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A33534	Kitchin-physick, or, Advice to the poor by way of dialogue betwixt Philanthropos, physician, Eugenius, apthecary [sic], Lazarus, patient. With rules and directions, how to prevent sickness, and cure diseases by diet ...	Cock, Thomas.	1676 (1676)	Wing C4793_PARTIAL; Wing C792; ESTC R12679	32,867	159

Herbs throwing away the husks as you eat it sweeten it with a very little Sugar Salt Butter and fine Manchet may be added unless the Disease be very acute Or Take a quart of water put to it a spoonful or two of Oatmeal and a little Mace when it is sufficiently boil'd put in it seven or eight spoonfuls of white or Rhenish-wine to make it more nourishing if the Disease will bear it beat up an Egg with a little Sugar and put some of the hot liquour to it and then give it a walm or two Or Take Tamarinds or Pruens wash them in several Waters then stone them and cut them small boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water and Oatmeal and strain the juyce from the flesh as you did the Currants and add to it a little Sugar when you eat it All sorts of Broths Ptisans and Suppings made of Barley clean pick'd hul'd and wash'd in many waters is very pleasing to persons sick of hot Diseases So are all tart sharp and sowre things as Verjuyce Barberries Vinegar Gooseberries Cervices Oranges Lemons dryed Grapes or our common red Cherries dryed quench thirst cool cause appetite and please most sick Pallats Sorrel is a most noble and useful plant Possets made of it are excellent in ardent or malignant Fevers the Green-sauce made of it is the best of all Sauces for Flesh Gooseberries not full ripe sealded and eaten with good Water a little Sugar and Rose-water Marmalade of Gooseberries is also a dainty repast for weak and sickly persons so is their Quideny the Quideny of Currants both white and red do the like so do Barberries either preserved or in the conserve and many such like d●●nties made by ingenuous Gentlewomen Tamarind Possets are also very pleasing and profitable in all hot Diseases 'T is made thus Take three pints or two quarts of Milk boil in it about two peny worth of Tamarinds which you may buy at the Apothecaries until it turn the Milk then strain it from its Curds Thus is made White-wine Rhenish Lemon Orange Sorrel Pippin and all Possets made of sowre things wh ch are excellent in Fevers and all Diseases coming of Choler Vinegar Possets will do as well as any Apples quodled and eaten with Water Sugar and Verjuyce are grateful to a hot and dry constitution So Pru●ns stew'd with Sorrel Verjuyce or Juyce of Lemon Endive Succory Dandelyon Spinage Beets Pur●lain Borrage Bugloss Violet Strawberries Cy●qfoyl Raspeberries Mulberries Burnet Quince Plantain Dampsons Lettice Cucumbers Eggs potch'd into Water Vinegar or Verjuyce and eaten with Sorrel sipits or Vinegar and fine Sugar may be permitted persons whose Disease is not acute or Eggs beaten in a Platter with Butter-milk to a moderate thickness and sugar'd is also excellent Two-Milk Posset that is boil a quart of Milk to this put a pint of Butter-milk take off the Curd and you have a pleasant Posset This Bocheet made of Ivory is also excellent Take Spring-water three pints boil it away to two when it is cold put to it one ounce of shavings of Ivory a few Coriander or Carryway-Seeds you may add also as many bruised Currants as Ivory put them all in a Tin Coffee-pot adding as you think fit a little liquorish and let them stand simpering by the fire four or five hours then strain them and keep the liquor in the pot to drink when you will as Coffee to make it a more pleasant repast you may put a little Rhenish wine to it and dulcifie it with a little powder of white Sugar candy Cullis and Jelly of Ivory and Harts-horn is a good Restorative Diet for hot maciated persons make it thus Take a Chicken or young Cockerel Pheasant Snipe or Wood cock those that have not too much money may take Hogs feet Lambs Calves Pigs-pettitoes or Trotters or take the bones of Veal Mutton Hens Pullets Capons c. which have sinews sticking to them Boil all or any of these in the water wherein French Barley has first been bolled throw away the Barley and add to the Water some shavings of Ivory and a few Currants or estoned Raisins when the broth is throughly boiled strain it and when it is cold it will Jelly take from it when 't is cold all the fat from the top and dregs at bottom and to a Porenger of this melted put the yolk of a new laid Egg beaten up with the Juyce of an Orange and a little Sugar and let it stew gently a little while and so drink it Note That all salt and bitter and very sweet things and all hot and dry things are to be avoided while you use this diet and are advised so to do by your Physician as Pepper Ginger Cynamon much Salt Tobacco Brandy and wine unless mix'd with Water strong Beer and Ale and meat especially much rosted and very fat But cooling Odours as Vinegar or Water wherein Rose leaves Violets or any sweet temperate Herbs have been steep'd or a turf of fresh earth often smelt to or to receive much the sent of Cow-dung is good and necessary for hot blooded people CHAP. II. Treats of a Hot Diet for Cold Diseases and Constitutions THe intent of hot Aliments is to heat and dry a cold and moise Constitution to cherish and restore our Native heat when it is deficient by any cold accident or disease If Food vertually hot exceed the second degree of heat as Garlick Onyons Mustard Radish Brandy c. It may not then improperly be called Physick and more fit to be used so than as food and though our bodies are best preserved by things con-natural or moderately hot yet when we do accustom them to things immoderate as much Wine Brandy Tobacco c. We seldom long escape death or some great disease But away with these distinctions of qualities says Mempsis All that concerns this Chapter is to mind you of such things as are contrary to a cold disease a faint weak vapid and watery blood and 't is endless to assert all that may be said on this subject I shall therefore only single out such as are sufficient This Cullis is counted excellent Take a large Cock Capon Sparrows Partridge Snipes or Wood-cocks boil all or any of them in a gallon of Spring-water till they fall in pieces or come to a Pottle then take off all the fat when 't is cold and put to it two quarts of White-wine and then boil it again to a Pottle then clarifie it with two or three Whites of Eggs then dulcisie and Aromatize it with about a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon grosly beaten and about four ounces more or less of fine Sugar colour it with Saffron and perfume it with a grain or two of Musk or Amber-greese and to make it more cordial and costly add to it confect of Alchermes and Hyacynth q. v. strain it through a gelly bag two or three times and eat it alone or mix it with other broths Or Take Calves-feet Cow-heel fresh

Pig-pork Veal or Trotters let them simper ten or twelve hours by a soft fire in a sufficient quantity of Spring-water with Mary-golds Rosemary Time Savory Sweet-marjoram Mace or Cinamon when 't is almost boil'd enough add to it a crust of bread then strain it To make it more nourishing put to it as you eat it the yolk of an Egg and Sugar Or Take a quart of Sack burn it with Rosemary Nutmegs or Mace then temper two or three new laid Eggs with four or five spoonfuls of it Give it a walm or two with the Eggs and add to it Sugar to your content Thus also for cheapness it may be made with Ale stale-beer or Sider Or Take two or three spoonfuls of Brandy put to it a pint of Ale boil the Ale and scum it then put to it Sugar and drink it Or Take three or four leaves of Sage twelve leaves of Garden or Sea-scurvy-grass shavings of Horse-radish root as much as will lye on a shilling Raisins of the Sun eston'd Num. 20. put them into a quart bottle of Ale or Beer after two or three days you may drink it constantly for your ordinary drink against the Scurvy Dropsie Green-sickness or any cold Disease Egg-caudle and all sorts of broths Bocheets Caudles Cullices Jellies and liquid Aliments made with Flesh Eggs Sugar Sweet-fruit Wine or Aromatick Spices nourish more and sooner than things that are solid and in the substance and on this account no diet can exceed Eggs eaten any ways Take any flesh reer-rosted or boil'd Mutton is best press from it the Juyce or Gravy let it simper over a soft fire with so much white or Rhenish Wine as there is Gravy to which add the yolk of Eggs as you see occasion Sugar and a lirtle Cinamon Nutmeg or Mace drink often four or five spoonfuls of it or eat it with crums of sine Manchet or Naples Bisket The bottom of any well-seasin'd Venison Pasty or meat 〈◊〉 stew'd in a sufficient quantity of Wine and Water or Ale and Water or Water only makes a good stomach Potage All Aromatick Plants all exalted Sauces with Anchovacs Saffron Shalots Pepper Ginger Cloves Cinamon Nutmeg Mace Mustard or Horse-radish roots Chervil Cresses Mint Peny royal Taragon c. Steept slic'd or shred into Sack are good Sauces for cold and crude stomachs Note That Ambrosiopaea's or our Cordial Spirits much Flesh and good Wine moderately taken may be used while you are under this diet Rich aromatick scents odours and perfumes are also excellent Galen counted them the solace and support of his life The sauce and food of his Spirits and that Reverend Divine the learned Hooker found them so to fortifie rature that he could not live with●ut them And certainly most distempers incident to a cold and moist brain the original and prime cause of most diseases are prevented relieved or cured by Aromatick Odours these and good Air are says 't is Hippocrates I think the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 charms against all evil CHAP. III. Treats of a moist diet for dry diseases and constitutions MOst of those things mentioned in the first Chapter against hot diseases may be useful also against dry because such diseases as are hot are generally also dry and therefore it is that moisture and dryness are counted passive qualities But besides what are already mentioned in that Chapter there 's nothing can come in competition with Milk and had Gods providence confined us only to this Aliment and bread we had no cause to complain of his bounty 'T is generally suppos'd to be of a cold and moist temper but being nothing else but white blood I rather think it as blood is temperately hot and moist and so like the blood of our bodies that nothing can exceed it for nourishment and therefore 't is that Milk in acute distempers is accounted offensive unless alaid with water Asses Milk for Medicinal use is in greatest repute because 't is not so thick to obstruct nor so thin as not to nourish both which may be performed by Cow-milk either by taking from it the Cream call'd Fleetmilk or putting to it a due proportion of Whey especially if the Whey be first well boil'd and put to it cold and then it will answer all the intents of Asses milk But such as are sound and under no manifest distemper stand in no need of these cautions and directions nor can err in eating it only observing 1. That they do not eat it raw and cold when they are hot 2. Not to eat it on a full stomach or mingled with other meats this makes children so subject to Worms 3. Use no violent motion immediately after it A draught of warm Milk from any Cow 't is but conceit and opinion to count on a red-Cow more than a red-Woman the brown and black of both Kine are best so that they are young well fed and well flesh'd their Milk I say taken in bed about an hour before you rise is an absolute refection for a hot lean and dry constitution if you put a little Sugar or Salt in it you need not fear its curdling or corrupting This trifle made of Milk is pleasant Take a quart of Milk boil in it a blade of Mace then take it from the fire and dissolve in it two or three spoonfuls of fine Sugar then when 't is blood-warm put to it about a spoonful of Runnet stir it and dish it out for a wholesome repast some do it with Cream instead of Milk they are both good There are many of the like nature which this short Essay will not permit of Fish of all sorts is also cold and moist especially those that live in fresh waters but Fish that dwell in salt waters and among Rocks and gravel Rivers are best Fresh-cod Whiting Shads Place Flounder Sole Bream Barbel Smelts Carps Gudgeon Pearch Pikes Roche Mullets Jacks or broths made with these and Oysters Cockles crums of bread and yolks of Eggs are sine feeding for sick maciated people Fruit of all sorts Pears Apples Prunes c. Stew'd rosted boil'd or bak'd are good also against dry Diseases Carrots Cowslips Purslain Letice Asparagus ripe Mulberries Spinache Strawberries Dates Violet leaves Sweet-almonds Mallows Beets Endive Succory Borage Burnet Liquorish Scorzonera Raisins Currants Whey Wheat French barley Oatmeal Puddings Frumety but above all things Flumory the worth of which is known to few 't is made thus Take half a peck of Oatmeal take from it the supersine flowre put it to soke three or four days in a stand or any earthen Vessel with so much water as will more than cover it shift the water every day to take away the bitterness of the Oatmeal let it stand in the last water till it sowre and when you would use it stir it well together and strain so much as you would use at once then boil it up to the consistence of a gelly and eat it at any time cold or hot with a little White-wine or

Bauds and common Strumpets Gypsies Witches and Conjurers commonly call'd cunning men and women should be most famous in this profession Is it to be supposed that all Universities Colleges and learned Societies as our Mempsis will have it throughout the whole world could remain ignorant after the greatest endeavours they could use as upon Record and in all their Writings they solemnly protest they do if any such thing as these persons boast of by Urin or their Universal Medicines were to be known or attain'd unto Laz. Truly Sir there is something in what you say and it seems to call in question ones discretion to believe all that is talk'd of But I pray Sir would you not have us then bring the Patients water when we come to you Phil. Yes by all means good Lazarus but not with any expectation of conjuring for though there be no certain knowledge of any Disease nor any safe judgement to be given only by the Urine yet it serves often times to indicate or hint something to us Laz. If Urine be thus uncertain and insignificant I pray Sir then how came this custom into such request and what still continues the repute and use of it Phil. All the account I can give you of the original and growth of this errour is chiefly the ignorance and credulity of the vulgar either in not apprehending the devices secret combinations and stratagems of jugling Vro-manticks or else the peoples mistake and fond conceit in thinking the Physicians chiefest skill lay in the Urine meerly because they observed them to view usually the water when they visited the sick and on this mistake but chiefly to prevent the charge of visits as also the Physicians condescention to the imposition has occasion'd the use of this pernicious custom But because there are some other errors I would advise you of in their proper place I shall conclude this Section with these few directions I. That whenever you visit the Physician you ever bring with you the sick persons water only that it may be in a readiness if the Physician sees occasion to require it but not with any expectation of being resolv'd any thing that is certain and material by it II. Though the Physician should omit to ask yet do not you forget to tell him all you know of the sick tell him his age sex calling complexion habit of body and constitution his customs in eating and drinking and what course of life he has led what time he was first taken whether he has a vomiting or looseness or both whether he sleeps much or wants it or has a cough stitches or pains in any part whether his thirst be great or he sweat much and in what part most or whatever else the sick person at that present labours under and complains of and be sure you do not conceil what Medicines he has already taken by the advice or perswasions of others and who they were III. Let your visits be at the beginning and first onset of the Disease and not be put off till the last which makes the Disease not only the more difficult but dangerous also and oftentimes proves fatal you may as well when your house is on fire forbear going about presently to quench it IV. When you have the direction of such a Physician as you ought to confide in be sure you keep to him and punctually in every particular observe his directions a little error herein be it in your Diet or Physick may be your death and run not from one Physician to another though perhaps more eminent and able than the first it being a most certain truth that Multitudo Medicorum Medicinarum c. A multitude of Medicines and Physicians do very often destroy the sick But as to our present concern about Diet take notice That I. All tender temperate sedentary and sickly people all Infants aged idle and decrepit persons ought to eat often but yet very little at once because much food like much fewel thrown upon sire extinguisheth their natural heat and as weak and wasted bodies are to be restored by little and little so also by moist and liquid Aliments rather than dry and solid because that kind of Diet does nourish soonest and digest and distribute easiest II. Those that have an imperfect health or are under any manifest Disease and eat much and get little strength by eating 't is a sign they have used themselves to too full a Diet and the more you cram and cherish such bodies the less they shall thrive by it but grow worse and worse because by much feeding you do but increase the vitiated and bad humours which should be wasted by Bleeding Purging or Abstinence And this should caution all good Women Nurses and Chymists how they importune and impose upon sick persons their comfortable Cordial and good things as they call them and continually encourage the sick say the Physician what he will to be eating one good thing or other to encourage the Archeus To reform this and other unreasonable customs in Diet was instituted in Old times that Order of Physicians call'd Clinicks or such as directed the diseased how to order themselves in sickness which is now the more is the pity lest to the discretion of every idle conceited and ignorant Nurse or Gossip III. Never though in perfect health eat at once till your Appetite be quite satisfied eat not till you have an Appetite and eat not so long till you have none was Galens rule who lived an hundred years without any manifest sickness This Rule also the Emperour Aurelian Cato Seneca and all the samous Dietists carefully observed and without it esteemed Physick but an insipid and insignificant thing When we want our healths we complain that we have taken cold or eaten something hard of digestion or make some such frivolous excuse or other whereas the real cause lyes in a long continued disorderly diet 'T is rare unless we offend in quantity that any food that is common to us or mankind does offend us by its Quality if there be any such thing as Qualitie as there is not says Mempsis IV. If you have eaten or drank too much at once use so much Exercise or Abstinence before you so transgress again as will perfectly digest the superfluity and excess of your former eating and drinking or else there will be a necessity of being beholden to the extraordinary helps of Physick to prevent Gouts Catarrhs Scorbuts loss of appetite Crudities Obstructions Palsies and what not V. If you eat a large breakfast eat no dinner if you eat no dinner eat an early supper if you eat a supper eat no breakfast if no breakfast eat an early dinner and by this means you will keep your stomack clean strong and vigorous and preserve thereby a good digestion and distribution of your food Custom and company cause us commonly more than thirst and hunger to eat and drink but when hunger and thirst invite us