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.
Medicine -- 15th-18 centuries -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Popular -- 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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To cleanse Corruption out of a Wound, and to make good flesh grow in the place.
TAke the water of Carduus benedictus warm, and wash the Wound morning and night, and wet Lynt in the same, and lay to the place half an hour at evening and morning before you lay on your Salve, if the wound have any holes in it, then dip the Tent in the same water, and roul the Tent in the pou∣der made of the leaf of the same herb being dryed, but you must boult the powder through Lawn, at night put in the Tent ro••∣led in the foresaid powder, and in the morning dip the Tent in Salve, this water and powder will keep the Wound from a Fistula, and from dead flesh. Probatum.
If it be an even Soar without holes you shall not need but to wash it with the said water, and take a peece of sheet▪ Lead, beat it as thin as you can possibly prick the lead with a Bod∣kin full of holes, put a Tape in every corner, turn the edge of
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the lead outward from the Soar, scrape the smooth side of the lead till it look bright, lay it to the Soar, and bind it therto with the Tapes, take it off even and morne and wipe off, and scrape off the filth, but beware you come not neer the fire, neither keep it too warm.
Probatum upon one that had a soar legg 20. years, which this healed when other Salve could not.
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