Another excellent Remedy for a Consumption, or for any decay in the inward parts.
TAke 2 pound of Dates, pick out the stones and skins, and the white that is in them, and beat them in a stone Mortar, as small as can be, then take a quart
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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"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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of fine clarified Honey; also long Pepper, Mace, Grains, Cloves, Nutmegs, of each a quarter of an ounce: Beat them fine to pow∣der, then put your Honey and Dates together well mixed on the fire, and let them boil to∣gether, alwayes stirring it for fear it burn too, and in your seething stir in your pow∣der by little and little till all be in; (you must not boil it so thick as you would boil Marmalade, for then you spoil it) then take half an ounce of fine Ginger beaten to pow∣der, and strow it on, and alwayes stir it till it be cold, put it in a Box, as you do Mar∣malade, and use to eat the quantity of a Chesnut first and last: it causeth sleep, and refresheth health.