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A45501	The family dictionary, or, Houshold [sic] companion wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health ... directions for making oils, ointments, salves, ... chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales and other liquors and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers ... and parts of living creatures used in medicinal potions, ... likewise directions for cookery, ... also the way of making all sorts of perfumes ... together with the art of making all sorts of English wines, ... the mystery of pickling and keeping all sorts of pickles ... : to which is added as an appendix the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare ... : with the art of carving and many other useful matters / by J.H.	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.; J. H.	1695 (1695)	Wing H66; ESTC R30331	305,220	380

to loosen the Belly and contributes much to the freeness of making Urin. Hydropsie Take half a dram of transparent yellow Amber twice or thrice a day in any convenient Liquor This has been proved with good success Hyoscyamus or Henbane A Cataplasm of the Roots applied in the Gout Tumour or Tooth-ach gives present ease The Leaves which have all the Virtues and Preparation of the Root wonderfuly mollifie and ease Pains being layed on as a Poultis A distilled Water of the Flowers and Seeds not ripe and an Oil compressed out of them cure the Pains in the Teeth and Gout and are held to help Deafness and Noise and Worms in the Ears if dropt into them though hot too much A Gataplasm of the Leaves boiled in Vinegar and Whitewine eases all Inflammations of the Eyes asswages Swelling of the Gods or in Women's Breasts Gives ease to the Sciatica and other Pains in the Joints proceeding from hot Causes Hyssop its Virtue The Qualities are piercing and attenuating opening and abstersive and therefore it hath power to heal and purifie Being concocted with Figs Honey and Rue of an equal quantity in fair Water is good for Inflammations of the Lungs old Coughs Difficulty of Breathing and Catarrhs It kills Worms in the Belly and being beaten with Salt and Cummin it remedies the poisonous Biting of Serpents if immediately applied to the Wound with a mixture of Honey It is profitable to those that are troubled with the Falling-sickness the Decoction of it being drunk in VVhitewine as also to cause the voiding of Phlegm especially when it chiefly oppresses the Stomach and Lungs as also the phlegmatick Maladies of the Brain and Sinews and not only purgeth but also fortifieth them It driveth away Ventosities and moveth Appetite provokes Urin and lessens the shaking of the Ague Fit sharpens the Sight and supporteth a good Colour It is good for the Spleen and Dropsie and is singularly good against the Quinsie in the Mouth and Throat being gargarized with the Decoction of it and Figs in fair Water The Oil made of the Leaves and Flowers helpeth refrigerated or benumbed Sinews and Nerves and strengthens them And in brief so admirable are the Virtues of this Plant that it has begot a Saying viz. He that eateth Hyssop shall live long c. Hysterick Affections Take an ounce or sufficient quantity of Volatil Salt of Harts-horn drop on it as much Spirit of Tartar as will satiate it when the Conflict is over digest and mix it for a while that it may acquire a redness in Colour and keep it carefully stopt The Dose is four or five drops in any convenient Syrup This is excellent good for the Genus Nervosum and other Distempers and Afflictions Hysterick-Balsom Take Galbanum Opopanax the Tears of Assa Foetida Sagapenum and Armoniack of each a dram distilled Oils of Rue Juniper-Berries and Amber of each a scruple melt the Gums in a brass Melter and mix the Oils and make a Balsom by remixing them over a gentle Fire This Balsam is very excellent to suppress the Vapours of the Matrix put up into the Nostrils and by anointing the Navel with it it provokes the Terms or by applying it to the lower part of the Belly Hysterick-Elixir Take the distilled Oil of Wormwood Pennyroyal Amber Featherfew and Rue of each six drops Tincture of Castor and Saffron of each three ounces refined Sugar Elder-flower-water and Mugwort of each six ounces make these into an Elixir and let it stand ten Days before you use it It is an excellent Elixir against all Diseases and Infirmities of the Matrix The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one Hysterick-Liquor Take of Castoreum two drams Saffron and Camphire of each an ounce let them macerate fifteen days in a pint of Aqua-vitae not being set on any Fire and then filter the Liquid part This is an excellent Specifick to suppress Vapours especially in Women when arising from the Matrix it may be taken upon any occasion the Party who takes it being fasting that it may operate the better from half a spoonful to a whole one It also may be snuffed up the Nostrils or the Temples bathed with it to ease Pains in the Head and prevent the ascending of offensive Vapours to the Brain Hysterical-Vapours These are usually called Fits of the Mother To cure or avert them Take the Liver of a hunted Hare hang it up for a time in a dry place where it may not putrefie till it may be reduced to powder then take two or three scruples at a time in any convenient Liquor Hysterick-Water Take the Roots of Briony and Piony and Orange-peels of each three ounces Flowers of Mugwort Baum Featherfew Pennyroyol Savin and Elder-flowers of each ● handful Myrrh and Castor of each an ounce Saffron two drams Let these macerate twenty four Hours in two quarts of Canary a pint of the Water of the Catkins of Filberds and the like quantity of Orange-flower-water and distill them all on a Sand-Bath This Water is very highly commended by most learned Physicians for the Cure of the Distempers and Grievances of the Matrix The Dose is an ounce and an half Or take this viz. Juice of Neppe Wormwood Mugwort Pennyroyal Elder-flowers and Hyssop of each half a handful distil them and preserve the Water for Use This is not so powerful as the other though very good and contributing much to the Ease of the aforesaid Grievances and Distempers IAcinth Confection Take Jacinth Stones red Coral Bole Armoniack and sealed Earth of each two ounces and two drams the Shavings of Harts-Horn the Seeds of Sorrel and Purslain of each five drams Leaves of Cretan Ditany Grains of Kermes Roots of Tormentile and Bithworth Seeds of Citron cleansed Aethiopian Myrrh Saffron red Roses the several sorts of Saunders the Shavings of Ivory and of the Bone in a Stag's Heart of each five drams Smaragds Oriential Pearl Topazes raw Silk and Leaves of Gold and Silver of each eight scruples Ambergrease and eastern Milk twenty grains Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers six pound and seven ounces This is an excellent Confection to strengthen the Heart remove Infections and is proper for killing of Worms in the Belly or Stomach It may be taken in a Bolus alone or mixed with other Powders or Opiates or else dissolved in Wine or Broth or in some Cordial Liquor The Dose is from a scruple to a dram and sometimes two It is likewise outwardly applied in Liquid and solid Epithems Iacobine-Dottage Take either a Capon or two Brace of Partridges roast them and take out the Bones and mince the Brawn very small then breaking the Bones boil them in strong Broth with a Faggot of sweet Herbs in an earthen Pot then strain out the Broth upon Sippits of Bread and lay on the Bread a layer of Flesh or grated Cheese then put over it some Broth of Almonds and make it boil then fill up your Dish by little and little till it be quite

distilled from it provoke Urine and remove Obstructions in the Reins and Bladder Cammock to make the Distilled Water You must take four pounds of the Rinds of the green Roots cut them very small and infuse them in a gallon of Malmsey or Mallaga and then set them over a gentle heat Distill them in a glass Alembick in Balneo Mariae and you will have a pleasant Water fit for the abovesaid Uses Capon Boil'd the Italian way Take a young Capon draw it and truss it to boil then lay it in fair Water and parboil it a little then boil it in strong Broth until it be enough Then take a good quantity of Beet-leaves boil them in fair Water very tender press out the Water and take six Sweetbreads of Veal boil and mince them and the Herbs very small then add the Marrow of four or five Bones steep the Sweetbread Herbs that are minced small and boil the bigger pieces in Water by themselves and lay on the Capon on the top of the Dish Then take Raisins of the Sun stoned shred them small with half a pound of Dates a quarter of a pound of Pomcitron minced and a pound of Naples Bisket grated put them together in a large Dish or Charger with half a pound of Sweet-butter and work it with your hands into a piece of Paste season it with a little Nutmeg Ginger Cinamon and Salt well beaten and some Parmisan grated and mingled with fine Sugar then make a Paste of fine Flower six Yolks raw of Eggs a little Saffron beaten small and half a pound of Butter and a little Salt then drive out a long sheet with a Rowling-pin very thin and lay the Ingredients in small heaps round or long then cover them with the Paste and cut it asunder and lay about the Capon till you have filled the Dish then pour on Butter with little strong Broth garnish it with Lemons and serve it up Carbuncle Take Salt well beaten to Powder sift it and incorporate it with the Yolk of an Egg and applying it it will draw away the Venom and offensive Humours break any Boil or Plague-sore and contribute much towards the healing of it Carp to Roast Make a Pudding of Almond-paste and Cream grated Bread Nutmeg Currans and Salt and when the Carp is drawn without cutting open viz. through the Gills put in the Pudding that way till the Belly be full tie it to a Spit and when it is roasted make the Sauce with what drops from it and the Juice of Oranges Cinamon and Sugar beaten up with Sweet-butter Carp Stewed Having bled him save the Blood scrape off the Scales and take out the Intrails then put him into your Stew-pan with Made Ginger Cloves Nutmeg Sweet-herbs and a large Onion quartered with half a pound of Butter mix some of the Blood with Claret put it in and being enough garnish it with sliced Lemons and green Spinage and serve it up to the Table Cassia its Vertues It 's Loosening and a Purifier of the Blood it allays Heat and moderately loosens the Belly provokes Urine purges Choler and Phlegm and mollifies the Breast and Throat it resolveth Inflammations and cleanses the Reins from Sand and Gravel Caustick Liquor of Verdigrease Take Verdigrease four ounces Salt of Niter eight ounces mix them together fire them and let them burn in an Iron or Marble Mortar well heated then make them into a Powder and put them into a convenient Vessel Let them by dropping dissolve in a moist place and preserve the Liquor that falls in a thick Glass or glazed earthen Pot. This Liquor is highly approved for consuming proud and corrupted Flesh and likewise all sorts of Excrescencies more particularly such as accompany Venereal Distempers Caustick Powder or Specifick Corrosive of Paracelsus To make it Take Corrosive Mercury Sublimate three ounces Sal Armoniack two ounces powder them together put them into a Matras pour on them a pint of Aqua fortis which evaporate in a moderate heat till the Ingredients come to the consistence of a Paste dry the whole Mass in such a moderate heat as will reduce it to a fine Powder This Powder Cauterizes very speedily and violently any superfluous Flesh and such Excrescencies as are to be removed It is quick in Operation and the regard that is to be had to the Nature of the Corrosive Sublimate requires much Caution and Prudence in the Use of it insomuch that you must put on but a very little at a time and use it only upon strong Bodies and it is to be applied upon no other Parts than what are remote from the Emunctories of the Noble Parts Celandine the greater The Juice of this is very good to take out Spots Pins and Webs in the Eye but by reason of its sharpness you may allay it with a little Breast-milk Being put into hollow Teeth often it will loosen them and greatly facilitate their Drawing Warts frequently rub'd with the Juice of Celandine will dry up and peel off The Decoction of the Root being drank with Aniseeds and Whitewine is good for the Jaundice or to wash eating Ulcers withal The Root being chewed asswageth the Tooth-ach Celandine the less It breaketh the Skin where it is applied as a Poultis it cause bad Nails and Hair to fall off the Juice of it snuffed up the Nose greatly purges the Brain A Gargarism made of the Decoction of it with Honey has the same effect Centaury major The chief Vertues of this consists in the Root which is used for Ruptures Difficulty in Breathing old Coughs Pleurisies and Spitting of Blood It is successfully given in the Dropsie and Jaundice being either infused in Wine or beat to Powder and drank immediately Centaury minor Of this Lesser sort Galen has written a large Treatise It purgeth Choler and Phlegm for which cause the Decoction thereof is given in Tertian Agues It kills Worms in the Belly The Leaves of this Herb being applied fresh to Wounds search them and heal up Ulcers Cephalick Elixir Take Misleto that grows on the Oak Piony-roots the Bigger Valerian of each an ounce and an half Piony-seed Laurel and Juniper-berries of each one ounce Cinamon Mace and Cubebs of each three drams Flowers of Tillet Rosemary and Lavender of each a handful bruise what is to be bruised and macerate them together for twenty four hours in the Water of Lilies of the Valley Black-Cherry-water the rectified Spirit of Wine of each a pint and an half then distill them according to Art To the Liquor distilled add refined Sugar one pound Tincture of Ambergrease a dram put this Elixir in an Earthen-Pot well stop'd and glazed This Elixir is of wonderful Use in Epilepsies Apoplexies and other cold Diseases of the Brain being taken fasting from half a spoonful to two spoonfuls Cerate for Masks for Women Take white Bees-wax four pound Sperma Ceti two ounces Oil of the four greater cold Seeds cleansed extracted without fire and Bismuth precipitated of each

this mixture with a small spoon-full of white Sugar-candy beaten into Powder or for want of that Loaf-sugar and letting it go a little down your Throat gugle it up again These will cool and allay the Heat and take away the hot Humours that occasion them Garlick This being stampt and infused in Vinegar and drank resists the Plague and is good to dissolve the Stone and bring away Gravel and being made into a Syrup by boiling and squeesing out the Juice and adding as much Sugar as will bring it into a Syrup it wonderfully preserves the Lungs removes Coughs and Colds and kills Worms in the Belly and Stomach Garlick It provokes the Courses and Urine and helps the Bitings of Mad Dogs and other venomous Creatures It kills Worms in Children and avoideth tough Phlegm purging the Head helping the Lethargy It is a good Preservative against the Plague also cures Sores and Ulcers takes away Spots and Blemishes in the Skin and eases Pains in the Teeth breaks Imposthumes and eases Pains in the Ears It hath a special quality to discuss the Inconveniences coming by corrupt Airs and Mineral Vapours or by drinking unwholsom Waters or Liquors as also by unadvisedly taking Wolf-bane Henbane or Hemlock or other dangerous Herbs It is held good in the Jaundice Cramp Convulsions Falling-sickness the Piles or Hemorrhoids and such like Diseases proceeding from Cold. But it has not its Vertues without its Vices for it heats very vehemently and all such hot Simples send up ill Vapours to the Brain In Cholerick Persons it will encrease the Choler and in those that are troubled with Melancholy it will attenuate the Humours and cause strange Fancies and Visions in the Head therefore let it be taken inwardly with great Moderation but for outward Applications you need hot be so strict Giblets to Bake Let them be well cleansed and scalded and season them well with Pepper Sale and Nutmeg put them into a Pye then put some Butter slice an Onion or two and close up the Coffin with a Lid bake them well and soak them three Hours then pour in more Butter into which a Nutmeg has been grated Giblets to Boil Take the Giblets of a Goose or any other Fowl scald them well and boil them whole in Water and Salt and two or three Blades of Mace and so serve them on Sippets finely carved with beaten Butter Lemons scalded Gooseberries scalded Grapes Mace Barberries and Lemons sliced Gilliflowers to Candy Take refined Sugar or white Sugar-Candy to the weight of your Flowers sift it and put to if some Rose-water set them over a Fire made of Charcoal but not too hot stir these till they be a candied Syrup height then keep them in a dry place and use them as you find occasion and if you use them for Sallads put a little Wine-Vinegar to them to make the Syrup thinner Gilliflowers to Pick Take Clove-Gilliflowers when just blown clip the white Bottoms from them when taken out of the Husks lay them to steep a little in fair Water boil up some Whitewine-Vinegar till the scum will come no more on it squeeze the Water out of your Gilliflowers and the Vinegar being cool put them into it then melt as much Sugar as is convenient in Rose-water put it to them with a little broken Cinamon and a few Blades of Mace stop them up close and when you use them mince them small and putting a little fresh Vinegar to them strew a little white Sugar finely beaten and they are an excellent Sauce for Mutton or Lamb. Glove-Gilliflowers These Flowers are of a fine temper neither excessive in heat nor cold nor dryness nor moisture that can be perceived in them They are great strengthners of the Heart and Brain and therefore serve indifferently for Cephalicks or Cordials good in Consumptions and easie to Nature helping it in many Emergencies The Syrup and Conserve of these Flowers are wonderfully fortifying against pestilential Fevers and Poisons and may be taken with great safety at any timely Young or Old either by themselves or dissolved or mixed in any convenient Liquors Ginger It is a Root belonging rather to a Herb or Plant than a Tree for it bears a Top like Reeds and runs knotty in the Ground a great way yet is of admirable use viz. It helpeth Digestion looseneth the Belly moderately is good for the Stomach and profitable against all things that dim and hinder the Sight It heateth much though not at the first tasting like Pepper for which Cause some will not allow it to consist of subtil parts though that may be attributed to its earthiness as being a Root and known to be composed of gross and undigested Substance tending much to watery yet is of excellent Use in Physick and Diet. Ginger-Bread to Make Take a pound of Jordan-Almonds a penny white Loaf grated and sifted among the Almonds when blanched and finely beat them together then add an ounce of Ginger finely scraped Licorice and Aniseeds in Powder each a quarter of an ounce add two or three spoonfuls of Rose-water and make them all up in a Past with half a pound of Sugar mould it and roul it thin then print it and dry it in a Stove And thus you may make Ginger-bread of Sugar-plate putting Sugar sufficient to it that will keep all the Year round Gladwin That here intended is that they call the Stinking sort The Juice of it snuffed up the Nose causes Sneezing and purges the Head Rheums and offensive Matter the Powder of the Root drunk in Wine has the same Effect and gives ease to the Cramp and Convulsions of the Nerves It mainly avails in the Pain of the Gout or Sciatica and gives ease to those that are afflicted with griping Pains in their Bowels as also in the Strangury The Roots boiled in Wine and drank effectually procure Womens Courses but is dangerous to be taken by a Woman with Child lest it cause Abortion half a dram of the Powder removes Obstructions in the Ureters and Bladder and immediately provokes Urin. Gleetings Take four ounces of Spring-water or rather Plantane-water dissolve it in about one scruple of Sympathetick-Powder or so much as will give it a sensible but yet a faint Vitriol like Tincture inject as much as is usual through a small Syrup every Morning and Evening as long as need requires Gloves to Perfume lightly Rub over your Gloves with Gleer of Eggs and Benjamin-water very thin and fine wherein a grain of Musk Ambergrease or any other strong Perfume has been infused and it will take and hold the Scent a long time You may as you like for change and alteration of Scent rub them over with a fine Puff of Silk dipt in Gessimine Orange-flower Butter Essence of Roses c. Goards This Plant is cooling and mollifying by Nature The fresh Leaves applied to the Breasts of Women in Child-bed lessen their Milk the Seeds are accounted among the four great cold Seeds for a red fiery Face or

Pike Stewed the City-way Take your Pike splat it and lay it in a dish and when the blood is washed out put to it as much Whitewine as will cover it and set it a stewing and when it boils put in the Fish and scumm it then put in some large Mace whole Cinamon and Salt and being well-stewed dish it up on Sippets finely carved Then thicken the Broth with two or three Yolks of Eggs some thick Cream Sugar and beaten Butter give it a warm and pour it on the Pike with some boiled Currans and boiled Prunes layed all over it as likewise some Mace Cinamon and Bunches of Barberries and sliced Lemon garnish with the same and scrape on fine Sugar In this manner you may stew Carp Bream Barbel Chevin Roach Conger Gurnet Tench Dace Pearch or Mullet Pikes to Souce and Ielly The Fish being scalded and cleansed bone it and season it with Nutmeg and Salt rowl up three or four Pikes like Brawn or coloured Eel and bind them in that posture then put them in a clean Cloth and boil them in Water Whitewine and Salt with the Spice observing always that the Pot boils before you put them in keep it scummed and add some large Mace and slices of Ginger If you only intend to souce them boil them not down so much but if they are to be Jellied put to them some Isinglass and serve them up in the Collars standing in the Jelly and thus you may do with Eels Tench Salmon Congen c. Pike and White-Broth Here the Pike must be cut into three equal pieces and boiled in Water seasoned in a little Salt and sweet Herbs when it boils beat in the Yolks of six Eggs with a little Sack and Sugar melted Butter and some of the Broth then dish the Pike putting the Head and Tail together cleave the middle piece in two and take out the Back-bone put one piece on the one side the other on the other blanch all pour the Broth on and garnish it with Sippets fine Sugar or Ginger and serve it up Pills against Cachexies Take Trochiscs of Alhandal half an ounce Galbanum Myrrh Aloes and Amoniack of each three drams Mercury precipitated prepared with Gold two drams Scamony Jalap the whitest Agarick one dram and half pressed Oil of Nutmegs one dram Amber Cinnamon and Cloves the Oil of each six drops Extract of Juniper as much as will make these into Pills The Pills are much commended for remedying what they are propos'd for also in Quartan-Agues Dropsie and Jaundice and the Retention of the Menstruums the weight of each Pill must not exceed two grains and they may be taken two or three of them as often as is necessary Pills Diuretick Take Chios Turpentine and white Vitriol finely powdered mix them into a mass and make Pills of them exceeding small The vomitive quality of the Vitriol being corrected by the Turpentine the Pills work good Effects especially in all difficulties of making Water being given from half a dram to a dram Pills for the Dropsie Take Elaterium and Extract of Aloes prepared with the Juice of French Orris of each half an ounce choice Mastick made into Powder two drams make them up into Pills according to Art as small as is convenient These Pills powerfully purge Hydropick-Waters they are to be taken in a Morning fasting from six to twelve or fifteen grains using them as often as occasion requires Pills for the Green-sickness Take Extract of Mars prepared with Musk one ounce Aloes-Succotrine prepared with the Juice of Succory six drams Extract of Rhenbarb half an ounce Extract of Saffron two drams distilled Oil of Cinnamon six drops mix them to a mass and so make small Pills of them These Pills cure the Green-sickness in young Virgins the Party so grieved taking a scruple at a time in a Morning fasting and drinking after them two or three ounces of Wormwood-wine and walking after that about an Hour for several Mornings together Pills for the Stomach Take Extract of Licorice two drams and a half Tears of Storax two drams distilled Oil of Cinnamon six drops Extract of Saffron four scruples Labdanum Olibanum choice Myrrh and Extract of Opium of each one dram Ambergrease one scruple Syrup of Citron-peel as much as suffices to make them into a Mass and so into Pills These are excellent to stay Defluxions that fall upon the Lungs and to asswage the violence of Coughs The Dose is from five or six to eight or ten grains Pimpernel Of this there are three sorts the one groweth very great and hath long Roots the other sort is little the third bears red Flowers and grows in most Gardens the Roots of the two first in which consists their main Virtue boiled in Whitewine are very good for Pains in the Reins and Bladder caused by the Stone for it driveth out Gravel and the long retained Urine The Juice of the Root drank in White-wine is good against all Poisons or infectious Airs and the Biting of venomous Creatures It is used with success in the Plague the Root being stamped and laid to the Sore As for the third sort though little differing in likeness yet in Virtue it does from the two former for it is more restringent in Tast and very nourishing for which cause it may be thought to be of a binding nature wherefore it stayeth the Dysentery and other Fluxes and Vomitings proceeding from colerick Humours or Causes it heals Wounds and Ulcers and is of special use in Ointments that are made for Wounds in the Head and for Cankers Some Physicians have much commended it in the Cure of pestilential and contagious Fevers concluding that the often drinking the Juice of it in Wine or other convenient Liquors is a soveraign Preservative against the power of those dangerous Diseases Plague to Preserve from Take Barberries when they are ripe steep them in warm Water that the Husks or outward Skin may come off then dry them that they may be beaten to Powder with a little Salt and when you find your self somewhat discomposed by the effects of ill Airs hot or feverish mix this Powder with strong Vinegar about two drams in half a quarter of a pint and drink it up warm and keep your self warm also that you may sweat upon it but if you find your self under such apprehensions shivering with Cold you must take the Powder in strong Wine Plague-Sickness Take Water of Scabious Endive Rue and red Roses of each four ounces white Dittany Tormentile white Coral Gentian and Bole-Armoniack with Terra-sigillata reduce those that are to be powdered separately Infuse them in the Water in a glass Vessel and drink about an ounce at a time pretty warm keeping the Body warm after it Or Take a Viol or some other Glass and fill it to the third part with Venice-Treacle the other third part with Brandy or Spirit of Wine mix these well together by shaking and take Morning and Evening half an ounce in two ounces