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 Paste of Genua the true way.

8 Take Quinces, and boile them in their skins, then scrape all the pulpe from the coare, straine it through a piece of Cushion Canvasse, then take as much Sugar as the pulpe doth weigh, put to it twice so much water as will melt it, that is, halfe a pinte to every pound of Su∣gar: boile it to a candy height, dry the pulpe upon a Chafingdish, and Coales; then put the Sugar and the pulpe hot together, boile it with stirring untill it will lie upon a Plate even as you lay it, and run no broader; then fashion it, some like leaves, and some like letters, so set your Plate in a warme Stove, or Oven, set it upon two billets of Wood up from the hearth of the Oven all one night, in the morning turne it, and so set it in the like heate againe, and so every day turne, untill it bee dry.

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