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 26, 2024.
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To heale a windie impostume.
TAke of gréene Rew, of Commin, of Annys séedes,
of Caraway séeds, of Ameos, and of Smallage of ech
halfe an ounce, of olde oyle twise as much, put them
all into a vessell, and boyle them in water, and wyth
the oyle that remayneth, annoynt the impostume, and binde
vpon it a little warme Towe, and euery day before you laye
on the playster, or annoynt it, make fomentation vnto the
place in this maner. Take of common ashes, of the leaues of
Bayes, of Camomyll, of Commin, of Rew, of Annys séedes,
of Fennell, of Carawayes, and boyle them in water, and put
therein of rawe yarne, and with that fomentate the place of the
impostume.
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