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.
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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 16, 2024.

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Vnguentum Apostolorum.

5 R. Turpentine, white Waxe, Rosine, ana ʒ xvi. Opponaxe, Verdigreace, ana ʒ ii. Ammoniacum ʒ xvi. long Aristolochia, great Incense ana ʒ vi. Myrrhe and Galbanum ana ʒ iii. Bdellium ʒ vi. Litharge ʒ ix. Oyle lib. ii. make an ointment, mingle the Litharge with two ounces of Oyle, and let them stand five houres, then

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boile it gently untill it be thick as Honey, alwaies stir∣ring it, then take it from the fire and put to the Waxe and Rosin, being dissolved with the rest of the Oyle; then whiles it is cooling, put to the rest of the Gummes dis∣solved in Vinegar boiled and incorporated with the Turpentine, then the Aristolochia, Myrrhe, and Frank∣incense are to be mingled, and lastly, the Verdigrease finely powdered, and sprinkled in. This Vnguent doth by detersion purge Wounds and rebellious Vlcers, and Fistulaes, wasteth dead Flesh, and encreaseth new.

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