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 17, 2024.

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To make the greene Salve.

20 R. In May, or Iune, these Hearbes following, (viZ.) Plantaine, Ribwort, Yarrow, Vrben, Betony, Egrimony, Burnet, Mugwort ana, m. i. gather them clean without dust, for you must not wash them, then shred them small, and stampe them till they be like a Salve, then boyle them halfe an houre in a pottle of good white Wine, then straine your Liquor, and wring your Hearbes as hard as you can, then after it hath boyled a walme, or two, take it off the fire, and put to it, Rosin, Turpentine ana. lib. i. Waxe lib. ss. ℥ iiii. Masticke ℥ ss.

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finely powdered, melt these, and straine them into the aforesaid Liquor; then boyle them all together untill it be neare enough, and put into it a Porrenger full of the juyce of Parseley, and stirre your Panne with a Sticke, so fast as you can; then boyle it a little, and take it off the fire, continually stirring it untill it be cold; then worke it into Rolls, and keepe it from the dust.

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