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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Title: 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.
Author: Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651.
Publication: London :: printed for H. Mortlock at the Phœnix in St. Paul's Churchyard,; 1687.
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Subject terms: Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.; Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
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A Bag to smell unto for Melancholy, or to cause one to sleep.

Take dry Rose leaves, keep them close in a glass which will keep them sweet, then take powder of Mints, powder of Cloves in a gross powder, and put the same to the Rose leaves, then put all these together in a bag, and take that to bed with you, and it will cause you to sleep, and it is good to smell unto at other times.