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 stay a colde Catarre.

TAke of Storax Calamite, of Cipres nuts, of Mastick, of Incense, of Labdanum, of Amber, of eche one dramme, of scraped Liquerice, of Reysons, of ech one dram and a halfe,

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make likewise Pilles therof like vnto Lupines, and cause the sicke to kéepe therof in his mouth as well by day as by night: or else make these more stronger, take of Spiknarde one dram, of Mastricke two drammes and a halfe, of Bole Armenick washed with Rose water two drammes, of Gum Dragant, of Gum Arabick, of eche one dramme, of Sugar Candie one ounce, with the sirop of Lillies make Pilles in forme of Lu∣pines, and vse them in manner as you doe the other aforesaide.

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