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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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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Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.
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Imprinted at London :: In Fleete-streete by Thomas Marshe,
1580.
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Materia medica, Vegetable -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Therapeutics -- Early works to 1800.
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For the Plague.

TAke an Onion, & make a hole in him, & take out the inner core: then take water of Dragon, Triatle, & Pepper, and bruse them a ltle, and put them into the Oni∣on, and roste the Onion in the Imbers, & afterwardes bruse the Onion, and stranne him with Malmsy, & ••••ue it vnto ye Pa∣cient to drinke: and if it be taken before the heart be infected, it is a present remedy. Per doctor em Uardenorte.

For the Canker in the Mouthe bothe White and Red, the Red will breake out, and the White will not: and for scare Legges, and soare Lippes, or any other Soares.

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TAke ij. handfulles of the leaues of wood∣bynde, and one handfull of Sage, shred them fine, & brate thē very small in a mor∣ter: then take ij. spoonefulles of Hunny, & a peece of Roche alume of the quantity of halfe an egge: then take a quarte of fayre runninning water, and sethe all these to∣gether, vntill it be thicke: then take it, and straine it in a fayre cloth, and put the liquor into a fayre earthen pot, & couer it close: thē anoynte the Gūmes threwyth, within on the soare syde, or ells your whole mouthe: and if it he a white Canker, then anoynt the vter side: and then wet a clothe in the Li∣quor, & lay it thereunto on the out syde of ye soare: and vse this iij. tymes in a day, and when you are dressed, then lay your face to a warme chafingdishe of coales, & the wa∣ter will tunne out of your mouth in great quantity. And if the Canker be in the nose, or in any place where it cannot be touched, then spout in this lyquor with a Quill, and this this will beale you within short space. And this liquor wilbe kept well xxi. dayes in his vertue, and no more. The good wyfe Baldwin of Wimbledon besides Fulham.

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