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 an excellent Pomander.

TAke Labdanum one ounce, Storax Calamint, Roses, Cloves, Maces of each a dram & an half, and make them in pouder Amber and Musk of either a dram and a halfe, and make them into pouder. Then take a sponfell of Oile de Bay, Virgin wax an ounce, dissolve them together and mix them well.

Cynamon, Cloves, Fossis, Storax, Calamint, of each a dram and an halfe, white Franckinsence, Myrre, yellow Saunders, Bole Armonyack, Calamus aromaticus of each two drams, Camphier two drams, Labdanum six ounces, Wax two ounces, and put them in a Morter with a little Malmesey, and as much Musk and Civet, as please you.

Take Gum Dragagante halfe a pound, infuse it in Rose water twenty foure hours, then take Storax Calamint nine ounces, Balsomum four drams, Cloves, Fussis, Cynamon of each one ounce, Nutmeggs four ounces, Labdanum three ounces, beat all these into fine pouder, then take the Labdanum, and put it into a Morter, and pu to it a little oile of Spick, Storax liquida an ounce, and among all this stuffe beat a pouder of black Sal∣low coale.

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