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 Bastard that pricketh.

First draw it out into a fresh Pipt, and fresh Lees, then take three gallons of the best Stone Honey, clarifie it, and beat it with a quart of the same Bastard, then take a peck of Frumety well boiled, as for pottage, then mingle the Honey, and beat it together, then put it into the bag, and let the bag be long, that it may reach almost to the bottom, then put in∣to another little bag, one pennyworth of Anniseeds, of Coriander seeds and Licoras, of each two penniworth, bruise them well, and put them into the little bag, then line him to the side of the other Bag, and sink them, and put into the Pipe a branch of Rosemary, then stop it close, and at two dayes end draw it up to the middle, and there let it hang two dayes, then leisurely take it out, and stop it close, and in one day af∣ter broach it.

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