A verye excellent and profitable booke conteining sixe hundred foure score and odde experienced medicines apperteyning unto phisick and surgerie, long tyme practysed of the expert and Reuerend Mayster Alexis, which he termeth the fourth and finall booke of his secretes ... Translated out of Italian into Englishe by Richard Androse.

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Title: A verye excellent and profitable booke conteining sixe hundred foure score and odde experienced medicines apperteyning unto phisick and surgerie, long tyme practysed of the expert and Reuerend Mayster Alexis, which he termeth the fourth and finall booke of his secretes ... Translated out of Italian into Englishe by Richard Androse.
Author: Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By Henry Denham,; 1569.
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.; Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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To mitigate euery kinde of griefe.

TAke of oyle of yellow Violets, of oyle of swéete Almonds, of oyle of Sisamine, & fresh butter, of ech one ounce and a half, of poudred Saffron one ounce, of white Waxe one ounce and a halfe, of Dill séedes, of Camomill flowers, and of the fat of a Duck, of eche two ounces, thrée whites of raw Egges: dissolue the oyle and the waxe with the fat, and after mixe with them the other ingredience being poudred verie subtilly, and so make an oyntment.