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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To make Aqua coelestis, the Celestiall Water.

58 Aqua coelestis is of two kindes; if you mingle with it as much of the Water called Mother of Balme, and distill it againe, you have the Treasure of all Me∣dicines.

First, of the Vertues of these two Waters; the first Water is of such Vertue, that if you put it into a fresh Wound, it healeth it in foure, and twenty houres, so it

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be not Mortall; and it healeth maligne Vlcers, Cankers, Noli me tangere, and olde Wounds within the space of fifteene dayes, if you wash it with the said Water eve∣ry third day; and if you put a drop of it upon a Car∣buncle, it mortifieth the malignity thereof shortly; al∣so if you put of the same Water into the Eye that hath lost his sight, if not utterly, it shall be recovered within eight daies at the uttermost; and if a Man drink a drop of it with a little good Wine, it breaketh the Stone in the space of two houres in the Reines, or Bladder; it mollifieth hardened Sinewes, if you wash them there∣with: This Water must be used from November to April, and but halfe a spoonfull at once, once a weeke.

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