The countrey-man's apothecary: or, a rule by which countrey-men may safely walke in taking physicke. Not unusefull for cities. A treatise, shewing what herbe, plant, root, seed, or minerall, may be used in physick in the room of that which is wanting. Published for the good of the kingdome.

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The countrey-man's apothecary: or, a rule by which countrey-men may safely walke in taking physicke. Not unusefull for cities. A treatise, shewing what herbe, plant, root, seed, or minerall, may be used in physick in the room of that which is wanting. Published for the good of the kingdome.
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Rondelet, Guillaume, 1507-1566.
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London :: Printed for Th. Andrews, in Smithfield, neer St Bartholomews gate,
1649.
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Succedanea of Liquors and Gummes.

ForTake
Turpentine of the Firr tree.Of the Pine.
Aspalth the dry pitch of India,The Oyle of Peter and contra.
Cedar Rosin,The oyle of the bowes of Juniper, or the gumme of Juniper.
Cypresse Rosin,Larch tree Rosin.
Gum Lake,Myrrh.
Manna of the Frankincense tree,The barke to which some of the Frankin∣cense sticketh.
Mastick,Turpintine of Fir tree hardned or dryed.
Mumme,Pisaphalthum or Bitu∣minous, hard Pitch.
Myrrh,Bdellium or the juice of Alisanders and Parsley.
For the Gumme of the Olive tree, Of gumme Elemni.
Opobalsanum, the juice of the Bal∣same tree,Stacte or liquid Balme prepared by nature or art. The liquor of the Turpine tree.

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Not the juice of Carpasus; not Oyle of Lawrell, not the liquor of Myrthi nor the seed of Setwall, as some have prescribed.

ForTake
Carpobalsamum, the berries or fruit of the Bal∣same tree.The seed of the Ma∣stick tree or Turpine tree, of which there are divers sorts. Cubebs in a smaller dose or two parts of the seed of the Turpine tree and of Cubebs.
Opopanax the Gum of Frankin∣cense.The Gum of Amomum, or Galbanum, or Bdelliū in outward remedies.
Stone pitch,Pine Rosin boyld.
Soft pitch,Stone pitch dissolved in oyle, or softned in Oyle of Juniper.
Pissaphaltum, Bi∣tuminous pitch,Pitch and Brimstone.
Storax,Benjamin.
Turpentine,Mastick.
Xylobalsamum, the wood of the Bal∣same tree,Shoots or sprouts of the Mastick tree.

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