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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Title: 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.
Publication: 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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Subject terms: Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "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 11, 2024.

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161 A confection of fruit, called Pomatum.

TAke of the grease of a young kid, one lib. temper it with the water of muske roses the space of foure daies, then take fiue apples and dresse them and cut them in péeces and larde them with cloues, then boyle them all togither in the same water of roses in a glasse or in a vessell within ano∣ther, let it boyle on the fire so long vntill all be white, then wash them with the same water of muske roses, this done, kéepe it in a glasse, and if ye will haue it to smell better, ye must put vnto it a litle ciuet or muske, or them both.

These, gentlewomen doo vse to make their faces smooth and faire with: it dooth heale clifts in the lippes, or in anie other place.