A choice manual of rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery collected and practised by the Right Honorable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased ; as also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying, &c. ; published by W.I., Gent.

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A choice manual of rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery collected and practised by the Right Honorable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased ; as also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying, &c. ; published by W.I., Gent.
Author
Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651.
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London :: Printed by G.D., and are to be sold by William Shears ...,
1653.
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Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Cookery -- Early works to 1800.
Canning and preserving -- Early works to 1800.
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"A choice manual of rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery collected and practised by the Right Honorable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased ; as also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying, &c. ; published by W.I., Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a47264.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.

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A Plaister for a Rupture.

Take the juyce of Comfery, wild Daisie roots, and knotted Grasse, of each a like quantity, fresh Butter, and unwrought Wax, of each a like quantity, clarifie them seve∣rally, then take of the root of Comfery, dry it, and make pouder of it; take the

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pouder of Anniseseed, and Cummin∣seed, but twice as much Cumminseed as Anniseseed, boyle these pouders in the Butter and unwrought Wax upon a soft fire a good while together, then put in your juyce, and let it boyle one walm or two, then take it from the fire, and stir it altogether till it be cold, take hereof, and spread it, and lay it to his Codds as hot as he can suffer it, and use this till he be whole: this plaister is most excellent for a Child that is burst at the Navill.

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