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 1, 2024.

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Page 21

To make the Pills of Rosetta for Quitting the Stomach of soil, and for helping Concoction.

TAke one pound of pure Aloes powdered and searced, and put it into an Earthen vessel glazed, whereunto put so much Juice of Damask-Roses, or Rose-water as to make it of the consistance of Honey: Then set it up∣on a gentle fire of small coles, in a glazed Pipkin: So let it vapour away til it be too thick to stir with a Spatter: Then put more Juice of Damask-Rose, or Rose-water to it, and do as is already said; still reiterating the same till seven pounds of the Juice or Rose-water it self be spent, and the Masse at last conduced keep for use. The Dose is from 1. scruple, to 2. or 3. scruples.

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