Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum, or, A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases : obtained by labour, confirmed by practice, and published out of good will to mankind : being a work of great use for the publick / written originally in Latine by ... Hadrianus à Mynsicht ...; and faithfully rendred into English by John Partridge ...

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Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum, or, A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases : obtained by labour, confirmed by practice, and published out of good will to mankind : being a work of great use for the publick / written originally in Latine by ... Hadrianus à Mynsicht ...; and faithfully rendred into English by John Partridge ...
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Mynsicht, Adrian von, 1603-1638.
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London :: Printed by J.M. for Awnsham Churchill ...,
1682.
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Dispensatories.
Pharmacopoeias.
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"Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum, or, A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases : obtained by labour, confirmed by practice, and published out of good will to mankind : being a work of great use for the publick / written originally in Latine by ... Hadrianus à Mynsicht ...; and faithfully rendred into English by John Partridge ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A51671.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Suffimentum Imperiale, or an Imperial Perfume.

Take Styrax cleansed, Benjamin, of each half a ounce, wood of Aloes two drams, true Civet a dram, Gallia Moschata a scruple, Oyl of Cloves and Roses, f each ten grains. Mix them, and make all into little Balls or Cakes, which keep for use.

Virtue and Use. These sweet Balls being laid upon

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hot coals, send forth a most grateful Odor, which doth not only correct a poisonous, stinking and pu∣trid Air, but sweetly and pleasantly refresh the in∣ternal Spirits of man; the Fume also conveyed by a Tunnel (or other such Instrument) into the Orifice of the Womb, doth wonderfully help Women that are almost suffocated, and stays all the inordinate motions of the Matrix. But when it is thus used, take care to cover the Head close, lest the Patient should receive the odor by the Nostrils also.

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