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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Title: 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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A Receipt for the stopping of the Ʋrine.

TAke three pints of Hawses, and pick the stalks and the tops, take half a pint of red Dog-berries, or sweet Btyer berries, take half a pint of Sloes, and half a pint of Cherry-stones, take a dozen of Medle••s, bruise all these together, and being bruised put them into eight pints of White wine, then stop up all these together in an earthen pot, and let them so stand a day and a night, and every eight hours, stir them and then stop them up again, and put it into an ordinary Still and still that, and this must be done about Michaelmas time, and when the party hath need let her take four spoonfuls at a time.

This Water wil last eight years, and it is best when it is old.