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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"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 make a diphoretick of Antimony and Sol that work∣eth in dose, foure, five, six, or seven graines.

TAke Antimony and Mercury sublimate equall parts, and draw them in a Retort as you know, and rectifie the oile that you get five times as you know, then make the Aqua sortis, and make it Aqua Regis in a large Glass, into which put in your re∣ctified oile, and then let them stand in a gentle Balneo untill it be dissolved perfectly, then dissolve sixty grains of pure Sol in

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another part of your Aqua Regis, and being dissolvd perfectly, pour you dissolved Sol upon your dissolved Oyle of Antimony, drop after drop soft and fair, for fear you spill all, and all being put therin, lute theron a head and Receiver very close, and put it into ashes for two daies, with so easie a fire as you can keep, then remove it into sand and draw off your Menster by degrees, untill at the last the bottom of the glass be as red as you can make it, then cease the fire and let it cool, and then cut away that part of it in the bottom which is not sublimed, and gather it clean, and put it into a Crusible, and give it fire until the cru∣sible and matter therin be as red as any coal, then take it out of the fire, and keep it safe, for it is ready for your use.

To a dram six grains of Diagredium,

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