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 preserue one from poysoning,

YOu must take héede that you eate not things of strong fa∣uor, or of a verie swéete taste, bicause that the bitternesse & stinch of poysons in this maner is wont to be couered, for the ouer swéete, sower or salt thing mixed with poyson doth hide the bitternesse of it. At what time therfore you shall haue any sus∣pect to haue drunke poison, drinke presently after it of the séeds of Turneps, or of the rootes in Wine, or of Neppe, and you shall be safe.