A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye or homely physik booke, for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye. Translated out the Almaine speche into English by Ihon Hollybush

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A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye or homely physik booke, for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye. Translated out the Almaine speche into English by Ihon Hollybush
Author
Brunschwig, Hieronymus, ca. 1450-ca. 1512.
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Imprinted at Collen :: By [the heirs of] Arnold Birckman,
in the yeare of our Lord M.D.LXI. [1561]
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"A most excellent and perfecte homish apothecarye or homely physik booke, for all the grefes and diseases of the bodye. Translated out the Almaine speche into English by Ihon Hollybush." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68179.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Another for the whyrlinge.

COmmen stiped in vinegre thre dayes longe / and after dried agayn / & at night when one will go to bed / kept hole in the mouth / & chawed as longe as a man can / at the last swalowed doune / etc. Some eat it made to pouder / but it is not so good.

If it were a sicknes feruent / by reason of an exceding colde or whyrling /

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then take the braynes of a hogge / rost the same vpon a grede yron / and cut slices therof / & strowe a pouder there vpon made of Cummin Peonye sede & Penny real in like quātite: this is very good / put therto so much misceldē or an oke / as any of ye other spices made to pouder also / & geue it to ye patiēt / let him vse this iij. or iiij. tymes after another / & he shall be healed. For it dri∣ueth out all superfluous humours of the braines / and drieth & shrpeneth it.

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