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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For to make Match.

Take one pound of Brimstone, half a pound of Coriander seeds. Anniseeds two ounces, of Cloves and Nutmegs one peni∣worth, Orris one penniworth, one penni∣worth of Cammomile, grate them, and beat all these together. Also for parrel∣ling a Hogshead of White Wine, take two gallons of milk, and the whites of four eggs, and a handful of Bay salt, these being well parrelled, and put into the Hogshead, will do the work.

Also if you have a Butt of Sack that doth begin to be long, take two penny∣worth of Roach Allom, burne it, then beat it smal with the whites of six eggs and one handful of Bay salt, if it be∣gin to boile, give it the Parrel afore∣said.

Also if you have a Pipe of Malaga that

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pricketh, over-draw it ten gallons, and put in Chalk, in this manner you may help it away: Roll it well, and put there∣in two gallons of Stone-Honey clarified and beaten, with a quart of Conduit wa∣ter, and that shall fine the Wine again, and in two dayes close stopped it shal be perfect.

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