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 most Soveraigne Water, that Dr. STEVENS the Physician kept secret unto his death.

Take a Gallon of good Gascon wine, then take Ginger, Ga∣lingale, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Grains, Cloves, Annis seeds, Fennel seeds, Caraway seeds, of every of them alike much, that is to say, a drachm; then take Sage, Mints, Red roses, Thime, Pellitory, Rosemary, wild Thyme, Camomile and Lavender, of every of them an handful; then bray the spices smal, and shred the herbs small, and put all in the wine, and let it stand so twelve hours and stir it divers times, then still it by Limbeck, and keep the first water by itself, for that is best; and then keep the second Water which is good, but not so good as the first.

The vertue of this water is this. It comforteth the spirits vital, and helpeth the inward diseases that come of cold, and against the shaking of the palsie, and cureth the contraction of the sin∣newes, and helpeth the conception of Women that be barren; it killeth the wormes within the body, cureth the old Cough, it

helpeth the Tooth ache; it comforteth the stomack very much, and cureth the old Dropsie, it helpeth the stone in the bladder, and in the reins of the back; it helpeth shortly the stinking breath. And whosoever useth this water now and then, and not too often, it pre∣serveth him in good liking, and shall make him to seem young very long: With this Water D. Stephens preserved his own life until ex∣treme age that he could neither ride nor go; and continued yet Bed-rid five years, when three Physicians judged it impossible for him to live one year. He did confesse a little before his own death, that if he were sick at any time, he never used other Medicine but on∣ly this water. And also the Arch Bishop of Canterbury used it, and found great ease and goodness in it; and lived till he was not able to drink off a cup, but sucked his drink through a hollow thing of silver. And Mr. Brown Serjeant at Law learned of the Arch Bishop, to keep himself and his friends with this water. It will be much better if it stand in the Sun all the Summer.