A cheap, sure, and ready guide to health, or, A cure for a disease call'd the doctor : instructing, how to prevent being cheated and destroyed by the exactions and unmerciful usage of ignorant and oppressive physicians and apothecaries : and to prepare at home the proper medicines for usual distempers : with the prices, to save ninteen shillings in twenty, and expend little more than a penny a dose : likewise a new account of the connection of distempers, key to all physic, and to know any disease / set forth by the benefaction of a very worthy private gentleman, to contain more than any book of the kind, at the lowest rate, as necessary for all families, and all persons.

Date:
1742
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A cheap, sure, and ready guide to health, or, A cure for a disease call'd the doctor : instructing, how to prevent being cheated and destroyed by the exactions and unmerciful usage of ignorant and oppressive physicians and apothecaries : and to prepare at home the proper medicines for usual distempers : with the prices, to save ninteen shillings in twenty, and expend little more than a penny a dose : likewise a new account of the connection of distempers, key to all physic, and to know any disease / set forth by the benefaction of a very worthy private gentleman, to contain more than any book of the kind, at the lowest rate, as necessary for all families, and all persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wood, Camomil and Stechas-Flowers, to be boil’d in a (Juart of Water. An Astringent Decoction. The Bark of Pome¬ granate, Tormentil, and Briftol-Roots, with burnt Harts*horn in Spring wafer. A Cephalick Decoction. Guiacum, Saffafras, Tei- cny-Root, Sage dry’d, Marjoram, %etony, Stechas-Flowers, The low Prices will be obierved from the Rates of the Inare- dients. The Scarlet Decoction. Nitre half an Ounce, Co¬ chineal one Scruple. Boil them gently with a little Liquo- rifh in three Pints of Spring-Water, to be us’d in Inflama- tory Fevers. The Roots of Grafs, Fennel, Par/ley, each one Ounce, of iDandelyon two Ounces; of Currants one Ounce and an half, to be boiled in a. Quart of Water, adding two or three Drams of Sal cPrunellce, to be us’d in Pleurifies and the common Pu¬ trid Fevers. For Intermitting Fevers. Camomil-Flowers, two Ounces, Cochineal, one Scruple : To be boiled in a Quart of Water, adding two Drams of Salt of Wormwood. Theie three are of the lowed: Value. The Decoction of the Jesuits Powder. Two Ounces of it to be boil’d in three Pints of Water to a Quart, with three Drams of Ballam of Tolu, and half a Dram of Co¬ chineal, This may cure the Ague at the Expence of two Shillings. The Decoction for a Looseness. Boil two Drams of Diafcordium in a Pint of Spring-water, adding one or two Ounces of Cinamon-water, and Diafcordium. The Decoction for Jharpnefs of Urine. Gum-Ara- hick, three Ounces, boil’d in a Quart of Spring Water, ad¬ ding four Ounces of Syrup of Althea. APtisane. Pearl-Farly, Rafins of the Sun, each two Ounces, Anije Seeds two Drams, to be boil'd in three Pinti of Spring-Water. The DecoBion for Malignant Fevers. Serpent art a- Foot fix Trams, Cochineal half a Tram, to be boil’d in a Pint and half of Water, adding Venice-Treacle or Tiaf- cordium. Temperating DecoBions in Fevers. Pearl-Parly one Ounce, Scorzonera-Roott two Ounces, Sorrel one Ounce,