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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London :: Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe for Edward White, dwelling at the little north doore of Paules, at the signe of the Gunne,
1588.
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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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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 June 2, 2024.

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144 Pilles of Mesues, which the Pothecaries call fedidae maiores.

TAke of serapium, ammoniacum, oppoponax, soft bdelli∣um, coloquintida, aū. fiue ʒ. of spurge, scammony thrée ʒ. of cinamon, spicknard, safron, the stones of the otter aū. one ʒ. of turbith foure ʒ. of ginger one ʒ. s. of euphorbe one ʒ. ij. ℈. dissolue your gumme in iuice of leekes, & thereof make your pilles.

These pilles purge grosse humours, and be very good a∣gainst the ache in the iointes, and the gout in the féete, a∣gainst

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paines of the backe, knéees, stomach, cholicke, and the the white leprie.

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