Natura exenterata: or Nature unbowelled by the most exquisite anatomizers of her. Wherein are contained, her choicest secrets digested into receipts, fitted for the cure of all sorts of infirmities, whether internal or external, acute or chronical, that are incident to the body of man. / Collected and preserved by several persons of quality and great experience in the art of medicine, whose names are prefixed to the book. Containing in the whole, one thousand seven hundred and twenty. Very necessary for such as regard their owne health, or that of their friends. VVhereunto are annexed, many rare, hitherto un-imparted inventions, for gentlemen, ladies and others, in the recreations of their different imployments. With an exact alphabetical table referring to the several diseases, and their proper cures.

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Natura exenterata: or Nature unbowelled by the most exquisite anatomizers of her. Wherein are contained, her choicest secrets digested into receipts, fitted for the cure of all sorts of infirmities, whether internal or external, acute or chronical, that are incident to the body of man. / Collected and preserved by several persons of quality and great experience in the art of medicine, whose names are prefixed to the book. Containing in the whole, one thousand seven hundred and twenty. Very necessary for such as regard their owne health, or that of their friends. VVhereunto are annexed, many rare, hitherto un-imparted inventions, for gentlemen, ladies and others, in the recreations of their different imployments. With an exact alphabetical table referring to the several diseases, and their proper cures.
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London, :: Printed for, and are to be sold by H. Twiford at his shop in Vine Court Middle Temple, G. Bedell at the Middel Temple gate Fleetstreet, and N. Ekins at the Gun neer the west-end of S. Pauls Church,
1655.
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Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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"Natura exenterata: or Nature unbowelled by the most exquisite anatomizers of her. Wherein are contained, her choicest secrets digested into receipts, fitted for the cure of all sorts of infirmities, whether internal or external, acute or chronical, that are incident to the body of man. / Collected and preserved by several persons of quality and great experience in the art of medicine, whose names are prefixed to the book. Containing in the whole, one thousand seven hundred and twenty. Very necessary for such as regard their owne health, or that of their friends. VVhereunto are annexed, many rare, hitherto un-imparted inventions, for gentlemen, ladies and others, in the recreations of their different imployments. With an exact alphabetical table referring to the several diseases, and their proper cures." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89817.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

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Here followeth the Receipt of the Coun∣tess Oyntment.

TAke the middle Bark of the Chesnut tree, of the Oak tree and the Walnut tree, of either one ounce and a half, Mertle∣berries, the herb called Cat-tail, Nutgals, and the husks of the Beans, the seeds of Grapes, Service berries unripe, Med∣lers unripe and dryed, the leaves of the Plum-tree of the wood, the roots of Celedony, of either one ounce and a half: Beat these a little, and boyl them in eight pints of Plantane water untill half be eonsumed, strain them from the liquor (and wash the Oyles following nine times therwith) alwaies renew∣ing it with fresh water of the same decoction, untill it be all wasted up, take new Wax eight ounces: oyle of Mertles, oyle of Mastick of either one pound and a half, after these Oyles be washed, and the Wax molten with the Oyles, put in these things following, being beaten in fine powder.

Take the inner bark of the Walnut tree, of the Oak tree, and the Chesnut tree, Galles, of either one ounce, the ashes of a bone of a Cows legg, Mertill berries, the seeds of Grapes, Ser∣uice berries dryed, of either half an ounce, Troches of Amber two ounces, of all these things make an Oyntment according to art.

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In the mean time often times in the day and night must they drink of that Hyppocras to stay the Flux, and comfort the inner Members, wherof feebleness, faintness, and swouning do pr∣ceed.

Take Shepheards Burse, Knotgrass, Plantane, red Roses Oak leaves, Horsetail, of either one handful, the three kinds of San∣ders broken, of each three drams, Hyppocras and the juice of Sloes, of either two drams, red Corral two drams; infuse these in red Wine two pints, and of Rose and Plantane water of ei∣ther one pint and a half, Cynamon two ounces, Pomgranat flowers bruised two drams, and so let them run through an Hyp∣pocras bagg six or seven times that it may be clear, putting ther∣to of fine Sugar two pound and a half, and so drink therof often times.

Now you, or your Friends using these Medicines, they must now and then put in their privities one of those▪ Suppositories to leave it there until they are provoked to make Urine.

Then all that be devised are little enough in such a superflui∣ty coming, yea of the most liveliest blood.

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