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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For all manner of Aches called Bullys Oyle.

TAke in the month of May red Sage, and Rew, of each one pound Rosemarry tops, Wormwood, Balm, and the youn∣gest Bay-leaves, of each one pound and a half, pick them clean, but wash them not, cut them very small, and beat it along time in a Morter; then take three pounds of Sheeps Suet hot out of the belly, mince it small, and beat it with those

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Herbs till all be of one colour, then put all into a fair boll with a pottle of the best oyle Olive, and work altogether till it become a like soft, then put it into an earthen pot close stopped, and let it stand so eight daies in some cool place or Sellar, then take it forth, and set it over a soft fire in a fair leaden pan, and let it seeth, and when it is half sodde, put into it four ounces of oyle of Spike, and so let it seeth again, and when it is sodden enough strain it through a new Canvas into fair gally pots, and stop them close with parchment and leather, with this oyntment ub the place grieved, and froth it till it be dryed in, as much s half a pease hereof chafed into the eare, and stopt with black wooll, helpeth the pains in the eares, annoint the Reins of the back with this, and chafe it in well, it easeth the pain of the stone. Take great heed in the boyling of it that it burn not too, and to know when it is enough, often drop two or three drops in a Sawcer, and when it is as green as may be it is enough, keep it also stopped and cool, and it will last many years: Prbatum.

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