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 special Medicine to pre∣serve the Sight.

Take of brown Fennel, Honey suckles of the hedge, of wild Dal•• sie-roots picked, and washed, an•• dried, of Peal-wort, of Eye-brigh•• of red Roses, the white clippe•• away, of each of these a handfu•• dry gathered, then steep all thes•• herbs in a quart or 3 pints of th•• best White-wine in an earthen••pot, and so let it lie in steep 2 or •• days close covered, stirring it •• times a day, and so still it with •• gentle fire, making two distil••lings, and so keep it for your use••