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 16, 2024.

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For the Kings-Evill.

TAke of pure Yellow Wax 1 ounce or bet∣ter, also 1 ounce of Turpentine, and a good quantity of Sheeps-suet clarified, (viz. both pure and sweet,) Boil all these toge∣ther, and when they are well boil'd, put therein 2 good handfulls of the purest and finest Barley-flower, that possiby may be got∣ten, then temper the same Flower and the other things together, and put therein 3

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spoonfuls of the Ʋrin of a Man-Child, (he being not above 3 years of age) then boil it again with the residue of the things, before mentioned, and put it into some Earthen-pot or Gally-pot, & so stop it and keep it close, untill you have occasion to use it, and as oft as occasion serveth for the use thereof take some of the said Salve or Ointment, and spread it upon a fine Linen-cloth, or upon a peece of Leather, and lay it plaisterwise upon the Sore, and it will cure it.

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