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 2, 2024.

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42 A confection of blacke Poppie, Dia Codion.

TAke ten heads of blacke poppie, not too great nor too small, nor too moist nor too dry, cast on them, two lib.s. of raine water, and if they haue more moisture then drines, let them lie in the water a day and a night, but if they bee drier, then let them lie longer, then after this, séethe them vntill halfe the water be consumed, and so straine it.

This is ministred in all fluxes, and chiefly in the bloodie fluxe, with the decoction of raine water, in the which spodie hath béen sodden in, or with rose water, it dooth also stop the flux of meate vndigested, which the Phisitions call liente∣ria.