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
one Ounce put them into a stone or well-glazed Earthen Vessel with as much boiling Water as will moisten them drop in leasurely four Scruples of Spirit of Vitriol continually agitating and moving the Rose leaves after which pour upon them four Pints of boiling Water cover it close until it be cold then let it run through a Flannel Cloth or Filter Bag and add to the Liquor half a Pound of VVhite Sugar Barly Water TAke two Ounces of French Barly boil it a Turn or more in two Quarts of Spring VVater then throw it away and put to the Barly so much more VVater boiling it the second time as at first throw away that VVater likewise and Once more add to it the like quantity which boil gently till a third part be consumed let it stand to settle after which pour off the clear VVater into a Bottle and mix with it Syrrup of Violets and Wood-Sorrel of each three Spoonfuls Spirit of Vitriol thirty or fourty drops It moistens cools and cleanses the body allays the Acrimony of sharp humours and is an excellent Drink in Feavers hot affections of the Stomach Liver Reins or any other part It may be used for all those intents and purposes to which the Tincture of Roses doth conduce and should be taken in a large quantity at a time by which small and gentle means extraordinary effects have been oftentimes produced for as fierce and blustering winds and tempests are frequently allayed by a suddain shower of Rain so in like manner the greatest commotion imaginable in the Microcosm discovering it self by continual Vomitings Purgings and Swoonings have been many times quelled by such drinks as this and the former when the highest Cordials have procured no better an effect than the return of the fainting Fit If the Constitution of body and the Disease require it you may mix Cinamon or Bezoar water Spirit of Elder or of Mints in such a proportion that the largest Dose of them may serve for as much of the Barly water as you take at once The Decoction of Hartshorn in the next place to be spoken of greatly avails being mixed and used in all respects as Barly water RAsped Hartshorn helps Putrefaction corrects Malignity provokes Sweat stops Vomiting Fluxes of the Womb and Bowels kills Worms and strengthens the Natural Balsom in our bodies is very good in the Small Pox and Measles in Putrid and Malignant Feavers allayeth all sharp humours and is exceeding useful for Children as well as for persons of riper years Take one Ounce of Rasped Hartshorn boil it in two quarts of water close covered to one quart strain it and add half an Ounce of Sugar with two or three spoonfuls of Rose-water then let it be bottled and give it plentifully instead of drink Being boyled with Vinegar it helpeth Ring-worms being warmed and steeped in Vinegar and applied to the Gumms it strengthens them helps the pain of the Jaws caused by the breeding of Teeth and also fastens loose Teeth THe Hartshorn Balls are very good for Children and those of riper years in the Small Pox Measles Feavers Worms and in any Malignant Distemper They are good in all Fluxes Loosnesses Spitting of Blood and Dysentery they dry up all moist humours strengthen much and may safely be given to Children in any Disease that shall happen unto them Take from ten to sixty Grains Mornings and Evenings or once in six hours in any convenient mixture or in a spoonful of the above-prescribed Drink taking a draught of it presently after If you mix them with Unguentum Pomatum and anoint the Lids and Corners of the Eyes with it it helps their Ulcers and Defluxions The Teeth being rubbed with the powder of the Balls upon a cloth every day will be whitened by it and the Gumms strengthned SPirit of Hartshorn is an excellent Remedy to cleanse the whole mass of Blood by Urine and Sweat and by insensible Transpiration It is a true Specifick against the Scurvy and all other Diseases which proceed from alteration of the blood It refisteth Putrefaction comforteth Nature and openeth Obstructions Good effects have been found by it in Feavers Plurisies stoppings of the Spleen Coughs distempers of the Brain Epileptical Fits Madness the Worms Quartan Agues c. It may be taken from six drops to twelve in Carduus water sweetned with Sugar or in Beer and Sugar A Child may take one two or more drops according to the age but before the use of it it is good to cleanse the body by some purging Medicine in those cases where it may be done safely THe Hysterical water is very good against Fits of the Mother provokes the Terms and cleanses the Womb exceedingly It expels both Birth and After-birth and is likewise an excellent Remedy if afterwards any stoppage happens or Nature be defective in throwing forth what it ought in Child-birth to forward the birth and when there appears an inability in Nature to expel it you may giue three spoonfuls of this with a spoonful or two of Cinamon water and in this case once taking of it doth oftentimes produce the defired effect provided that it be made use of in due time for if otherwise used whether too soon or out of season the aforesaid effects cannot be expected The same quantity may be taken for expelling the After-birth and for removing any stoppage occasioned by taking cold or other accident In Fits of the Mother and such like affects it may be used as often as there shall be cause Women with Child must by no meanes meddle with it until the fullness of time be come for the Child to be born TReacle water is very good in Feavers of all sorts especially Pestilential It is an admirable Remedy against the Plague Poyson the biting of Adders or any Venomous Beasts It expelleth Venomous Humours by Sweat fortifieth the Heart and Spirits against them and is of singular use in the Small Pox and Measles One two three or four spoonfuls may be taken in Carduus water sweetned with Syrup of Gillislowers and lye to Sweat PLague water is a Soveraign Cordiall for the Heart and an excellent Antidote against the Plague Pestilential and Malignant Feavers Poyson the biting of Mad Dogs also stinging of Adders and may be used with good success before the Fits of Agues to hinder their coming and to drive them away 'T is an Excellent Remedy for a Surfeit also for the Wind and other cold griefs of the Stomach It helps inward Bruises and discusses Congealed Blood Take two or three spoonfuls of it for a Surfeit once in six hours until the undigested matter in the Stomach be concocted For the Wind and all other griefs of the Stomach and to comfort the heart a spoonful may be taken at a time or more when cause shall be seen In all other cases three spoonfuls or more may be taken in warm Posset or some proper water when you first find your self to be ill being covered warm in the bed to