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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53 A common decoction called decoctio communis.

TAke of prunes, wilde dates, resons, of corance, violets, liquirice, barley, aū equall parts, boyle them in a suf∣ficient quantitie of water, so straine them and keepe them.

This is much vsed in hot agues and other hot diseases, and when the time is hot, and to temper medicines which be receiued in such hot agues and times, this decoction is chaunged according to the diuersitie of diseases, because some be hoter than other.