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Praxis catholica: or, The countryman's universal remedy: : wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man; not hitherto discovered. Whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it; together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. useful likewise for seamen and travellers. [A]lso an account of an incomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing. [W]ritten by Robert Couch, sometimes practitioner in physick and chyrurgery, at Boston in New-England. [N]ow published with divers useful additions (for publick benefit) by Chr. Pack, operator in chymistry