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heart_n	arm_n	foot_n	leg_n	2,086	5	11.5553	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47169	The Kitchin-physician, or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health wherein are described the natures, causes, and symptoms of all diseases, inward and outward, incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : prescribing natural, useful and proper published for the common good ... by T.K., Doctor in Physick.	T. K., Doctor in physick.	1680 (1680)	Wing K20; ESTC R18406	50,933	148

milk'd putting every time therein one ounce of pounded ●oaf-Sugar he shall take every hour Preserve of Roses or loaf-Sugar or of the powder of small Cakes called Diatragacanth it is very good to drink every morning fasting a full glass of water which is still'd in a bath balneum Mariae made of all these Herbs viz. of Colts-foot Wall-wort Venus-hair Hysop of each a like quantity with snails without the shells being washt very clean the water of Snails stilled alone is good also against this distemper as well as for all other dry and lean persons he shall use little Cakes made of two ounces of Pimpinella powdered with Sugar which he shall take every morning being dissolved in three ounces of Pimpernella water it is very wholesome to take in the morning of this following powder a quarter of an ounce and immediately after take two spoonfuls of Surrup of Jujuben or for want of that take stilled water of Colts-foot or of Barley-water Ptisane This Powder is made in this manner Take of the four great cooling seeds together one ounce and three quarters Quince-kernels almost half an ounce white Poppy seed somewhat more then half a● ounce Liquorish balls pounded Hysop Starch Gum-Arabick three sixteen parts of an ounce Gum-Diatragacanth Pe●●dice as much as of all the rest together this being each asunder well pounded and reduced to Powder must be well mi●● together to a Powder 69. To cure the Palpitation of the Heart The Patient by the advice of the Physician must either bleed or purge that if it be possible the cause of the Malady may be taken away The outward Remedies against his sickness when 't is accompanied with an Ague will be to drink every morning the Surrup of Lemmons or the juyce of Sorrel with Rose-water Purslain with Sorrel Let the Patient smell to Spices that ar● of a good scent and cooling as Roses Flowers of Violets and Vineger Also wet a cloth in stilled water of Lambs-tongue Roses and Sorril with a little wine-vineger and put it upon the left breast But if the passion of the Heart be without an Ague then take Imperial water Aqua Coelestis Cinnamon-water Aqua Vitae or Brandy drink of each of these apart in the morning fasting or distilled water of Ox-tongue in which three ounces of Cloves have been boiled or six ounces of the water of Confilie the Herb Balm with two ounces of Sugar mixed therewith or the weight of a Crown of the Conserve of Diameschum Let him drink with it distilled water of good wine or water of Ox-tongue or the Confection of Hyacinth which is very good or the Conserve of Gilliflowers and Rosemary or such like Also take the water of Ox-tongue Balm and Bourage a pound together good red-Wine half a pint sugar of Cinnamon Cloves Nutmegs of each a quarter of an ounce mingle all these together warm it in a dish upon an hot Tile then wet therein a Scarlet or linnen cloth and put it upon the left breast You shall put in a little bag the Powder of Sandalwood with the aforesaid well-scenting Spices and heart-strengthening Powders and lay it warm upon the left breast The aforesaid pleasant scents comfort the Heart therefore the Patient should often smell to them whether you prepare them for Perfumes Waters Powders or sweet-balls made of Benjamin Storax Labdanum Ambergreese Civet or other rich Perfumes wherewith you may per●ume the sick parties Chamber Cloaths Also these Perfumes are good to hang about the sick parties neck about the bigness of a pea or to drink two or three ounces of the distilled water of Ox-tongue and of Balme Also this following water is esteemed a special Remedy Take of the Hearts of three Oxen and the Hearts of three Hogs Nutmegs Cloves Seed of Basilicon of each three eight parts of an ounce flowers of Burage Ox-tongue Rosemary Marygolds of each an handful let these soak one night in Old Malligo or Hipocras 70. To cure the faintness of the Heart 'T is good to press and bend the joint of the Heart or Physick-finger or to rub the same with a piece of Gold and Saffron for from this finger the vertue goes to the Heart But forasmuch as this is a very bad and heavy distemper and a fore-runner of death therefore 't is called a timely death For which a speedy Remedy must be provided and be always in readiness if it be but cold water which they must sprinkle on the Patients face adding thereto Rose-water if it may be gotten time enough Their fingers arms and legs must be tyed and rubbed hard they must pull the sick by the hair and give him a little wine to drink Or give him some Aqua-vitae or Metheglin made a little warm or Imperial water Aqua Coelestis or let him smell good wine-vineger or rub and anoint his Breast with Aqua vitae made a little warm by which Motions and Drink the dispersed vitals will gather themselves again to the heart These means are good for men but not for women although you are assured the faintness proceeds not from the Matrix if it doth sprinkle not any water on her face but let her smell fumes that stink putting them into her Nostrils Such as Divel-turd Beverswine Partridge Feathers burnt on the fire old shoo-soals burned or you shall perfume her below with Benzoyn Storax Musk Amber Civet and the like If the faintness proceeds from the decay of the spirit as it often doth after a great bleeding looseness or sweat then it is not good to bind the arms and legs nor to sprinkle cold water on their face but 't is most expedient to give them good wine and of the aforesaid waters to drink and to nourish them with good Victuals as Chicken-broth and the like nourishing soft and delicate food 71. Against continual Burning Feavers Bind upon the Pulse-veins of both Arms the juyce of stinging Nettles mingled with Poplar Salve or take an Onion the middle being taken out then fill it with Mithridate and bind it fast upon the pulse of the right-Right-arm Or two yolks of new-laid Eggs with foot of the chimney well pounded mingled with Salt and strong vineger bind it with a linnen cloth about the arm Or take the heart of a frog and bind it on the Heart or Back-bone of the Patient or lay it on his Liver or lay upon the hollow of the foot a living frog Many make a drink of bruised field-Sorrel to drink in the greatest heat and make of the remainder a Poultis to lay upon the back of the Patients hands Others perform the same with the juyce of a great Lemon others lay flea-herb-seed or five-leav'd grass a soaking in water one night and then putting Sugar into this liquor they give it the Patient to drink 72. Against Quotidian Feavers It is good to drink a little before the fit cometh the juyce of Betony and Plantine leaves or to drink in the morning a Decoction of the Roots of Ladies-mark

desire in his ordinary drink and use clean juyce of Pomegranats alone or mixed with wine 87. Against Vomiting Take a slice of Tosted-bread let it steep in Clarret-wine and spread thereupon powder of Mastick and lay it warm upon the stomach renewing it every three hours Or take water-Mint two handfuls red-Roses one handful let them boyl up in wine then take Toasted-bread well soaked in wine two ounces mix these with powder of Mastick one eighth part of an ounce to a Poltis to prepare the stomach against the Symptome But if the Vomiting be accompanyed with a Feaver then soak and boil the Mint Roses and Toasted-bread in vineger Also Mint or water-Mint bruised mingled with Oyl of Roses and laid upon the stomach is good against all kinds of Vomiting besides it is good after Meals to swallow a mouthful of water or to eat a piece of Quince-Herb without drinking suddenly after it or to swallow in the moming with Wine two hours before break-fast five or six whole pepper-grains or Syrup of Mint or Wormwood or green Ginger Likewise it is expedient to bleed by Cupping-Glasses on the lowermost part of the stomach or under the Navel without pricking especially when you eat and to rest after Meal without speaking or coughing 88. A Cure for the pain of the Stomach Fill a dish with hot ashes sprinkle them with Wine cover the dish all over with a cloth hold this warm to your belly or lay warm upon the stomach a little bag of Salt very warm Or take crums of Bread as hot as they come out of the oven put it in the Oyl of Cammomile after it hath soaked therein wrap it up in a linnen cloth and lay it upon the belly Or fill the bladder of a Hog with decoction of Laurel Oreya Marjoram Mint Thime Cammomile Nipta Melilot Anis and Fenickle lay it warm upon the stomach and renew it when it begins to be cold Or knead a cake of Rye-leaven with Wine and an handful of Wormwood water-Mint and Roses and lay it to the belly 89. To kill the Worms in Children Let them eat confection of Rhabarbar or the Preserve of Peach-tree flowers Or drink distilled water of Gentian Or the juyce of Lemons water-Mint Basilicon Purslain Rhue or Wormwood Or a small draught of Wormwood-Wine with the Powder of Earth-worms first dryed and then burnt upon an hot Tile and afterwards pounded small Or the eighth part of an ounce o● the Powder of Carduus Benedictus or Corallina Or lay upon their Navel a Poltis of Wormwood and an Ox-gall in the decrease of the Moon 90. A Cure for the Griping of the Guts There is nothing better than to carry about one a Ring or little box of Silver in which is inclosed a small piece of the Navel of a new-born Child let the Ring touch the flesh Also let the Patient during the pain drink a small draught of the best white or red-wine Or drink four or five ounces of Oyl of Nuts of Flax-seed of Peach-tree kernels Or drink Cammomile-water or water in which Hempseed hath been boiled or Wine in which stamp'd Elicampane-Root hath been soaked ten or twenty hours or the Powder of the pizzle of a Stag drunk with water or Hens-dung with Hypocrass made of honey and wine The little bones which are found in Woolfs-dung being bruised nay the dung of the Woolf bruised and drank with Wines is good against the Colick Or take the Heart of a Lark newly killed and bind it to the calve of the leg Also a Clyster made of pickle Also a fresh skin or the net of the guts of a Weather newly killed and laid warm to the belly Also a Plaister made of Wolfs-dung Or take hot ashes and put them in a dish or pot pouring thereupon a glass of good red-wine cover it with a cloth four double and lay it upon the belly this will give present ease 91. Against Oppilation Against Oppilation and for the mollifying of the belly eat in the morning sweet black Cherries Peaches Figs or Mulberries drink the first juyce of Coleworts Beets the leaves of Peet-cheefe or of Lettice without Salt Or lay upon the belly pap made of the Root of Hogs-bread the Gall of a Bull mixed with honey Colloquint-leaves or make a Stick-pill of Bacon Mallow or Beets 92. A Remedy for the flux of the Belly The looseness or flux of the belly is of two sorts first the Dienteria which is most dangerous it is occasioned when that which is eaten is by reason of great Indigestion thrown out as it was taken in without any stinking The second is the looseness called Diarrhoea when there is onely a single flux and course of waterish and slimy humours There is a third flux called the red-flux or Dissenteria wherein blood is mixed with the Excrement or when the sick voids blood onely Looseness Dienteria Concerning the first because such fluxes happen seldome but by a strange accident or to those who dye because of extreme Age and because the same is dangerous they who are not able to pay the Physician may make use of the following Remedy Let the sick take Surrup of Wormwood with honey of Roses or with the water of Betony Fenickle and Wormwood four or five mornings of each a spoonful The patient shall excite vomiting in case he be not inclined thereto by some means which are useful thereto Next he shall strengthen the stomach with with Oyl of Nard Spicknard Mint and Wormwood Or with a stomach-plaister of Galenus spread upon leather and laid to the belly Or you may put to the stomach a little bag filled with Wormwood Mint and dry Marjoram In the morning let him take a little piece of the small Cakes which are made of Aromatick powder which you may have at the Apothecaries called Aromaticum Rosatum Also a little of a well-sugared Lemon-Pill and before he eateth let him take some Marmelade Second Looseness Diarrhoea For the second that this looseness or flux of humours is not always a sickness but rather a benefit of nature and wholsome to him that hath it if it be not accompanied with a Feaver if it lasts not long and if there be not any bloody flux to be feared When this looseness is without a Feaver you must let it take its course for three or four days that the body may be exonerated of bad and superfluous humours At the end of that time if it be accompanied with a Feaver or if you fear a bloody flux being threatned by one drop of Blood then you shall use these Clysters or Infusions which are drawing Take Mint Sage Marjoram Benagie 'T is good to use Milk wherein Iron or Steel hath been quenched or half Milk and half water boyled to the half Or powder of Harts pizle drunk with water or roasted Rice or the eighth part of an ounce of pownded Mastick with the yolk of an Egg. Also you may make a Plaister of wheaten Meal soak'd in red-wine and