The secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemount Containyng excellent remedies against diuers diseases, woundes, and other accidents, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, diynges, colours, fusions and meltynges. ... Translated out of Frenche into Englishe, by Wyllyam Warde.

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Title: The secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemount Containyng excellent remedies against diuers diseases, woundes, and other accidents, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, diynges, colours, fusions and meltynges. ... Translated out of Frenche into Englishe, by Wyllyam Warde.
Author: Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By Iohn Kingstone for Nicolas Inglande, dwellinge in Poules churchyarde,; Anno. 1558. mens. Nouemb.
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.; Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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❀The syxte earth.

TAke Cuttle bones, and burne them in the fyre, vntyll they be very white, and vse thē in all thinges as you didde the mutton bo∣nes, and than keepe it as afore. Fynallye, there is also earth made of the ashes of Vy∣nes, of strawe, of burned paper, of horse dunge, dryed and burned, of bricke stamped, of Boale, or of redde earthe, or other lyke thinges that remayne in the fyre without meltinge, wherein men printe verye well all maner of metall, the whiche also neither breake, cleaue in sonder, nor chappe, as is aforesayed.