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The Admirable Secrets of Physick and Chyrurgery
by Thomas Palmer and Thomas Rogers Forbes, editor
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1984, 221pp, HC.
[America, 16-17C]

Chapters

Introduction

Sixteenth-Century Medicine
Seventeenth-Century Medicine
Herbals and Pharmacopoeias
Some Seventeenth-Century Colonial Physicians
Admirable Secrets
Palmer's Shorthand
The Glossary

Text of The Admirable Secrets

General Rules to be Observed by Those that are called to practice Physick
Signs of Death or Life
Of Predominant or hurtful Humours
Balsam Samick (Samech) thus made
The Nature of the 12 Signs of the Zodiack
Phlebotomy or Blood-letting
Consumption in the Lungs. For the Cough.
Of Working Physick
Of Extream Costiveness
Of Extream Looseness of Fluxes
Of Chymical Oyls
Unguents of the Apothecary shop that folow are the best and safest
Of Plasters
Cordial Medicines and Sweating
Corruption of Bones
Of Swellings
Flux of blood at the Nose
Gout Pains
Iliaca Passio
Of Wens
- Agues and Fevers
- Almons of the Throat inflamed
- Annurisme (Aneurysm) and the Cure
- Back and weaknes thereof
- Griping the Belly
- Belly Bound
- Belly, looseness long continued
- To purge the Belly of Children and to Kill the Worms
- Boyls of Felons
- Blood Flux
- Collected out of the Gererall practise
- Bleeding at Nose
- Biting of Doggs, horses, Swine etc.
- Biting of Venemous Beasts
- Biting of a Mad Dogge
- Against all biting, A Plaister
- Bruises
- Burning and Scaldings
- Cancers
- Catarh or Rhumes
- Chollick and Cure
- Consumption
- Cough
- A Could
- Choler to cure and purge it away especially from the Stomach
- Corns to Cure
- Cramp
- Convulsions
- Dropsy
- Deafnes
- Dysentery
- Ears
- Eyes to cure
- Face
- Falling Sicknes
- Flux. The Bloody Flux
- Felons to cure
- Fevers
- Fistula
- The Falling of the Fundament
- Gout
- Gangreene
- Gonorrea Running of the Reines
- Head Ach
- Hicket or Singultus
- Heart Distemper
- Hemorrhoids or Piles
- Hernia or a Rupture
- Hydrocele
- Herpes
- Hydrocephalus
- Jaundice and the Cure
- Impostumes in the Body
- Itch of Scab
- Kidnys, their Dissease and Cure
- Kings-Evil (Struma or Scrophula)
- Legs Swollen to Cure
- Lask or Flux
- Loosenes
- Lice to drive away
- Liver stopped
- Heat of Liver
- Lungs Inflammed or Consumption
- Lungs with a Veine broken or spitting blood
- Lungs ulcerated
- Madnes. How cured
- Menstrual Flux
- Megrim or Vertigo
- Mother
- Mouth Ulcers
- Pallet of the Mouth down
- Melancholy in extremity. How Cured
- Nipples soar
- Palsy, Dead Palsy and Cure
- Plague or Pestilence
- Pleurisies
- Pissing blood
- Pox. Small Pox and Meazells
- The Purples
- Poisons Taken
- Quinsey
- Rupture or Burstnes
- Sciatica and Cure
- Soars that be ould
- Spleen and the obstruction thereof
- Scalding. vid. Burning
- Sinews and their shrinking
- Scabs. see Itch
- Scald Heads
- Swelling, hos, to scannter and disperse
- Stone
- Terms to stop
- Terms to provoke
- Vomiting and Loosenes in Children
- Urine to move
- Whites in Women
The Reason why many fall short of the Benefits of Medicine
- An Excellent Medicine out of Distilled Salt Peter as followeth
- Tansy
- Preserved Enula Campana
- Conserve of Betony
- Conserve of Borrage or bugloss
- Conserve of Fumitory
- Preserved Calamus
- Preserved Berberrys
- Conserve of Elder-Berrys
- Conserve of Elder Flowers
- Oyl of Elder-Flowers
- Oyl of Mint, so made
- Oyl of Water-lilly-Flowers
- Oyl of Wormwood
- How to make Salt-Peter
- Tincture of Mars
- Diaphoretical Antimony
- Oyl of Antimony
- Pills
- Medicated Wine or Beer
- Hemlock plaister
- Mercurial girdle
Of Phlebotomy and Administering Physick