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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Directions how to make the hard Salve, which is a soverain Medicine to cure all man∣ner of Sores or Wounds.

TAke Rosin, Turpentine, Bees-wax, Mutton∣sue of each a quarter of a pound: Boyl

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them together in a Pipkin with 3. handfuls of Lyn-seed Oyl, and stir it continually, til it's quite melted, and if it should chance to run over, set the Pipkin in water, and when it's quite melted, take it off from the fire, and put into it of Frankincense the weight of a groat, then strain it through a cloth, and when it begins to be cold, put therein Lapis Calami∣naris very small beaten to pouder, and stir it till it be quite cold.

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