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... virtues of them are , for curing of wounds , stanching of blood , stopping of fluxes and rheums , and arresting the spreading of poison , infection , and putrefaction : and they have of all other simples the perfectest and purest ...
... virtues of them are , for curing of wounds , stanching of blood , stopping of fluxes and rheums , and arresting the spreading of poison , infection , and putrefaction : and they have of all other simples the perfectest and purest ...
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... virtue thereof , and so dischargeth weariness ; as sleep likewise doth . 731. In going up a hill , the knees will be most weary ; in going down a hill , the thighs.2 The cause is , for that in the lift of the feet , when a man goeth up ...
... virtue thereof , and so dischargeth weariness ; as sleep likewise doth . 731. In going up a hill , the knees will be most weary ; in going down a hill , the thighs.2 The cause is , for that in the lift of the feet , when a man goeth up ...
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... virtue to draw forth and dry the moisture of the inward body ; for else the putrefaction will play within , though nothing issue forth . I remember Livy doth relate , that there were found at a time two coffins of lead in a tomb ...
... virtue to draw forth and dry the moisture of the inward body ; for else the putrefaction will play within , though nothing issue forth . I remember Livy doth relate , that there were found at a time two coffins of lead in a tomb ...
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... virtue , which inspissateth the dew ; for that it is not found upon other trees and we see by the silk- worm , which feedeth upon that leaf , what a dainty smooth juice it hath ; and the leaves also ( especially of the black mulberry ) ...
... virtue , which inspissateth the dew ; for that it is not found upon other trees and we see by the silk- worm , which feedeth upon that leaf , what a dainty smooth juice it hath ; and the leaves also ( especially of the black mulberry ) ...
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... virtue ; and so in the very instant helpeth somewhat : but iron is corrosive and not sanative . And therefore it were good , that the instruments which are used by chirurgeons about wounds were rather of brass than iron . Experiment ...
... virtue ; and so in the very instant helpeth somewhat : but iron is corrosive and not sanative . And therefore it were good , that the instruments which are used by chirurgeons about wounds were rather of brass than iron . Experiment ...
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