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 1, 2024.

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An excellent Balme of Earth wormes for the speedy curing of all manner of Wounds, especially those of the Ioynts, Sinews, and Tendons, and about the head it cureth prickes according to the first intention, and is good for Palsies, Cramps, Lame∣nesse, or Numnesse, and such like.

4 R. Oyle of Turpentine lib. v. long Earthwormes prepared lib. ii. ss. Myrrhe ℥ ii. ss. Mastick, Sarcocoll, Olibanum ℥ iii. Galbanum, Gumme Ammoniack ana ℥ i. Bdellium ℥ ii. Gumme Elemi ℥ iii. Cloves ℥ iii. common Oyle lib. ii. Oyle of Wormes lib. i. of the pu∣rest Turpentine lib. i. put Oyle together, except the Oyle of Wormes and common Oyle, into the Oyle of Turpentine, the Gummes being first finely minced, and the rest powdered, and so let them stand thirty dayes; then poure out by it selfe the clearest part, but the thic∣ker part with all the grounds put into your boiling ves∣sell, together with a pinte of Malmesey, or Sacke, and the Oyle of Wormes, and common Oyle; boyle these together the space of three houres, continually stirring it that it grow not to the bottome; then when the thick

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parts swim above, take it off the fire, and put into it the Oyle of Turpentine that before was cleared from it, lastly straine it purely.

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