Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies, for the most part simple and easily prepared very useful in families and fitted for the service of country people : the third and last volume, published from the author's original manuscripts : whereunto is added several other useful notes explicatory of the same / by ... R. Boyle ...

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Author:	Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Title:	Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies, for the most part simple and easily prepared very useful in families and fitted for the service of country people : the third and last volume, published from the author's original manuscripts : whereunto is added several other useful notes explicatory of the same / by ... R. Boyle ...
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THE PREFACE.

THE INDEX·

part A

part B

part C

part D

part E

part F

part G

part H

part I

part K

part L

part M

part O

part P

part R

part S

part T

part U

part W

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A Collection of Choice and Safe REMEDIES. VOL. III.

1. A good Medicine for a newly taken, though violent, Cold.

2. A good Water for Eyes that are foul, and pain'd by sharp Humours.

3. A good Medicine for Pain of the Teeth that comes from Rheum.

4. An Experienced Sternutatory to clear the Head.

5. An often try'd Remedy for the Dysentery and sharp Fluxes of the Belly.

6. A good, though uncommon, Medicine for the Dropsie.

7. An often Experienced Medi∣cine for Blood-shot, or Infla∣med Eyes.

8. An Excellent Remedy for a Burn or Scald in the Eye.

9. A good and innocent Dentrifice.

10. To Correct the Laxity of the Gums, and fasten the Teeth.

11. An uncommon, but effectual, Fomentation for Tumours ac∣company'd with sharp Hu∣mours.

12. A rare Medicine for Hyste∣rical Affections, and several Distempers of the Genus Ner∣vosum.

13. An often prov'd Remedy to bring away what is or should not be left in the Womb of a Puerpera, though it were part of a Dead Child.

14. A try'd Medicine to take away Corns.

15. To make an Excellent Styptic Pouder to stench Blood.

16. For a Tooth-ach, proceeding from Defluxion or Rheum from the Gums.

17. To prevent the Fit of an Ague, or cure that Disease.

18. To make an often try'd Pe∣ricarpium for Agues, especi∣ally Tertians.

19. For the Cholic.

20. An approved Remedy for Present Deafness.

21. A choice Medicine for Burns.

22. An External Remedy, al∣most Specific for the Leprosie.

23. For the Head-ach.

24. For the Hiccup (even in Fevers.)

25. A Simple Remedy for the Cholic.

26. An Experienced Medicine to cleanse the VVomb.

27. To appease the Fits of a Fu∣ror Uterinus.

28. A very good Syrup to strengthen the Sight.

29. An easily prepared, but useful Drink for a beginning Scurvy.

30. A Parable Remedy for re∣cent Burns.

31. For the Tooth-ach.

32. An Excellent Medicine, tho not Curative, for those that are tormented with the Stone in the Bladder.

33. To make a Purging Electu∣ary, especially for Children.

34. An excellent Remedy for an Inflammation of the Eyes.

35. An useful Drink for the Kings-Evil, and some Affe∣ctions that have the like Cau∣ses to it.

36. An often experienc'd Re∣medy to expel Gravel, and provoke supprest Urin.

37. An approved Remedy for the Kings-Evil.

38. A good Composition to stop a hollow Tooth, and appease the Pain.

39. A Plaister prefer'd by an old Physician, that often try'd it, to the common Soap Plaister.

40. An Excellent Liquor to be u∣sed Topically in Gleetings.

41. An approved Medicine in the biting of a Viper.

42. An almost specific Medicine for the suppression of Urin.

43. For an Ague often try'd.

44. An useful Plaister for those that are troubled with Vapours of the Spleen, and shortness of Breath, when 'tis a Nervous Affection.

45. A slight, but excellent, Me∣dicine to take off Fits of the Head-ach.

46. An easie and try'd Medicine for the Itch, Praenissis Uni∣versalibus.

47. An easie Medicine to purify and sweeten the Blood.

48. A cheap, but excellent, Me∣dicine for Ulcers.

49. An easie and innocent Me∣dicine for Costiveness.

50. For the Aching of a hollow Tooth.

51. An often try'd Medicine for the Bloody-Flux, being good also for Pleurisies.

52. The Cinamon Drink, good in Gripes and Fluxes, &c.

53. An easie, but useful Medi∣cine for redness of the Eyes.

54. A most excellent Balsam for any green Wound, of what Na∣ture soever.

55. A good Medicine for sup∣pression of the Menses.

56. An experienced Remedy to prevent Apoplectic Fits.

57. To dry up, or correct the Humour that makes Scrophu∣lous Ulcers.

58. An effectual Medicine for a recent Strain.

59. For a slight Inflammation of the Eyes, as also a Hordeum growing on the Eye-lid.

60. For most Astmatic Distempers.

61. For an Ague.

62. An experienced Medicine to kill Tetters.

63. To make a good Pouder for a Gonorrhaea.

64. A choice Medicine for a slight Stroke or Bruise of the Eye.

65. An often try'd external Me∣dicine for an Erysipelas.

66. An Emperics, much boasted Remedy for the Fluor Albus, or Whites in Women.

67. An excellent Water for Ul∣cers and Sores [try'd with great Success.]

68. An experienced Medicine for want of Sleep, proceeding from great Heats of the Head.

69. A Parable Medicine that has cured very many, espe∣cially Children, and young Boys and Girls, of Convul∣sive Fits.

70. An easie, and experienc'd Remedy for the Piles.

71. A succcssful Medicine for Fluxes of the Belly.

72. An often try'd Remedy for Corns.

73. A good Medicine for Burns and Stenching of Blood.

74. An approved Medicine for the Bloody-Flux, being good also for Pleurisies.

75. A very often (though homely) experienc'd Remedy for Dysen∣teric and other Fluxes.

76. A powerful Styptic to stench Blood, where it can be apply'd.

77. For a slight Redness of the Eyes.

78. For the Relaxation of the Uvula.

79. A powerful Medicine to stop sharp Rheums.

80. The French-Man's Famous Eye-Water.

81. Eye-Water.

82. A safe and useful Medi∣cine to prevent Driness and some other Disaffections of the Eyes.

83. The Medicine of a Famous Empyric for the Stone.

84. An excellent Medicine for Fits of the Mother.

85. A choice Medicine for the Cholic.

86. Troches of Vipers, suc∣cessfully used to cleanse the Blood, and to strengthen weak Patients.

87. An approved Medicine for Scorbutic Gums, and to fasten the Teeth.

88. A Caution about the Vi∣triolate Eye-water.

89. A good Medicine for a light Stroke, or Contusion of the Eye.

90. An excellent Medicine for a Stroke or Bruise in the Eye.

91. An excellent Remedy to take off Films, and such like things from the Eyes.

92. To strengthen weak Eyes subject to Rheums.

93. A Plaister to strengthen the Eyes, and stop Defluctions on them.

94. An experienced Remedy for sharp and hot Humours in the Eyes.

95. An excellent Fumigation for Pains in the Eyes, and over∣great driness of them, and when one fears the beginning of a Cataract.

96. For Sore Eye-lids.

97. For Heaviness and Pain in the Eyes.

98. For a Dry Inflamation.

Several necessary Notes, Explicating, Illustrating, or Enlarging some of the Heads in the Preceding Volume.

Numb. (1.) For the Bloody Flux, or other Fluxes. See Pag. 4.

Numb. (2.) A good Medicine for the Dropsie. See p. 5.

Numb. (3.) A Medicine for Blood∣shot, or inflamed Eyes. See p. 6.

Numb. (4.) A good and innocent Dentrifice. See p. 7.

Numb. (5.) To prevent or cure an Ague. See p. 13.

Numb. (6.) An useful Drink for the Kings-Evil. See p. 24.

Numb. (7.) An Experienc'd Re∣medy to expel Gravel, and pro∣voke Ʋrin. See p. 25.

Numb. (8.) An easie Medicine for Costiveness. See p. 35.

Numb. (9.) A Remedy for Gripes and Fluxes. See p. 37.

Numb. (10.) A Medicine for Red∣ness of the Eyes. See p. 38.

Numb. (11.) An effectual Medicine for a Strain. See p. 41.

Numb. (12.) For most Astmatic Distempers. See p. 43.

Numb. (13.) An external Medicine for an Erysipelas. See p. 47.

Numb. (14.) A Remedy for the Whites in Women. See p. 48.

Numb. (15.) A try'd Remedy for Corns. See p. 54.

Numb. (16.) A Medicine for Burns and stenching of Blood. See p. 55.

Numb. (17.) For a slight Redness of the Eyes. See p. 58.

Numb. (18.) For the Relaxation of the Ʋvula. See p. 59.

Numb. (19.) A famous Eye-Water. See p. 61.

Numb. (20.) A Medicine to prevent Running of the Eyes. See p. 63.

Numb. (21.) A Medicine for the Stone. See p. 64.

Numb. (22.) A Medicine for Scor∣butick Gums, and to fasten the Teeth. See p. 68.

Numb. (23.) For a Stroke or Bruise in the Eye. See p. 70.

Numb. (24.) An excellent Reme∣dy to take off Films from the Eyes.

Numb. (25.) A Remedy for the Kings-Evil.

Numb. (26.) A Remedy for the Stone.