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 Metheglin.

13 Gather these hearbes following in the middest of Iuly, and lay them to dry in the Winde; then keepe them cleane, and from moulding, untill Michaelmas, that you make your Metheglin; Saxifrage, Egrimony, Sentory, Time, browne Mints, Rosemary, Betony, ana, but of Saxifrage, and Egrimony, a greater quantity: boile all these in Water untill it looke like Malmesey; then take it from the fire, and let it coole; then take

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your poulst or combes wrought as it is, and put into the Wort being blood warme, temper them well together, and let them run through a cleansing sieve, and skumme the Waxe off very cleane; then put in a new laid Hens Egge into the Wort, and if it beare not the Egge, put in more Combes, untill it beare it: then seethe it again three or foure walmes, and skumme it cleane; then take it off the fire, and when it is cold, put it into a Barrell, and when it hath worked, stop it up close.

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