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 Vulpinum, or Ointment of a Foxe.

7 Take a Foxe, and draw out the Entrailes, then take Sage, Rosemary, Iuniper leaves, and berries, Dill, wilde Marjoram of the Garden, Lavender, Camomile, of each halfe a pound, stampe these herbes in a Mortar of stone very finely, then cut the Foxe in pieces, and put him with the herbes into a vessell of eight gallons, and put to foure pintes of Oyle Olive, Oyle of Neats feete one pound, Calves suet, Deere suet, Goose grease, Brockes grease, of each one pound and a halfe, of Sea-water three quarts, and as much of good Malmesey, set all together

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on the fire, and boile it till the Wine and Water bee consumed, and that the flesh and bones bee separated asunder; then take it from the fire and straine it, and presse it through a strong Canvasse cloth, and so reserve it to your use as a most precious oyntment against all Aches, and to restore Limms and Ioynts lamed through paine of the Gout.

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