140 Pilles of sweete pouder, which the Pothe∣caries call alefangene. D. M.
TAke of cinamon, cubebes, ligni aloes, calamus aroma∣ticus,
Prepositas his practise a vvorke very necessary to be vsed for the better preseruation of the health of man. Wherein are not onely most excellent and approued medicines, receiptes, and ointmentes of great vertue, but also most pretious waters, against many infirmities of the body. The way how to make euery the said seuerall medicines, receiptes, and ointmentes. With a table for the ready finding out of euery the diseases, and the remedies for the same. Translated out of Latin into English by L.M.
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- Prepositas his practise a vvorke very necessary to be vsed for the better preseruation of the health of man. Wherein are not onely most excellent and approued medicines, receiptes, and ointmentes of great vertue, but also most pretious waters, against many infirmities of the body. The way how to make euery the said seuerall medicines, receiptes, and ointmentes. With a table for the ready finding out of euery the diseases, and the remedies for the same. Translated out of Latin into English by L.M.
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- 1588.
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"Prepositas his practise a vvorke very necessary to be vsed for the better preseruation of the health of man. Wherein are not onely most excellent and approued medicines, receiptes, and ointmentes of great vertue, but also most pretious waters, against many infirmities of the body. The way how to make euery the said seuerall medicines, receiptes, and ointmentes. With a table for the ready finding out of euery the diseases, and the remedies for the same. Translated out of Latin into English by L.M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09920.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 30, 2024.
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mace, nutmigs, cardamomum, cloues, asarabacca, ma∣sticke, squinantum, of spicknard, the fruit of balme, aū. one ℥. of dry wormewood, of roses, aū. v. ʒ. beat and strain theē, but not small, then put vnto them twelue lib. of water, then séeth them til two parts of the water be consumed, then rub them with your hands, and straine them, and presse foorth the water, this done, take aloes cycatrine, one lib. wash it in some little panne or such like vessell of stone couered round about with glasse, ye must of wash it, and with raine wa∣ter, then dry it and cast vpon it two lib. of that which you did presse forth, so dry it in the sunne, then mingle with your aloes, of myrrhe, mastick, aū. v. ʒ. of safron thrée ʒ. beat them well, and cast vpon them the residue of that which was strained, and rub them with your hands vntill they be bro∣ken, many of ye Pothecaries wash aloes with the infusion of rhewbarbe.
These pilles aswage the griefe of the stomach which co∣meth of flegme, and purgeth the stomach verie well, the brayne, the instruments of the senses from grosse and cor∣rupt humours.