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The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt
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Metheglen for taste and colour
Ein Buch von guter spise
Le Menagier de Paris
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Beverages for the sick - Bouillon
Beverages for the sick - Bochet
Beverages for the sick - Another Bouchet Kept Four Years
The vertuose boke of the distyllacyon of all maner of waters of the herbes
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Aqua Vita Composita
Choice and experimented receipts in physick and chirurgery by Digby, Kenelm, Sir
The boke of keruynge
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For to makeypocras.
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Quince Wine
Rosemary
(
Rosmarinus officinalis
)
Used in
Gruit
Common Names
Rosemary
Temperature & Vertues
Hot and dry in the second degree
also of an astringent or binding quality
Medicinal
breath freshener (rosemary water - also good infused with cloves, mace, cinnamon, and a little annise seed)
improves memory
comforts the brain
comforts the inward senses
restores speech (from dumb palsy)
flowers in sugar comfort the heart & make it merry, quicken the spirits & make them more lively
moth repellant