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Medical remedies and recipes, Seventeenth century

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Dd.03.10
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'Sundrie rare remedies, and receipts, with histories also, translated out of Zacutus Lusitanus his 3 books de praxi medica admiranda, lent me by Mr Sam Peck my worthy friend, & phisition at Chelmsford'. With 'A perfect alphabeticall index of all the rare receipts, cures, and histories, conteyned in this written booke, translated by D. B. ...' [i.e. Drue Burton?], and with accounts of various cures from the works of Amatus Lusitanus.

Dates: Seventeenth century
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