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 17, 2024.

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To make a green Salve.

Take Rosemary, Time, Lavender, Dill, Bawme, Brooklime, Yar∣row, Lovage, Smallage, Vervain, Camomile, Orpine, Plantane, Night∣yard, Herb Robert, Lingua Serpentina, otherwise called Adders∣tongue, Polipody, otherwise called Fern that groweth on an old oak, Wood-binds, otherwise called Hony-suckles, Daisies, Comfrey, of each a handful. All these Herbs must be taken and beaten smal, and put in a quart of Verjuice, or more if need be; straine these together, and take the juice thereof; then take two pound of new wax, a pound of Colofony, a pint of Oyle Olive, a pound of pitch, a pound of May butter, and seeth all these together till they be molten; and it must be well stirred upon the fire for run∣ning over, till it be thick and molten all. Then take a gallon of running water, and put the water in a clean vessel; and after take a yard of linnen cloth called minster of the strongest for a strainer, and two persons to hold the strainer over the water, and another with a ladle to take the Salve, with the other things together sodden, and strain all into the Water, then let it be cld, then take i up, and make thereof round balls as ye think best, then take the oyl or May Butter, and chafe your hands withall, and work the balls of wax in rolls.

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