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 10, 2024.

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218 Litle balles of terra sigillata.

TAke of dragons bloud, of gumme arabick made in pou∣der, ciuet, rose leaues, séede of roses, ammyly made in pouder, spody, acatia, of hipoquistes, the stone which doth staunch bloud, the flowers of wilde pomgranads, bolear∣monicke, terra sigillata, hempséede, corall, perls, ambre, aū. two ʒ. tragantum, blacke poppie, aū. one ʒ. s. the séede of purseline made in pouder, franckinsence, the horne of the redde deare made in pouder, oke apples, saffron, aū. two ʒ. and make your balles with the iuice of plain∣taine.

These be excellent balles to staunch spitting of bloud, and chiefely if they be taken with the water of plantane: if the forehead be therewith annointed, it stoppeth bléeding at the nose, if the matrice be annointed therewith it stoppeth the flowers, and also for any fluxe.