pains of the Joints and Sinews the Jaundice Dropsie and all other Melancholick Diseases The Pale Colour in Girls proceeding from obstructions with Agues of all sorts They open the stoppages of the Liver Spleen and other parts strengthen all the inward faculties and may be used with safety in all cases where purging is necessary having been found by long experience and much use to conduce greatly to the preserving of health and to the removing of many stubborn Diseases Take one Dram at a time in the morning fasting made into six Pills once in four daies about two or three hours after rise from your bed drink warm Posset or broath and keep in Take them three or four times following or oftener if need require A person of reasonable strength may take one Dram others half as much or two Scruples made into 3 or 4 Pills THe Strong Pills purge all humours from the deepest and remotest parts of the body as the Brain Nerves Muscles Joints Breast and Womb. They may be used for inveterate pains of the head Apoplexy Falling sickness Palsey Madness or any difficult distemper throughout the body Give them only to strong Constitutions half a Dram two Scruples or one Dram at a time in the morning fasting two or three hours after drink warm Posset or broath and keep in the use of them may be repeated three or four times or oftener if there shall be occasion THe Purging Powder is known by long experience to be a safe and good Medicine purging gently Choler Phlegm Melancholy and Waterish humours from the Head Stomach Lungs Liver Spleen and Bowels It cleanses those parts of evil humours opens all Obstructions strengthens the Senses procures Mirth purifies the blood causes a fresh and lively Habit of the body and is good in all sorts of Agues Persons of ripe years may take one Dram and half at a time in the morning fasting in White-wine Syder or Posset fast two hours after then drink now and then some warm Posset and keep within doors Take it once in two or three daies for three or four times Children may take from ten Grains to a Dram according to their age and strength 'T is a proper Medicine to be given after the Small Pox and Measles to prevent the inconveniencies which oftentimes happen by the neglect of purging Physick THe Rheume Pills have a marvellous operation in all manner of Thin and Subtle Defluxions and Distillations of Rheum whether it falls upon the Breast and Lungs with a Cough or into the Teeth or any where else they procure sleep and have been known absolutely to cure any new Cough though never so violent in four times taking In the incurable Cough they give much ease free the Breast from foul humours open Obstructions and strengthen the body exceedingly Take three of them at a time every other night going to sleep for four times or until the Cough be gone using the Drink made of Liquorice Figs and Anniseed half a Pint or more at a time warm mornings and evenings first and last Those nights you take the Pills the drink may be used an hour or two sooner THe Pectoral Roles are an excellent Medicine they very much open the Wind pipe and help its roughness wheesings hoarsness and difficulty of breathing Ripen the Cough bring forth Phlegm quench thirst are good against sour and offensive belchings the heat of the Mouth and Stomach as also the heat in the breast called by some Heart-burning all griefs of the Chest and Lungs Ptisick and Consumption Hold some of them in your mouth to dissolve at any time especially at night in bed Pectoral Drink TAke of Figs a quarter of a Pound opened Liquorice one Ounce bruised Anniseed half an Ounce boil them in three quarts of water to two quarts strain it and take it warm half a Pint or more at a time Mornings and Evenings first and last for Coughs of all sorts The use of this hath often proved very successful For Stuffing of the Breast and Lungs with Phlegm add to a pint of this Liquor two Ounces of Syrup of Scabious and take a good draught at a time Pectoral Drink TAke of Fair water Four Quarts dryed Hysop one handful Liquorice half an Ounce Raisons of the Sun stoned and Figs of each two Ounces boil all gently till a quart is consumed strain it and add of Honey a quarter of a pound boil it again a turn or two Scum it well bottle it and use it as the former for the same purposes with Syrup of Scabious or without it as there shall be cause THe true Elixir Proprietatis so highly esteemed for its great virtues and sold at so many places in London is here also to be had rightly and exactly Prepared whose Virtues follow It is moderately hot and dry preserves from putrefaction is admirably effectual against corrupted Air and affects of the Head Breast Stomach and Lungs It expels crude humours from the Stomach procures a good Appetite and Digestion strengthens a weak stomach very much and is profitable in Rheums Coughs Shortness of Breath and Consumptions it comforts the Heart strengthens the Memory revives the Senses drives away Dimness of sight dissolves the Stone of the Reins preserves from the Palsey and Gout removes Melancholy causes Cheerfulness cures all sorts of Agues and Feavers heals all inward Wounds and Ulcers expels all Crudities and other inconveniencies occasioned by excess in eating or drinking 't is said to be the Balsom of the Antients by most strong conservation it hinders Age from surprizing Youth too soon may with good success be used by Aged persons against whatever Malady they are subject unto It cures every Disease both hot and cold which is incident to the body of man neither is there any Vegetable Medicine that exceeds it The Dose is from six to twelve drops or more in Wine Ale or any other appropriated Liquuor MIthradate and Venice Treacle have been esteemed of all other Confections the most renowned and worthiest for more then 1600 years The admirable effects they have and do still produce is the cause they are so much in use and disposed of in such vast quantities throughout the greatest parts of the world Mithridate is good against Poison the stinging of Adders and bitings of Mad dogs being taken inwardly in the largest quantity and applyed outwardly expels from the body all ill humours and Diseases coming of cold and wind from head to foot warms and strengthens the Brain removes the stopping of the passages of the senses by cold heals the infirmities of the Mind drives away vain fears from persons affected with Melancholy helps a cold waterish Stomach and strengthens it much is profitable for such women as cannot Conceive by reason of cold provokes sweat hath a peculiar power to preserve against bad Airs the Plague and all Pestilential Diseases opens the Breast allays the Cough and provokes the tough humours to be coughed up It is good to remove all Agues
breath Whites Worms and Rickets It cleanseth the Reigns Kidneys and Bladder provoketh Urine expelleth Wind and by removing all superfluous humours prevents whatsoever diseases usually proceed from them or may be occasioned by them It may be used by Men Women and Children according to their several ages and its operation from one spoonful to half a Pint or more For the prevention of Diseases take it at Spring and Fall in the morning fasting for many daies together For the keeping off and removing any distemper take it at any time when cause shall be seen whether it be Summer or Winter In Quartan Agues Scurvy Dropsie Hypocondriack Melancholy and such lasting diseases it must be used fifteen or twenty daies and that either without any intermission or once every other day or twice a Week until the Humours be overpow'red and the disease mastered In very hot weather 't is good to avoid whatsoever motion might occasion sweat and in Extream Cold to keep your self by the fire or if neither of these happen you may do as at other times He that will eat a dish of Broath drink a draught of Whey warm Posset Beer or Ale 2 hours after taking the Dyet-drink may use which is best liking to him and he that regards neither may forbear 't is good to eat some warm Broath and Meat for dinner Take a Firken that will hold between three and four Wine Gallons fill it with good Beer from the Kyve well hopped and boiled so as it may keep long when it hath done working put into it a thin linnen Bag and let the mouth thereof hang out of the Bung until all the Ingredients in the Paper are put in then tie it fast and let it lye in the Firkin stopping it close the string being left out of the Bung when it is a Fortnight old begin to use it which before it grows low and flat bottle and keep in a cold place for use The Firkin may be filled again with good Beer from the Kyve and when 't is clear and fit to drink may be used any time upon an empty Stomach what quantity shall be seen convenient Tinctura Mirabilis Purgeth all Viscous and Clammy Humours without trouble as also Choler Phlegm and Melancholy is an Excellent Medicine in the Dropsie in all Diseases of the Brain Nerves Joynts Breast and Lungs and therefore is to be exhibited to Persons affected with Fluxes of Rhume Old Coughs the Gout Colick Scurvy the Jaundies Agues of all sorts Apoplexy Epilepsy and Vertigo It is said to be a perfect cure of the Gonorhaea the use of it being continued until the party is well 't is likewise of great benefit and very helpfull in all accidents of Venereal diseases the Dose is three spoonfuls but it may be varied according to the strength and constitution of the Patient from one spoonful to four Take it in the morning fasting in a glass of Sack or strong Beer or by it self drinking a glass of either as soon as the Tincture is down two or three hours after eat a dish of warm Broath and for dinner something that is warm and of easy digestion If it gives not three or four Stools that day take three spoonfuls of it also at night going to bed three hours after a light Supper Continue the use of it every morning or other morning without any other observation but follow your business as at other times until the desired benefit be found 'T is a familiar Medicine agreeable unto Nature leaves no nauseousness in the stomach is Cordial reviving and chearing the Spirits removing whatever clogs and annoys them THe Aromatick Tincture purgeth Choler Phlegm and all corrupt stinking and putrid humours from the Stomach Entrals Hypocondria and Mesentery It clears the Senses restores a good Colour to those that have lost it cleanses the Blood opens Obstructions and strengthens the Stomach and Bowels exceedingly kills Worms cures all Head-aches leaves no impurity in the body and is found to be good in Agues by removing those humours which continually nourish them 't is very Cordial and exceedingly helps such as are troubled with Faintings and subject to Vomiting and Purging It is a very familiar and safe Medicine friendly to Nature and may be used by all ages and sorts of people at any time of the year The Dose is from half a Childs spoonful to three or four large spoonfuls according to the age and constitution Take it in Beer or Wine or alone if what is taken in the morning works not the like or a sufficient quantity may be taken at night going to bed three hours after Supper or you may take it at any time on an empty stomach two or three hours before Meals a dish of warm Broath is best to be eaten the next thing after it and what else you have most minde unto so as it be warm and of good digestion THe Lenitive Electuary gently opens the Bowels and Purges all humours without any trouble an Ounce of it being taken at night going to bed Eat some Broath the next morning for Breakfast and walk abroad as at other times 'T is profitable in Feavers to keep the body soluble and to carry off the offending humours It may be safely used by all persons and in all distempers where gentle opening means are required Mornings or at any time upon an empty stomach THe Spleen Pills do gently purge Choler Phlegm and Melancholy from the Stomach Head and Bowels they are with good success used in the ill habit of the body and all defects of the stomach proceeding from foulness an abounding of Humours and Wind in the Jaundice Dropsie long lasting putrid Feavers Worms and Agues of all sorts They open the obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and are an excellent Medicine against all Melancholick and Windy distempers proceeding from the Womb Spleen or any other part The frequent use of them works good effects in the Scurvy and Hypochondriack Melancholy they may be given without danger to all Constitutions Ages and Sexes Take out of the Mass a quarter of an Ounce make twelve Pills and swallow down three of them every night or other night three hours after a light Supper or twice a week so long as the distemper lasts the next morning for Breakfast eat a dish of Herb Pottage and follow your business as at other times if the three Pills taken at night give not three or four Stools the next day three more may be taken next morning and so continue the use of them Mornings and Evenings THe Common Pills do purge Choler Phlegm and Melancholy with other moist tough and gross Humours from the Head Stomach Breast Liver Spleen Womb Bowels Veins Joints Sinews and Muscles or any other part of the body and so they remove all Diseases occasioned by the abounding of such like humours as Pains Giddiness or Swimming of the Head all defects of the Stomach and bowels Coughs Shortness of breath the Cholick Gout Sciatica other
sweat well afterwards Cinamon Water is very Cordial comforteth a weak and cold Stomach helpeth Griping pains in the Bowels occasioned by cold causeth a fresh and lively colour in the Face provoketh Urine and the Terms It sweetneth the Breath resisteth Poyson stops Fluxes and Vomitings hastens the Birth helps the fainting Spirits and trembling of the Heart strengthens the Retentive Faculty comforts the Brain and Sinews and is exceeding good for Cold and Moist bodies Spirit of Mints comforts the Head and Memory warms the Stomach and Bowels expels Superfluous Humours causes Digestion stirs up the Appetite stays Vomiting and the Hiccough helps a Cold Liver and removes its Obstructions It is also good for women in Child-bearing in their hard and sore labours BEzoar water is a very great Cordial it expels from the Heart and Spirits evil Vapours and Humours which annoy them It drives forth Pestilential and Malignant Feavers by Sweat resists Melancholy and wonderfully relieves the Spirits being overwhelmed therewith It is Excellent in Swooning Fits a spoonful being taken at a time mixt with Borrage water and a little Syrup of Gilliflowers it may be taken otherwise alone or in Sack or in any Cordial water but in Swoonings and to provoke Sweat if there be cause two or three spoonfuls may be taken at a time AQua Coelestis doth exceedingly help such as are loaden and oppressed with Melancholy by expelling annoyances from the Heart and cheering the Spirits It enlivens the dull and stupid Senses is available in all Malignant Feavers and in swoonings half a spoonful being taken at a time in a draught of the Decoction of Hartshorn or in cold distilled Cordial or Imperial Water and sweetned with Syrup of Gilliflowers AQua Mirabilis comforts and strengthens the Heart Stomach and Brain and is of great use in Faintings and Swoonings and for Women in Travail with Child for which purpose mix with it Cinamon water Spirit of Mints Bezoar water or Aqua Coelestis and Imperial water which being sweetned with Syrup of Gilliflowers or fine Loaf Sugar give two or three spoonfuls at a time as often as there shall be cause IMperial water is of a Milde and Moderate Temper and may safely be used two or three spoonfuls with Syrup of Gilliflowers at any time against Faintings and Swoonings and is a Preservative against Consumptions TIncture of Ambergreise Strengthens Comforts Warms and Refreshes the Brain and Senses exceedingly quickens the dulness of them eases the pains of the Head dissolveth the Cold Defluxions of Humours which fall thereon and on the Nerves and Sinews It likewise strengthens the Memory and is very beneficial to the Heart and Fainting Spirits takes away the Passions and Tremblings of the Heart making it Merry and Joyfull It expells Sadness removes Barrenness proceeding from a cold cause and is accounted conducible to Venereous actions it most conveniently agrees with Aged Persons for it Warms Comforts and Strengthens their Cold Decayed Spirits A few Drops of this Tincture will Perfume any Cordial water Wine or other thing and impregnate it with its Virtue It is made thus Take of Ambergreise two Drams Musk half a Dram let the Amber be very finely shaved or cut as thin as may be put it into a thin Linnen bag tye it close and let it ly in a strong Glass bottle with half a Pint of the best Spirit of Wine stop it well with Cork and Bladder and set it in a warm Bath or in the Sun for a Fortnights space then pour off the Tincture and keep it in a Bottle close stopped for use put to the Ambergreise half a Pint more of Spirit of Wine stop it close and set it in the Sun as before after which preserve it for your use BEzoar Stones are much commended against the bitings of Venomous Beasts stinging of Vipers and against all Contagious Diseases as the Small Pox Measles Pestilence Malignant Feavers and the like They also cure Swoonings long Sorrows Hysterical Passions with many other ill Affections A Man or Woman may take ten or twenty Grains at a time A Child three or four Grains or more according to the Age. GAscoign Powder is good in all sorts of Feavers in the Small Pox Measles Swoonings and Tremblings of the Heart It cheers the Heart and Vital Spirits exceedingly and is a safe and harmless Medicine which may be given in any case six eight or ten Grains at a time to Children and twenty or thirty Grains to Persons of full Age. Take it in any thing you like best once in six hours as long as there shall be cause THe Red Cordial Powder is a special remedy and is given with great success in all Malignant and Pestilential Diseases in Feavers of all sorts Small Pox and Measles It is very profitable against Poyson and stinging of Adders resists Putrefaction strengthens the Heart and Brain purifies the whole Mass of Blood and is an excellent powder to dissolve congealed Blood occasioned by Falls Bruises Imposthumes and the like It may be taken from Ten to Sixty Grains according to the age in any convenient mixture which is most proper to the occasion MEtheglen is a Drink which the ancient Britains did put an high value upon keeping it in their Houses as Nectar and affirming thar it was more pretious than Malmsey for when it is old 't is reckon'd a wine most agreeable to the Stomach which it strengthens exceedingly it potently concocts cold Humours hinders Crudities restores the lost Appetite and is good for those who are troubled with the Cough and shortness of Breath It helps Expectoration Expells Wind Mitigates the Pains of the Colick is profitable in the Yellow Jaundies in Diseases of the Brain and in those which proceed from Melancholy as the Quartan Ague Scurvy c. It conduceth much to cold Constitutions is very nourishing to the Body and by the use of it many have lived to extream old Age Pertinent hereunto is that relation of one of an Hundred Years Old who being demanded by Augustus Caesar what means he chiefly used to preserve that Vigor of mind and Body which he was observed at that time very briskly to retain made this reply to the Emperor that he imputed his long continued health to nought besides this Drink which he verily thought to be the greatest cause thereof Mr. Butler discoursing of it in his Treatise of Bees saith that as good and Old Metheglen Excelleth all VVines both for pleasantness of tast and preserving of Health so being burnt it is better than any burnt Wine whatsoever to comfort and settle a Weak Stomach and to procure natural heat The manner of burning it is first to set on the Fire a deep Skillet or Kettle almost full of Water when it boils put in a Pewter Pot full of Metheglen which you must Skum before it begins to boil and put into it two or three bruised Cloves with a branch of Rosemary then beat the Yolk of an Egg in a Dish and mix with it
a spoonful of cold Metheglen stirring all together to keep the Yolk from Curdling add to that a spoonful of the hot Metheglen after which another and another alwaies beating them together Afterwards by degrees pour all into the Pot continually stirring it about assoon as it boils take the Pot out of the Kettle of Water and pour the Metheglen into another warm Pot of the like bigness Fireing it as it passeth from one to the other which must be done until the Flagration ceaseth and it will burn no longer A Metheglen Posset hath the same virtues JUniper Ale Comforts the Brain Strengthens the Memory and all the Senses is good against the Palsie and Convulsions the Cough Shortness of Breath with other Diseases of the Breast and Lungs It Strengthens the Stomach very much Dissolves the Swellings and Windinoss thereof and Eases the Griping Pains and Torments in the Belly It provokes the Terms and Urine and greatly avails against the Stone Strangury Hysterick Fits Dropsie Scurvy the Quartan and all other cold Agues the Gout and Sciatica It fortifies all the Members of the body and to be short is effectual for all Diseases proceeding from a Cold Cause and is likewise a very good preservative in Pestilential times To every Ale Gallon of good Wort well Maulted put One Ounce and half of Juniper-berries bruised and a sufficient quantity of Hops Let it be well boiled and when 't is cold strain it afterwards ripen it and when it comes to be fit for drinking you may take of it at any time It will be convenient to have it Bottled in due season DAucus Ale breaks Wind cures Stitches in the Sides asswages the Tormenting Pains of Gripeing in the Guts provokes Urine and the Terms breaks and expels the Stone and Gravel It is good against the Dropsie and for those Persons whose Bellies are swollen with VVind also against the Strangury Painful making of water and the rising of the Mother It helpeth Conception and is good to ripen an Old Cough To every Ale Gallon of good Beer well boiled and hopped put one Ounce and half of the Seeds of wild Carrats bruised in a thin linnen Bag assoon as it hath done working and when it is come to Maturity Drink of it at any time Scurvy-grass Ale SCurvy-grass Ale or Beer is a very antient Drink of this Isle against the Scurvy it was held in great esteem by the old Britains who accounted it the most approved Liquor in the World and later Experience hath conferred much to their opinion by the good effects it hath produced in that Disease It opens Obstructions Evacuates Cold Clammy and Phlegmatick Humours from the Liver and Spleen softens and takes away the Hardness and Swelling of those Parts and reduces the Body to a more chearful and lively Colour To make it put a Peck or more of bruised Scurvy-grass into half an Hogshead of Ale or Beer while it is working Then put into a thin Bag long Pepper Grains Anniseed and Liquorice of each two Ounces which hang in the Ale and when it is clear Drink of it at any time TO take away Redness in the Face Sun-burn Morphew Freckles Pimples Pushes or any Inflammation Take of Sacchar Saturni Sal. Gem. of each half an Ounce dissolve them in two several bottles in each of which put a quarter of a Pint of Plantain Water afterwards when there is an occasion to use it mix an equal quantity of both in another Glass and it will be like Milk The INDEX THE Spirit 1 The Tarter Dyet-drink 6 Tinctura mirabilis 7 The Aromatick Tincture 8 The Lenitive Electuary ibid. Spleen Pills 9 Common Pills ibid. Strong Pills 10 The purging Powder ibid. Rheum Pills 11 Pectoral Rolls ibid. Two Pectoral drinks 12 The true Elixar Proprietatis ibid. Mithradat 13 Venice Treacle 14 Diascordium 15 London Treacle 16 Confection of Gilliflowers ibid. Tincture of Roses ibid. Barly water 17 Rasped Hartshorn 18 Hartshorn Balls 19 Spirit of Hartshorn ibid. Hysterical water 20 Treacle water ibid. Plague water ibid. Cinamon water 21 Spirit of Mints ibid. Bezoar water 22 Aqua coelestis ibid. Aqua Mirabilis ibid. Imperial water 23 Tincture of Ambergriese ibid. Bezoar stones 24 Gascoign's Powder ibid. The Red Cordial powder ibid. Metheglin 25 Juniper Ale 26 Daucus Ale ibid. Scurvygrass Ale 27 Saccharum Saturni Sal Gemm ibid. ERRATA Page 1. Line 11. for crums or Whitebread read of p. 2. l. 30. for root r. roots p. 5. l. 12. for dress r. press p. 7. l. 2. for felf r. self p. 10. l. 18. for it r. they p. 12. l. 4. for first r. first p. 13. l. 16. for world r. world p. 13. l. 29. for fall r. falls p. 15. l. 6. for cast r. casts p. 15. l. 21. for and r. an p. 15. l. 24. for of a Gilliflowers r. of Gilliflowers p. 15. l. 26. for of Nutmeg r. of a Nutmeg