The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont by hym collected out of diuers excellent authours, and newly translated out of Frenche into Englishe, with a generall table, of all the matters conteined in the saied boke. By William Warde.

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The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont by hym collected out of diuers excellent authours, and newly translated out of Frenche into Englishe, with a generall table, of all the matters conteined in the saied boke. By William Warde.
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Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565.
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Imprinted at London :: By Ihon Kyngston: for Nicholas Englande,
Anno domini. M.D.lx. [1560]
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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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"The seconde part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont by hym collected out of diuers excellent authours, and newly translated out of Frenche into Englishe, with a generall table, of all the matters conteined in the saied boke. By William Warde." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16112.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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To make the handes white.

TAke an Oxe gall, and take halfe a sponefull of it in the ingning with wel water, and washe your handes with this little of the gall, and they will become moist, softe, and very white. Take also Sope, and purge it wel, than take of the roote of Iris, and dry it in an ouen and make pouder of it, the whiche you shall mixe with the Sope well purged and so washe your handes withal, and they wil be softe and white. Take also Sope well purged, and take the Ashes of a 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and mixe them well togither, vntill they be well

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incorporated the one with the other: and washe your handes with it in the morning, and thei wil be moist, softe & white as snowe, which thing is experimented.

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