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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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ouer: then put into it of Viridis aeris finelie brought to powder, halfe an ounce, or sixe drammes, and setting this agayne to the fyre, sturre continually about, vntyll the remoouing from the fire, it shall be through cold: which after the strayning, put into a glasse, and keepe se stopped to your vse.Another elng members, shruncke, borrowed out of the prac∣tyses of Theophrastus paracellus: take of distylled Turpentine one pounde▪ of the gumme Galbanum, and of Dyttanie, halfe a pounde, to these artlie myxed togyther▪ adde of the oyle of Bayes one ounce, which after made a Baulme: with it annoynt mem∣bers shruncke, for many moneths, and it shortly recouereth them. The oyle Benedicke also myxed, with the fatte of a Gray or Bad∣ger, and the members annoynted with it, doth marueylouslye worke in this case.Another of the same mannes, auayling in woundes: Take of oyle Olyue one pynt▪ of Saint Iohns woort of Bytonie, of Cen∣torie, and of the hearbe selfe heale, of eache one handfull, these hearbes after the stamping and the iuyre wrynged out, or onelye stamped, and myxed with the oyle, let them distyll in a glasse all the Summer, after wryng forth the whole through a cloath, which keepe: for a nobler can not be found for woundes, in that the same cureth them, by the onely annoynting morning and euening, with∣out the applying of any other medycine: this also expelleth the hu∣mours▪ and farre otherwyse is, then can well be vttered: and what matters seeme impossible to be done, by the helpe of this are speedi∣lie perfourmed: as in euery incarnating, and closing togyther and healing, so well in fractures, as in bruses, and such lyke.Of the oyles gotten out of Flowers. The xij. Chapter.THe oyle of Spyke is thus prepared, if so be the Spyke be infu∣sed in wyne, and distylled, an oyle fyrst followe, where a wa∣ter otherwyse by distyllacion (I gesse in Sande) shoulde be sepe∣rated. This oyle annoynted on the region of the kydneys, hel∣peth the Gonorrhaea. A certayne friend (of the Aucthours) hauing his wyfe nowe and then sicke, procured to be ministred to hir in a draft of wyne, but two drops of the distylled oyle of Spyke, which 0