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 9, 2024.

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TAke a Cawl of Mutton as it comes hot out of the Sheep, cast it into water, and wash it in divers waters, take away all the bloody veins, and so let it lye four daies, shifting it twice a day, then lay it in new milk warm from the Cow three or four daies, shifting it as before, then wring out the milk ve∣ry dry, and lay it in Damask Rosewater for four hours, then beat it out of this water in a cloath again, and pull it in little peeces; take half a peck of Marsh-mallow roots, pill off the brown skin, and take the white from the pith, and take a white Lilly root, and wash it very clean, and pill of the skin, shred this root with the others, and mingle them with your Su∣et, put them into a stone Pitcher, tyed up very close, set it in a pot of water, which you must keep boiling for foure houres, then strain it out, the next day melt it again, and keep it for your use.

Then put a chin▪stay of soft fine Leather on your chin, as also a frontlet of the same Leather on your forehead, lying so all night, keeping your face warm, in the morning take off the Frontlet, and wipe the Suet of gently with a fine cloath, alwaies being carefull not to touch your face as before, and all the day after be sure to keep your face as hot as you can, by continually wearing your Mask, or as often as you may, and at no time suffer your face long in the cold or open aire.

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