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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An excellent Balme to cure any bruise, though Bones be broken therein, and it is very good to cure wounds.

Take of Scala Coeli one pound, Rose∣mary flowers four ounces, Pomgranat rinds two ounces, Sallet Oyle two pound, White Wine halfe a pint, bruise the Scala Coeli and the Pomgranate rinds, and in the Oyle and the Wine with the Rosemary flowers, infuse them ten dayes in the Sun; after that, boil them till the Wine be consumed, then strain it, and unto the Oyl being strain∣ed, put these things following, Mastick, Olibanum, of each four ounces, Aloes one ounce. Cassia four ounces, Venice Turpentine twelve ounces, Verdi∣grease one ounce; boil these in the Oyle until the Gummes be dissolved, then straine it, and keep it to use, and remember that in the end of

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the boiling the Verdigrease be put in, and let the Turpentine be put in last, not letting it boil after, but only with the heat dissolve it self.

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