The womans doctour. Or, an exact ... explantation of all such diseases as are peculiar to that sex. With choise ... remedies ... / Faithfully translated.

  • Fonteyn, Nicolaas
Date:
1652
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Credit: The womans doctour. Or, an exact ... explantation of all such diseases as are peculiar to that sex. With choise ... remedies ... / Faithfully translated. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    239 Take two ounces of mari{b mallow roots. The leaves of mallowes, - Mint, Wormewood, Sage, Rofemary, of each two handfulls. Theleaves of red rofes and camomile, Of each a handfull. An ounce of Laurel] Berries + Saltpeter, Sulphur, of each half an ounce. Boile them to eight pints in a fufficient feele hath been Then take the dreggifh fubftance which © remaines, after the ftraining of the faid li- quor, and add to it The meale of Orsbus, And Lupiries, of each three ounces. Foure ounces of Oxymel. With afufticient quantity of brine, made with thejuice of Lemmons, reduce them in- to the forme of a Poultis, and lay itto the {welled feet. But if the humour fall down againeinto the legs , by reafon of an habicuall diftem- per in the upper parts , you muft either makean iffueupon the knee, oF elfe pro- 3 VOKE