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The vertuose boke of distyllacyon of the waters of all maner of herbes ?with the fygures of the styllatoryes /fyrst made and compyled by the thyrte yeres study and labour of the moste conynge and famous master of phisyke Master Jherom Bruynswyke ; and now newly translate out of Duyche into Englysshe, not only to the synguler helpe and profyte of the surgyens, phisycyens and apothecaryes, but also of all maner of people parfytely and in dewe tyme and ordre to lerne to dystyll all maner of herbes to the profit, cure, & remedy of all maner dysieases and infirmytees apparant and nat apparant, and ye shall understande that the waters be better than the herbes as Avicenna testefyeth in his fourth canon saynge that all maner medicynes used with theyr substance febleth and maketh aged and weke. (1527)

Brunschwig, Hieronymus, · [Imprynted at London ... : By me Laurens Andrewe ..., · leaf 224

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Distillation · Early works to 1800 · Materia medica, Vegetable · Medicine, Medieval · Pharmacy

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