The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.

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The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.
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Bahia (Brazil : State). Secretaria das Minas e Energia. Diretoria de Distribuição.
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London :: Printed by Tho. Maxey for Nath. Ekins ...,
1656.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35865.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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A Medicine for any Cut, Wound or Sore.

Take of Rosen and Perrosen of each half a pound, of Olibanum four ounces, of Harts Suet four ounces, of Mastick two ounces, of Mirrh one ounce, of Comfry half an ounce, of White Wax four oun∣ces, let your Rosen, Perrosen, Olibanum, Mastick and Mirrhe be made into fine powder and searsed each by themselves, then take your Suet, and Wax, and dis∣solve them upon a soft fire, when they be melted, put in all your searsed pow∣ders, alwayes stirring them till they be all melted, then have ready a pottle of White-Wine hot in a faire pan, and straine all your stuff through a Canva cloth into it, then put in two ounces o good Turpentine, and then your Com∣fry beaten to fine powder, alwayes stir∣ring it till it be cold, and then make in up in rolls, and keep it for your use. This Oyntment is very good for new Wound and for the Bloody Flux, and the Wind Cholick, being spread upon a cloth, and laid to the Navel. It is called, Flos Ʋn∣guentorum, The flower of Oyntments,

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of which see more at large in Oynt∣ments.

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