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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LASK.

For a Lask.

Take a good quantity of Wheat flow∣er, and put it in a bag, seeth it very well, then take the same, and put it out of the bag, and so much as is soft, scrape away with a knife, the rest will be very hard, scrape it, and make pap with milk, and give it to the Patient twice or thrice a day, and it will help. Proba∣tum.

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To stay a Lask or Bloody Flux.

Take a sew old Beanes, and parch them over the fire in a pan, and then beat them into a powder, then make an Aleberry of Sack or Ale, and put some of the powder therein, and seeth them well together, then let the Patient drink thereof warm, and with twice drinking, it will help.

Another.

Take milk somewhat hot, and put it in a dish, then take Red Wine, and put it in another dish, and let the Patient suck it out of both dishes with two quils or reeds both together, and in so doing it turneth into a curd, and stoppeth the Flux.

To stay a Scouring.

Take a handful of Rice, wash it in red Rose water, and dry it well, and beat 〈…〉〈…〉 powder, and make pap of it, and bod it with Cinnamon, and eat it.

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Another.

Take Virgin Wax, and make it into Pills, and give it in the pap of an Apple, three at one time.

For a Lask or Flux.

Take the neather Jaw of a great Pike, and beat it into fine powder, and drink it in Beer or Ale or in your pottage, and it will help.

To procure Looseness.

Seeth Mallowes and red Nettles in fair water, and let the Patient sit over the hot fume thereof.

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