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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For a sore Legge, or old vlcer.

Take Littarge of gold two pound, of Galbanum one ounce, Verdigrease foure ounces, Bdelium one ounce, Mastick one ounce and half, Opoponax and Aristo∣logia of each one ounce, old Oyl Olive one pound and half. You must drie the gummes that they may be powdred, and frie them with your Oyle, then straine it and put thereto your Littarge, Verdi∣grease

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and Aristologia, one after ano∣ther alwayes stirring it, lest the Lit∣targe sink to the bottome, and so let it simber over the fire easily, then put to it three peniworth of turpentine, and of wax three ounces, and so make it up for your use in a Plaister.

It hath cured the Lord Wharton and divers others with two or three dressings when no Chirurgian could find a Cure for them.

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