Another to make the face red.
Take of the Root of Salomons-seal ten ounces, the roots of Sows-bread five ounces, of Grass-plantane or Cuckow-pintle, one ounce; clean Lard one ounce and a half, five
Cosmeticks or, the beautifying part of physick. By which all deformities of nature in men and women are corrected, age renewed, youth prolonged, and the least impediment, from a hair to a tooth, fairly amended. With the most absolute physical rarities for all ages. Being familiar remedies, for which every one may be his own apothecary. / All extracted out of that eminent physician John Jeams Wecker, never yet extant in the English tongue before, but was promised to the world by Mr. Nic. Culpeper.
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- Cosmeticks or, the beautifying part of physick. By which all deformities of nature in men and women are corrected, age renewed, youth prolonged, and the least impediment, from a hair to a tooth, fairly amended. With the most absolute physical rarities for all ages. Being familiar remedies, for which every one may be his own apothecary. / All extracted out of that eminent physician John Jeams Wecker, never yet extant in the English tongue before, but was promised to the world by Mr. Nic. Culpeper.
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- Wecker, Johann Jacob, 1528-1586.
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- London :: Printed by Tho. Johnson, at the White Cock in Rood-lane,
- 1660.
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- Cosmetics -- Early works to 1800.
- Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.
- Beauty, Personal -- Early works to 1800.
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"Cosmeticks or, the beautifying part of physick. By which all deformities of nature in men and women are corrected, age renewed, youth prolonged, and the least impediment, from a hair to a tooth, fairly amended. With the most absolute physical rarities for all ages. Being familiar remedies, for which every one may be his own apothecary. / All extracted out of that eminent physician John Jeams Wecker, never yet extant in the English tongue before, but was promised to the world by Mr. Nic. Culpeper." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96154.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.
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Lemmons sliced, the Crum of white Bread steeped in milk, as much as is sufficient; Sub¦limate, Endive, Alume, each two ounces Roche-alume one ounce and a half, Venus shell dissolved in the Juice of Lemmons, one ounce; mix and distil them.