An antidotarie chyrurgicall containing great varietie and choice of all sorts of medicines that commonly fal into the chyrurgions vse: partlie taken out of authors, olde and new, printed or written: partlie obtained by free gifte of sundrie worthie men of this profession within this land. By Iohn Banester master of chirurgerie.

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An antidotarie chyrurgicall containing great varietie and choice of all sorts of medicines that commonly fal into the chyrurgions vse: partlie taken out of authors, olde and new, printed or written: partlie obtained by free gifte of sundrie worthie men of this profession within this land. By Iohn Banester master of chirurgerie.
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Banister, John, 1540-1610.
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Imprinted at London :: By Thomas Orwin for Thomas Man,
1589.
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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"An antidotarie chyrurgicall containing great varietie and choice of all sorts of medicines that commonly fal into the chyrurgions vse: partlie taken out of authors, olde and new, printed or written: partlie obtained by free gifte of sundrie worthie men of this profession within this land. By Iohn Banester master of chirurgerie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03456.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.

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A Liniment against numnesse, palsies and re∣solutions of sinewes, with lamenes of mem∣bers that grow thereby.

Rec. Radicis angelicae minoris lib.x.* 1.1 cut

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it very small, and decoct it in vino generoso & forti to a viscous thicknes, then straine it out, and put to it saponis optimi lib.ij. resoluti in vino sublimato, in this manner: Your sope must bee made into very thinne and small péeces or shauings, then put sixe pints of your spirit of wine into an earthen pot well nealed, let it heate till it beginne to boyle, but not boyle outright: after put in your shauings of sope, and stirre all about vntil the sope be melted and vanished. This done, mixe them with the liquor strained from the roote aforesayd, and seeth them to the wasting of the halfe. Last of all, boyle it with olei communis recentis lib.ij. to an oyntment.

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