The secrets of Alexis [pseud.]: containing many excellent remedies against divers diseases, wounds, and other accidents. With the manner to make distillations, parfumes ... and meltings ... / [Girolamo Ruscelli].

  • Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565.
Date:
1615
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Credit: The secrets of Alexis [pseud.]: containing many excellent remedies against divers diseases, wounds, and other accidents. With the manner to make distillations, parfumes ... and meltings ... / [Girolamo Ruscelli]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE SECRET S O F TheReuerend Maifter Alexis of P IEMONT. ■ ** ' 5 J r ' . ' ■ : Hr ;; ‘ .. 't •.» . • The manner andfecret to confer ue a nuns youth, and to hold hack old age,and to maintatne a man decay es in health andflrength, as in thefair eftflower of his age. All this is taken out of the long ftudie , and diuers experiences that a Gentleman made by the fpace ofmanie yeares, in the feruice of a noble Ladie, being a thing moli ccrtaine,that an old man ofthrcefcore and ten yeares, all withered with age, of a verie euil complexion, and fubiedt to diuers kindcs of difeafes, was altered and changed, as into the age ©f lixe or eight and twentie yeares* 3!rft, men ought fo fjaue alfoapes in remem* • bjauce $ before their epea, that no grace, gift c; comositp to to be hopeo fo?,but of goD onlp. 3n to^ofe great clemencie ano goounclTe, ttje great prophet being aflfareD ano 8abli0jeD in confcience though bis perfect faith cries,fap* tUgsRcnouabitur ficutaquila, iuutntusraca. 3n0 bptbefanie ' merep $ gcoDncs,be pjolongcb fo manpmreo tbe life of Eze* chias:$ maoe Mofes itue 1io.peares f moje, fnotoneofbto teeth atanutime mouing-lnitbout anpbimneo of fights acb ofbeao. ©e then as a moU migbtp creator $ father of all,ha * utng affigncD bnto man tbe term of his life, <s left bun to tbe ; arbiter *