A choice manual, or Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery: collected, & practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the vertue of Gascon powder, and lapis contra yarvam by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying &c.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651.
Uniform title:	Choice manuall
Edition:	The nineteenth edition.
Imprint:	London : printed for H. Mortlock at the Phœnix in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1687.
Description:	1 online resource ([18], 190, [2], 191-233, [27], 140 p. :) port. (metalcut)
Language:	English
Subject:	Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800. Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800. Cookery -- Early works to 1800. Cooking. Medicine. Medicine, Popular. Early works. Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11843524

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Varying Form of Title:	Rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery
Other uniform titles:	True gentlewomans delight.
Other authors / contributors:	W. J.
Notes:	An edition of: A choice manuall. "The epistle to the reader" is signed: W.J. "A true gentlewomans delight" has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous. Includes indexes. Text is continuous despite pagination. Leaves P5-P6 are torn at head, affecting pagination and text. Reproduction of the original in the Glasgow University Library. Wing (2nd ed.) K317

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