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.
Author
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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15 R. A gallon of thy owne Vrine, and a pound of Virginwaxe, and of houseleeke lib. v. set those on the fire together, and let them scald untill the Houseleeke be tender; then bathe thy legs and feete therein thus; take a dishfull of this decoction, and by the fire wash thy feete with this Liquor very hot, and let the remnant of the Liquor stand on the fire to keepe hot; when that dishfull is cold, put it into the hot Liquor, and take ano∣ther dishfull, and bathe as you did before; doe this for halfe an houre alwaies with hot broth; then take the residence in the bottome of the Pot, and lay it upon a blew Cloth that is well Woaded, either Woollen, or Linnen, and lay it to the soare place, and wrap it well up, and let it lie a day and a night: doe thus untill it bee whole this will drive the paine downewards, and when it is in thy foote, lay the Plaister all over the Foote and Toes; if the disease be in the Hands, doe as you did to the Feete.

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