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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Title: 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.
Publication: Imprinted at Collen :: By [the heirs of] Arnold Birckman,; in the yeare of our Lord M.D.LXI. [1561]
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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¶A sure medicine for toothake.

* 1.1TAke a garlyke head / pil it / beat it in a morter / that it waxe soft / moisty / and that it be not hole: and loke on what cheke or syde the toth ake is / on that arme binde the garlike / vpon the wrest of the arme / wher boxes are set most communly / so that it do not touche the mousse of the hande / and lay it as nere together as ye can: couer it wyth a spoune or brode Walnutshell a hole nyghte / and then will it caste a bluster: pearse thesame through / or els will it burst by it selfe. But if ye will haue it runne sore / take a leafe of Dan∣wurt or Walwurt / and turne the rough syde inwardely. And if thou wilt haue it to heale / then take the Walwurt leafe / and turne the smoth syde in∣wardely / and it healeth.

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A sure medicin for toth¦ake.

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