Medicaments for the poor; or, Physick for the common people. : Containing, excellent remedies for most common diseases, incident to mans body; made of such things as are common to be had in almost every country in the world: and are made with little art, and smal charge. This book is of admirable use for, 1. Purging medicines, for choller, flegm, melancholly, or watry humors. 2. Vomits. 3. Such things as evacuate by sweat, spittle, the pallate, nostrils, or insensibly. 4. Womens diseases. 5. Worms. 6. The stone. 7. Poysons. 8. The Head over-heat, or over-cooled. 9. The eyes. 10. The Joynts. 11. The nerves. 12. Breathing. 13. The heart. 14. The stomach. 15. The intestines. 16. And for diseases of ill conformation. 17. Or in faulty magnitude. 18. Or in number. 19. Or in scituation, and connexion. 20. Or in dissolved unity. First written in Latin, by that famous and learned doctor, John Prevotius, phylosopher, and publick professor of physick in Padua. Translated into English, and something added, By Nich. Culpeper, student in physick, and astrology.
1656
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Medicaments for the poor; or, Physick for the common people. : Containing, excellent remedies for most common diseases, incident to mans body; made of such things as are common to be had in almost every country in the world: and are made with little art, and smal charge. This book is of admirable use for, 1. Purging medicines, for choller, flegm, melancholly, or watry humors. 2. Vomits. 3. Such things as evacuate by sweat, spittle, the pallate, nostrils, or insensibly. 4. Womens diseases. 5. Worms. 6. The stone. 7. Poysons. 8. The Head over-heat, or over-cooled. 9. The eyes. 10. The Joynts. 11. The nerves. 12. Breathing. 13. The heart. 14. The stomach. 15. The intestines. 16. And for diseases of ill conformation. 17. Or in faulty magnitude. 18. Or in number. 19. Or in scituation, and connexion. 20. Or in dissolved unity. First written in Latin, by that famous and learned doctor, John Prevotius, phylosopher, and publick professor of physick in Padua. Translated into English, and something added, By Nich. Culpeper, student in physick, and astrology.
Uniform title
Medicina pauperum. English
Created/published
London : Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden-Hall, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange, 1656.
Description
[20], 388 [i.e. 288] p. ; (8vo)
Associated name
Prevost, Jean, 1585-1631. author.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Note
Pages 128-288 misnumbered 228-388.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1999 Fooles and Fricassees (catalog p. 30)
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), P3324A
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R230757
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R230757
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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P3324.8
Folger-specific note
160731. Rounded edges. Wormed at head fore-edge. Provenance: dated (1698) engraved armorial bookplate of Francis Gwyn