76 - A certain remedy for the piles or hemorrhoydes
0090 - Page 78 - For the outward hemorrhoydes / A plague cordial
0093 - Page 81 - Another excellent remedy for the plague / Another infallible antidote
0094 - Page 82 - An excellent plague water
0096 - Page 84 - For wormes in the belly or stomack
0097 - Page 85 - An excellent plaister for the stomack, that hath done such notable cures, is thus
0098 - Page 86 - For warts to take them away / Another for the same
0099 - Page 87 - For phrensie / For haed-achs, sore-eyes, fellons…
0100 - Page 88 - For leprosie and squinancy
0101 - Page 89 - An experimented remedy for the stone
0102 - Page 90 - Another excellent remedy for the stone
0103 - Page 91 - Another for the same / Another for the same
0104 - Page 92 - Another for the same / Another for the same
0105 - Page 93 - Another for the same / Another / Another
0106 - Page 94 - A compounded hydrozacharum for the stone / Another excellent one for the same
0107 - Page 95 - A certain remedy for retention of urine / Another for retention of urine
0108 - Page 96 - Another approved remedy for the stone and gravel / Another for the stone and gravel, and for strangury of urine
0109 - Page 97 - An infallible and approved remedy for the plurisie
0110 - Page 98 - An infaillible remedy for the sciatica and Rheumatism
0111 - Page 99 - To cure the hot and cold gowt
0113 - Page 101 - An excellent plaister for the gowt that will take a way the pain immediately
0114 - Page 102 - Another excellent plaister for the gowt
0115 - Page 103 - For the kings-evil / Another approved medicine for the kings-evil
0118 - Page 106 - An approved remedy for ruptures
0119 - Page 107 - Another for the same / For cancers in the mouth, brest, or any part
0121 - Page 109 - An excellent remedy for the cankers in the mouth / For a fellon
0122 - Page 110 - An oyntment for burning / A most excellent red balsom or red salve
0124 - Page 112 - Another excellent ointment for xounds or sores in man or beast
0126 - Page 114 - An approved remedy for biting of a mad dog
0127 - Page 115 - A most precious ointment for all manner of aches and bruises ; and also for the rednefs of the face
0128 - Page 116 - A most excellent ointment for a gangreen and all foul diseases of the skin
0130 - Page 118 - A most excellent water for a gangreen, to be used with the foresaid ointment / The manner of using those foresaid ointment and water, is thus
0133 - Page 121 - A purge which he used to give the patient during his cure
0134 - Page 122 - Another excellent water for a gangrene, with which Monsieur d'Alance doth such wonderful cures in gangrenes
0135 - Page 123 - Monsieur Belieur cured the gangrene, and all old ulcers, cankers, pockie sores, and cancers ; etc. with the oyl of gold made thus
0137 - Page 125 - To draw imposthumes outward without incision
0138 - Page 126 - An approved remedy for biting of serpents, vipers or other venomous beasts / A certain cure of a Gonorrhaea
0139 - Page 127 - An expedite and sure cure of a Gonorrhaea
0140 - Page 128 - A sure way to cure venereal cankers
0141 - Page 129 - For contusions or bruises
0142 - Page 130 - For any kind of tetters or herpes, et.
0145 - Page 133 - Monsieur Trears excellent medicinal stone of great vertues
0147 - Page 135 - To dry up sharp humors with ones own water
0148 - Page 136 - An experimented vulnerary potion or wound-drink
0149 - Page 137 - Cooling and not biting vulnerary herbs
0150 - Page 138 - An excellent ointment for wound and ulcers
0152 - Page 140 - To cure any sore leg, or old contumacion sore, or wound
0153 - Page 141 - For fistula'as and ulcers
0155 - Page 143 - A most excellent plaister of very great vertues, called the plaister of Nurimberg
0156 - Page 144 - A plaister very excellent for many things
0157 - Page 145 - An excellent astringent plaister for the back
0158 - Page 146 - The excellent balsom of doctor Salvatore Winter, given me by him, and made by my chymister xith an addition of his own of more ingredients
0160 - Page 148 - Doctor Salvatore Winter's spirit, as my man made it for me
0163 - Page 151 - Distillation of Tobacco
0165 - Page 153 - For the Falling of the Uvula
0166 - Page 154 - An excellent medicine from antimony and mercury sublimate
0167 - Page 155 - Cornacchius his medicinal powder
0169 - Page 157 - Spirit of sal armoniac
0171 - Page 159 - Balsom of sulphure for the brest, etc. and for tetters
0173 - Page 161 - An excellent medicine of gold and mercury
0176 - Page 164 - Another Panacaea / To make the sulphur of antimony
0177 - Page 165 - Another Panacea of antimony
0179 - Page 167 - Panacaea purgans ex auro et antimonio / Diaphorectic. Crystalli antimonii / Laudanum Metallicum
0183 - Page 171 - A great medicine which bath done wonderful great effects, from an intimate friend
0186 - Page 174 - A menftruum of citron pills to dissolve bodies of metal and coral
0187 - Page 175 - A menftruum to open any body, but chiefly the body of gold
0188 - Page 176 - To make the spirit of fixed salt of urine
0190 - Page 178 - A remedy which cureth all fevers without exception by a Lunarie Emetick, which is an universal medicine, even for the morb. Gallic. and Leprosie
0191 - Page 179 - To make an admirable sudorifick of this, that will cure the venereal disease, and the leprosie, is thus : / An excellent dissolvent of gold, and to reduce it in purpre colour
0194 - Page 182 - To corporifie the salt of spirit of wine, etc.
0198 - Page 186 - To volatilize the fixed salt of tartar / Another way to volatilize the salt of tartar
0200 - Page 188 - An excellent mercury vitae of a fingular preparation
0206 - Page 194 - An excellent aurum potabile, or digestif gold
0209 - Page 197 - Another way to make aurum potabile
0211 - Page 199 - Another way to make aurum potabile
0215 - Page 203 - Another way to make aurum potabile
0218 - Page 206 - To make the tincture of bezoar / To make the tincture of ambergris
0219 - Page 207 - To make the aqua regis for this aurum potabile / To make the philosophical oyl of vitriol for the foresaid aurum potabile
0220 - Page 208 - Another way to make aurum potabile, and to make his tincture come over the helm
0223 - Page 211 - To prepare the spirit of wine for the foresaid aurum potabile
0224 - Page 212 - To make an excellent oyl of pearl for health, and for the face
0225 - Page 213 - An excellent tincture of gold
0226 - Page 214 - A sublimate mercury dulcis, with a lunary mercury, and from gold
0229 - Page 217 - An excellent physical salt, […] and preserveth the heart from hot and putrid fumes, and purifieth the blood
0230 - Page 218 - The way to make the spirit of urine is thus
0231 - Page 219 - The best way to make the oil of myrrhe
0233 - Page 221 - Vertues of the mineral cinnabar
0235 - Page 223 - A great cordial made out of english saffran
0242 - Page 230 - A restorative and cordial of dates, which is much celebrated
0244 - Page 232 - Cordial and pleasant tablets
0245 - Page 233 - A great venereal / Another great venereal
0248 - Page 236 - An excellent ointment for the stomach, or for any pain about the heart
0249 - Page 237 - An approved remedy for a sprain in the back, or any weakness / A most precious diet-drink for any weak and consumed body with sickness, pox, or any aches, or cold humors
0251 - Page 239 - An excellent remedy to procure conception
0252 - Page 240 - An excellent bolus for the stomach and liver / A cordial drink for weakness of the stomach, and want digestion
0253 - Page 241 - For trembling of the heart, or a weak stomach / Opiata charteriana
0256 - Page 244 - An excellent panchimagogue that purgeth all humors
0257 - Page 245 - An excellent laxative tisanne to take, when one bath a need / Bezoardicum theriacale
0261 - Page 249 - The balsom compounded is made thus
0262 - Page 250 - The best rose-water is made thus
0263 - Page 251 - The purge, of which the author makes use of, in fevers, is this following
0264 - Page 252 - But to make a most rich cordial proceed thus / The best fashion to make conserve of roses is this following
0266 - Page 254 - The author doth tartarise his spirit of wine, thus
0269 - Page 257 - A cordial to rest, and for surfeit / An excellent poppy-water for surfeits
0270 - Page 258 - Another excellent stomachal surfeit-water
0271 - Page 259 - A cooling stomachal mint water
0272 - Page 260 - An excellent cordial water
0273 - Page 261 - Another great cordial water
0274 - Page 262 - Water of rue for the head and brain
0275 - Page 263 - An excellent cordial or palsie water
0277 - Page 265 - A most excellent balsom for the palsie, and apoplexie, etc.
0279 - Page 267 - A certain and often approved remedy for the dead palsie / The best way to make the spirit and oyl of clary, mint, rosemary, roses, etc.
0282 - Page 270 - The emperour Charles's cephalick capitalwater, of great vertues
0283 - Page 271 - The great duke of Florence his excellent coelestical or Imperial water of great vertues
0285 - Page 273 - An excellent cordial water for dizziness and swimming in the head
0286 - Page 274 - An excellent water for surfeits, and for the ague
0287 - Page 275 - An excellent julep of limons for calentures or fevers
0288 - Page 276 - An excellent orange-water or spirit
0289 - Page 277 - To make spirits of herbs, etc.
0291 - Page 279 - A cordial water of wall-nutts
0295 - Page 283 - About the diet of milk
0296 - Page 284 - To digest a large meal
0297 - Page 285 - To make an elofaccharum or cinamomi
0298 - Page 286 - Cinamon water, or spirit
0299 - Page 287 - Lignum cafiae makes a much finer spirit then cinamon
0300 - Page 288 - Cordial water of clove-gillyflowers
0301 - Page 289 - An extract of poppy flowers
0303 - Page 291 - An excellent cordial water of sweet marjoram, exceeding good for the head and memory
0304 - Page 292 - To make hypocras presently
0305 - Page 293 - To make a coagulated spirit of ambergris
0308 - Page 296 - To make sweet water / Another
0309 - Page 297 - Another / To preserve fruit all the year
0310 - Page 298 - To make perfumes to burn / Cassolettes
0311 - Page 299 - To make a familiar and cheap pomo upon a sudden, which smelleth very well
0312 - Page 300 - To make an odoriferant ball
0313 - Page 301 - To make an cloriferant ball
0314 - Page 302 - Rose pastills to burn / To make mouth pastils
0315 - Page 303 - To make a pomos like those that are made in Spain
0316 - Page 304 - To make the sweet water, the, best called in french L'eau d'ange
0317 - Page 305 - A pleasant and wholesom perfume for tobacco taken in a pipe / Another
0318 - Page 306 - To preserve fruit all the year
0319 - Page 307 - To convert water into ice in summer, without the help of either ice or salts / To convert water into ice with snow or ice immediately
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