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.

A water to cure any ould Ʋlcer.

TAke halfe a pound of Bolearmonack a quarter of a pound of white Copperace two ounces of Roach Allom, then take your Allom and Coperace, and beat them smal, and set them on the fire in an unnealed Pipkin which is a Pipkin unburnt if you can get one, and then stir them together till they be both moul∣ten, then when they are cold, put them up with the Bolearmo∣nack into a cleane Morter, and beat them into a sine pouder altogether, then make the water as followeth.

Take a pottle of running water and set it on the fire in a clean Skillet till it be scalding hot readie to seeth, then put your water into a new earthen Vessell or Pitcher, then put two spoonfulls of powder into the water, and stir the pouder well up and down the water in the setling while the water is hot, that so the strength of the pouder may goe into the water, and when the water hath stood some three daies a settling, then skim off the uppermost froth upon the top of the water, and poure out the water very clean and gently from the Dregs and bottom into another clean pot or Pitch∣er, and when you have occasion use it in this manner, take two or three spoonfulls, and take it as hot as the party can well endure it, and so wash and dab the sore well withall, then get as much fresh water into another sawcer as will well wet a cloth two or three times double to cover the sore withall, and so apply it, and let it lye to the next dressing, alwayes use the water as hot as the Patient can endure it.