A Soveraign Medicine for man or woman in a Consumption.
First take a red Cock and kill him, and flea him, and cut him in four quarters, but wash them not, then take six cap
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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"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 8, 2024.
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Dates and cut them in four quarters, and take half a score of large Mace, and six whole Cloves, then put in three or four pieces of old Gold, and stamp the bones of the Cock, then take a pewter pottle pot, and lay in one quarter, and lay upon it some of every Spice, and a piece of old Gold, and so upon every quatter until the last be put in, and you may (if you will) put to the said Ingredients, Amber, Coral and Pearle, but no kind of Licoras neither first nor last, and when it is perfectly boiled, put thereto a dozen or sixteene Raisons of the Sun, the stones taken out; Then take so much Rye dough as will stop the pots m••u••h close, and thick enough of the paste, so that no water may enter into it; then take a good great brasse pot, and set it on the fi••e, that the pewter pot, and the Ingredients that is in it may stand covered with water at least two handfuls, and put some heavy weight upon the pewter pot that it be not over∣thrown in the boiling, and let it seeth continually from five of the clock in the morning, untill eight of the Clock at night; then take it off and open the Pewter pot, and let the Pa∣tient
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take of that Syrrup a spoonful at a time.
And when you make it for a woman, you must use these Herbs, Hartstongue, Motherwort, Mugwort, Mother Time and Comfrey, but no Herbs must be used for a man. And if the woman be hot in the liver, take Liverwort; and if troubled with the Stone, take a little Pellitory of the Wall.