A choice manual, or Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery: collected, & practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the vertue of Gascon powder, and lapis contra yarvam by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying &c.

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A choice manual, or Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery: collected, & practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the vertue of Gascon powder, and lapis contra yarvam by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying &c.
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Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651.
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London :: printed for H. Mortlock at the Phœnix in St. Paul's Churchyard,
1687.
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Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
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"A choice manual, or Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery: collected, & practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the vertue of Gascon powder, and lapis contra yarvam by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying &c." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47269.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.

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How to stew Trouts.

Draw your Trouts, and wash them, and then put them into a dish with White-wine, and water, and a piece of fresh Butter, then take a handful of Parsley, a little Thyme,

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and a little Savory; mince these small, and put to your Trouts with a little sugar, let them stew half an hour, then mingle the yolks of 2 or 3 hard Eggs, and strew them on your Trouts with Pepper and salt, then let them stew a quarter of an hour and serve them.

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