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penfatories and other Phyficbbooks, to a few fimple and yet 
choice and efficacious Medicins 5 adding thereunto, both his 
Method of preparing fuch remedies for all forts of difeafes,^»^ 
withall fliewingj how to bring them into a fmall room^to con- 
tain the fame thus contracted. 
In this part the Reader will find the Author's thoughts, firft 
touching fuch Remedies as are pretended to be Vniverfal • 
andfecondly, an Enumeration of fome of the choicc ft Par* 
ifir^^/^r Medicaments, of all forts; as Purgatives, Vomicives, 
Sudorificks , Aftringent, Refrigeratives, Diureticks, Refol- 
ving, Difcuffing, Corroborating, Deterfive, Anodyne, Nar- 
coticks 5 Scomachicks , Hcpaticks , Splenetjcks , Uterine, 
Topicks, &c. Concerning all which he flicks not tofiy,thaC 
he hath nothing raflily nor groundlefly afTcrted of the jVlcdi- 
cinsby him retained or difcarded. 
In the cJ^rW he briefly treats of the neceflity of Modera- 
ting the Rates of Medicins 5 which yet he doth in fuch a man- 
'ner, that on the one hand, Druggifts, Apothecaries^ &c. 
may not want encouragement to provide all neceffary matter 
of Phyfick, and on the other hand, that the Common people 
may not be alienated from employing honefl and skilful Phy- 
fitians, nor from the ufe of proper medicins : where he par- 
ricularly examins the Chymical preparations^ (io which he is no 
Enemyj) and delivers his opinion as to what cheat there is 
frequently pradtifed in prifing them, and how men maybe 
direded to know very near the true rate of many of that 
kind. 
In the Third he enumerates the benefits that may redound 
to Man-kind , by the way of Difpenfing Medicins by Phyfi- 
tians themfelveSj fworn and skilful 5 as he obferveth it to have 
been in the beginning, and even fo late as in the next forego- 
ing Age, and to be ftill pradifed in all the Countries 5, 
Which he faith he advifetbj not to countenance any dange- 
rous way of preparing Medicins, but to fecure the making of 
phyfick to weli-known difcreer and eiiperienced Practitio- 
ners/ conceivings that thereby the poorer fort of people, 
finding the Fee and Price of Phyfick to be in one hand, would 
be much lefs ftiy, than now they are^ to repair to good 
PhyfitianSj 
