Lavender of Fennel of Aniseeds all drawn by distillation of each a like quantity or more or less as you like the Odour and would have it strongest incorporate with these half a dram of Ambergrease make all these into a Paste which keep in a Box when you have fill'd your Pipe of Tobacco put upon it about the bigness of a Pins Head of this Composition It will make the Smoak most pleasantly odoriferous both to the Takers and to them that come into the Room and ones Breath will be sweet all day after It also comforts the Head and Brains Approved by Sir Kenelm Digby CHAP. XLII Select PERFUMES An Excellent Odoriferous Perfume for Chambers and Rooms of Entertainment much used in France TAke the powder of Willow coals three ounces Labdanum two ounces Storax and Benjamin of each half an ounce Mastick sweet Taccamahacca and yellow Amber of each two drams Lignum Rhodium a dram and half reduce them all into a subtil Powder and make them up into small Candles with Gum Tragant steep'd in Rosewater then dry them in the shadow kindle the narrow end of them and set them in a Candlestick or heat the Pin of a Save-all and then thrust it into the bigger end and so set it upon a Candle-stick A Famous Odoriferous sweet Water call'd the Angel's Water Take Roots of Florence Orrice and Benjamin of each an ounce and half select Storax six drams Lignum Rhodium half an ounce Aromatick Reed and Labdanum of each two scruples Flowers of Benjamin a scruple pulverize them all and put them into a Mattress or in a strong Bottle and pour upon it a pint of Rose-water and half a pint of Orange-flower-water Stop the Bottle or Mattress very close and set it in lukewarm water for twenty four hours then distil in a Cucurbite in Balneo Mariae and keep the water for Use If you please you may mix it with Musk and Ambergrease or you may put in it a few drops of the Essence of Amber afterwards set down This Water is call'd The Angels-Water because of its sweet and pleasing Odour you may after you have infused the Ingredients in the Waters strain the Infusion and having dissolv'd in it the Musk and Ambergrease keep the Liquor for Use without distilling it Of the Sediments you may make sweet Bags to put among Cloaths and Linnen The Countess of Dorset her sweet Water Take Rose-Leaves Bay-Leaves Lavender sweet Marjoram Eglantine and Pinks of each two handful Cloves and Cinamon of each an ounce bruise all these and pour upon them two quarts of strong Ale that is near the Grounds let them infuse twenty four hours then distil it and draw it till the Ingredients remain almost dry The Essence of Musk and Ambergrease drawn with Spirit of Wine Take a dram of Ambergrease and half a dram of Musk powder them and put them in a small Mattress with a long Neck and powr upon them four ounces of Spirit of Wine then stop it very close and cut the Cork even with the Neck of the Mattress after you have thrust it in as far as you can then close it all over with Spanish Wax then put the Mattress in a little earthen pan with Sand at the bottom and set it in the Sun in the hottest time of the year putting behind the Glass a Tin Leaf to receive the Sun-beams and reverberate them upon the Glass shake it sometimes and the Amber and Musk will dissolve in the Spirit of Wine and will tinge it of a red colour like a Ruby which powr out into a Glass Vial which stop well and tie a Bladder about it In all things where the Ambergrease is used two or three Drops of this Essence will go further in the Aromatizing of it than a whole dram of Ambergrease in substance One Drop of it Perfumes for ever whatsoever it touches that can imbibe it The End of the Medicinal Part. EXCELLENT DIRECTIONS FOR COOKERY TOGETHER WITH The Description of an Useful ENGIN serving for the same and likewise for Distilling the Choicest and Best Cordial Waters AS ALSO SELECT RECEIPTS FOR PRESERVING CONSERVING and CANDYING c. WITH A COLLECTION Of the Choicest Receipts for making of METHEGLIN SIDER CHERRY-WINE c. The SECOND PART LONDON Printed by T. B. for G. Hartman Chymist 1682. 6. It is very convenient for a small Family or For Lodgers especially in the Summer time for dressing their meat in it without making a fire which would heat the Room 7. The Door of the ENGINE being shut the Lamp where the Spirit burns is not seen so that if any body comes into the Room he will not know what it is unless you shew it him Of the several sorts of Meats which may with great conveniency be dressed in this ENGINE both the English and the French way with Excellent Direction how to do them 1. An Excellent and Savoury Fricasie after the French way either of Pigeons Chickens Veal Lamb Mutton Rabbits Lamb-stones or Sweet-breads 2. A Leg of Lamb boiled 3. Stewed Veal the French Way 4. Stew'd Broth the English way 5. Stew'd Rabbits the English way 6. A Hare stewed after the French way which they call Lieore en Civette which is exceeding Savoury Meat 7. A Hutch-pot the Dutch way which is excellent Meat 8. Pottage both English and French 9. Beans and green Pease 10. Milk-Pottage and Rice Milk Cawdles and Water-Gruel c. 11. A Carp in short Broth the French way ordinary way You must order the quantity of Eggs according to the quantity of your meat either more or less To stew a Rump of Beef Mrs. Herbert's way Take a Rump of Beef and Season it with pepper Salt and Nutmegs grated and mingled together Season and rub it on the bonyside and lay it in your Engine or in a Pipkin with the fat side downward Pour upon it three pintes of Vinegar and as much water and three great onions and a bunch of Rosemary tied up Stew them three or four hours together with a soft fire being close covered Then dish it up upon Sippets with some of the Gravy blowing off the Fat from it Elder Vinegar is better than ordinary Vinegar To make Red-Deer that will keep a quarter of a year and is Excellent Meat Take a piece of the buttock of Bief the leanest of it and beat it with a Rowling-pin the space of an hour till you think you have broken the grain of it and have made it very open both to receive the saucing drink and also to make it tender Then let it lie two days and two nights in Vinegar and Clarret-wine of each one pinte with two Nutmegs beaten Then take it out and Lard it with Lards as big as your biggest finger Rowl'd in pepper and salt Then take Pepper Cloves Mace and Nutmeg or Jamaica Pepper Beat and mix them all together and season it very well all over and so Bake it in Pye-paste and let it stand five or six hours in
and Strawberry-leaves of Liverwort and Scabious of each half a handful boyl these till half the liquor is consumed then take it from the fire and put into it one ounce of the best Sena half an ounce of Tamarisk and two drams of Epithimum set it on hot Embers and let it simper for an hour then strain it from the Ingredients this proportion will serve four days being taken in the morning warm and so likewise in the Evening A Capon-Drink against a Consumption FLea a lean Capon quarter it and break all the bones then a quart of red Rosewater and as much of Carduus water with one pound of White Sugar Candy finely beaten six of the best Pippens pared and sliced from the Coars two Lemmons sliced a little Cinnamon cut in small pieces a little sweet Marjoram and as much mother of Time with a few Coriander Seeds prepared put all these into a new earthen pot prepared first one layer of the Capon and then a layer of the Ingredients they being thus laid by degrees throughout in several layes put in the Rose and the Carduus Waters then lute up the Pot with Rye Past so close as no Air may get in nor heat breath out this done set the pot into a pot of boyling water and let it boyl twenty four hours and then take out the Capon and stamp it in a Morter and put it again into the liquor and strain it through a Gelly bag and drink thereof half a porringer at a time It is very restorative Another Capon-drink for the Consumption Take two Capons and parboil them with a soft Fire for an hour till the Blood is quite gone then take the Peels of two good Limons or more cut away the shanks of the Capons and break the Capons in a great Mortar till the Bones are crushed small which done make a bag of fine Bolter and take four Gallons of strong Beer or Ale new from Tunning and make in the Vessel a Bung-hole wherein put the Bag with the Capons and Limon peels in it and lay a Stick cross the Bung-hole and fasten the mouth of the Bag thereto so that the bottom of the Bag may touch the bottom of the Vessel and not lie flat at length let it steep therein three days and nights leaving the Bung-hole open that it may work and after working close the Bung-hole and let it rest a day and a half and then draw it into Bottles and three days expired drink thereof It will continue good six weeks For the Consumption of the Liver Take a Gallon of the strongest Ale wort can be gotten of the first running and strength of the Ale the Brewers commonly sell it for six pence a quart boyl it in an earthen pot till it is as thick as an Electuary after it begins to thicken in the boyling it must be continually stired otherwise it will burn to and be worth nothing the whole Gallon will make but a quart of Syrup or thereabout put it into a Gallipot and keep it for your Use and in the Morning fasting at four in the Afternoon and when you lie down to rest daily take a spoonful or two and you will speedily find by God's Blessing Amendment It is the same thing to boyl many Gallons at a time as one and the Trouble of making them may be saved Arare Medicine for a Consumption though much decayed therewith Take two Quarts of new Red Cow's Milk the more Stroakings the better put it into an earthen Vessel of three Quarts that it may have room to boyl then put into it two ounces of Syrup of Roses and as much brown Sugar-Candy stop it very close with Paste and put it into an Oven with Houshold Bread take of this for your ordinary Drink especially first and last every day a little warm This hath done great Cures in that kind You may do well to add to it two ounces of Syrup of Coltsfoot or rather Syrup of Ground-Ivy Another Take a hinder Leg of Beef cut out all the Sinews and a little of the Flesh with them then take a pretty quantity of the Pith of an Ox six Dates and a little whole Mace put all these into a Stone Pot with half a pint of white Wine paste it up close that no Steam vapour out or Air get in Which done set it in a Pot of seething Water and keep it boyling twelve hours after which strain it Take of this in fome other Broth as much as the Stomach will well bear If you please you may add to it some Flowers of Rosemary or a little sweet Marjoram before luting of the Pot. An Excellent Electuary very good for a violent Cough caused by a sharp thin tickling Rheum Take Conserve of Roses and work into it by strong grinding and beating in a Mortar as much as you can of pure Olibanum white Frankincense in very subtil Powder so that the Consistence be very stiff of the Frankincense Of this take as much as a good Hazel-Nut in a Spoon with a little Syrup of Violets about it or Syrup of Ground-Ivy take it in the Morning and at night and somimes in the day if need be This hath been often approved Another very Excellent Electuary for a violent Cough and Obstructions of the Lungs much Approved Take Conserve of Ground-Ivy two ounces Conserve of Red Roses one ounce Lapis Hematites Crabs Eyes reduced into a fine powder of each three drams Frankincense in fine powder two scruples Oyl of Cinamon and Mace of each three drops Syrup of Comfrey-Root and of red Poppy of each half an ounce Make it up into an Electuary whereof take the quantity of a Nutmeg in the Morning fasting and at Night A very good Posset for a Cold or Cough be it never so violent which hath cured many Persons both young and old Take a Quart of Milk and make a Posset thereof with a pint of Ale then strain it and put into it two spoonfuls of Aniseeds beaten two Pippins sliced with the parings and a stick of Liquoras bruised and a quarter of a pound of Raisons stoned let it boil gently for half an hour then strain it again and drink a draught thereof warm with a little piece of fresh Butter in it Take it two or three times a day Another Electuary for the Cough and Rheum falling upon the Lungs Take half an ounce of cons Roses a spoonful of Syrup of Violets 3 spoonfuls of Honey Frankincense in fine powder and Flower of Sulphur of each one dram mix them well to an Electuary which take upon the bruised end of a Liquoras stick The Lady Garret's Excellent Remedy for a Cold or Cough Approved Take Fennel and Parsley Roots four of each wash and scrape them and take the pith out of them Maidenhair Rosa Solis flower of each one handful Liquoras Coriander and Aniseeds one ounce five leaves of Harts-tongue Lungwort and Liverwort of each a handful Raisins stoned half a pound shred the Herbs and
on the top of it which scum off then take two pounds of Sugar to a quart or Juyce and having clarified it with the White of an Egg boil it to the Consistence of a Syrup For a Cough of the Lungs or any stuffing or obstruction in the inward Parts which hath often been approved and found effectual by many Take a Cock dress him and cut him all to pieces and bruise all the Bones of him then take of Aniseed bruised four ounces Muiliene and Lungwort shred small of each a handful a Fennel-Root also shred small put all these to boil in a pottle of spring-water for three hours close covered and as the Liquor consumeth supply it with a quart of Hysop-water and at the latter end put into it two ounces of Liquoras bruised then strain it out and press the Ingredients a little then put into the Liquor two ounces of brown Sugar-Candy in powder Take of this Liquor half a pint at night instead of a Supper as hot as you can drink it and lie down upon your back for a quarter of an hour Do the like in the Morning before you rise and fast three hours after it An Excellent Receipt for an old Cough though never so great used by my L. Hatton Take Raisins of the Sun stoned and Figs washed and sliced of each two ounces unset Hysop a handful Enulacampana dried and bruised two ounces Aniseeds bruised one ounce boil all these in a gallon of small Ale till half is consumed then strain it and put to it Honey and sweet Butter of each four ounces Safron dried and powdred half a dram boil them again gently till they be well incorporated Drink of this Liquor warm half a pint in the morning and at night This Proportion made twice hath cured Coughs of long continuance and hath been often approved Dr. Hakins his Excellent Remedy for a Cold or Cough as also to strengthen the Lungs if there be any Defect in them Take three ounces of Enulacampana scrape off the Rind and cut it in thin slices then boil it in three pints of Conduit-water till it comes to a pint and a half then put therein a pound of fine Sugar and let it simper a little on the fire then take it off and let it cool and it will be a perfect Syrup whereof take three spoonfuls morning and evening An Approved Remedy in all Assects of the Breast and Lungs as Colds Coughs Asthma Phthisick Hasing or Wheezing and Ratling in the Pipes Take the best old Malago and distil it in a Glass Cucurbite in Balneo Mariae when you have drawn off the Spirit change the Receiver and continue the distillation drawing off the flegm until there remain in the bottom a Substance like Honey which powr out and mix it again with the flegm that you distilled off last Drink of this Liquor two or three times a day putting into every draught a few drops of the odoriferous Spirit of Benjamin which you may prepare thus Put a Pound of Benjamin into a low Cucurbite of Glass and distil it in B. M. or in a Sand Furnace and there will first come over a clear Liquor which will have all the odoriferous Scent of the Benjamin which is a most excellent thing for the Breast and Lungs A Remedy for the Lungs when they are stopt with Flegm c. Take Enulacampana root well dried Liquoras and Aniseeds of each an ounce Flower of Sulphur half and ounce Sugar-Candy six ounces make all into fine Powder and take thereof half a spoonful three times a day Also take the following Decoction Take a Pottle of Hysop-water Maidenhair Scabious Colts-foot and Horehound of each a handful Aniseeds and Liquoras bruised of each one ounce Figs sliced Raisins of the Sun stoned Dates sliced of each three ounces boil it all to a quart and sweeten it with fine Sugar Take a small draught of this warm in the morning fasting and at four in the Afternoon and at Night and as often as you think good An Excellent Mead for the same Boil one Gallon of Honey with half a pint of Water and scum it clean then add four Gallons of Water and boil it gently for two hours scumming it all the while then put into it four ounces of Raisins of the Sun stoned Enulacampana roots two ounces Fennel roots Marsh mallow roots and Polypode of each one ounce Maidenhair Colts-foot Sage Betony Scabious and Hysop of each a handful Aniseeds one ounce put all these Ingredients into it so soon as there rises no more scum then let it cool and work it with yeast and Tun it Drink thereof warm at pleasure It is excellent for the Breast and Lungs Against the Rising of the Lungs an Excellent Remedy There is nothing better than the water of Enulacampana roots stamp the green Roots in a stone-mortar and mix with them half as much of green Liquoras then distil it in a Glass-Still Take of this Water half a spoonful at a time whensoever the raising doth trouble you mix it with as much Muscadine or old Malago or take it in the water of Ladies Mantel or Leons foot if you cannot take it alone To make Excellent Lozenges against a Cold Cough of the Lungs and Consumption Take one pound of fine Sugar in Powder Liquoras and Enulacampana finely powdered of each four ounces put them into a little earthen Pan and moisten them with two or three spoonfuls of Unset Hysop-water distilled when it is in its Flower then sprinkle into it a little powdred Pepper and cast them upon a Pie-plate with Flower strewed on it when it is cold form them out Lozenges to hold under the Tongue against Cough Defluxions and Rheumes Take Mastick Nutmegs and Orrice roots in fine Powder of each half an ounce red Storax and Frankincense of each an ounce and half Raisins stoned and Sugar penidies of each two ounces make a Paste thereof with Mead and form it into Lozenges about the bigness of a small Bean a piece Hold one under your Tongue at your pleasure night and day but especially when you are laid to rest and let it dissolve of it self To make white Lozenges for the Breast and Lungs Cold Cough and Rheum in the Head Take fine Sugar four ounces white Sugar-Candy and Penide-Sugar of each one ounce Florence Orice-root in fine powder two drams Liquoras in powder three drams fine Starch-flower three drams Mix them all together and with Gum-Dragant steeped in Rose-water make Lozenges To make Penide Sugar Dissolve fine Sugar in Barley-water over a gentle Fire and clarifie it with Whites of Eggs twice then strain it and boil it gently until it rises up in great bubbles and being chewed sticks to your Teeth Then powr it upon a Marble-stone anointed with Oyl of Almonds letting first the bubbles sink being removed from the Fire and almost cold keep it up in a body as near as you can by bringing back the outside to the middle with your Fingers being rubbed
them together for a quarter of an hour in a pint of white Wine then beat the yolk of an Egg in a little white Wine let it boil a walm and brew them together with two ounces of Loaf-Sugar drink it warm going to bed This hath holpen very many Another for the Wind-Collick and Stone Take four hard red Onions boil them in three pints of strong Ale till a quart is consumed then strain it and drink it warm For the Collick and griping of the Guts Take Sage and Mint boil them in a fit proportion of Claret Wine then strain it and sweeten it with a little Sugar and drink it warm Another for the same from the Lady Drury Take a green Turf of Grass and lay it to the Navil the green side next the skin and let it remain there till you find ease Another for the Collick Pain in the Stomack or Worms Take a spoonful of the Powder of dried Oaange peels drink it in Wine Broth or warm Ale For the Collick or Vlcer in the Kidneys Make a Posset of Milk and white Wine put thereto three spoonfuls of red Nettles and an ounce of Syrup of Althaea Take this proportion for three Mornings together and by God's assistance it will ease you of the pain For the Wind-Collick Take Columbine Leaves Camomile red Sage of each a handful stamp and press the Juyce out of them put as much Beer to it as will make a Posset and having taken off the Curd put into it Ginger and Nutmeg at discretion and drink it warm CHAP. VI. Of Remedies against all sorts of AGUES and FEAVERS A Remedy against an Ague TAke a large Nutmeg and grate half of it and mix it with the yolk of an Egg beaten then put to it five or six spoonfuls of Plague-water shake it well together and let the Patient drink it an hour or two before the Fit or assoon as he perceives that his Nails begin to change blew repeat this until it be cured This is a very wholsome Medicine it strengthens the Back wonderfully and cannot be taken too often Another for the same Take a spoonful of good strong Mustard mix it with a draught of hot Ale and let the Patient drink it whenever he perceives his Fit will come upon him Repeat this two or three times if it cures not the first time Another for the same Take four spoonfuls of the Juyce of red Nettles mix it with eight spoonfuls of strong Ale give this to the Patient warm an hour or two before his Fit let him lie warm covered in bed to sweat with Bottles of hot wather at his feet and under his Arm-pits to cause Sweat You need not give so much of the Juyce to a Child proportion it according to their age This quantity here set down is for midling persons If his Fit be uncertain let him take it so soon as he feeleth any emotion of his approaching Fit Another Remedy for an Ague Take of Rue and Peniroyal each a handful boil them together in a Posset made of Ale and Milk drink a good draught thereof warm in a Morning fasting and when you go to bed continue this for three days together This cured a Woman that gave suck Sir Kenelm Digby's Remedy for the Ague which hath cured many Take three drams of Venice or London Treacle put it into a quarter of a pint of white Wine and put it into a little pot very close covered let it stew simpringly for half an hour stirring it sometimes Let the Patient take this an hour or two before his Fit shaking it well together and drinking it warm let him go to bed and cover himself warm to sweat Repeat this two or three times This Medicine was fetched far and near and it was delivered to all that came for it and many persons were cured by it both rich and poor as also several of Sir Kenelme 's Family It is a wholesome and safe Remedy A Plaister for the Ague Take Hops and Salt of each a handful Corants a quarter of a pound stamp these together in a Mortar and lay it to the wrists Another Plaister Take Linseed and bruise it well in a Mortor make it into a Pultice with the Patient 's own water and lay it to the wrists Another Take of the Leaves of strong Tobacco six drams Corants a small handful beat them together in a Mortar then mix them with so much Turpentine as will make them into a Salve which spread upon Leather and lay it to the wrists Spread it an inch thick and lay it on twenty four hours before the Fit It will cure either a Tertian Quotidian or Quartan Ague The Countess of Kents Powder according to Sir Kenelme Digby's Method and as it was prepared by his Order in his Laboratory and as I prepare it now Take four ounces of black ends of Crabs-claws taken when the Sun is in the Sign of Cancer Crabs-eyes fine Pearls and Corals prepared of each an ounce yellow Amber half an ounce roots of Contrayerva Virginian Snakeroot of each six drams Oriental Bezoar three drams of the bones that are found in the hearts of Stags four scruples reduce all into a subtil Powder sprinkle the Crabs-claws and Crabs-eyes and the Powder of Pearls and Corals with a little Juice of Limon to make it ferment a little Then the next day mix all well together adding one ounce of Tincture of Saffron and powr upon the Mass when you incorporate it three or four spoonfuls of Spirit of Honey or Jelly of Harts-horn and Jelly of the Skins of Vipers that have been dried in the shadow Then add to this Composition one ounce of Trochisque of Vipers grind it all well together to make it well incorporate then make it up into little Balls and let them dry and keep them for Use The Vertues This Powder is a most Sovereign Remedy in all Pestilential and Epidemical Distempers in all Malignant spotted or Purple Fevers it drives out the Small Pox and Measles drives the Venom from the Heart and hinders the Vapors to fly up to the Head and Brain it is sudorifick and drives out by transpiration all bad humors resists Corruption and corroborates and strengthens Nature The Dose is from six to twenty or thirty Grains and in an extremity of the Plague one may give it from thirty to forty grains Sir K. D. had this Powder always ready by him in his Closet and many persons of Quality far and near sent to him for some of it when any of their Children had the Small Pox or Measles and never any did miscarry of all that took it It is also good against the biting of mad Dogs stinging of Vipers and other venomous Beasts A Cordial Julep to be taken with this Powder in the hot Fit of an Ague and Fever Take of the Countess of Kents Powder twelve grains Cochincle two grains grind them together and let the Patient take it in a spoonful of the following Cordial Julep drinking