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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The Purge that must be taken with it.

TAke for a Man forty graines of the best Jollop grated, and of Sedoary five graines: For a woman, thirty Graines of Jollopp and five of Sedoary. This to be taken fasting in a mor∣ning, in a quarter of a pint of White wine or Posset drink, made with Ale, or Beer, but Ale is the better, and this to be taken one week, the Patient must keep with in doares that day they take the purge, and not drink any thing after it un∣till the Physick hath done working, which may be about twelve of the clock if it be taken early in the morning.

Take a pound of double Pionie flowers pich them clean, put them up in strong white wine Vinegar in a gally pot, stop it close, and set it by, then take a pound of Cowslip flowers, pick them clean, and put them in Vinegar, and tye them close, then take young Swallows at the lest eight or ten score out of their nests, and stamp them very small, either in a stone Morter or milch boule stamp with them foure ounces of Nutmegs foure ounces of Cynamon, two ounces of Mace, half an ounce of

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Cloves, two ounces of Pionie seeds, six handfull of Roses, a quarter of an ounce of Castoreum, then take a brass pot, and lay three or four e handfulls of Rose-mary in the bottom, and put in all the ingredients into the pot, and put a handfull of Roses, on the top then put in as mueh perfect good Vinegar as will co∣ver it, let it stand twenty four hours close stopped then set on your Limbeck upon the pot, and distill it with a soft fire, stamp the flowers that were in steep amongst the Swallowes feathers gutts, and all, and if it be to sharp you must sweeten it with Su∣gar. Castoreum not to womenwith child, three spoonfulls nine mornings together, gargle it in the mouth as long as you can, and then let it down fast two or three houres after it.

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