The English physitian enlarged
with three hundred, sixty and nine medicines, made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this: being an astrologo-physical discourse or the vulgar herbs of this nation; containing a complete method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed these seven things, viz. 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, decoctions, juleps of waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, that you may have them ready for your use at all times of the year. 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physick) that groweth in England. 3. The time of gathering all herbs, both vulgarly and astrologically. 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year. 5. The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping all kind of useful compounds made of herbs. 7. The way of mixing medicines according to cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted
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Publication
1681 - Printed for George Sawbridge, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
71,250 words, Guess
Page Count
285 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL61083708M
- OCLC Control Number80609828
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