A Book of fruits & flovvers : Shewing the nature and use of them, either for meat or medicine. As also: to preserve, conserve, candy, and in wedges, or dry them. To make powders, civet bagges, all sort of sugar-works, turn'd works in sugar, hollow or frutages; and to pickell them. And for meat. To make pyes, biscat, maid dishes, marchpanes, leeches, and snow, craknels, caudels, cakes, broths, fritter-stuffe, puddings, tarts, syrupes, and sallets. For medicines. To make all sorts of poultisses, and serecloaths for any member swell'd or inflamed, ointments, waters for all wounds, and cancers, salves for aches, to take the ague out of any place burning or scalding; for the stopping of suddain bleeding, curing the piles, ulcers, ruptures, coughs, consumptions, and killing of warts, to dissolve the stone, killing the ring-worme, emroids, and dropsie, paine in the ears and teeth, deafnesse.

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1653
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Book of fruits & flowers

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London : Printed by M.S. for Tho: Jenner at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, London, 1653.

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2 unnumbered pages, 49 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations

References note

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B3708.
Thomason E.690[13].

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Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aprill 2d".
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 106:E690[13]) s1999 miun s

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