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 16, 2024.

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IMPOSTHUMES.

For an Imposthume.

Take powder of Cene Alexandria one ounce, Ginger, Cinnamon, Mace, Co∣liander seeds, Anniseeds and Licoras, of each the weight of eight pence, of Su∣gar two ounces, of Spurge seeds blan∣ched twelve, beat them all smal to powder, and put them into a quart of Claret, and let it be brewed out of one

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pot into another, oftentimes in a day by the space of three dayes before you use it, then let it run through a Jelly bag, then take half a pint of the said Drink, and when you shall have need to use it, warm it at the fire, and drink it after your first sleep, and so ly still till it work, and offer to come; and then go to a close stool til it be clean come away, and then make a Plaister of red Mints, red Fennel, Wormwood and Sage, of each a handful, and a good handful of Cum∣min seed, and beat them small together, put thereto a good sawcer full of Wine Vineger, and set them all on the fire in a pan, and so stir them till they are almost dry, and then put them into a bag, and lay the same to your stomack, so that your stomack be not full of meat.

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