Approoved medicines and cordiall receiptes with the natures, qualities, and operations of sundry samples. Very commodious and expedient for all that are studious of such knowledge.

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Title
Approoved medicines and cordiall receiptes with the natures, qualities, and operations of sundry samples. Very commodious and expedient for all that are studious of such knowledge.
Author
Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.
Publication
Imprinted at London :: In Fleete-streete by Thomas Marshe,
1580.
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Subject terms
Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Therapeutics -- Early works to 1800.
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http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08175.0001.001
Cite this Item
"Approoved medicines and cordiall receiptes with the natures, qualities, and operations of sundry samples. Very commodious and expedient for all that are studious of such knowledge." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08175.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

Pages

PRVNA, Prunes, or Damsons.

DAmaske Prunes be the best: pru∣nes of Spayne bee nexte: greene Prunes be more soluble than dri∣ed Prunes: the Prune of Spaine is more soluble than the Damaske prune: the leaues & Buds of the Prune tree haue

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sensible tartnes, & binding in taste. Where¦fore the decoction of them are good to gar∣garise for inflamations of the Junla, and inwarde partes of the mouth: the wylde Prune byndeth and stayeth the belly: the gumme of ye Prune tree drunke wyth wyne breaketh the stone.

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