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Title:  The newe iewell of health wherein is contayned the most excellent secretes of phisicke and philosophie, deuided into fower bookes. In the which are the best approued remedies for the diseases as well inwarde as outwarde, of all the partes of mans bodie: treating very amplye of all dystillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences, with the extraction of artificiall saltes, the vse and preparation of antimonie, and potable gold. Gathered out of the best and most approued authors, by that excellent doctor Gesnerus. Also the pictures, and maner to make the vessels, furnaces, and other instrumentes therevnto belonging. Faithfully corrected and published in Englishe, by George Baker, chirurgian.
Author: Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.
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and bruised, of eche thrée handfuls: these dystill in a Lymbecke with a soft fire: of this water vse twyse or thryse in a wéeke, vn∣to the quantitie of halfe, or one ounce at a time.A water helping the frensynesse or madnesse, which is a pre∣cious secrete, and prooued in the cure of madnesse, and the Me∣lancholie frensinesse, borrowed out of an auncient written booke: Take of the flowers of Rosemarie, of Borage, and of the rootes of Buglosse, of eche a lyke, of Saffron one dram, of the Quince or Quinces fower ounces, of the best whyte wyne well digested, and cleare, twoo pyntes, these after the myxing, let so stande for a naturall daye, after burie the glasse bodie in horse dung for fif∣téene dayes, which drawne forth, dystill according to Arte, twoo or thrée times ouer: This water (sayeth the Authour) kéepe as the apple of your eye, for it is very precious: in that I haue (sayth the Author) experienced the same in all Melancholie sickenesses, very effectuously, and in the payne and trembling of the heart: the quantitie to be ministred at one time, is a dramme.Another whytening water, causing or procuring a whyte co∣lour: Take of the redde Honie twoo pounds, of gumme Arabeck twoo ounces, these diligently myxed togither, dystill according to Arte in a glasse body with a soft fire. The first water which com∣meth, serueth vnto the cléering and whytening of the face: the seconde and thirde lycour togither, procureth yelowe heare.An odoriferous water, not dystilled, out of Alexander Benedict. Allachalach, as the Arabians wryte, and it is a certayne com∣pounde, of the iuice of the leaues of the Myrtels, of Rosewater and Saunders, and a little of vinegar, and the water of Alkalef, or of the iuice of the fruites well smelling, and of such lyke lycour myxed, and put into a glasse with a narrowe mouth, and after the well labouring of these myxed, shall a pleasant smell ascende to the nose, comforting the heade and spirites.An odoriferous or fragrant water, yet in taste in a maner vn∣sauerie, but in sauour and smell excellent, and a droppe rubbed on the ende of the nose, séemeth to be as a procurer of sléepe in a maner: out of Georg. Sighart: Take Assa dulcis, and of Styrax calaminta, of eche one ounce, of Lignum aloes, halfe an ounce, of Cloues, of the cytrine Saunders, and of the ryndes of the Cy∣trone, 0