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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A Plaister for any Siatica, Gout, or Ache in the body, Limbs or Joints.

Take of new yellow Wax, of Deers suet, of Pitch and Olibanum, of each one pound, of Frankinsence two pounds, Mastick four oun∣ces, beat all these gums very fine, every one by it self, and searce them through a fine hair Searce, so as you may get through all the sub∣stance, keeping every gum severally; then take your Deer suet, Wax and Pitch, and set it over the fire in a brass pan, and then your Frankinsence til it be molten, and last of all your Mastick; you must observe that every Gum be severally molten before you put in another, and stir every Gum wel in the putting in, and when it be∣ginneth to arise, and all the Gums well molten together, take it off the fire, if not, it wil all run over; then take a strong canvas cloth, and sowe it like a Jelly bag▪ and strain it through (your canvas must be somewhat fine) into a broad pan, that it may not stand past two fingers thick, and when it is cold you may make it up in Roles, and fold it up in paper, and keep it for seven yeers if you wil▪ Spread this Salve on a piece of leather, and lay it to the place grieved.

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