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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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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Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565.
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Imprinted at London :: By Henry Denham,
1569.
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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16167.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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To heale sores that are moyst and hard to close.

TAke of the tops of Figtrées, burne them & make ashes ther∣of, or infuse them in water certayne howres. And being strained, put vnto it freshe ashes, renuing it in such sort diuers times. And with the said water washe the sayd sore oftentimes a daye, and put of this pouder following vpon it. Take of the

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ashes of Oyster shelles two drammes, of Aloes Sicotrine brayed one dramme, and put therevnto of the ashes of Sea Vr∣chins, and medle it togither with Swines grease, and you shall sée a good successe: or else put into the wounde the flowers or séedes of Dill burned, and they will doe the like. Also it hel∣peth to take the herbe Virga pastoris, and bray it, and then to put therof into the wound.

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