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.
Publication
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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¶A good true medecine for the stone / whiche is good and approued for commune people.

TAke the berries of Iuy / beate them to pouder / and drinke therof in the morninge and eueninge / at eche tyme a quarter of an vnce with an vn¦ce and an halfe of wine. This hath driuen from women stones as bigge / some as a dowes egge / some as Walnuttes / some as chastnuttes / some as fylberts or smaler / and that with payn and trauayl.

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