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.
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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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An Approved purgation for a quartane Ague by W. Hampton.

FIrst, Take a pint of Clarified Whay', halfe an ounce of Cene leaves, three or foure leaves of Harts Tongue, halfe an

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ounce of Bugloss slours if you can have them, else take a quarter of an ounce of roots of Maiden haire, a stick of Licorish bruised, the middle bark of an Elder Tree, and of an Ash tree a quar∣ter of an ounce, a dozen Raisons of the Sun stoned, a piece of whole Cynamon the length of your finger, boile all these in an Earthen pott that hath never been used, and set the said ear∣then pott in a panne of Brass, and there let it boyle the space of two houres, cover the pot with a peece of wood, and past it over with paste, and then bind it over with a linnen cloth in such sort that the breath come not out of the said pot, and when it hath boiled as aforesaid; Then strain it when it is almost cold then take some warme broth three houres after it, and all that you eat or drink that day must be warme, keep your Chamber all that day, and come not into the Aire in nine or ten dayes after the taking of the said purgation; It is good to purge burnt Choller, Melancholly, and flegme.

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