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Author: Coelson, Lancelot, 1627-ca 1687.
Title: The poor-mans physician and chyrurgion, containing above three hundred rare and choice receipts, for the cure of all distempers, both inward and outward: together with necessary considerations before purgation; easie rules for the opening of a vein, and the manner of bleeding by horse-leeches, with a method for drawing teeth. All being of great worth, and now published for the publique good: / by Lancelot Coelson student in Physick and Astrology.
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Print source: The poor-mans physician and chyrurgion, containing above three hundred rare and choice receipts, for the cure of all distempers, both inward and outward: together with necessary considerations before purgation; easie rules for the opening of a vein, and the manner of bleeding by horse-leeches, with a method for drawing teeth. All being of great worth, and now published for the publique good: / by Lancelot Coelson student in Physick and Astrology.
Coelson, Lancelot, 1627-ca 1687.
London,: Printed by A.M. for Simon Miller at the Starre in St Pauls Church-yard., 1656.
Subject terms:
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Dentistry -- Practice -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir John Barkstead Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower of LONDON, High-Steward of COLCHESTER, Major General of MIDDLESEX and WESTMINSTER.
TO THE READER.
A Table of the Contents.
Errata.
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INSTRUCTIONS to be Observed in Physick & Chyrurgery.
The Benefits that arise thereby.
Of the Ʋse of Purging, and the Commo∣dities that come thereby.
Of drawing Teeth.
Of Phlebotomy.
Consider whereon we ought to be well advised before we Phlebotomize.
Consider also how we should conveniently Phlebotomize.
How we ought conveniently to make an apertion in the Vein.
Of bleeding by Horse-leeches.
Here follows a Catalogue of such Medicines as are good to Cure all or most Diseases incident to Mans body, from the Head to the Foot, as well Inward∣ly as Outwardly.
An excellent Medicine for that Grief we call an Ach in the Bones.
A pretious Plaister for all manner of Aches, for as soon as the Plaister is warm on the flesh the pain is gone, excellent for the Gout.
An excellent oyntment for all Aches, Rickets, Stich∣es, bruised Shoulders, and all Colds.
A pretious Oyntment good for the Ach in the Bones, or to take the Ague out of any part of the Body.
A pretious Ʋnguent for the same, or Sciatica, or to expell wind, or to ease pain in the Back or stone in the Kidneys, anoint the place therewith first rub it well with a dry cloth.
An excellent remedy for the cure of that Disease so hardly to be cured, viz. the Ague.
For a burning Ague.
An excellent Medicine for an Ague or burning Fever: It hath cured some which were thought past cure.
A pretious Ʋnguent for an Ague, bruise or sprain.
The Ague fallen into the legs, which cause them to swell. The Cure.
A Medicine to cure the Ague either in old or young.
An excellent Plaister for the same.
For the tooth-Ach.
To cause a good Appetite.
A good Plaister to ease pain or a crick in the Back.
A Remedy for one that is Bound in his Belly.
A marvellous good Water to break the stone in the Bladder.
A good Medicine to staunch Bleeding at the Nose.
A good Medicine against spitting of Blood
A singular good Oyl for all manner of Bruises, Spleens, Swellings in the legs or arms.
A good Medicine for a Bruise or Cut.
A Drink to heal all manner of Bruises.
A Medicine for a Burning or Scalding, approved.
A speedy Remedy for a Woman in Child-birth.
A good Medicine for to help the Kidneys and to cause the reins of the Back to grow strong.
An excellent good Salve for any new cut or wound that will not cease Bleeding.
A very good way to make a salve called the Black salve, which cureth all old sores and ulcers, be they never so foul.
A perfect way to set a bone or to heal a broken bone in man or beast.
A proved Medicine against the grief of the lungs, and spitting of Blood.
Against a stinking Breath.
A proved Medicine for an ach or sore Breast.
A Remedy against the Biting of a mad dog, and the raging of madness which will follow the party bitten.
A Remedy for one that spits blood by the breach of a Vein in the Breast.
A good Oyntment for a Bruise.
An approved Medicine to staunch Blood at the nose, or any Vein that is cut.
A Composition of a most excellent and pretious Oyntment to heal presently any Scalding or Burning with fire, hot water or powder, or whatsoever else, being presently applied, at which time it will work the best effect and hinder all blistering and breakings out, the excel∣lency of it cannot be parellelled.
Doctor Matthias, or the Lukatella Oyl or Bal∣som, called Cordius Balsom.
The way to make this Balsom.
A special good black Plaister or sear-cloth to lay to any wound, or to ease any ach or swelling, or to draw out any thorns: approved by the Lady Grimstone.
A special Remedy for a weak Back.
A Direction how to make a wholsom mess of Broth for a sick body, whose stomack is not good.
To staunch Blood.
To purge the Back and Brain.
For a pain in the Back.
To scale a mortified Bone.
The Black plaister that mundifieth all sores and taketh away all pain.
A powder which scaleth Bones and stoppeth the watering of sinews.
A good Medicine to cure any Disease which proceeds from the Breast.
A Remedy for a Chin chough.
A perfect Syrup for the same.
A Medicine to take away Corns.
A good Medicine to avoid Choller.
A proved Medicine for the Strangury, Chollick and Stone.
A Clyster for the same.
An approved Medicine against the grief of the Flank and the Chollick passion.
To cure a Cough that comes by cold suddenly.
To cure the Wind chollick.
Consumption a noted Cure.
A Diet-drink for the same.
To make an Incision to take out a corrupt Coar.
A perfect cure for a Canker.
Chollick the cure.
For the Consumption. Proved.
A good Remedy for the biting of a mad Dog.
An excellent Diet-drink for any disease.
A most excellent Wine made of Sage for to be drunk at all times, if you wash your mouth therewith it will help the Tooth-ach and pains of the gums, it is good for the Palsie, and for the Cramp, and for Lunatick persons, it restoreth sinews shrunk, it expelleth ill humors out of the body, it is also good a∣gainst the Plague and Pistilence.
An excellent Medicine for the Dropsie.
A Medicine for a deaf and pained Ear.
A comfortable powder to cause one to Digest his meat.
A Treakle to cure the Dropsie or any other Disease.
A Drink to be made in May, good for many Diseases.
A drink for the Dropsie called roots drink.
A Purge for the same.
A Powder for the same.
A Diet for the same.
For the Dropsie.
An Oyntment for the same.
Dropsie the Cure.
A good powder to cause Digestion.
A good Medicine to destroy an Imposthume in twenty four hours or little more.
A pretious water for sore Eyes which do run or look red. Approved by my self many times.
A pure water for a pin and a web, or any film in the Eyes.
A water for sore Eyes, let it come either by inward or outward causes.
A rare secret for a pearl or web in the Eye.
For sore Eyes.
An admirable and perfect cure for the Falling Sickness, which I have proved often with good success.
For a woman that hath too much of her Flowers.
A good drink to cause Fleam to be avoided.
Pils good to stop the bloody Flux.
A pretious Medicine to cleanse the breast of Fleam.
For a Fistula, the whole cure.
To tent the Fistula.
A vulnary potion for the Fistula.
A plaister to cure the Fistula.
A Lotion to wash or seering into the Fistula.
An Implaister of Tapsus Barbatus which cureth all Cankers, Fistulas, Plague-sores, hot Bruises, Botches, or Fellones.
A Lotion to wash or seringe the grief withall be∣fore you apply the Plaister, dress it twice a day either by bathe or searing hot.
A perfect Remedy for the Flux.
Falling sickness, the cure.
Fistula, the cure.
For the Gout.
A good cooling Clyster to apply where it needs.
For the Gonorrhea or Running of the Reins.
For a Gunshot if there be a Flux of blood.
For a Fracture in the Scull or wound in the Head.
A good Medicine to destroy Heat in the Face, or any other place, although is be St Anthonies fire.
Headach or Megrim, the cure, or a good cool water to be used for the Head if it be over hot, or for any such distemper.
An excellent hot water for the Head, if it be over∣cold, or any such distemper.
For a pain in the Head.
For winde in the Head.
For Heart-burning.
Hoarsness, the cure.
Headach of rheume, the cure.
For the same, Approved.
Megrime, pain or winde in the Head, the cure.
Lice or Scabs in childrens Heads, the cure.
A good Medicine for the black Jaundies.
For the Itch.
Yellow Jaundies, a sure and quick cure.
A pretious Medicine to destroy an Imposthume in the body.
To ripen and maturate an Imposthume.
To kill the Itch.
Jaundies Black and Yellow, the cure.
How to know the Kings-evil, or a Disease so called, and also the Cure.
You may know it certainly by this following rule.
A soveraign Medicine for the Cough of the Lungs.
A good Medicine for a sore Leg that doth fester or rankle.
A very good drink made of whey which will cool the extream heat of the Liver and Stomack.
For any disease in the Liver.
To preserve the Lungs.
For the Cough of the Lungs.
For heat in the Liver, the cure.
A plaister for the distemper of the Liver.
A Leglifium for a Gunshot.
For the Cough of the Lungs or Tisick: Proved.
An approved Medicine for one that is molten within by travel or any other labour.
For the Morphew.
For the same.
An excellent Medicine for a woman troubled with the Mother.
For a sharp humour in the Matrix after a miscarriage.
An excellent remedy for a Canker in the Mouth.
To increase Milk in a womans breast.
An excellent good water to kill the canker and scurf in the Mouth.
For Numness in the Joints.
To provoke womens Menstrues.
To stop their much flowing.
A singular good Oyl for all manner of bruises, spleens and swellings in the legs or arms.
A speciall Oyl to heal bruises, swellings, wounds, and burnings, and what not.
Sciatica, Gout or Ach, an excellent Oyl to cure.
A special Oyl for all Aches and Bruises, called Nerve-oyl.
To make Oyl of Snails for any ach.
To make a good Oyntment or salve for any sore.
An Oyntment good for Sprain, Ach or green Wound, or old Ʋlcer: Keep a good Plai∣ster also upon the wound.
To make flower of Oyntments, which cleanseth old wounds and new, and gathers good flesh, it helpeth headach and Imposthumes in the head or in the body, it helpeth swollen ears or cheeks, or the jaw fallen in the face, it helpeth cut sinews, and bitings of mad dogs, it helpeth pricks or sprains in travell, it helpeth rheumes, it draweth out iron, thorns, and it helpeth all manner of botches and swellings, it helpeth aches in the cods or in other members, it helpeth the flux of the emrods, it is good to make a sear-cloth for all manner of griefs, it helpeth the flux and men∣strues in women, being laid to the navill.
A soveraign drink to open the Pipes stopped.
For the Palsie.
For lameness in the side coming by the Palsie.
A soveraign drink if it be taken in time, to pre∣serve against the Plague.
A good plaister to draw the Plague-sore to a head, and to break it.
A soveraign Medicine to cure the Plurisie.
For the French Pox, an Oyntment good.
An excellent Receipt called Moses water, very good for the French Pox or any other di∣sease growing out in sores or scurfs.
For the small Pox.
An excellent good Purge for any manner of disease.
For the Pestilence.
Doctorurgess his Receipt against the Plague, and for any symptome of it, or the small Pox or Measels, or for the begin∣ning of the Ague or Feaver.
For the Plurisie.
To make Oyl of Puppy, which is good for any strain or bruise.
A Poultis that will break a sore in twenty four hours.
A Preparative to take before a Purgation, the night before it is taken, the dose is one dram in Diaprunis or posset-ale.
A Purgation which purgeth all aqueous humours.
To make Pils that purge the four humours.
Pils of excellent vertue to purge all Flegmatick Feavers or Agues.
A Purgation that cleanseth the head, brain and all the body of Melancholly.
For the Palsie.
Purgations with Senna.
An Ʋnguent for the Piles.
An excellent healing and cooling Plaister.
A Plaister of Adders-tongue and sweet Maud∣line, all green, which cureth green wounds and old ulcers.
A gentle Purge for Melancholly, and to comfort the spirits.
For the Rickets, a disease common to Children.
A Beer for the same.
Pils of great vertue for the running of the Reins.
For a consumption in the Reins.
A Medicine against the Stone in the back or blad∣der, or for the weakness of the back, which is called the Reins running.
A good Medicine to provoke Sleep to the Sick.
A good drawing Salve.
For a Stitch in the side.
For the Sciatica.
To provoke Sleep.
For the Spleen.
A pretious water for the Spleen.
A Salve to draw and heal.
A Medicine approved for the Spleen.
For one that Speaks in his sleep.
For the Sciatica.
For all manner of sores, old or new: Called The gift of God.
An excellent Salve or Sear cloth: Which being laid to the stomack will provoke Appetite, and take away the pain of the stomack: Being laid to the belly it will cure the Cholick: Being laid to the reins of the back helpeth the running of the reins. It is also good for the bloody flux, and for the heat of the kidneys, and weakness of the back. It healeth all swellings of the breast, and taketh away all Imposthumes, or any aches. It breaketh all swelling pustils. It draweth away all running ulters, not breaking skin. It being applied to the fundament it healeth all defects there. And being applied to the head it helpeth all pains there and of the eyes.
Mrs Harris her black Salve, good for any sprain or swelling.
To cure a Strain in the arm in a short time.
To make a Balsom that will cure all manner of Sores or green wounds, the best that ever was.
For a Stitch.
A good Pill to cause Sleep and ease pain.
To break a Stone.
For all Sickness, Feavers, Imposthumes or any other disease in mans body.
To help any hurt in the Skull.
To help shrunk Sinews, or hard ach in them.
A drink to be made in the spring for the green Sickness or any other grief.
Scurvy the cure. First a Purge.
A drink to take after it.
For the green Sickness.
A Swelling, the cure.
A Dianthos which will help all feebleness of the body, the tisick, the grief of the heart and of the Liver after long Sickness.
A powder for Winde and Spleen.
A rare Sear-cloth or Plaister for a sore breast, or any other sore, or sprain, or ach, which I have often had experience of.
For the Tooth-ach.
To make Teeth white, and to fasten the Gums, and to comfort the roots, and to make the breath sweet.
For Lues Venera, or French-Pox.
To stay Vomiting.
A Vomit for any disease.
To stay Vomiting.
To force one to make Water which is stept in Sickness.
A Water to inject or serindge into the secrets of men or women.
To cause one to make Water.
An excellent salve for a deep Wound or cut, which requireth tenting.
An excellent Medicine for a green Wound, being applied plaister-wise, or to make a sear-cloth for any Ach, and it is good to be ta∣ken inwardly upon the point of a knife for the Lungs.
For one that is brought low in sickness.
For Weakness in the back.
A salve for a green Wound.
A good remedy for one that cannot make Water.
To heal Wounds and sores, and also to draw.
A Water to heal all sores and ulcers.
A Medicine to kill all manner of Worms in the body.
For Winde and shooting in the head.
An unguent to heal a green Wound at the first dressing.
A plaister to cure and heal a Wound.
For a Woman in Travell.
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