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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Barly water / communly called Ptisana / is praysed and commended of all Physicions / and is a souerayne medicine agaynst all colerik and subtile heate / it openeth the oppilacion or stopping / it moueth sweat & vrine / it mol¦lifyeth ye belly boūd with hard fylth / it causeth slepe / & alayeth thyrst / it doth also partly norish / it is conuenient for al partes of the breste & the poulmon.
Ptisana is taken somtyme warme / to cause sweat / somtime cold to alay thyrst / somtyme wt suker / somtyme without suker / somtyme much / somtime litle. The ministratiō therof at one time is is a cruys full / that is iiij. vnces / howbeit it must be ministred to an emptye stomake / or at the lest not ouer∣charged. It is somtyme taken by daye of the thirsty diseased / and is conue∣nient in feruent agues and many other diseases.
Take fulgrowen barly that is heuy / & not wythered / take also clere run¦ning water / yt hath his course toward the East / whose grounde is stony or sandy. Of this water take x. partes / & of the barly one parte:* 1.1 put them toge∣ther into a clene pot / make a slowe fyre vnder it of wood twelf houres long tyll the water is colored of the barly yalow rede / like to bier: after that take it of and let it coole / and vse it.
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* 1.1
Making•• of Barly vvater.