Physical rarities containing the most choice receipts of physick, and chyrurgerie, for the cure of all diseases incident to mans body. Being a rich jewell, kept in the cabinet of a famous doctor in this nation; stored with admirable secrets, and approved medicines. Published by Ralph Williams, practitioner in physick and chyrurgerie.
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Physical rarities containing the most choice receipts of physick, and chyrurgerie, for the cure of all diseases incident to mans body. Being a rich jewell, kept in the cabinet of a famous doctor in this nation; stored with admirable secrets, and approved medicines. Published by Ralph Williams, practitioner in physick and chyrurgerie.
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Williams, Ralph.
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London :: Printed for J.M. and are to be sold by George Calvert, at the half Moon in Watling-street neer S. Austins Gate,
1651.
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Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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"Physical rarities containing the most choice receipts of physick, and chyrurgerie, for the cure of all diseases incident to mans body. Being a rich jewell, kept in the cabinet of a famous doctor in this nation; stored with admirable secrets, and approved medicines. Published by Ralph Williams, practitioner in physick and chyrurgerie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96604.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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An approved medicine for the Gout.
TAke a quantity of unwrought Wax, and four times so much Boars Grease, and as much black Sope as the Boars Grease, then take the Boars Grease first, and seeth it in a skillet, and then clarifie it, and melt the Wax by it self, and put it to the grease, and then put them together with the sope, then take it firom the fire and stir it a great while till it be like a salve, then make a plai∣ster of sheeps Leather, and when your pain doth come lay on this plaister somewhat broader then the grief is, and let it lie on twenty four hours be∣fore it be removed, and you shall find great ease
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in it. This salve wil be good a whole year, if it be kept close.
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