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              <text>[The vertuose boke of the distyllacyon of all maner of waters of the herbes in this present volume expressed : with the fygures of the stillatoryes to that noble worke belongyng fyrst made and compyled by the thirtye yeres studye and labour of the moste famous and expert master of phisyke, Master Iherom bruynswyke, in hye Almayne, and now of late newly translated into Englysshe out of duche by me Laurence andrew to the synguler, profyte, helth and cure, of myn euyn crysten in theyr diseases, and in especyall for them of thys noble royalme of Englonde, my natyfe contrey ; ye shall vnderstande that the great Master Auycenna testifyeth in his fourth canon that the waters be farre better than the herbes in theyr operacyons].</text>
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[London] : [publisher not identified], [A.M. CCCCC. full seuen and twenty the yere of cryste was, by trewe computacyon whan this present boke, was ended fynally by me Laurence andrew, toke his translacyon whyche is of herbes, the perfyte dystyllacyon newly corrected, of that, that was a mys inprynted in flete strete, without adulacyon cum gracia, illustrissimi Regis], [1527]&#13;
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Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica, p. 106-107&#13;
ESTC (RLIN), S92986&#13;
STC (2nd ed.), 13437&#13;
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