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Author: Collins, Thomas, Student in physick.
Title: Choice and rare experiments in physick and chirurgery, or, A discovery of most approved medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of men, women, and of children together with an antidotary of experiments never before published / found out by the studie and experience of Thomas Collins, student in physick neer the city of Gloucester.
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Collins, Thomas, Student in physick.
London: Printed by J.T. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1658.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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To the honourable and truly vertucus gentlewoman, Mistris URSULA BUCKE, health, honour, ha∣piness and Heaven.
Courteous Reader,
These Books are printed for Fran. Egles∣field, and are to be sold at the Mari∣gold, in Pauls Church-yard.
School-books.
Divinity Books.
These Books are now in the Press.
Table of the Remedies for all disea∣ses of the bodys of man and woman, that are contained in this book.
A Table of the Remedies for children Diseases.
CHOICE and RARE EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSICK AND CHIRURGERY.
The Head, the reme∣dies for its distempers. Head-ach.
Another remedy for the same pain.
For an extream Headah.
Another.
For burning Headach.
For shooting in the Head.
Against continual Headach, and singing of the Ears.
For headach in the forepart.
Remedies appropriate to the head of what cause soever the pain is.
Another.
Another.
Another.
Pills for al pain of the head although inveterate.
To remedy all manner of Headach and Megrim.
A remedy teaching that one shall never feel Headach.
For the Headach.
For the Headach or Megrim.
Another.
For Dizziness in the head.
For the Headach and o stop the rheum.
To dry up and draw rheum out of the head.
To purge the head and preserve the sight.
To expel a cold stomack or head, and to expel a Consumption or either of them.
An oyl to cure the cold Palsie and shaking Palsie.
For quaking hands.
For them which ae speechles with the Palsie.
A precious water against many sicknesses.
For the falling Sickness
Another.
For the Falling sickness or disease neer unto it.
For the Falling sickness.
A powder against the Falling sickness.
Another excellent Remedy for the salling evil.
Against the Epilepsie of Children.
Another expert against the Epiepsie.
For the Falling sickness.
An excellent Medicine sor the Apopexia and Falling sickness.
For the Falling Evil.
The Eyes, The Remedies for its distempers.
A Medicine to take all gummy matter or filth out o the Eyes.
A powder for weeping and running eyes.
For the Sight.
marvellous good water to recover the Eye sight he same being by any cause whatsoever▪
most singular good Medicine to keep the Eyes clear, cool, and from redness, and to kill the Itching of them.
For running eyes of a cold.
Here is a precious water for the sight, and for th that be fair clear blind.
A Medicine for them that may not well see and if the eyes be red.
For them that the Eye-lids be over-turned beneath.
De ophthamia.
A water proved to clarifie the dimness of sight:
For the same.
Pills good for the sight.
For swelling of the Eyes.
For great pain of the eyes.
Another.
Another.
For redness of the Eyes.
Another.
Of hardness that hath been long in the eye.
Another.
Another.
For all redness of the eyes▪
For the same.
A singular powder that dryeth and takeh away the redness of the eyes.
For to stop watering of the eyes.
For webbes of the eye.
Another singular receipt for webbes in the eyes.
Another.
To stay the humours that fall in the eyes.
To clear the eyes that be dim of sigh.
To destroy Rheum that it fall not into the eyes.
Master Davies water, for the clearing of the eye sight being much decayed.
To draw a mote out of the eye.
A cure for the sight decayed.
A powder to clear he sight much decayed and near gone.
water to preserve the eye-sight which hath been commended to be the best in the world.
A preservative for the eye sight.
To purge the head and preserve the sight.
For all Infirmities in the eyes.
A god water for sore eyes.
A precious Medicine for the eyes, then which no better be, for though a man had been ten years, within eleven dyes he shall be stored to his sight again of very truth.
For sight of the eyes lost, how to restore the same, and to clear the eyes and to help the dimnss of tem.
To cleanse the eyes and do away the pearl.
To restore their eyes that are as though they did see and yet see not.
To kill the pin or webbe in the eye.
A very good Medicine to kill a pearl or webe the eye.
A good Medicine for eyes that be blood-shot and red.
For eyes that runn.
For the apple of the eye.
The Ears: Remedies for all dis∣eases in the ears.
For noise and sounding of the Ears.
For pain in the Ears.
An approved Medicine for Deasnss.
To recover the lost hearing or deasness in the Ear.
A soveaign Medicine for the pain and buzzing in the head which hindreth the haring.
An experienced medicine for deafnes in the head.
A present Remedy for one that cannot hear.
Medicine.
An excellent good Medicine for deafness in the head.
For deafness or noise in the head, an excellent remedy.
Good for the earing.
For to make a man hear.
An approved Medicine for deafness.
Another approved.
For deafness, and for an Impostume of the ear, to break it, a rare secre.
For a man that may not well hear.
The Teeth, Remedies for all their diseases.
Remedy for the Toothach.
Another.
For rotten and stinking Teeth▪
A water to keep the teeth from stinking.
For the Toothach.
A medicine that the Toohach shall never vex you mor.
A most expert and true Medicine for the pain of the Teeth and presently easeth the pain.
For a Tooth that is loose.
To help the Toohach of any sort.
To fasten Teeth, and to purge the head.
To make a Tooth eave aking, or to fall out.
The Nose, The Remedies for its diseases.
Remedies for stinking of the Nose.
The Mouth, Remedies for its diseases.
To destroy a stinking breath.
To make a sweet breath.
Another for the same.
For stench in the mouth.
Another.
Another.
Another.
Another for the stench in the Nose.
Another.
Another.
To take away stinking of the mouth.
The Breast, Remedies for distem∣pers thereof.
Remedies for diseases of the breast.
For a hoarse voice.
Another.
For hoarsness of long continuance.
A Syrup for Cough, rheums, Catarres, and other like diseases.
A Medicine for the Cough.
Against the Cough.
For an old Cough.
Another for a Cough with a rheum.
preerve Wallnuts for a cough or Consumption.
A good Syrup for an old Cough, and it mundi∣eth the breast and the Lungs and for pain under he side coming of cold.
For wheesing in the Chest.
For delivering from Phlegm.
Another for wheesing of the Chest.
Remedies for the Cough.
Another remedie.
Another remedy.
Another.
Remedie against the cough coming of a hot cause.
For the same.
A good receit against the Cough.
For the Cough and Murre.
A Medicine for hoarsness in the throat.
To heal the Srfa or disease called the King evl
To cure the Kings evil.
Against shortness of winde.
The receipt for Asthma.
To cure Asthmatick persons.
An oyntment for shortness of breath.
To break a sore brest.
o keep the brest from breaking, if it be not too far gone.
To heal the breast.
To heal any kinde of ach or sore brest.
A plaister for a sore brest.
A medicine to skin a womans sore bret which is aw.
To help the hardness in women brests.
For the aking of a womans brest.
Another for the same.
r womens brests, or swelling that cometh by cold in child birth.
n approved Medicine for them that hae cold in their brests.
pproved Medicine for a sore brest that is broken.
For bolning of a womans brest.
For a very sore brest.
For coagulation of milk in a womans brest.
A Soveraign Medicine for a sore brest.
A medicine for the woman brests if the sore of Mil.
A plaister for a postume on womens Teats.
Remedies for the Pthisick.
A remedy.
Another.
For the cough and consumpton of the lungs.
For the Phlegm and Cough.
For a Consumption.
For the Consumption.
Another excellent for the same.
he Sides, Remedies for their distempers.
euisie, A thing most certain to remedy the great∣est pleurisie possible.
For to cure an Ipostume, which groweth in the side of the ribes of the side, when no other Meic will cure the same.
Another good Medicine.
To destroy an Impostume and an swelling.
A Catplasme.
Another.
For the stitch.
An experienced good Medicine for a pleurisie.
The Heart, Remedies for its Distempers.
Remedies for weakness and feebleness of the heart.
For beating or trembling of the heart.
For the same.
For the same.
or ach at the heart which are commonly a knot of worms.
To help a mad body.
For them that swound or are faint-hearted.
A potion for sainting.
The Stomack, Remedies for all pains of the stomack.
For weakness of the Stomack.
For windiness of the stomack.
A present remedy for pain and ach in the stomack.
To help the pains of the stomack a rare secret.
For a windie and cold stomack.
For pain of the stomack.
Another.
To comfort the stomack after vomiting.
For the same.
n excellent purgation to avoid choler for men of all ages.
A Medicine for winde in the stomack.
To clear the stomack▪
A notable sauce to procure an appetite in them whic be brought low to get them a stomack.
To make Pulvis ducis out of Master Cogans Caj〈◊〉 of the wekness of the stomack. pag. 194.
A drink for a bad stomack.
Another for the stomack▪
heat in the stomack which maketh the throa sore.
The Liver, Remedies for its dis∣empers.
Against stopping of the Liver, called opilai
Another for stopping of the Liver.
Remedy.
A Iulep for heat of the Liver.
A drink to cool the Liver.
A good rcipt for the dopsie.
To purge dropsie water abudantly, for the shedding o nature called Gonorrhaaea, verbatim, out of Master Cogan, Pag. 5. in Flower deluce.
For the Dropsie or Tympany.
The Gall.
Against diseases of the Gall.
Another singuar Remedie.
A medy for the Iaundise and strangury and dys∣sury and straitness of breath, and to break the stone in the bladder.
A perfect help of the black Iaundise.
For the yellow Iaundise.
The Spleen.
For dis eses of the Spleen.
A urgation to avoid Melanchoy.
An expet medicine for all diseases of the spleen.
For the spleen that is great and aking.
For diseases o the Spleen.
An approved Medicine for the Spleen.
An approved Medicine to take away an ag though a Quartain.
For the Spleen.
A diet drink for the Liver and Spleen.
Doctor Simons Medicine proved both for the Ag and Quartane.
For the Fever.
For the Quartan proved by Doctor Simons.
For the Ague.
An approved Medicine for the Ague.
For a fever quartan.
For the Ague.
An approved medicine to take away an Agu▪
For a burning fever, a medicine approved ue.
Another for a burning fever.
A medicine to precure sleep in a fever.
For the fever in Angine, and for bloody matter.
To make a breath to cool one in a fever.
For an Ague of long continuance.
A remedy to cure the new Ague and to cleanse the stomack by vomit.
For an Ague if it be given before the first fit.
An excellent plaster to put away the Ague fit, ei∣ther Quotidian or tertian.
A plaster to put away the new Ague.
What to give one in the fever or Ague▪
For a tertian Ague, a soveraign drink proved.
For an ague.
A special medicine for the Ague.
To cure a fever.
A diet drink for the Scorbutum or scurvy, and to put away the malum habitum corporis. Pr∣batum.
A good drink to cleanse the blood.
A very good drink against the scurvy,
To make a laxative beer of scurvy grass taught by Mr. Doctor Butler unto the Lady Finch, which takes away the swelling of the egs and stomack, ad makes to sleep well.
A Medicine for a surfet.
The Bowels.
Diseases of the Bowel.
For the winde Coick.
A suppository for the winde Colick.
A plaster.
To cure a rupture in the belly.
For the Fundament coming out.
o a mans Fundament when it comes out true Medicine.
A special good Medicine proved to heal a rupture or broken man, Probat.
Against ruptures or burstings.
A purgation for Colck coming of Phlegm.
For pain of the Colick coming of Choler.
For the winde Colick.
Back and Reins, The Reme∣dies of their distempers.
A purgation for Choler coming of Phlegm.
scour, ceanse and cool the reins of the Back▪
For a pain in the back.
For ache in the back.
Another.
A good ointment for the back and restorative for the same.
For the weakness of the small of the back.
A powder to knit and restore nature well proved.
Pro Gonorrhaea.
To restore a man that wasteth, and for soreness of the reins.
For heat in the back.
For feeble reins.
To preserve nature from wasting.
For the running of the reins.
For the running of the Reins.
To knit a broken Vein.
For the help of the disease called the French pox.
A Diet drink o cure Lues venerea or any desper disease in mans bodie.
A morbum Gallihidropicum & cetera.
Pain of the reins is called Nephretica passio.
Remedy or pain of the reins.
A nobe Eectuary for the fluxe.
Medicines to restrain the flux of what cause sever it be.
Remedie fr the flux humoral, called Diarhaea.
To stop the said flux.
Another Medicine to stanch the said flux.
An Irish Medicine to stay any flux.
For the boody flux.
To cure the bloody flux.
To cue any dangerous flux which is f orce to bring a man in danger of a consumption.
For the bloody flux.
Another for the same.
A sure experiment to cure the bloody flux, when a man avoideth as it were black gobbets of flesh.
The Bladder, Remedies, for its Distempers.
A medicine for the stone.
Of the cure of the stone in the Reines and bladder.
Another expert medicine.
Another singuar Medicine.
A goodly syrup to mundifie the reins.
A powder for the stone and Colick or either of them.
Another for the stone and to break it.
For the stone which letteth a man to make water,
An oyntment for the back if the stone come painful∣ly from you.
A Pultis to cause the stone to slip when its broken.
A medicine to avoid the stone in the bladder.
For the stone.
A Soveraign Medicine for them that cannot pisse, well proved by the Lady of Northumberland.
To make one make water presently.
To procure a man to pisse well.
To procure urine that is stopped.
A special receipt to help sharpness of urine.
An Injection for burning of urine.
A powder for the heat of urine.
Fr them which make very foul or red water.
To provoke urine and a asswage the belly.
A receipt for the stone.
good Medicine for one that cannot pisse by reason of the stone.
For the stone.
A receipt for the stone used by Sir Trever Williams.
To prevent the stone.
To make a water for the stone.
The powder for the stone:
For the stone in the back, bladder, Kidnies and stomack.
The Womb, its remedies.
For the flux of the wmb.
A purgation for the flux humora.
For the suffocation of the matrice.
A drink for pain of the mother.
Another to provoke the flux of the Matrice.
The Terms or flowers, their Rmedies.
Fr suppression or retaining of the flowers or Mstruus.
the overflowing of the menstruus and for the retaining of the same.
A most approved Experiment to provoke the Men∣struiss.
For the dropsie and to provoke the flowers a urine.
To bring down womens termes.
A medicine for the green sickness and to cause flowers.
A medicine to stop over much abundance of Flowers.
For the red Flux in women.
For the whites proved.
For rising of the Mther.
A specia mediine for the mother or winde or spleen which riseth about the heart.
A medicine for the whites and weakness of nature.
To cure the Mother.
A good Medicine for one that feareth to misca with childe.
To make a caudle to strengthen one that is with childe and is weak.
To make a woman have a quick delivery and sma pain.
To cleanse the matrix after the Childbirth.
To drive away the after pain of a woman.
A medicine to fetch away a dead childs after burden.
A present remedy for a woman that travaileth with childe.
To deliver a woman of a dead childe.
The Gout.
Remedies for the Gout.
Remedy.
A plaster for the gout.
Another.
Another.
Medicines for the gout appropriate in all cases.
A Medicine to ease the gout and to bring down any swelling in feet, leg, r arm.
For lgs swollen of any manner of disease.
For the gout.
To cure and ease the gout.
A pultis of barly to asswage swelling in the legs to molifie the hardness,
For the Gout:
A medicine for the Sciatica.
An experienced medicine for the Sciatica.
An excellent oil for an ache onely to be made in the moneth of May, oil of Rosemary Flowers.
A powder for the Sciatica.
A plaster fr all aches and pains in any part of the body.
Childrens Diseases. The Head, Remedieor the Dis∣tempers of their Heads.
For the apostume of the brain and swelling.
Remedy.
For swelling of the head,
For scales and ulcers in the Head▪
Another.
An excellent remedy for warts or Knobbes of the head.
Rhasis description.
shal be good for the nurse to eat a Electuary made after this sort.
A paster.
Of the Cramp or Spasmus.
Of Starkness and stiffness of the Limbes.
The Eyes, Remedies for their Distempers in Children.
mours, and to open the pores, as by exampl thus.
Of blood otten eyes and other infirmities.
A plaster for swelling and pain of the eyes.
For watring eyes.
The Ears, Remedies for Distem∣pers of the Ears of Childrn.
For pain in the Ears,
For swelling in the Ears.
For worms in the Ears.
For winde in the Ears and tinckling.
For neesing out of measure.
The Teeth.
To help the breeding of them.
To procure easie breeding of Teeth.
The mouth, The Remedies of its Distempers in Chidren.
To cause easie breeding of Teeth.
Remedies for the canker in the mouth of Children.
Another stronger Medicine for the Canker in the mouth of Children.
The Neck, the throat and breast, Remedies for their Distempers in Children.
Another singular medicine for the Canker in the mouth of all ages.
Of Quinsie and swelling of the Thrat.
Remedy.
Of the Cough.
Against the great Cough and heat in the body.
The Stomack, Its Remedies in Children.
For straitness of winde.
For vomiting.
An ointment for the stomack.
To recover an appetite lost.
For a yeaxing or hicket.
For Colick and rumbling in the guts.
Remedy for the flux in a childe.
Another.
For stopping and hardness of the belly.
Remedies for worms in Chidren.
To kill worms in Children.
For worms in the belly or Stomack a most excellnt approved Medicine.
For worms.
To kill and avoid chest worms.
A singular receip to kill worms.
The Nvil, It Remedies.
For swelling of the Navil.
A Plaster for swelling of the Navil.
For the stone in Children.
Reins and Bladder, Their Reme∣dies in Children.
An ointment for the same.
A singular bath for the same intent.
A plaster for the stone.
Of pissing in the bed, A powder.
Ruptures.
Of bursling.
The Fundament, or right Gut, the falling of the Fundament.
A powder for falling of the Fundament.
Another good powder for the same.
Another good Remedy.
Small Pox and Measils in Chil∣dren and their cure.
To avoid ill humours in a childe of tender years.
For children that breed the Pox and Measils.
A medicine for the small Pox.
medicine for the small Pox in the throat, or any ill or soreness in the throat.
To keep the small pox out of the throat.
For chafing of the skin.
An ointment.
Of small Pox and Measils.
Fevers in Children, their cure.
To take away the spots and scars of the small poxes and measils.
Fevers.
A good Medicine fr the ague in Children.
Codds, The cure of their Distempers in Children▪
Of the swelling of the Codds.
Another.
Another.
Another.
Another in the beginning of the grief.
Shingles, their Cure.
Of the Erisipelas or Shingles.
Of burning and scalding.
An approved Medicine for a burning, or for a childe that falls into the fire and burns any part of it.
For a burn or a scad.
Another for the same.
Of consumption or leannesse.
Lice.
To destroy Lice.
A goodly Medicine to kill them.
An expert Medicine to drive away Lice.
For scabbinesse and Itch.
Another remedy for scabs and Itch.
A godly sweet sope for scabs and itch.
Anoher approved Medicine for scabbiness and Ith.
Ad scabiem tam sicum quam humidum praesens Auxilium.
A clear and white water, that will heal in five dayes at the most all manner of scabs aswell in∣ward as outward.
Here followeth the making and description of divers Waters, Bal∣soms, or Balms and other rare and excellent Medicines with their use and wonder¦ful operations and vertues.
To make the precious Quintessence of the learned Mathiolus as followeth.
The use and vertues of the Quintessence devised by the famous Mathiolu•.
To make a precious oil, werewith to cure the ob∣structions of the Liver and the speen, which is of force to help the same, when the said grief can∣not be cured by any other mean or Medcine.
The manner how to administer the same to the patient.
An Antidote or confection called Theodoret• Anacardies taken out of Nicoia•s Myrepsus a Greek Author.
The effects of this medicine followeth.
The making of a precious water called for the ver∣tue Aqua mirabilis and Pre•iosa, otherwise the admirable water of England.
The vertue of this water.
A marvellous water to heal the leprosie and all spots of the face or elsewhere and to make one look young and to have a good colour.
A water called the mother of the bawme.
To make the water of life.
To make water of Rosemary.
A notable water of great vertue.
An excellent water against the Colick the mother and all pains in the belly.
To make a special Aqua composita to drink for a cold or sufet in the stomack, well proved.
A marvellous Ba'm made by art most laudable.
making of Venice Balsam and the vertues thereof.
The vertues of it are as followeth.
To make the most edellent water of Treacle or Mi∣thridate, which is a most precious remedie a∣gainst all outward and inward poysons or pe∣stilence.
To draw out another Liquor from the sis whence this Liquor was distilled, superctum.
To make Cinnamon milk or liquor, after another sort most precious for a restorative.
A ba'm for a wound.
A medicine for all manner of ulcers and sores, very pleasant, called Lycion.
For to make Mermale.
Diaflosmus.
Diaflosmus is thus made.
A balm of great vertue.
A very precious Aqua vitae.
The Sublimated vine of Master Callus, Physitian to the Emperour Charls the fifth is most admir∣rable, for the use thereof caused him to live 129 years without any disease, and is made thus.
A special Iulep made of white wine and sugar and rosewater, which comforteth and refresh∣eth the body, much causing the spirits to wax lively.
To make Triacle water.
The vertue of this Triace water.
For a Surfet.
To make a drink for all manner of Fevers and Im∣postumes and for sickness in mans body.
A note of a diet prescribed by three dutch Doctrs fo a man past cure so judged.
A Medicine for the sweat.
To make the Queens preservative.
For them that are poisoned a remedy.
A Medicine diminishing all kinde of sickness if it be not unto death and prepareth the body for re∣covery of health.
An oil of the Philosophers drawn out of Turpen∣tne.
For to make the white plaster.
The vertue of this plaster.
A plaster proved on Sir William Farrington Knight of a grievous Marmole, that was on his Legg and could not be remedied it was so horrible of stink till a French man healed it with this following.
A plaster called plaster Emanuel, chief for impostumes and other malodies, it hath more vertues then man can tell▪ I healeth wounds anon▪
An approved Medicine against the plague, against Carbuncles, hot impostumes and such like, it will break them & expel the poison & causeth health,
An approved Syrup by the Lady Harrington.
For Venom or poison.
A Medicine for the plague or for any Ague.
To ripen and break the botch.
Against all pesti ent sicknesses or plague and to break the botch and to cure, &c.
A Medicine for the Plague.
For the canker in the body.
For the Canker.
To cure a Canker in the mouth.
For the canker in the mouth the best way.
A water to cure a Fistula.
A diet drink for a Fistula.
A Medicine most excellent for the spitting of blood.
For any sore which is poisoned with a contrary and unproper salve.
For any that is wounded to keep it from ranckling▪
Te heal an Impostume in the body.
An ale salve to cure most sores.
To remove pain and exceeding dolour in an Im∣postume or wound.
For Hemerods that come forth.