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The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B.

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The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B.
Author
Brugis, Thomas, fl. 1640?
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London :: Printed by T.H. and M.H., and are to be sold by Thomas Whittaker,
1648.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29919.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.

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CHAP. XXII. Weights and measures used in physick are these that follow with their marks and notes.

A Pound medicinall is 12. ounces lib.
An ounce is 8 drammes ℥.
3 Scruples or 60 graines make a dramme ʒ.
20 Graines make a Scruple ℈.
2 Oboli make a Scruple obol.
A Graine gr.
A Handfull m.
As much as one can take up betweene his finger and thumbe p.
As much as one can drinke at a reasonable draught cyath.
A quart q.
Halfe or semis ss.
Of each one a like much ana.

      Measures.
Rootes by these notes. ℥ ʒ. p. m. A Cochlear in sirupes contains halfe an ounce in distilled wa∣ters ʒ iij. Ciathus is ℥••ss.
Barks ℥ ʒ.
Seeds ℥. ʒ. Hemina which is also called Cotyla ℥ x.
Fruites an. p ℥ ʒ ℈. Libra ℥ xij.
Flowers p. m. ℥ ʒ. Sextarius ℥ xviij.
Pulces p. ℥ ʒ. Congius is vi. S••xtaries.

Numero n.
Recipe R.
Sufficient quantity q. s.
Aequail portion p. ae.

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