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.
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 May 19, 2024.

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39 A medicine of gumme Tragantum, called Dia∣tragacantha Calida.

TAke of the gumme tragantum, and hisope, aū. foure ℥. pineapples, both the kindes of almonds blanched, linséed, aū. sixe ʒ. the séed of fenikrike, cinamond, aū. ℥. s. licoras, and of the iuice of it, ginger, aū. two ʒ. make a pouder of these.

This is ministred in the hardnes and straitnes of the brest, which commeth of grosse and cold causes.