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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Rhenish Wine.

There is Rhenish Wine of Barba Mu∣ske, and that is the best, and is fingle barred in the fat, with a broad bar; they be full gage, and the Bars for the most part are marked at the edges, with five figures of , and a stroak through them neer the bottom.

If Rhenish Wine fail and grow faint, take a pound of Brimstone, melt it in a pint of Damask Kosewater, then dipin∣nen cloaths in it, and burn it in an emp∣ty vessel, then Rack your tainted Wine into the vessel so prepared, then take one ounce of Coriander seeds, Callmus, Benjamin, Storax, Damask powder, of

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each three pennyworth, beat them all, and put them in a bag, and hang them four dayes in the Fat, and beat the Wine, and roll and stop it close, and at four days end, it will be perfect.

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