Most excellent and approved medicines & remedies for most diseases and maladies incident to man's body, lately compiled and extracted out of the originals of the most famous and best experienced physicians both in England and other countries, by A. R. Doctor in Physick decesased. And since revised by an able practitioner in the same science, and now published for the universall good and benefi [sic] of this Common-wealth.:

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Most excellent and approved medicines & remedies for most diseases and maladies incident to man's body, lately compiled and extracted out of the originals of the most famous and best experienced physicians both in England and other countries, by A. R. Doctor in Physick decesased. And since revised by an able practitioner in the same science, and now published for the universall good and benefi [sic] of this Common-wealth.:
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Read, Alexander, 1586?-1641.
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London :: Printed by J.C. for George Latham Junior, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bishops head in St. Pauls Church-yeard,
1652 [i.e. 1651]
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"Most excellent and approved medicines & remedies for most diseases and maladies incident to man's body, lately compiled and extracted out of the originals of the most famous and best experienced physicians both in England and other countries, by A. R. Doctor in Physick decesased. And since revised by an able practitioner in the same science, and now published for the universall good and benefi [sic] of this Common-wealth.:." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A92202.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.

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A most soveraign Balsam for 22 severall Dis∣eases, with the Vertues.

TAke five Pints of Sallet-Oyl, one pound of Venus-Turpentine, half a pound of Virgins-Wax, six ounces of Red Sanders, half a Pinte of Damask-Rose water. First put your Oyl with six spoonfuls of the Rose-water, into a clean skellet, or new Pipkin, and let it boyl

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a quarter of an hour, wash the Turpentine with the rest of the Rose water, pare the Wax clean, and cut it into thin slices; and put it into an other clean Skellet, or new Pipkin, with the Turpentine; Let them be well melted and mixed together: then pour the water from the Oyl (if you can see any) & put it into the Wax & Turpentine, & let them boyl upon a gentle fire, a dosen Walms: Then take it off, and put in the Saunders by two ounces at a time, mingling and stirring it well: Then let it boyl a dosen walms more, stir it to avoid burning, then strain it into a Bason, and fill it into Gally Pots.

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