quarters in the Tart with a thin slice of Quince under each quarter and the scrapings of Orange or Lemon-peel strew them over with Sugar and Rose-water after you have poured in the Syrup of Quinces or the Syrup of Pippins scatter over them a little Cinamon beaten into fine Powder close up the Lid and bake them in a gentle Oven Cods-Head to Dress Cut it fair and large boil it in Water and Salt add a pint of Vinegar so that all the Head and Appurtenances may be just covered put into the Mouth of it a quart of stewing Oisters a bundle of sweet-Herbs and an Onion quartered and when it is sufficiently boiled set it a drying over a Chafing-dish of Coals then take Oister liquor sliced Onion and two or three Anchoves a quarter of a pint of White-wine and a pound of sweet Butter shred the Herbs mix them with the Oisters and garnish it with them adding withal some slices of Lemon grated Bread and a little Parsley Colick and Stone Drink of the distilled Water of Parsley in White-wine or good Ale Colick and Stone Take four long Pepper-Corns two races of Ginger both bruised two sprigs of Rosemary the shells of two new-lay'd Eggs in fine Powder the inner Skin being taken away boil them together for a quarter of an Hour in a pint of White-wine let it boil well and brew them together with two ounces of Loaf-Sugar and drink it warm going to Bed Complexion to preserve Take Water-Lily Flowers Mint Vine-Leaves Violets Myrtle-Berries or Seeds Roses white and yellow Saunders Citron-peels dryed Quinces dryed Prunes of each a dram Camphor and Saffron of each a scruple make them up into Balls with Vinegar wherein the best Bolus has been dissolved and it is not only of an excellent Scent but dissolved in fumitory Water it causes a very charming Complexion as well as preserves Beauty Confection to cause Sweat Take Treacle and Mithridate of each an ounce Pimpernel and Angelica of each ten grains Cardamoms and Camphire of each five grains bruise and mix them well together and make them up into a Confection with ten grains of beaten Cinamon and of this take to the quantity of a Hazle-Nut in Carduus or Sorrel-water first dissolving it well and keep close and warm in Bed and you may continue sweating three or four Hours if the Distemper be violent or a less while as occasion requires For want of this Confection if any sudden Cause requires sweating you may take a dram of Mithridate in Carduus Treacle or Sorrel-water and keep your self warm for some Hours afterwards lest the Pores by this means opening suddenly suck in the cold Air and do more harm than good Confection against Pestilential Airs Take white Diapalma fine Bolus sealed Earth Myrrh Wormwood Scabious Pimpernel Sorrel Zedoary and Rue of each a dram and a half Tormentile Aristolochy and Bay-Leaves of each a dram five or six Walnut-Kernels peeled twelve new Figs Mithridate and Treacle of each an ounce Camphor and Saffron of each a Scruple Unicorns-Horn Bone of a Stag's Heart prepared Pearl burnt and Harts-Horn of each a dram and a half of either the Seeds of Citron peeled and bruised half an ounce Mace a dram make them into a Powder and with Citron-Syrup mingle them to the thickness of a Confection Take half a dram Morning and Evening in a glass of Canary or Muscadine and it mainly strengthens and preserves Nature against corrupt and pestilential Airs For want of Wine in Summer especially yon may take it in Rose or Mint-Water Confection to help the Sight Take Eye-bright and Fenel of each a Dram Cardamoms and Mace of each a dram and a half Seeds of Rue and Celandine of each a quarter of an ounce Rosemary an ounce Anniseed Lignum-Aloes and Carraways of each half an ounce make of these finely beaten a Confection with Honey or Sugar This is called the Oculists Confection and is very strengthening to the Eyes and Brain it restores decayed Sight Take three or four Drams in five or six spoonful of Wine Confection Another for the Sight Take Celandine dryed Bettony Eye-bright Hyssop Peneroyal of each a dram Fennel Coriander prepared Marjoram and Basil-seeds Cardamoms Cinamon Ginger Galingale Nutmegs Cloves long Pepper Lignum-Aloes Mastick Spicknard of each half a dram preserved Citron-peels three drams Conserve of Borrage and Rosemary-Flowers of each six drams make them up with Sugar and Fennel-water or for want of Fennel-water Rose-water Three drams at a time of this may be taken in White-wine Rhenish or any other convenient Liquor Conserve of Citron-Flowers Take their weight or more in white Sugar dissolve them in Rose-water hang it over a gentle Fire then take it off and boil it almost to the consistence of a Syrup then put in the Flowers and boil it up to a height and mash them to a Conserve Consolidative-Plaister Take the dryed Leaves of Aristolochia and the round ones an ounce Mastick Frankincense and Myrrh of each two drams Aloes Succotrina one dram Litharge four scruples red Led two scruples Meal of Lupins a dram make them into fine Powder and dissolve an ounce of Deers-suet Hogs-grease half an ounce Oil of St. John's-wort six drams Turpentine washed half an ounce yellow Wax three ounces incorporate them over a gentle Fire to the consistence of a Plaister This is excellent for the Plague sore or any such poisonous or infectious Swelling Consumption Take Colts-foot Succory Endive Borrage Liverwort of each six handfuls shred them all very small put them in a gallon of New-Milk let them steep all night and in the morning distill them take of this Water and Red Rose-water of each three spoonfuls put this to half a pint of Red Cow's Milk sweeten it with Sugar of Roses and so drink it warm at least three times every day Consumption a Broth Take China-roots thin sliced two ounces White and Red Saunders of each three drams put them into a large Pipkin and pour upon it four quarts of fair Water cover it close and let it stand to infuse in a warm place or in hot Water for twenty-four hours then put to it a good Pullet or two Chickens let it boil and scum it well then put into it two handfuls of Five-leav'd-grass Maiden-hair and Hart's-tongue of each half a handful 20 Dates cut small a little Mace with the under-Crust of a Manchet Let all these boil together till two quarts be consumed then take out the Pullets or Chickens and stamp them in a clean Stone-Mortar then put it in the Broth again and let it boil half an hour longer then strain it and press out all the Broth from the Pullet If you please you may sweeten it with Sugar-candy Drink of this Broth early in the Morning and sleep after it if you can and another Draught at Four in the Afternoon and another at night when you go to Rest Consumption a Broth Take two spoonfuls of French Barley scald it in two Waters throw away
Kidneys or Bladder Dock It is a great cleanser of the Blood and strengthener of the Liver when they are afflicted with Choler Some hold that the yellow Dock-roots work most effectually when they are so afflicted All Docks have in them a kind of a cooling drying quality but not all alike The Sorrel being most cold and the Blood-wort most drying the Seed of them stays the Lasks and Fluxes of divers kinds The Roots boiled in Vingear cure and take off the Itch or Scabs the place being washed with the Concoction and the Breakin gs out of the Skin The distilled Water of the Herb and Roots have the same virtue and more-especially cleanse the Skin from Morphew Spots Freckles or other discolourings Any of the several Docks being boiled with Meat make it boil sooner Bloodwort especially is a very wholsom Pot-herb though some ignorant of its virtues refuse it because it makes the Pottage blackish but those are more nice than wise Doctor Stephen's Water Take a gallon of Claret-Wine or Canary Cinnamon Ginger Grains of Paradise Gallingal Nutmegs Aniseed and Fenelseed of each three drams Sage Mint red Roses Pellitory of the Wall wild Marjoram Rosemary wild Thyme Camomil and Lavenden of each a handful bruise the Spices small cut and bruise the Herbs and put all into the Wine in an Alembick and after it has stood twenty four Hours distil it Dodder a Decoction Take of Mirobolans half an ounce Arabian Stoechas Raisins of the Sun stoned Dodder of Thyme and Senna of each an ounce Fumitory half an ounce Hemp and Agrimony five drams of the Roots of Polypody of the Oak six drams Turbith half an ounce Whey two quarts boil them all but the Dodder till the Liquid be consumed to a quart then put in the Dodder and make it afterward just ready to boil and so take it from the Fire adding a dram and a half of the Roots of black Hellebore of Agarick half a dram Sal Gemma a dram and a half When these have been infused about ten hours press out the Liquor and take four ounces of it at a time as an excellent Purge for Madness or Melancholy Dodder of Thyme It is effectual in Melancholy and purges black or burnt Choler it takes away the Trembling of the Heart swoonings or Faintings all Diseases and Griefs of the Spleen and Melancholy arising from the windiness of the Hypochondria It purges the Reins and Kidneys it opens the Obstructions of the Gall and is hereby helpful in case of the Jaundice It purges the Reins of phlegmatick and cholerick Humours and mixed with a little Wormseed is good in Agues in Children Dog-Biting If you are bitten by a mad Dog or any other Take the Roots of Gentian one dram Myrrh two drams the Eyes or black Claws of Crabs burnt and powdered two drams put them into White-wine boil them and straining out the Decoction drink a quarter of a pint at a time fasting if you can and very warm then wash the Wound with your own Urin wherein Rue and Carduus have been boiled and so continue to do three or four Days successively having first laid some of the Powder dry on it to draw out the putrefied Blood and cleanse it Dogs-Grass It is gentle in its operation being boiled in Whitewine or Ale it openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Gall it removes the Stoppage of Urin eases Gripings and Pains of the Belly and Inflammations The Seeds work powerfully in expelling Urin and the Decoction of them stays Lasks and Vomiting The Roots boiled in Whitewine are a general Remedy against all Diseases occasion'd by Stoppages Dogs-tooth This is a kind of Grass so called and has in it many excellent Vertues in Physick viz. The Decoction of it healeth the Pains of the Belly helps difficulty in making Water breaketh the Stone and brings away Gravel The Root bruised and applied searcheth Wounds and keepeth them from Inflammation If the Decoction be put into a little Wine or Honey and the third part of so much Myrrh Pepper and Frankincense and be made to boil in some Copper Vessel it is a singular Remedy for the Tooth-ach and Rheums falling into the Eyes It is good for the Head-ach being stamped and applied to the Forehead It likewise stenches Bleeding at the Nose And the Seed thereof greatly provoketh Urine and bindeth the Belly and stayeth Vomiting c. Darnel The Meal of it is good to be applied to Gangreens or any the like fretting and consuming Cancers or corrupted Sores It is excellent to cleanse a Leprous Skin or that which is affected with Ringworms or Morphew It dissolves Knots and Kernels being used in quick Brimstone and Vinegar breaking those that will not easily dissolve Being boil'd with Pigeons-Dung and Linseed in White-wine it gives ease to the Sciatica The Meal of it applied Poultis-wise draws Splinters or Thorns out of the Flesh as also Splinters of broken Bones so that they may be easily taken out The Red Darnel concocted in Red Wine is excellent to stay Lasks Fluxes and bloody Issues and retains Urine that would otherwise pass away too suddenly Doves-foot Is a present Ease for the Wind-colick it expels the Stone and Gravel in the Kidneys and boiled in White-wine is good for Bruises Hurts or Wounds stays Bleeding dissolves and expels congealed Blood cleanseth old Sores and Ulcers being washed therewith and also Fistula's The green Herb bruised and applied to green Wounds asswageth the Pain and allays the Inflammation The Decoction of it in Red Wine eases the Pains of the Gout and Aches in the Joints or Sinews the Powder or Decoction of it taken for some time together is experienc'd to be very helpful in the Rupture or Burstenness of Old or Young This Herb by some is called Cranes-Bill Down by some called Cotton-Thistle The Leaves and Roots help if the Juice or Decoction of them be drank Cricks and Pains in the Neck Galen affirms That the Roots and Leaves are of a Healing Quality and help against Convulsions of the Nerves whereby any Part of the Body is drawn up by some Spasm as the Rickets in Children and the Shrinking of the Sinews in Old People Dragons The Water of this distilled scoureth and cleanseth the Body being apply'd outwardly it takes away Freckles Morphew and Sun-burn especially if mixed with strong Vinegar an Ointment of it is good in Wounds it consumes the offensive Flesh growing in the Nostrils call'd Polypus and Cancers If dropt into the Eye it takes off Films It is likewise good against the Pestilence Drink in Fevers This is most excellent in hot and continued Fevers viz. boil a handful of the Leaves of Rue in fair Water till it taste very strong of it strain it and add an ounce of beaten Licorice and two ounces of Sugar to half a pint of this add ten drops of Spirit not Oil of Vitriol and use it for an ordinary Drink and it will allay and drive out the Heat that occasions the Fever Drink
Head cover'd close with a Cap. This is excellent against the Head-ach Pains in the Eyes and likewise Swimming of the Head Head to Purge Take Agarick and Mastick of each three drams the Roots of Flower-de-luce and Hare-hound of each one dram Turbith five drams in Powder Hiera Picra half an ounce Pulp of Coloquintida and Sarcocoll of each two drams Myrrh one dram Sapa as much as shall suffice to make them into a mass These purge very strongly from all parts of the Body both Choler and Phlegmatick Humours but especially from the Head and Breast and are good against old Colds and Catarrhs The Dose is half a dram Head Scald Take Olive-oil put it into a Dish-full of fair Water beat them well together then add some fine Powder of Brimstone and May-Butter make an Ointment thereof and anoint the Head therewith Head Scald another Take Olive-oil two ounces put it into half a pint of Spring-water stir and beat them well together then add half an ounce of Flower of Brimstone and three ounces of May-Butter and over a gentle fire make it into an Ointment and anoint the Head therewith as hot as may be endured bath it about seven or eight hours afterwards with Oil of Roses and Camomel melted or mixt together over a gentle fire and by often so doing you have the Remedy Head Scald another Take half a peck of Oyster-shells out of which the Oysters have newly been unshell'd calcine them in a clear fire so that they may be reduced to Powder sift it as fine as Flower and mix it with White Ointment so that it may be something stiff and anoint the Head with it daily and you will soon find the Effects answer your desire Head to Strengthen Take Ointment of Mastick and anoint the Temples and Forehead therewith You may make it in this manner Take of the Oils of Mastick Wormwood and Nard of each one ounce Mastick Mint Coral Red Roses Cloves Cinamon and Wood of Aloes of each a dram and of Yellow Wax a sufficient quantity to make it into an Ointment This not only strengthneth the Head but the Nerves and Stomach and is Astringent Hearing For Thickness of Hearing Take Garden Daisie-roots and beat then till a Juice may be pressed from them then laying your Head on a Bolster your Body lying at length drop three or four drops into the Ear you hear best withal and so continue to do for three of four days together stopping the Ear with Cotton-wool or Lint to keep the Air out Hearing to Recover Take the Juices of Celandine and Daisie roots and drop into the Ears stopping them afterward with Black Wool or Cotton lying on your Back with your Head very low for the space of half an hour after it and in twice or thrice so doing you will find great advantage by it Heart-Burning Take Red Coral finely poudered about a dram take it in White-wine or Ale for want of this scrape some Chalk that has been well burnt in the fire and drink it in the abovesaid Liquors Heart to Cheer Take Carduus Bean Borrage and Bugloss-waters equal quantities and in all but one ounce put into them three grains of Bezoar-stone finely beaten to Powder and having infused it for the space of an hour drink it off and keep your self warm an hour afterward and then drink a glass of Muskadel and in so doing often it will remove Heart-sickness Pains and Tremblings as also Melancholy c. Heart to Chear and Comfort Take of the Leaves of Celandine the Greater with the Roots three handfuls of Rue a handful of Scordium two handfuls Dittany of Creet and Carduus Benedictus of each a handful and an half the Roots of Angelica and Zedoary of each three drams the outward Peels of Citron and Lemon of each five drams of July-Flowers one ounce and an half Red Roses and of the Flowers of the Lesser Centaury of each two drams shred what is to be shred and infuse them three days in three pints of Malaga-Wine or the Spirit of Wine The Vinegar of July-Flowers and the Juice of Lemons of each a pint distill them in a Bath in a Glass Vessel and to the distilled Liquor add of Cinamon three drams Cloves two drams and an half Mithridate an ounce Venice-Treacle three ounces Troches of Vipers half an ounce Camphire two scruples Wood of Aloes a dram Mace two drams Yellow Saunders one dram and an half of the Seeds of Carduus Benedictus one ounce of the Seeds of Citron three drams let these be infused two days then with a gentle fire distill them twice or thrice and draw off half thereof This Water is excellent to Cheer and Enliven the Heart and for expelling Melancholy Heart-Passion Boil Pimpernel the Garden sort Herb Flower and Roots in Ale till the Ale be very strong of them drink it up hot sweetned with a little Syrup of Roses or Violets this twice or thrice done removes Heartsickness or the Infection of the Plague and made into Posset-drink with Milk is good in Pestilential Fevers Heart-sickness to Remove Take Ale and make a Posset-drink thereof then clarifie it and seeth Pimpernel in it till it becomes strong of the Herb sweeten it a little and drink it often Heat in the Eyes Beat the White of an Egg and dissolve in it a pretty quantity of fine Loaf-Sugar beat them till they become thin then drop it into the Eye Heat in the Face Dip a Cloth in the Juice of Lemons and Salt and Atom heated in White-wine and in often applying it the Heat or Redness of the Face will be removed and the Skin become clear smooth and of its proper Colour Heats or Inflammations of the Eyes Take the Powder of Tutty-stone Aloes and Sugar of each an ounce infuse them in a quart of Red Rose-water and White-wine being put into a double Glass and placed in Balneo Mariae five or six days with often shaking wash the Eyes Forehead Temples and indeed the whole Head with this often so you will find a speedy Remedy Heat of the Liver Take Liverwort Garden and Wild and Endive of each a handful Maidenhair half an handful boil them in Water with a little Sugar and being clarified put into the Decoction a little of the Wine of Pomgranates and drink it alone and in your usual Drink for a Week together or as you see occasion The Dose is a quarter of a pint at a time Hellebore to Prepare Infuse the Roots of Black Hellebore in the Juice of Quinces three days in a moderate Heat then dry them and keep 'em for use Hemlock This by reason of its Coldness is supposed to be poisonous yet it is frequently used and not without success for Tumors and Inflammations of the Spleen A Cataplasm or Plaister of it with Ammoniacum powerfully discuss all Tumors or hard Swellings Twenty grains of the Root in Powder is an admirable Diaphoretick in any Malignant Fevers Hemlock Plaister Take of the Juice of the
of Ambergriese cut small and dissolved with some drops of the Oil of Cinamon which being well mixed add what follows in Powder viz. Wood of Aloes and Cinamon of each six drams prepared Pearl two drams Leaf-gold one dram then drain and mix them with the Syrup of Kermes which is made in this manner mix the Grains in a marble Mortar pulp them thorough a Sieve or Strainer and mix them with an equal quantity of Sugar This is the proper Conserve and to make it a Syrup it is but adding more Sugar raw Silk the Juice of Apples and Rose-water It is a great Strengthener of the Heart and Restorer of Nature expels Melancholy and restores a cheerful and wholsom Complexion Kermes a Confection Take the Juice of pleasant Apples and Rose-water a pound and an half raw Silk cut very small one pound put them into a Matrass well stopped and digest them for twenty four hours in Balneo Mariae then squeeze the warm Silk in a Press and boil the Liquor to the consistence of a solid Electuary with two pound of Sugar then take it from the fire and dissolve in it a pound of the new thicker Juice of Kermes and afterward mix with it Oriental Pearl prepared Yellow Saunders and biting Cinamon of each half an ounce Ambergriese pulverised with three drops of the best distilled Oil of Cinamon Lapis Lazuli burnt wash'd and made smooth three drams Leaf-gold one dram Oriental Musk half a dram This Confection without dispute is a very excellent lam den day one and held to be one of the best and purest Cordials that ever and Galenick Physician invented for it repairs and recreates the Vital and Animal Spirits cures the Palpitations of the Heart and remedies Swooning-Fits it very much fortifies the Brain and all the Noble Parts and is an Enemy to Putrefaction it re-establishes the languishing and decaying Strength and drives away Melancholy and Sadness and restores and preserves both Body and Mind in a good Condition It may be taken upon the Point of a Knife or dissolved in Wine or in Broth or in any Cordial or Cephalick Liquor It is sometimes mix'd with Electuaries or Opiates either soft or solid The usual Dose is from one scruple to one dram It is also mixed in Epithems prescribed for the Heart and Liver and rarely fails the Parent 's Expectation Kermes the Iuice its Virtues Kermes or Alkermes is made of the Kermes-Berries and brought from Marseilles it is of a bright Scarlet Colour well-tasted and of the thickness of an ordinary Syrup It is a very great Cordial it discusses Wind and Vapours cheers the Heart revives the Spirit helps Women in Travail helps Nature cures Wounds and wounded Nerves resists the Poison of the Plague and the malignity of Pestilential Fevers and very powerfully and kindly drives out the Small-pox and Measles The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce and an half and may be taken in this Mixture viz. the Juice of Kermes six drams Aqua Lactis Alexiter four ounces mix them together for a Draught Or in this manner Take the Juice of Kermes six drams the Tincture of Cochineel two drams Aqua Lactis Alexiter four ounces mix for a Dose a Syrup made of this Juice with double-refined Sugar it is good to cut tough Phlegm if mingled with a little Juice of Lemons or Citron also to open Obstructions of the Breast and Lungs and strengthen the Stomach it causes a good Appetite and is good against pestilential Diseases A Water distilled from the Juice very much resists the Plague and creates a good Habit and Constitution of Body Kernels of Peaches These bruised and applied to Inflammations allay the Heat and bring Swelling Humours to a Head there is an Oil drawn from them that in hot Inflammations is very good and also to anoint the Stomach with in fainting or swooning Fits Kernels of Pine-Apples The Decoction of them is taken with good success by such as are of phlegmatick Constitution or afflicted with Rheumatisms as also to wash old running Sores with and to cleanse Ulcers and such-like Matters Kibes Take Navel wort the Leaves and Root stamp it very small to half a handful of both these put two ounces of Linseed-oil and a quarter of an ounce of Alom in powder mix them well together over a gentle fire wash your Kibes first in Water and Salt and being dryed bind this on as a Plaister or Poultis It is the same for Chilblains and helps Corns it being so applied when they are newly cut Kibes Broke to Heal Take the Lungs of a Ram dryed and beat to Powder mixed with the Oil of Earth-worms and Linseed-oil and by applying it three or four times and washing them with Urin your Expectation will be answered or if they be not broken make a Plaister of Alom Vinegar and Mustard and lay it on them Kidneys If you find any Swelling in the Kidneys by reason of Obstruction of Urin Cold some Blow received or otherwise Take the Oil of Roses and Quinces of each two drams warm and mix them well over a gentle Fire chafe it on the Reins of the Back and swath the Body very warm with a Flannel Wrapper Kidney-Beans To enlarge upon these will not be amiss seeing so many and various Uses are appropriated to them They open Obstructions provoke Urin expel Sand Gravel and slimy Matter strengthen wonderfully and cause a good Colour in the Face restore in Consumptions they thicken cleanse and stop Fluxes as Diarrhoea's Lienteries The Decoction of them is good against the Stone a strong Broth of them boiled till they are broken dissolved and strained is good against a Consumption The Flower is used in Poultisses and to ripen Fevers It eases Pains outwardly it takes away Freckles Morphew and Sun-burn and other Deformities of the Skin A Cataplasm made of it discusses Bruises in the Eyes A volatil Salt made of them is good against the Apoplexy Epilepsie Palsie Lethargy and Convulsion Gout Stone Rheumatism Colick and other Diseases of the Head Nerves Womb and Joints The Dose is from six grains to ten They are likewise pleasant for Food and very nourishing Kidneys their Pains Cured Take five ounces of Maidenhair Licorice five ounces infuse them twelve Hours in three quarts of Spring-VVater then boil them gently in a Bath and press out the Liquid part when a third part of it is consumed and add by well mixing three pound of clarified Sugar This not only helps the Diseases and Pains in the Kidneys and Sides but also opens the Obstructions of the Lungs provokes Urin gently and expels the Gravel and Stone out of the Bladder An ounce of it may be taken at a time in any proper Liquor Kidney-Pye or Pasty Take the Kidneys of Veal Fat and all with some of the Meat when the Loins of Veal are just roasted mince them very small with the Marrow of six Bones cold to which add sweet Marjoram Winter-savory and Thyme very well
is singular good to stay the Flux of the Belly The Leaves of the Pomegranet-Tree well beaten and the Juice of them mixed with the Oil of Roses does very much help the inveterate Pains of the Head and so sovereign it is that most hold that no venomous Creature will come near the Boughs of it for which reason the Ancients laid them in their Beds and stuck them about their Houses The Decoction of the Root of a Pomgranet-Tree being drank kills the large Worms in the Belly and causes them to be cast out Pork-Pie The Pork you intend to put into Pies must have the Skin taken off then cut the Pork in streaks and take half an ounce of Ginger and the like quantity of Pepper well beaten slice or scrape in two Nutmegs season it pretty well with Salt and put in a little fair Water that has been well boiled and scummed and so bake it sufficiently and serve it up Poppy-Red The Flowers are very cooling and asswage Pain and bring Sleep to weary Eyes and therefore are chiefly used for Fevers Pleurisies and Quinsies and other Diseases especially of the Breast that need cooling Medicins and for immoderate Fluxes The Conserve the distilled Water and the Powder of them are greatly in use but the Syrup most To make it Take the fresh Flowers of Red Poppies two pound and pour upon them two quarts of Spring-water well warmed press them out the next Day and infuse the quantity of fresh Flowers in the Liquor as before then strain it and put in as much Sugar as the Liquor weighs and so make it into a Syrup by boiling it to a thickness over a gentle Fire Poppies a Syrup Take the Heads of black Poppies freshly gathered six ounces and of white ones not thoroughly ripe eight ounces Aqua Coelestis two quarts boil them to the consumption of one quart of the Liquid and put therein Sugar and Penids of each eight ounces boil them to a Syrup This is excellent good to allay the Heat of the Forehead or when it too much afflicts the Brain It is given with success in Frensies or to those that are restless and cannot sleep well as also for Catarrhs and Coughs Pottage To make this very excellent nourishing and conducing to Health and Strength take the Knuckle end of a Leg of Veal very largely cut put into it a gallon or six quarts of Spring-water a pint of Oatmeal sifted very fine Pennyroyal Parsly Thyme and Winter-savory of each a little Faggot or bundle unshread also Sweet-marjoram Sorrel Violet and Marrigold-leaves you may let it stand a whole Night over a gentle Fire and boil it up the next Morning with some Mace Currans Harts-horn Shavings and Sugar then strain it and eat it warm This is very good against a Consumption or any Defect in the Lungs or Stomach Powder of Amber Take six ounces of Bean-flower and pass it through a fine Sieve with four ounces of Cyprus-wood two ounces of Saunders two ounces of Benjamine and half an ounce of Storax two drams of Calamus Aromaticus and as much Laudanum pass these likewise through a Sieve and to two pound of the Composition add four grains of Ambergrease and half an ounce of Pomander Privet beaten and sifted which you must mix in a hot Mortar with Amber then mix them altogether and keep them in a glass Bottle close stopped and make of it sweet Bags to perfume your Cloaths Powder of Aromatick-Rosatum Take red Roses the Whites at the bottom of the Flower the Leaves clipped off 15 drams Licorice finely scraped seven drams sharp and quick biting Cinamon five drams Wood of Aloes and yellow Saunders of each three drams Mace Cloves Indian Spicknard Gum-Arabick and Gum-Tragacanth of each two drams and half Cardamoms the Lesser and Galangal of each one dram Ambergrease two scruples and Oriental Musk one scruple reduce these into a Powder by beating and sifting c. This is excellent good to strengthen the Brain and Stomach it dissipates superfluous Humours and moisture of the Entrails resists Putrefaction creates Appetite and stays Vomiting and want of Retention in the Intestines and is proper to strengthen and restore those that have been weakned by long Sickness The Dose is from half a scruple to half a dram in Wine or any convenient Liquor Powder to create Cheerfulness Take the Seeds of Clove Basil Zedoary or Setwell Saffron yellow Saunders Cloves the outward Peel of Citron dried Galangal Nutmeg Mace Calamint and Storax of each three drams and a half Anniseeds Shavings of Ivory Thyme Dodder of Thyme Oriental Pearl prepared and the Shavings of the Bone of a stag's-Stag's-Heart of each one dram Ambergrease Oriental Musk and Leaves of Gold and Silver of each a scruple make these into a very fine Powder This corrects the cold and moist temperature of the Stomach and Liver it helps Digestion restores the Appetite it is very good against Weakness and Palpitations of the Heart also to restore a good Habit of Body and to create a good Complexion to keep the Breath sweet and sweeten it when it is defective to restore decayed Strength and dissipate Melancholy proceeding from an internal or no real Cause The Dose is from ten to twenty grains in any convenient Vehicle Powder the Countess of Kent 's Take the black parts of the Claws of large Sea-Crabs four ounces River-Crabs Eyes oriental Pearl and red Coral prepared of each an ounce Roots of Contrayerva and white Amber of each six drams the Bone of a stag's-Stag's-Heart four scruples Bezoar-stone three drams Saffron two scruples make these into a fine Powder and sprinkle it with an ounce and a half of the Spirit of Honey and mixed with Jelly of Vipers you may make it into Trochiscs letting them dry in the Shade to be powdered as occasion requires for the better preservation of its Virtue This Powder is highly in Request for the Remedy of Epidemical Diseases particularly in the Small-pox or Measles It is also used in the Plague as well to preserve from the Infection as to cure it when taken by reason it mainly strengthens the Heart and other vital Parts against Infections and the malignity of the before-mention'd Diseases Not only the English but other Nations approve it and use it with wonderful Success The Dose is about ten grains Powder of Diamargaritum Take oriental Pearl prepared half an ounce red Roses cleansed and Flower of Water-Lilies and Violets of each three Drams Wood of Aloes Saunders red and yellow Roots of Tormentil and white Dittany Myrtle-berries Cinquefoil Grains of Kermes Melon-seeds Endive Sorrel Shavings of Harts-horn Ivory white Coral and red Coral prepared of each two drams Ambergrease and the Leaves of Gold of each half a dram oriental Musk four grains make these into a fine Powder This wonderfully strengthens the noble Parts restores the languishing force and cures swimming and fainting Fits It is good in Fevers and other Diseases It is given to asthmatick and consumptive Persons and
Basil-seeds of each two drams Angelica-roots Gilliflowers Thyme Calamint Liquorish Calamus Masterwort Peniroyal Mint Mother of Thyme and Marjoram of each two drams Red-Rose-seeds and Flower Bettony and Sage of each a dram and half Cloves Nutmegs and Gallingall of each two Drams the Flower of Stechadoes Rosemary Borrage and Bugloss of each a Dram and half Rind of Citron three Drams Bruise these well together and put to them Cordial-Powders the Spices made with Pearl of each three drams Infuse them in twelve pints of Aquavitae in a close stopt Glass fifteen Days with often shaking then distil them in an Alembick and hang in the Spirit a Cloath two drams of Musk half a dram of Ambergrease and ten or twelve grains of Gold This excellent Cordial fortifies the Heart against the Plague and all pestilential Diseases expels Poison and heals Aches and Pains Aqua Epidemica This is the London Plague-Water To make it Take the Roots of Tormentile Angelica the greater Piony Liquorice Elecampane of each half an ounce the Leaves of Sage the greater Celandine Rue the tops of Rosemary and Mugwort Burnet Dragons Scabeous Bawm Carduus Benedictus Bettony the lesser Centaury the Leaves and Flowers of Marigolds of each a handful shred bruise and steep them four Days in a glass Alembick and take from a quarter of an ounce to half an ounce at a time and it mainly resists the Plague pestilential Fevers and all infectious Diseases reviving and cheering the Heart and Brain and rarefying and sweetening the whole Mass of Blood Aqua Lactis alexiteria Take Carduus Benedictus the Leaves of Meadow-sweet and Goats-Rue of each six handfuls Mint and common Wormwood of each five handfuls Angelica two handfuls Rue three handfuls bruise them very well and put to them three Gallons of the best new Milk and suffering them to infuse for twelve Hours distill them in a cold Still This Water though it be frequently used as a simple Water in making up Medicines is nevertheless of singular use it self being a very gentle Alexipharmick and may be given to expel Malignity and prevent the Infection with other things It comforts the Heart and Stomach and sweetens the Blood taken singly and so inoffensive it is that you may take four five or six ounces at a time Aqua Mirabilis To make this according to Dr. Willoughby's Receipt Take Galingales Mace Cloves Cubebs Ginger Cardamoms Nutmeg Mellilot and Saffron of each an equal quantity in all four ounces beat and bruise them well and add Agrimony-Water a dram or two Take of the Juice of Celandine half a pint mingle them together with a quart of Aqua-vitae and three pints of White-wine put them in a glass Still and let them infuse twelve Hours then distill off the Water with a gentle fire under a Sand-Bath This Water dissolves the Swellings and removes the Oppressions incident to the Lungs helps and comforts them being Wounded not suffering the Blood to putrefie and those that use it often will have little cause to be blooded at any time unless in cases of sudden or violent Bruises or internal Bleedings c. Aqua Mirabilis To make this Take Cubebs Cardamoms Galingal Mace Cloves Ginger Mellilot-Flowers of each one dram bruise them then take a pint of the Juice of Celandine the Juices of Bawm and Spearmint of each half a pint Sugar a pound Flowers of Cowslips Borrage Rosemary Marigolds and Bugloss of each two drams Canary three pints strong Angelica-water one pint bruise the Spices and Flowers well and steep them in the Sack and Juices the space of twelve Hours and distil them the next Morning in a glass Still laying Hearts-Tongue Leaves in the bottom of it This Water is an excellent Preserver of the Lungs purifying the Blood and removing the Defects of the Spleen it helps Digestion preserves a youthful Complexion and contiues a good colour in the Face Aqua Mirabilis Take Cinamon the best sort an ounce Nutmegs and Citron-Peel of each six drams Cloves Galangal Cubebs Mace Cardamoms Ginger of each two drams bruise them all together and let them infuse in White-wine and Spirit of Wine of each a pint distil them in a moderate Sand-Bath This is an excellent Cordial taken from half an ounce to an ounce at a time It fortifies the noble Parts and resists Poison c. Aquavitae Regia Take Lignum Aloes Roots of Zedoary Carline-Thistle and Valerian of each an ounce choice Citron-Rind Mace and Cinnamon of each six drams Cloves the lesser Cardamoms and Fennel-seeds of each half an ounce Flowers of Oranges Rosemary Sage and Marjoram in the flower of each two handfuls bruise what requires it and put them into a Matras with the Spirit of Wine and Malmsey of each two quarts stop the Vessel close and let them infuse over a gentle fire for the space of three days then distil them and dissolve into the distilled Bath Musk and Ambergrease of each a dram and a half and keep it for use in a close Vessel or rather in glass Bottles This Water fortifies the Brain Head and Stomach and all the noble Parts when enfeebled by the dissipation of the Spirits or over-pressed by the ill Qualities or abundance of bad Humours It is to be taken fasting in a Morning from one dram to half an Ounce mixed with proper Liquors as Bawm-water and Mint-water Aquine's Diuretick-Water Take the Roots of Parsley Eringoes Rest-Harrow Juniper-Berries and Alkekengi of each two ounces Pimpernel Water-cresses and Elder-flowers of each two handfuls bruise and macerate them twentyfour Hours in White-wine add a quart of the Juice of Radishes with one ounce of Narbone-Honey Venice-Turpentine half a pound distil them in a moderate Sand-Bath adding to every part of the distilled Water dulcified Spirit of Salt This is an exceeding prevalent Water to strengthen the Heart but is chiefly designed for opening Obstructions in the Ureters and Bladder and causing a free Passage for the Urine You may safely take it from one to three or four ounces Arcanum Carolinum Put red Precipitate into an earthen Vessel well glazed pour on it Spirit of Wine well rectified so set fire to it and when the Spirit is consumed add more do this six times This is excellent for Purging and sometimes procures Vomiting opening Obstructions and dissolving scirrhous tumours and mainly contributes to the Cure of the French Disease The Dose is from three to five or six grains Arsmart The common sort of this is hot and dry chiefly used in outward Wounds or Swellings A Decoction of it is good to wash old Sores The Water helps the Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder the Root or Seed put into an hollow Tooth cures the Tooth-ach Artery-Hurt Take Olibanum two ounces Aloes Hepatica one ounce the Wool of a Hairs Scut a little the Juice of Ash-Leaves half an ounce mix with these the Whites of Eggs beaten to Water and dipping a Rag into the liquid Compound lay it to the Artery either cut bruised or otherways
the Waters put the Barley into a Pipkin with a Crag-end of a Neck of Mutton and a Knuckle of Veal pour thereon a sufficient quantity of fair Water and let it boil scumming it well when it hath boiled an hour put into it a Pullet and let it boil an hour longer then put in a large quantity of Sorrel Lettice Purslain Borrage and Bugloss and let it boil an hour more viz. three hours in all Before you put in the Herbs season the Broth with Salt and a little Pepper and Cloves then strain out the Broth and drink it pretty warm three or four times every day Consumption a Water Take the Liver of a Calf and the Lungs of a Fox the Herbs Lungwort Liverwort Sage Rue Hyssop of each one handful Elecampane the Root of Flag of each half an ounce Anniseeds Carraway-seeds Sweet Fennel-seeds of each half an ounce Flowers of Borrage of Bugloss of each two drams cut them all very small then infuse them for twenty-four hours in two quarts of Old Mallaga and Scabious and Carduus Water of each four ounces Hyssop-water two ounces then distill it and sweeten it with Sugar-candy Drink a little glass-full thereof two or three times a day This Water comforts and strengthens the Lungs and Liver attenuates thick Phlegm and expels Wind out of the Stomach and Bowels Contagion of the Plague to Expell Take Rue Wormwood and Black-berry-tops of each half a handful Celandine an handful and a half put them into a glazed earthen Pot when bruised together with a pint of strong Whitewine-vinegar stop the Pot close then let them seeth in Balneo Mariae till the third part be consumed and then strain it out and keep it close stopt Let the Party infected drink two or three ounces of it and sweat after it without sleeping a considerable time if it may possibly be prevented it fortifies the Heart assisting Nature against Poisons and infectious Airs Contrayerva-Stone Take Oriental Pearls the Root of Contrayerva Coral and White Amber prepared of each a dram prepared Crabs-eyes double the weight of the rest Take the Jelly of Vipers and with it make the rest up into Balls and dry them and keep them for your use This reduced by scraping into a Powder is highly commended against the Plague or Pestilence or such-like raging Diseases occasion'd by Infection It may be taken in Wine or Cordial-waters from ten to twenty or thirty grains Coral to Prepare Take such a quantity as you think convenient make it into a fine Powder in a Porphyry or Steel Mortar drop on it by degrees a little Rose-water and form it into Balls for use After this manner Crabs-eyes Pearl and Precious-stones are prepared to make up Cordials compounded of them and other suitable Materials for the strengthening the Heart in Fevers or such-like violent Diseases and to restore the Decays of Nature Cordial Excellent Take two ounces of dried Red Gilliflowers and put them into a Pottle of Canary add three ounces of fine Sugar in Powder and half a scruple of Ambergrease in the same manner put them into a Stone-bottle and stop it close often shaking it and when it has stood ten Days then pass it through a Jelly-bag or Strainer and putting it up for use take two or three spoonfuls of it at a time and it will greatly strengthen the Heart and restore Health again c. Cordial-Water Take a gallon of Strawberries clean pick'd put to them a pint of Aquavitae and let them stand four Days and then pour off what is liquid and strain the rest into it sweeten it with a little Sugar and infuse a grain of Musk or Ambergrease into it This strengthens the Heart and Stomach Half a quartern in a Morning is a good Preservative against ill Airs and Infections Cosmetick-Water Take fine White Sugar a pound Roach-allom three ounces White Poppy-seed Flower of Beans Water-lillies Violets and great Housleek of each one handful the Juice of four Lemons and the grated Crumbs of two White Penny Loaves Goats Milk and White-wine of each a quart Bruise what is to be bruised and mix them together putting them into a Glass Alembick Distill them in Balneo Mariae and it will be an excellent Beautifyng Water to preserve the Hands Face and other parts of the Body clear smooth and of a good Complexion Cough Boil in two quarts of Posset-drink a good handful of Moss that groweth upon Oaken Pales and drink a good draught in the Morning and take three spoonfuls of good Sallad-oil after it drink it afternoon and at night without Oil taking sometimes at Night one of Matthews's Pills with it Cough Take Raisins of the Sun stoned and Figs warned and sliced of each two ounces unset-Hyssop a handful Enula-campana 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 Saffron dried and powder'd half a dram boil them again gently till they be well incorporated Drink half a pint of this Liquor warn'd both Morning and Night This Proportion made twice hath cured Coughs of long continuance Coughs Take three spoonfuls of the best Sallad-oil three spoonfuls of Vinegar and Sugar-candy enough to sweeten it Take it in the Morning fasting and at Night when going to rest Cough or Cold Take a quart of Milk and make a Posset thereof with a pint of Ale then strain it and put two spoonfuls of beaten Aniseeds two Pippins sliced with the Pareings and a stick of Licorice bruised and a quarter of a pound of Raisins 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 Cough or Cold Take Fennel and Parsley-roots four of each wash and scrape them and take the Pith out of them Maiden-hair Rosa-Solis-flower of each one handful Licorice 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 bruise the Seeds and put them all into a Pottle of Spring-water in a Pipkin close covered which set on hot Embers for a whole Day together till the Liquor be half consumed then strain it without pressing it and sweeten it with Brown Sugar-candy and drink thereof Morning and Evening Cough or Cold Take three ounces of Enula-campana scrape off the Rinde and cut it into thin slices then boil it in three pints of Water till it comes to a pint and an 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 of which take three spoonfuls both Morning and Evening Cough or Cold Take one pound of fine Sugar Licorice and Enula-campana finely powder'd of each four ounces put them into a little
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 â— 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
boil it gently in a Pipkin and take off the Scum or Curds letting it boil only a warm or two then strain it Iuice of Garden or Field-Sorrel This made into a Syrup or the Juice sweetned with Sugar is very cooling and astringent it allays the Heat of the Liver and Stomach stays Fluxes and inward Bleedings It is good to expel the afflicting hot Vapours infesting the Brain in Fevers and to hinder the Lightness in the Head Eaten in Sallads it cools the Blood and thins it Applied Poultis-wise it asswages hot Swellings or any external Inflammation takes off the Redness and Heat of the Face or any Part of the Body being washed with the distilled Water of it and that of Scabious Iuice of Hypocistis This Juice proceeds from a Plant growing like Mifleto It thickens and binds strongly and is used chiefly to stop all Fluxes of the Belly Womb and Stomach It stays Vomiting and Spitting of Blood by reason of internal Bruises An aqueous or vinous Tincture of it is used to stop the Gonorrhoea and Whites in Women A Lohoch made of it with red Wine and adding a third part of Honey that it may be inspissated to a thickness is given for the Cure of Ulcers in the Lungs Stomach or Bowels Iuice of Licorice Of Licorice there are two kinds viz. the Spanish and the English though much of the same Virtues The Spanish Juice is made by boiling the Juice to a thickness or inspissating it by Evaporation and then making it up into Rolls or Cakes which they wrap up in Bay-leaves and that which is best good breaks free and is clear and shining like Jet The English Juice is made into round Balls and is generally a Composition made of the Juice and the Pulp of Prunes and so inspissated to a Body It is one of the greatest Pectorals good against Coughs Colds Hoarsness Wheesing ' Difficulty of Breathing Shortness of Breath stuffing of the Lungs Breast and Stomach also for Ulcers in the Kidneys sharpness of Urine and the Corrosion of the Bladder It helps Expectoration lenifies roughness loosens the Bellies of Children and takes away the Gripings and other Pains It helps to overcome and remove the Effects many times left behind of strong and sharp Purgers To make an aqueous Tincture of Licorice take this Rule Take Spanish Juice very thin sliced or bruised to pieces in a Mortar one ounce fair Water three quarts Salt of Tartar three drams mix and put all these into a glass Body digested over a very gentle Heat twenty four Hours and a pure Tincture will arise into the Water leaving all the Faeces or earthy substance behind in the same form or shape it was put in Beware you shake it not but decant the pure clear Liquor for use and cast away the Faeces It wonderfully sweetens the Blood and is excellent in the Scurvy and French-Pox Iuice of Licorice white Take clean Powder of Licorice-roots and Orris of each six scruples Wheat-flower two ounces Sugar finely beaten one pound Eastern Musk and Ambergrease of each three grains incorporate these together with a mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth extracted in Rose-water mixing and beating them together in a solid Paste make them up into Tablets or Rolls and dry them in the Sun or before a gentle Fire on fine Paper The Juice of white Licorice is more pleasing than the black very acceptable to the Tast and Smell and dissolved in Mint or Rose-water with a little Syrup of Gilliflowers is good against Coughs Colds Phthisicks Asthmas and most pectoral Diseases Iuice of Nettles It stays Bleeding mixed with white Sugar and snuffed up the Nose A quarter of a pint of the Juice of the Tops of young Nettles drank at a time stops internal bleeding It is also good made into a Syrup with Sugar against the Diseases of the Lungs as Colds Coughs Asthmas Peripenumony Pleurisies Stitches in the Side Heat Pain and Stoppage of Urin whether proceeding from Sand Gravel or other mucilaginous Matter Iuice of Pomgranet This is cooling and Cordial chearing the Heart and refreshing the Spirits It resists Poison and the Infection of the Plague and all other pestilential and contagious Distempers It cools and that which is most acid is grateful to the Stomach It is given in cholerick Fevers the Pica in Women with Child Gonorrhoea's and cures the sore Mouth The Wine like Juice that is between sower and sweet is Cordial and Cephalick good against the Megrims Vapours fainting and swooning Fits the sweet Juice is good against old Coughs Of the acid or sharp Juice is made first Syrup with a sufficient quantity of Sugar to make it into a convenient thickness secondly Lohochs with Honey and the distilled Spirit of the Wine of Pomgranets is an excellent Cordial mixed with cooling Waters in all hot Diseases Iuice of Wood-Sorrel Take four pints of the Juice of Wood-sorrel purifie it and pour it into a glass Cucurbit cover it with its Alembick slightly luted place it in Balneo Mariae and distil about half the moisture with a moderate Fire then take away the Cucurbit and let it cool this being done pour out the acid Juice that remains by inclination and pass it through a brown Paper to separate the Dregs gathered in distillation then weigh out a quart of the clarified Juice and in it dissolve four pound of fine Sugar and give it a little time to wamble over the fire Take it off and scum it when it is come to the thickness of a Syrup you may likewise clarifie the fine powder'd Sugar with the White of an Egg and fair Water and boil it to the strong consistency of a solid Electuary and afterward incorporate the Juice of the Wood-sorrel prepared as is directed This Syrup is very cooling and is useful to quench Thirst in hot Diseases also the Heat of the Liver and Stomach It is very much commended in Burning Fevers and in Malignant and Epidemick Distempers It comforteth and strengtheneth the Heart and allays the Inflammation of the Mouth and Tongue likewise that of the Palate and Throat the distilled Water of the Juice may be very properly mixed with the Syrup or you may drink the Water alone The quantity to be taken is from half an ounce to an ounce and may be taken in the Morning fasting and at Night when you go to rest or at any time of the day as necessity requires Iujubs a Syrup Take six Jujubs Barley pick'd Licorice and Maiden-hair of each an ounce fresh Violets a handful Seeds of Mallows Quinces White Poppey Melons and Lettice of each three drams put the Barley into a glazed earthen Pot with six pints of Water and let it boil over a gentle fire for half an hour then put in the Jujubs sliced and let them boil a quarter of an hour then add the Licorice scraped and bruised the Maiden-hair cut and the Seeds bruised let them boil a while and then add the fresh Violets thrusting them down into the Decoction at
your Coffin put in a spoonful or two of Canary and the like quantity of Rose-water into every Pye To make the Crust stand fine and eat short sprinkle the Flower as much as there is occasion with cold Water and work the Past with pieces of unmelted Butter and being brought into a form and thinness the Crust when baked will far out-doe that made with hot Water and melted Butter as the usual way is You may strew over the Tops a little ambered Sugar and grind two or three grains of Ambergrease and half a grain of Musk the which quantity will serve five or six Pyes But instead of Neats-tongues if you please Veal Beef or Calve's Chaldrons will do very well Minced-Pyes to Season To do this Take the Meat you design to make them on minced finely when parboiled let it lye pressed all Night then put two pound of Beef-suet minced small to every pound of Meat mix them very well together and take half art ounce of Cloves and Mace beaten half an ounce of Nutmegs the like weight of Cinnamon and a little Salt half an ounce of Carraway-seeds five Pippins minced small without the Core a Lemon-peel scraped and a quarter of a pint of Rose-water a pound of Dates half a pound of Sugar a pound of Raisins of the Sun two pound of Currans mix them well together and put them to every pound of Meat and Suet. Mineral-Crystal To make this pure Dissolve it when pretty well reduc'd to a smalness before in damask Rose-water evaporate it and then filter it warm through a brown Paper on which Rose-leaves are strewed moistned with a little Spirit of Sulphur with a few grains of Musk and Ambergrease and so let it crystalize and it will become a delicate mineral Crystal pleasant in colour and smell being endued with all the Virtues of exalted and pure Nitre If is a true Anodyn and an excellent allayer of Thirst extinguishing the preternatural Heat of all manner of Fevers It is a peculiar and special Antidote against the Plague and all manner of pestilential Infections It removes Stoppages of the urinary Parts and provokes Urin gives ease in the Quinsie in hot sharp and scalding Urin and Gonorrhoea and for these purposes it is best to take a dram of it in Wine sweetned with Sugar Mint This is meant of that sort of Garden Mint called Spear-Mint Its Virtues are very many viz. Beat it and lay it to the Stomach that is weak and wants digestion and it comforts and fortifies it It is a soveraign Herb to restore the Smelling and Feeling to those wherein they are much decayed for the first being often held to the Nose and for the other the Decoction of it very strong applied to the numbed part The Leaves dried and powdered given to young Children kill and bring away Worms The Juice drank with Vinegar stenches Blood and with the Juice of sower Pomegrante restraineth Vomiting Hicups and Colick-Passions This Mint with Rose-water and grated Nutmeg laid on the Forehead asswageth the Head-ach and laid on the tender Dugs full of Milk it easeth the Pain of them Applied with Salt it is good for the Biting of Mad Dogs And the Juice of it mixed with Honey dissolved in Water being dropt into the Ears easeth the Pain of them The whole Herb distilled In a glass Alembick in a Bath of hot Water or otherways four ounces being drank stayeth Bleeding at the Nose Those that affect much Milk to prevent the curdling of it in their Stomachs would do well to chew Mint in their Mouths and swallow the Juice after it If Cheese be sprinkled with the Juice or Decoction of it it will keep from Corruption or Rottenness Mint-Syrup Take about a pint of the Juice of Quinces when they are almost ripe the Juice of Pomgranets half as much dried Mint six ounces red Roses two ounces steep them in the Juices twenty four Hours then boil it half away and strain out the rest and with fine Sugar make it into a Syrup and if it be too thick add a little Mint-water Mint-Water Take Baum Penyroyal and Mint of each a handful Canary-Lees a gallon and after the Infusion of twenty four Hours put them into a Still of Pewter and keep a quick Fire under it cover the Still with wet Cloaths and put into the receiver as much fine Sugar as will conveniently sweeten it and then distil it over again This is excellent in Fevers or any hot pestilential Diseases It comforts the Heart and strengthens the Memory and given with Syrup of Licorice is good for Obstructions of the Lungs and Difficulty of Breathing Mirabilis To make this Water so wonderfully commended by the Learned Sit Kenelm Digby Take Galingal Cardamums Cubebs Mellilot-flowers Mace Cloves Ginger and Cinnamon of each a dram bruise them small and infuse them in a pint of Celandine-Juice and as much Spear-mint-water half a pint of the Juice of Baum and one pound of the Flowers of Couslips Rosemary Borrage Bugloss and Marigolds of each two drams three pints of the best Canary a pint of strong Angelica-water red Rose-water half a pint bruise the Flowers and Spices and infuse them in the Waters Juices and Wine for twenty four Hours then distil them in a glass Still This Water is excellent against fainting Fits comforts the Heart is good in Consumptions the Spleen and Melancholy it keeps the Countenance fresh and young and very much helps the decay of the Memory Taken fasting it creates a good Appetite is excellent in internal Bruises and indeed a better Cordial for any pectoral Distempers or Defects cannot be founnd Miscarriage In this it is proper that young Women should not be ignorant of the Symptoms or Signs threatning or fore-running Miscarriage and some of them are these Sudden Pains in the Back or Belly the Breasts often filling and falling upon which let her apply this following Cerecloath to the Reins of the Back or Breast Take the Roots of Bistwort and Coriander-seed of each two drams unripened Galls Saunders and Hypocistides of each a dram Labdanum and Mastick of each half an ounce Frankincense and Bdellium of each two drams reduce those that can be so served into a Powder and with Oil of Mastick Turpentine and Bees-wax make two or three Cerecloaths and apply them sometimes to the Loins at other times to the Sides and the Region of the Womb under the Navel the Party for a considerable time altogether avoiding any violent motion both of Body and agitation of Mind as Excess of Joy Anger Melancholy c. relating to the latter also violent Sneezings Coughs Strainings or Affrights Miscarriage to Prevent Take Coriander-seed two drams the Root of Bistwort Shavings of Ivory and red Coral prepared of each a dram of white Amber and Crystal of each a scruple reduce all these to fine Powder make them up into Tablets Lozenge-wise with four ounces of Rose-water and half a scruple of the Confection of Alkermes their weight
c. Boil them tenderly and then fry them in sweet Butter and when fried drain the Butter from them and put to them the Powder of Nutmeg and Anchoves dissolved in fair Water and Whitewine with a little Salt and Mutton-Gravy give all these a warm over the Fire and serve them up in a Dish then run it over with Butter beaten up with the Juice of Oranges Marrow Sage-leaves fried Parsly and the Yolks of Eggs. Nurses Milk to Encrease Take of Earth-worms an ounce wash them well and dry them so that they may keep sweet and yet be reduced to a Powder then take half a dram or two scruples for a Dose in a Glass of Canary Nutmegs are somewhat Astringent and Stomachick Cephalick and Uterine help Concoction discuss Wind take away the offensive Fumes of a strong Breath are good in the Palpitations of the Heart and prevent Faintings lessen the Spleen and stop Looseness and Vomiting provoke Urin and quicken the sight are of great use in Fluxes especially the Bloody-flux having all the Virtues necessary for a Medicin fit for these Diseases The Oil cleanses and defends the Bowels from sharp offensive Humours and eases the Pains that frequently afflict them The aromatick quality consisting in the airy spirit penetrates the noble Part and administer Comfort whilst the gross and earthy part dries up Ulcers and cicatrises them Candied Nutmegs or as they come over with their green Husks about them are good in all cold Diseases of the Head as Palsie and other Diseases of the Nerves and Womb and are very Cordial And notwithstanding all these Virtues in this one small Simple yet if it be taken immoderately that is in too great a quantity it proves very hurtful occasioning sleepy Diseases seeing they are very Narcotick insomuch that Tavernier relates That when these Nuts ripen in the Molucoa-Islands where they chiefly grow the Birds of Paradise come flocking to feed upon them which they have no sooner done to any purpose but a Giddiness seizing them they fall on the Ground in a profound Sleep or Doziness and lye so long before they recover that swarms of huge Ants that frequent those spicey Woods frequently eat off their Legs or intolerably sting and kill them in earnest Nutmeg to Candy Take a pound of fine Sugar a quarter of a pint of Rose-water and Gum Arabick three penny weight boil them up to near a Candy height then having soaked your Nutmegs in Water put them into it in an earthen Vessel cover it close that the Air may not come in no more than through the porous Part and keep them in a warm Place twenty Days and they will be of a Rock-Candy c. Nut-Oil Take small Nuts break them in a Mill or otherways take out the Kernels lay them in warm Water rill the Skins or Husks come off them then steep them in warm Sallad Oil and when they swell take them out and press them and a curious Oil will issue from them put them into a glass Vessel and let it settle and digest twelve Days in a warm place then use it as occasion requires It is good for cold and moist Swellings or Pains in the Joints or Burns Scalds and Tumours especially mixed with the Ointment of Marsh-mallows and likewise that of Tobacco OAk-Tree This Tree in every part is astringent but especially the Bark the Decoction of which is good for the Bloody-flux or Spitting of Blood The Acorns are Diuretick and the distilled Water of a young Oak is good for Womens Diseases Those that are cut for the Stone use a Bath of it made of the Bark to heal the Wound or Incision The Galls that grow upon outlandish Oaks not only make Ink but are of many singular Virtues as being powdered and drank in White-wine to dissolve the Stone or Gravel ease Pains in the Bladder or Reins and cleanse the Stomach causing a good Digestion Take of the Water of Oak-Buds and Plantain of each three ounces Cinamon-water Hordeated and Sprup of dried Roses of each an ounce Spirit of Vitriol two or three drops to make it pleasant and sharp and take it Morning and Evening it 's excellent to stay immoderate Courses and to prevent them Oates They are Physically moderately drying resolving and restringent they are cool and therefore boiled in Posset-drink in Fevers they are good being heated and put into a Bag and laid 〈◊〉 the Side they ease Painâ—… as likewise by such application the Head-ach The Ale made of them cools and purifies the Blood and eases the Heat and Pains in Urin A strong Decoction of them eases the Flux in the Belly and boiled with Figs Licorice and a little Honey in Ale they ease the violence of the Cough or Cold and in a little time the liquid part drank often as hot as may be removes the Cause and the Effects consequently cease Odoriferous-Water Take the Roots of Florence Orris and Benjamine of each one ounce and half the best Storax six drams Lignum Rhodium half an ounce Aromatick Reed and Labdanum of each two scruples Flowers of Benjamine on scruple beat them into Powder and put them into a Matras and let them macerate twenty four Hours in Balneo Mariae luke-warm in a pint of Rose-water the Matrix being stopped and then distil them in the same Bath a little hotter and mxing with this Water-Musk and Ambergrease six drams keep it as a Water of a curious wholsom and odoriferous scent to scent or perfume Rooms Gloves or what else requires it This for its admirable pleasant Scent is called Angels-Water It likewise contributes much to the lustre of the Face and Hands being washed in it mixed with a little of the Water of Fumitory The Sediment dried and mixed among Cloaths gives 'em a fine Perfume and drives away Moths Worms c. Oesepius Prepared Take of the uncleansed Wool from the Neck Buttocks and Shoulders of a tired Sheep and infuse it in hot Water frequently till the Fat swims upon the Water then squeeze the Wool pour the Water out by way of brewing frequently from one Vessel to another till the Froth arises then let it stand till the Froth sinks and take off the Fat that swims on the surface of the Water and froth the Water again by pouring it from one Vessel to another and so continue to do till no more Fat appears then wash all the Fat 's with Froth in fair Water keeping it continually stirring and changing the Water often till what is superfluous be washed away and until upon the Tast it makes no biting on the Tongue then put it into a well glazed earthen Vessel and keep it for use This is good to anoint old Sores also for Scabs Itch Botches or Boils Excoriations or Gallings c. Oil Anti-Epileptich Take the Shavings of a dead Man's Skull that died a violent Death four ounces Amber pulverized two ounces mix them together and put them into a glass Retort fitted with a Recipient and distil them
afflicted renewing it as it dries and then bath or anoint the Place with Oil of Roses Artichoaks to bake Boil them first in fair Water and so soon as you can separate the bottoms from the Leaves without breaking lay them in a Dish and season them with Nutmeg Pepper and Cinamon very lightly having layed a Sheet of Past under them with some bits of Butter then lay on Potatoes sliced round the Dish also some Eringo-Roots and Dates Beef-Marrow large Mace sliced Lemon and more Butter close it up with another Sheet of Past and being baked liquor it with Grape-juice or Verjuice Butter and Sugar beat up together ice it with Sugar and Rose-water and so serve it up Artichoaks to dress The best way is to boil them in a Beef-pot and when they are tender sodden take off the tops only leaving the bottoms with some round about them then put them into a Dish putting some fair Water to them and two or three spoonfuls of Sack and a spoonful of Sugar stew them on a Chafing-dish of Coals take the Liquor then from them and make ready some Cream with the Yelks of two Eggs two ounces of Marrow and as much sweet Butter as will serve 'em up Artichoaks stewed Having first boiled the Artichoaks take off the Leaves and the Choak cut the bottoms into quarters split them in the middle put them into a flat Stewing-pan put under them Toasts of Bread and the Marrow of two Bones five or six Blades of large Mace half a pound of preserved Plumbs with two ounces of Sugar and suffer them to stew together the space of two Hours then put them into a Dish with Sippits garnished with Barberrie and so serve them up and they will make a delicate and much approved Dish Ash or Ash-Trèe The Seed of the Ash-Keys dryed powdered and drank in White-wine provokes Urine The Juice of the Leaves drank constantly in drink prevents Fatness and reduces those that are so The Bark and Wood dry and attenuate and are supposed to soften the hardness of the Spleen by a specifick Quality The Juice of Ash-Leaves drank and the beaten Leaves outwardly applied avail much against the biting of any venemous Creature and stench blood The Juice with Honey is good for internal Bruises The Leaves and tender Twigs boiled in your usual drink is good against the Dropsie though the Seeds powdered and taken in Wine in the Opinion of others are more powerful The Salt of Ash provokes Urine Asparagus or Sperage The prickly sort of this which in many Places grows wild being boiled in White-wine provokes Urine is good against the Strangury or difficulty in making Water expels Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder eases Pains in the Reins and boiled in Wine-Vinegar closes the Arteries and eases the Pains of the Hip-Gout or Sciatica The Decoction of the Root boiled to clear the sight and being held in the Mouth eases he Pains in the Teeth Asthma Take the distilled Water of Nettles and Coltsfoot-water of each one pint Anniseeds and Licorice-Powder of each two spoonfuls Raisins of the Sun and Figs sliced of each a handful boil them till half a pint of the Liquor be consumed strain the remainder and with a pound of white Sugar-candy finely pondered make it into a Syrup take a quarter of an ounce at a time and the Stomach will be helped to a good Digestion It removes also Obstructions of the Lungs Astringent-Powder Take Bole-Armoniack and Terrasigillata of each two ounces Pomgranat-Flowers Red-Roses and Dragons-seeds of Sumach and Whortle-Berries Frankincense and Mastick of each two ounces make all these into a fine Powder This Powder taken in Wine or some Decoction from a scruple to a dram in losses of Blood weakness of the Stomach and Intestines is singular good It may likewise be applied outwardly incorporated with Whites of Eggs Vinegar or some Astringent-Water or Decoction like a Cataplasm to stop defluxions and loss of Blood and to strengthen or close the Parts Astringent Saffron of Mars Take of the filings of Steel and Sulphur powdered an equal quantity mix them well and make them into a Past with Water put the Past into an earthen Vessel and suffer it to ferment there four or five Hours after which set the Vessel over a quick fire and with an iron Instrument fit for that purpose stir the Matter about and it will flame suffer the Sulphur to burn out and it will appear very black yet continue it over a brisk fire and stir it about for two Hours after and then you will perceive it of a red Colour then wash it five or six times in strong Vinegar leaving it to steep an Hour at a time and then calcine it in a Pot or on a Tile in a great fire five or six Hours after suffer it to cool and stop it up close Avens This Herb is Astringent in some degrees it strengthens and discusses being cephalick and cordial and resists Poisons though it is mostly appropriated to the Cure of Catarrhs and for quickening the Blood when thick or coagulated Wine wherein the Roots have been steeped have a fine pleasant tast and smell It cheers the Heart and opens Obstructions The Root infused in Beer is excellent in strengthning the Joints and Bowels Two ounces of the Root or a handful of the Herb boiled in Water or Posset-drink to the quantity of a Quart and consumed to a fourth part has been used successfully in the Cure of Agues more particularly the Tertians by taking it two Hours or thereabout before the Fit comes BAck the Crick in it To remove this Pain Take the Marrow of the Bone of a Horse and a little of the Juice of Elder-Leaves mix them together over a gentle Fire and when become an Ointment chafe it into the Place grieved Back heated To remedy this Take Rose-water infuse therein for twelve Hours Red and Yellow-Saunders the Leaves of Red-Roses then bath your Back with the liquid part blood-warm and it will asswage the Pain and in a little time utterly remove it Back wasting Take Plantain and Ribwort distill them in a common Rose-Still and when you are to use the Water take Pippins roast them and take away the Skin and Core then put them into Water making thereof a Lambs-wool as thick as you please and this being sweetned with Loaf-Sugar take thereof half a pint when you go to Bed and so do nine Nights together It is also good for the Strangury and many Pains incident to those Parts Back weak To strengthen the Back if it be over-strained or troubled with Pains or Aches take the Yolk of a new-lay'd Egg put to it a quarter of a pint of Muscadel or Alicant and being well warmed grate in some Nutmeg and drink it hot twice a Day Back weak Take of the Pith or Marrow of a Black Ox's Back-Bone three ounces Dates stoned and sliced two ounces boil them well together in a pint or more of Muscadin and take two or
this Bath Take Sorrel and Fumitory of each two handfuls Nep one handful Barly Bran and Lupins of each half a handful and a like quantity of Violet and Mallow-Leaves white and black Ellebor of each an Ounce Honey two ounces let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Water till the third part be consumed and then bath the Legs with it very warm It is good for Sores Scabs Botches Boils and Aches and the Gout Bath for a Rupture Take of the Bark and Flowers of Pomgranets Cups of Acorns and Sumac of each an ounce Lark-Spurs and Comfrey of each a handful Hypocistis Galls and Alom of each two drams Roses Camomile and Anni-seeds of each two pugils boil them in an equal proportion of Red-Wine and Smiths-Water and with the Decoction bath the Part affected Bay-Tree The Decoction of the Leaves Bark and Berries of this Tree makes an excellent Bath for the Diseases of the Womb and Bladder The Oil of Barberries is very useful in cold Diseases of the Nerves and Joints The Electuary is frequently used in Clisters to expel Wind it also eases the Pains of the Colick and in like manner does the Concoction of the Berries in Ale or any dulcified Liquor Bdellium To make the Tincture of it Take Bdellium in Powder one ounce Spirit of Wine sixteen ounces mix digest and extract a Tincture which keep for use This as the Gum eases the Colick provokes Urine and the Terms expels the After-birth and is Traumatick and Vulnerary The Dose is from one dram to a dram and a half Beef to Collar Take the Flank and when you have taken out the Sinews the more skinny part and some of the Fat put it into as much Water and Salt as will cover it let it steep three Days then hang it to drain in the Air and dry it with a Linnen-Cloath Mince Tops of Sage Rosemary Marjoram Savory and Thime shred small get a quarter of an ounce of Mace half a quarter of an ounce of Cloves a slice or two of Ginger half an ounce of Pepper and some Salt rowl them up in it bind it up well and put it into an Oven and bake it Beef to Souce Take the Buttocks Cheeks and Briskets of Beef season any of them four Days with Pepper and Salt roul up them as even as you can boil them in a Cloath ty'd fast about in Water and Salt and when it is pretty tender put it into a Hoop-frame to fashion it round and upright dry it in some smoaky Place or in the Air and cutting it out in Slices serve it up with Sugar and Mustard observing before you dry it to souce it in Water Vinegar and a little White-wine and Salt Beet is hot and dry It loosens the Belly and the Juice snuffed up the Nostrils occasions sneezing and purges the Head The Leaves boiled and eaten with Vinegar create an Appetite They extinguish Thirst and suppress Choler in the Stomach The Juice of this Herb snuffed up into the Nostrils gives ease to an inveterate Head-ach Benjamin This is an odoriferous fragrant and well scented yellow Rosin or Gum very much used among the Perfumers it attenuates and is pectoral used chiefly inwardly against Catarrhs Coughs Colds Asthma's Obstructions of the Lungs It purges the Brain by sneezing and likewise fortifies the Heart and resists malignant Humours being taken in Wine c. Benjamin Spirit Put one Pound of Benjamin in a Cucurbit of glass and distil it in Balneo Mariae or a Sand-Furnace and there will first come over a clear Liquor which will have the odoriferous Scent of Benjamin Benjamin a Tincture Take of Benjamin three ounces Storax half an ounce let them be powdered grosly put them into a Matrass or Bottle so that either of them may be but half filled then pour on them Spirit of Wine stopping them close and covering the Vessel with warm Horse-Dung so let the Materials digest for fourteen Days then filter the liquid part and keep it close stopped in a glass Viol and you may if you please add five or six drops of Balsom of Peru to give it the better Scent This wonderfully whitens the Face and Hands and is an excellent Wash to take away Spots or any Deformities but you must not put above a dram of it into four ounces of Water which is sufficient to turn it to the whiteness of Milk and then it is called by the Beautifiers Lac Virginis Virgins Milk Bezoar is a very highly esteemed Powder and excellent against all sorts of Poisons and Venoms for it fortifies and defends the noble Parts and expels the Malignity by Sweat or by insensible Transpiration The Dose taken in Sack or some other Cordial-Wine or Water is from a scruple to a dram Bezoardick-Balsom Take distilled Oil of Rue the Rind of Citron the Peels of Oranges Lavender and Angelica of each half a scruple Oil of Amber rectified five drops Camphire four grains Oil of Nutmeg half an ounce make these into a Balsom by bruising and well incorporating over a gentle Fire It is good in pestilential Airs and apoplectick Fits or any disorder of the Brain Bezoar-Stone The use of this is excellent in all pestilential Distempers being a rare Cordial to fortifie and strengthen the Heart in any Plague or pestilential Fever Take the weight of three Barly-corns in a spoonful of Carduus Bugloss or Borrage-Waters and keep your self moderately warm Morning and Evening Bezoardick-Water Take the Roots of Carline-Thistle and Swallow-wort of each four Ounces Leaves of Water-Germander Rue Carduus-Benedictus Thyme Tops of St. John's-wort of each two handfuls bruise and shred these and suffer them to macerate or infuse in four pints of distilled Water of Nuts and one pint of Spirit of Wine distil them in a Sand-Bath with a moderate Fire burn the Sediment and extract a Salt out of it to be dissolved in Water when you use it Bifoyl or Twa-blade This small Herb growing up from a Root that has something of a sweet Savour in it like Garden-Musk is good being bruised or applied to green or old Wounds and also for Ruptures the Herb being applied Poultis-wise when the Parts are well trussed up Bilberries These made into a Syrup are cooling and astringent allay the Heat of the Stomach and quench Thirst Bile To cure this Grievance take a white Lily-root rost it in the Embers in a brown Paper then bruise Figs small and Fenugreek-seeds with Linseeds of each a quarter of an ounce beat these well together boil them in new Milk until it be thick stir it well and put to it a quarter of a pound of Barrows-grease and lay it on Poultiswise Birch-Bark It is bituminous and therefore mixed with Perfumes it renders a wholsom Air in such Places as it is burned The Fungus of it has an astringent quality so that it very strangely stops bleeding The Tree being pierced in the Spring before the Leaves come forth yields a very wholsome and nourishing Liquor against the Dropsie
another Take half a pint of Small-beer half an ounce of burnt Harts-horn powder it and boil it a little in the Liquor and it will fortifie the Heart and expell the Heat Drink for Malignant Fevers Take Spring-water a quart give it a walm or two put into it an ounce of burnt Harts-horn the Mixture being cold put in three ounces of Syrup made of the Juice of Lemons make them well together and take a quarter of a pint both Morning and Evening Drink for Head-Pains Take of the Leaves of Senna one ounce Cinamon Aniseeds Fenel-seeds and Currans of each a dram Licorice two drams Rosemary and Sweet Marjoram a handful shred and bruise these and slice in three or four new Figs boil them in three pints of Water with an ounce of Sugar till a third part be consumed then strain it The Dose to the weak is about two ounces but for stronger Bodies from two to four ounces It removes Pains if the Body be open or soluble that the Vapours arise not too hastily to afflict the Brain ☞ Note If the Heâ—d be pained and the Body bound endeavour the first thing you do to open and render it soluble otherwise the ascending of Vapours to the Brain will so disturb the Head and distemper it with Heat and Pain that Lightness of the Head Phrensies or raging Madness may happen to ensue if not timely prevented Drink correcting sharp Humours Take an ounce of choice Barley wash it very clean then boil it in a quart or more of Spring-water till the Grains begin to burst then strain the Decoction through a Cloth and drink it for your ordinary Drink at Meals Drink for the Scurvy Take two handfuls of Water-trefoyl and suffer it to work in about eight gallons of Wort use it for all or the greatest part of your ordinary Drink and it will purge out by gentle breathing Sweats the noxious Humours that occasion the Distemper Drink for Wheezing Take five pints of fair Water half a pint of Honey six Figs an ounce of Blue Currants two drams of Licorice boil them to the consumption of a pint and drink a quarter of a pint of it both Morning and Evening pretty hot This brings away tough Phlegm cures the phlegmatick and slimy Cough and remedies Shortness of Breath Dropsie Take Smallage Thyme Hyssop Watercresses Pennyroyal Nettle-tops of each a handful Caraway-seeds Calamint Elecampane-roots of each one ounce boil them in six Quarts of running Water until one half be consumed then strain it put to this Liquor two quarts of Canary add Licorice scraped and bruised two ounces Sweet-Fenel-seeds one ounce Cumin-seeds and Alexander-seeds of each two drams boil all these together again for half an hour then strain it for use Take nine spoonfuls of this Liquor in the Morning fasting and as much about three or four in the Afternoon and continue it for some time Dropsie Take the Root of Gors it groweth upon Hills and Heaths and is full of Prickles and yellow Flowers pare off the outward Bark which throw away then scrape off the inner Rinde and fill a pint Bottle with it lightly then fill it up with Rhenish or White-wine let it stand to infuse all night the next morning drink a glass-ful of it and continue it till you are cured Dropsie Take Rue Camomil Melilot Calamint of each two ounces beat them small and boil them in Wine and Oil of Dill then add of Gummi Carana as much as sufficeth to make a Plaister Dropwort-Root its Vertue A Decoction of it provokes Urin and expels Gravel cures the Heat of Urin and removes the difficulty in making it The Juice of the Root and the Powder are held to be successful in the Falling-sickness The Dose is a dram of the Powder or Juice of the Root in Wine It 's excellent in stopping Fluxes It heals the Ruptures of the Belly and cures the Bloody-flux Ducks-Meat It swims on the Tops of Ponds mostly in Summer-time it helps Inflammations and St. Anthony's-Fire as also the Gout when applied Poultis-wise with Barley-meal The distilled Water of it is good against Inflammations inwardly and Pestilential Fevers It removes the Redness of Sore-eyes and the Swellings of the Breasts of Women if apply'd before they be grown too large The Herb fresh easeth the Pains of the Head if caused by Hear or hot Inflammations Dullness of Hearing Take the Juice of Red Onions and drop it into the Ears stopping them with Cotton-wool or the Juice of Briony-root but not too often nor too much at a time and the Obstructions by this means being opened and removed the Hearing will be recovered and removed the Hearing will be recovered and restored Dysentery for this Disease which many times proves very dangerous Take the Dung of a Pig dry it very well and burn it till it becomes grey in Ashes put about half a dram of it into a spoonful of Vinegar and drink it both Morning and Evening and it will remove this Distemper Dysentery To remove this and other sharp Fluxes Take the Herbs and Leaves of Fleabane dry it by degrees till it be reduceable to a Powder take about a dram of it twice or thrice a day in White-wine or you may take it rolled up in Conserve of Roses EArs Imposthumated If you perceive any Imposthume breeding in the Ears To ripen it Take fine Wheat-flower an ounce and an half Fenegreek-seed Eels-grease Litharge of Gold Ceruse and Frankincense of each one dram mix them together and make a Plaister of them lay it all over the Ear having first dropt in some Oil of Myrrh when 't is ready to break take Sarcocolla Aloes Dragons-blood Myrrh and Frankincense the Dross of Iron and Verdegrease of each half a dram mix them with Vinegar to a thinness dip a Taint therein and put it into the Ear. Earth-worms Prepared To do this that they may be kept for any use you must only slit them down the middle wash them well in White-wine or Whitewine-Vinegar then dry them in the Sun and put them up into dry Boxes to make Powders or for other Uses upon occasion Ebony The Decoction of it when rasp'd or made thin in Shavings is approv'd in Convulsions if it be drank sweetned with Honey Eels to Collar Take a large silver Eel take out the Back-Bone dry and season it after its having been washed with beaten Nutmeg and Salt then cut off the Head and roul in the Tail being seasoned in the sides bind it up close and straight in a fine white Cloth then put it into a fit Pipkin with as much fair Water and Whitewine as will cover it upward of two inches of each a like quantity then season it with some Salt and the Eel being put into the boiling Liquor when it is boiled pretty tender take it up and when the Liquor is almost cool put to it a little Vinegar and make a souce of it adding some Blades of Mace and a few Bay-Leaves and Tops of Rosemary and when
a Mortar till the Flower be very fine then take a pint of thick Cream and the Whites of three or four new-lay'd Eggs beat them well together with a little Rose-water and set them on a soft Fire boil it very thick and so put it into a Dish and let it stand till it is cold then slice it out cast some Bisket on it and serve it up Flummery to Make This in the Western Parts of England is made of Wheat-Flower which is held to be the most heartning and strengthening To make this Take half a peck of Wheat-Bran let it soak in cold Water three or four Days then strain out the milky Water of it and boil it to a Jelly then season it with Sugar Rose and Orange-flower-water and let it stand till it is cold and thickned again then eat it with white or Rhenish Wine or Cream or Milk or Ale Flux of the Belly Take half an ounce of Mithridate two ounces of fine Sugar dissolve these over a gentle Fire in a pint of new Milk and take it as a Clyster Flux-Bloody Take Syrup of Sloes two ounces the Powder of Acorns a quarter of an ounce the Ashes of Ash-keys or the Bark of the Root of an Ash-Tree two drams Conserve of Roses a quarter of an ounce dissolve them in a quarter of a pint of Claret or red Wine and drink it fasting somewhat warm Do this two or three times and you shall find the Flux abate and the Body restored to a liveliness Flux-Bloody another Take the Powder of Crepitus Lupi or Fuss-Balls make it up with Conserve of Provence-roses and take it often from a scruple at a time to about half a dram of the Powder and it will stop the efflux of Blood and heal the Bowels Flux or Loosness Take the Filings of Needle-makers Steel four ounces put them into a glazed Pipkin and pour thereon a quart of the deepest red Wine let it boil till about three parts of the Liquid be consumed stir it often and strain it whilst it is hot then take two spoonfuls of it in warm Broth or Ale in the Morning fasting for three or four days sucessively This likewise is good to stay the Bloody-flux and remove the Cause Flux of the Whites To remedy this Take half an ounce of Ising-glass dissolve it over a gentle fire in a pint of New-Milk Frankincense This grows chiefly in the Forest of Arabia where they launce the Bark of the Trees the better to let the Frankincense flow out or else the Liquor whereof it is made This being drank about a dram in a glass of Whitewine well digested is very good against the Dysentery and Fluxes of the Belly encreases the Memory chases away Sadness and cheareth the Heart It stays the Bleeding at the Nose being powder'd and incorporated with the White of an Egg and Aloes and held to it or put up the Nostrils tentwise It eases the Pains and Megrims being mixed with the Whites of Eggs and the Powder of Myrrh and spread on a linnen Cloth and applied to the Forehead and Temples Freckles to take away Take four spoonfuls of Fumitory-water a spoonful of the Oil of Tartar and the Gall of a Cock mingle these together over a gentle fire till they become a kind of Ointment and with it anoint the places where the Freckles are and let it dry on them Then take a little Rye-meal put it into Milk and wash off the Ointment French way for Carps To stew these Fish the French way Put it in boiling Liquor and take a good large Dish or Stew-pan that will contain the Carp put it into as much Claret as will cover it wash off the Blood and take the Fish out and put into the Wine in the Dish three or four slices of Onions some large Blades of Mace and Pepper grossly beaten with a little Salt and when the Pan boils put in the Carp and cover it close and being well stewed down dish it with fine carved Sippets round about it pour the Liquor it was boiled in on it with the Spices Onion sliced Lemon and Lemon-peel run it over with beaten Butter and garnish it with dry Bread French-Pox Take good Mercury sublimate Mithridate or Venice-Treacle of each an ounce mix them well and infuse them into a quart of Spring-water set them in Balneo to dissolve in a close Vessel and of this Liquor well settled take about half a spoonful or if need require it a spoonful but not above a spoonful and an half by any means take it in a quarter of a pint of small Ale fasting in the Morning and an ounce in the Afternon or Evening the Stomach being as near as may be empty intermitting every second Day and taking a gentle Purge Frenzy or Madness Take the Juice of Burnet Sage and Ground Ivy of each half an ounce sweeten it with half an ounce of Virgin-Honey and give it to the Party so distemper'd or afflicted Fricasie of Chickens The Chickens for this purpose must be cut in small pieces and fry'd in Butter then pour on them some hot Broth or boiling Water put into it an Onion quartered and a little shred Thyme and Parsley with Pepper and Salt enough to season them the Lean of Bacon cut small and a few Cloves the Yolks of Eggs beaten fine with the Broth or Whitewhine-Vinegar keep it in motion till the Sauce be thickened and then serve it up Note If in this manner they be stewed too long they will be Tough Fricasie of Pidgeons Take young Pidgeons cut off the Wings and Legs and quarter the Bodies put them into a Stew-pan add to them some fat Bacon cut square in small pieces as much whole Pepper and Salt as will season them a few Cloves a bundle of Parsley and Thyme and an Onion quartered then pour on so much fair Water as will nearly touch the top of the Pidgeons when they are tender put in a sufficient quantity of Butter change the Parsley and Thyme for some more that is fresh then take the Yolks of Eggs finely beaten in a little of the Broth White-wine and Verjuice lay them out in a Dish upon Sippets with the Broth squeeze an Orange over them and serve them up Fritters the English way Take a Pint of Canary the like quantity of Ale and a litte Ale-Yest the Yolks and Whites of nine Eggs beaten first very well by themselves and then with the rest add a pound of fine Flower and little Ginger Let the Butter stand a while and then put in Apples thin sliced and fry them with Beef-suet clarified or a little Butter take them out and strew them over with fine Sugar then sprinkle them with Rose or Cinnamon-water Or Take a quart of Flower three pints of Mutton-broth when cold Nutmeg and Cinnamon of each a quarter of an ounce beat them fine as also a Race of Ginger five Eggs and a little Salt and strain the Materials put to them some thin slices of Pippins
often Flushings of the Face Take the Seeds of Goards two ounces the Kernels of Peach-stones four ounces make an Oil of them by Expression and anoint the Face often and the redness will decrease and in the end vanish Goatsbeard This Plant is reckoned delicious in Food being often eaten raw in Sallads It 's a great Nourisher and therefore good for Consumptive People It is used for the Cough and in Diseases of the Breast and difficulty of Breathing It is held good to expel the Stone and provoke Urine The Juice of the Root of it and the distilled Water have the same Effect as the Juice or Concoction of the Herb. Goats-Blood Prepared Take the Blood of a middle-aged Goat receive it into an earthen Vessel and having covered it with a Cloath set it in the Sun that it may coagulate then drain of the watery part and dry the thicker part so that it may be reduced into a Powder mix it with the Juice of Nettles and Ash-leaves to stay Bleeding or being taken a dram of it in a glass of the Decoction of Licorice in White-wine it much comforteth the Heart and Lungs It is also prepared for divers other Uses too tedious here to mention but will occur in the various Medicine scattered over this Work Golden Rob is excellent for Wounds inwardly or outwardly applied two drams of the Powder heated in White-wine and taken every Morning removed the Obstructions of the Bowels stops Fluxes of the Womb or Belly and inward Bleeding Gonorrhoea To remedy this Take two ounces of ripe Laurel-Berries and infuse them for a Day in a quart of Whitewine and let the Patient drink about two or three spoonfuls twice a Day for a good while and then intermit a Day and so a third that some gentle purging Medicine may be taken Gonorrhoea another Take choice Mastick a sufficient quantity beat it and searce it well then put about half an ounce of it at a time in the Yolk of a new-lay'd Egg washing it down with Ale or Beer but not too much or else take this viz. Choice Amber and Mastick both reduced to very fine Powder and very well mixed in equal parts and of this Mixture give half a dram at a time in Chocolate or Tea c. and if need require it continue it for three Weeks or a Month purging the Day before you begin to take it and once every Week afterward especially when you leave off the use of the Powder Gonorrhoea another For this Take Mastick and the finest red Coral of each an equal quantity let them he separately reduced into a Powder very fine and being well mixed take about thirty or forty grains for one Dose in a glass of Whitewine Gonorrhoea another To make Tablets for the stopping it Take Seeds of Plantane Agnus Castus white Poppies Rue red Roses dried Mint and Coral prepared of each two drams reduce them into a Powder as fine as may be and make it into Tablets with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth and fine beaten Sugar of each eight ounces make your Tablets half an ounce in weight and take one of them in a Morning fasting They are very proper to stop the Gonorrhea after the general Remedies taken Goose Boil'd Put it into a Pipkin or other Vessel fit for it boil it with strong Broth or fair Spring-water and scum it clean then add three or four sliced Onions some Currans Mace Raisins Pepper and a bundle of Sweet-Herbs grated Bread White-wine and two or three Cloves and when it is boiled enough slash it on the Breast and dish it up on fine carved Sippets and lay on a few slices of Lemon and Lemon-peel Barberries or Grapes and run it over with beaten Butter Sugar or Ginger and trim the Dish sides with grated Bread or beaten Ginger And this way you may dress and serve up any large Water-Fowl as Swans Ducks Teal Whoopers c. Goose Old to Boil tender Take the Goose being powdered and fill her Belly with Oatmeal being first steeped in warm Milk or Water then flash the Breast and put her into a Pipkin with her Breast downward put in them two or three slices of Onion and Carrots cut like Lard some Butter Mace Pepper and Salt Savory Thyme strong Broth and a little Whitewine let the Broth be half consumed and stew it very softly being well stewed dish it up on Sippits and pour on the Broth c. or you may boil her this way viz. Put her into a Pipkin as before put to the Oatmeal you stuff her withal some Beef-suet minced Onions and Apples season'd with Cloves Mace Sweet-Herbs finely shred and also beaten Pepper fasten the Neck and Vent by tying a string hard and serve it up on Brewis with Colliflowers Cabbage Turnips and Barberries and run 'em over with beaten Butter and it will be very delicate and tender Gooseberries These being boiled in Broth before they are ripe are very agreeable to the Stomach and are Cooling in Fevers They stop the Flux of the Belly and cause a good Appetite They cure the Whites and Gonorrhoea They are applied outwardly with good success for St. Anthony's-Fire and Inflammations but if before they are ripe they be eaten raw especially to any excess they cause griping Pains and Slime in the Bowels Gooseberry-Cream Coddle your Berries green and boil them up with Sugar as for a Preserve then put them into the Cream strained while the Berries are whole then scrape Sugar over them and so serve them up in boil'd or raw Cream And in this manner you may use Strawberries Raspberries or Red Currans whole in raw Cream or serve them up with Wine Sugar and Rose-water without Cream Gooseberries to Preserve Take of the largest Berries when they are green and hard of those if you can get them that are called Gascoign Berries pick them clean and covering them very close let them stand over a gentle fire half an hour to coddle a little but suffer them not to boil lest the Skins break and when you perceive a fixed greenness on them put them into a Sieve that the Water may drain from them then put them into as much clarified Sugar as will cover them and simper leisurely being close covered by which means they will look greener than they grew and having suffered them to stand on the fire in the Syrup take them off and being cool put them up for your use Now as for Preserving the various sorts of Green Fruits there are several proper Seasons to be observed Viz. Green Gooseberries about Whitsontide White Wheat-plumbs in the midst of July Pear-plumbs in the middle of August the Peach and Pippin about Bartholomew-tide Grapes in the beginning of September Note That when your Green-Fruit is to be Preserved you have two Skillets of boiling Water to shift 'em into one as the other cools and fettle them in the Water till they fix to a greenness then take and put them into a Sugar Syrup and let them boil gently
Stiptick-Water the New Way Take Colcothar or red Vitriol which remains in the Retort after the Spirit is drawn out Sugar-candy and Burnt-alom of each half a dram the Urin of a young Lad and Rose-water of each half an ounce Plantain-water two ounces mix them well together for a considerable time then pour the Mixture into a Viol and when you separate it do it by inclination for use This is so excellent for stopping Bleeding that a Bolster dipped in it and applied to an open Artery and held there a while it has stay'd the bleeding of it A Pledget thrust up the Nostrils do's the like for the bleeding there Taken inwardly it cures the Spitting of Blood and Bloody-flux c. The Dose taken inwardly is from half a dram to a dram and it may be given in the Water of Knot-grass Nettles or Wood-sorrel This Water is excellent for any one to carry about them and may upon any Accident happening save a Life that the Effusion of Blood if not speedily stopped may carry away with it Stomach Hot When you find any great Heat or Burning in your Stomach Take green Housleek bruise it and press out the Juice then over a gentle Fire make it into a Syrup with white Sugar This is likewise excellent good a quarter of an ounce taken at a time for the Heart burn Stomach Pain'd If the Stomach be afflicted with Pains occasioned by windiness or Causes proceeding from the defect of the Milt Take an ounce of Cinnamon Rapontici and Galangal as much put to them when bruised half a pound of Sugar and lay it when boiled up to a heighth on Plates make them into Lozenges Take one at a time and drink a glass of Wine after it and it will work gently so that in often taking your Thirst will be much abared Stomachical Tincture Take Agrimony two drams small Centaury-tops one dram Coriander-seeds bruised one scruple Sassafras Shavings and Bark one dram Gentian-root half a dram Zedoary-root ten grains put these to three quarters of a pint of boiling Spring-water cover it and let them steep twelve Hours then strain it and Bottle it up It exceedingly fortifies and refreshes the Stomach eases it of Pains and Gripings and prevents the Iliac-Passion Stone the Cause and Cure The Stone is ingendred of vicious and slimy Flegm in the Reins and Bladder where by heat it petrifies and takes to it self the hardness and nature of a Stone To dissolve and bring away this Take of the Tops of Borrage Fenel Parsly Endive and Succory Spearage and Beets of each a little handful shred them and boil them in three quarts of Rhenish-wine drink a quarter of a pint of it Morning and Evening and once a Week take a Clyster made of Mallows Groundsil Southernwood and Fetherfew boiled in fair Water and mixed with two ounces of brown Sugar especially if the Affliction be in the Reins Stone or Gravel Take thirty or forty Drops of Spirit of Castor in a Glass of Rhenish Wine every Morning fasting Stone and Gravel Take four gallons of running Water four pound of fine Sugar in powder Eringo-roots and Raisins of the Sun stoned of each one pound a branch of fresh Rosemary boil all these together till half be consumed then work it up with a little Yeast tun it and put the Peel of a fresh Lemon into it when it hath done working you may Bottle it if you please Of this drink Morning and Evening and whensoever you are adry Stone and Gravel another Take the White of a new-lay'd Egg and beat it well with a Spoon in a Porringer for a quarter of an hour then let it settle and take off the Scum mix the Clear with two spoonfuls of Whitewine and four spoonfuls of red Rose-water and put to it one ounce of Sugar-candy in Powder mix all well together and take it in the Morning fasting and another at Night going to Bed Continue this seven Days Stone and Gravel another Take of the Juice of Leeks Onions and Radishes of each two pound Juices of Lemons Pellitory and Mouse-ear of each half a pound Calx of Crystal and Pidgeon's-dung of each half a pound digest it for ten Days then distil it You may give it from one dram to half an ounce at a time in Rhenish Wine Stone and Gravel another Gather the Leaves of Golden-Rod when it is in its greatest Vigour dry them in the shade and when you are troubled with the Stone or Gravel take one ounce thereof made into subtil Powder in a small Glass of White-wine and Milk of each a like quantity repeat this as often as there is cause for it When the Herb is green you may boil a handful of it in Whitewine Posset-drink and drink it instead of the dried Herb which is to keep all the Year Stone and Gravel a Diet Forbear eating of Eggs all salt and tart Meats and Sauces Pork Milk or any thing made of Milk except Possets Cabbage Colworts Colliflowers and such-like let your Diet be Mutton Veal Rabbit and Fowl and the quantity moderate let your Drink be of the midling sort and not too stale Forbear drinking Claret drink Spanish Wine rather than French Strain The Strain or Sprain being newly contracted Take a handful of Wormwood and bruise it well in a stone Mortar then put to it the Whites of two Eggs beaten make a Poultis of it and lay it to the grieved place Strangury This is caused either from the Urin's being over sharp which provokes the expulsive Faculties to expel it before any quantity be gathered together or that the retentive Faculty to the Bladder is weakned through some distemperature especially of Cold or else through some Ulcer or Inflammation of the Bladder to which the Urin coming doth extimulate the expulsive Faculty or lastly when the Womb or Bowels being inflamed do trouble or distend the Bladder To remedy this Take Cassia one dram Manna two grains Violets Sorrel and Purslain of each a pugil Licorice Prunes and the Leaves of Mallows of each two ounces bruise and boil these in two quarts of Whey till a fourth part be consumed strain out the liquid part and sweeten it with Honey and drink a quarter of a pint as hot as may be fasting and an hour after take a quarter of an ounce of the Oil of Violets and half an ounce of the Oil of sweet Almonds mixed together Straitness of the Breasts This is frequently occasioned by evil Humours setling in the Breasts To remedy which Take Taxus-Barbatus Fennel and Licorice of each a little handful boil them in Water and Wine a like quantity and when they become tender strain the liquid part through a Linnen-cloath sweeten it with Sugar and take about a quarter of a pint of it pretty hot in a Morning fasting This likewise removes Hoarsness or Defects occasioned by Cold or tough Flegm Strengthning the Bowels Take Cloves or Chives not Bulbs of Garlick and swallow at convenient times one or two of
the more speedy way put Whitewine or Claret into an earthen Pot stop the Mouth with a piece of Past and put it into a brass Pan or Pot boiling with Water let it be there about half an Hour and it will grow soure Vinegar of Elder Gather Elder-flowers before they be too much blown pick them clean from the great Stalks and dry them in the Sun when it is not too hot so put a handful of them to a quart of the best White-wine-Vinegar and let it stand about twelve or fourteen Days then strain it and draw it off and put it into your Vessel letting a quart be put in very hot to make it ferment in the Cask and so stop it close for use It is very pleasing to the Pallate good for those to use in Sauces or otherways that are troubled with Pains in their Heads as also by dipping a Cloath in it or making a Poultis of Mallows and Chamomil and apply'd to the Head it wonderfully eases it of Pains caused by heat Vinegar of Foul Wine Boil it and scum it very clean suffering it to continue over the Fire till one third is consumed then put it in a Vessel and put some Chervel to it stop it close and in a short time it will prove very good Vinegar You may make Vinegar of any Flowers Herbs Fruits or Roots by putting them into the Vinegar and infusing them till the Vinegar is tinctured or grown strong with the tast and smell of them Vinegar of Pepper Fill a Bottle with the best Wine-Vinegar then take a good quantity of Pepper put it into a long Cloath sowed up like a Bag and put it into the Vinegar for the space of Eight Days with a string to it that it may be drawn out at the end of that time Vinegar of Roses Take the Buds almost blown of red Roses gathered dry and the Whites and Stalks cut away shred them and dry them after in the Sun a considerable time put them into aâ— earthen Vessel and put to a pound of Roses two quarts of the best Whitewine-Vinegar stop them up close and let them infuse eight or nine Days then draw off the Vinegar press out what remains in the Roses and bottle it up for use Vinegar of Roses another Take red Roses not quite blown cut away the white Bottoms when the Leaves are plucked from the Stalk about one pound and dry them in the Sun then put them in six quarts of White-wine-Vinegar and set it in the Sun about forty Days then strain it and let the Infusion be repeated with fresh Roses and so strain it out and keep it for use This is used mostly in Sauces but it is indeed extraordinary good made up into a Syrup with Sugar to cut Flegm gargle the Mouth and to be used in cooling and astringent Medicins Vinegar of Roses another Dry your Roses with Elder-flowers then put them into a double Glass or stone Bottle set them in the Sun or in a warm Oven and put Whitewine-Vinegar to them and so let them infuse for ten Days and tye a Rag over the Mouth of the Bottle that the Vinegar may strain through it Vinegar of Treacle Take one ounce and half of the Roats of great Celandine the Roots of Angelica Masterwort Bithwort Gentian Valerian Burnet white Dittany Elecampane and Zedoary of each a dram the Leaves of Mousear Sage Scabious Scordium Dittany of Creet and Blessed Thistle of each a handful great Plantain-root a dram and half the Seeds and Bark of Citron of each one dram and half Saffron three drams Bole-armoniack one dram Harts-horn a dram and half tye up the Harts-horn Dittany and Bole-armoniack in a fine Rag and for five or six Days infuse it with the other Ingredients in five Pints of sharp Vinegar in a well stopt Glass by a moderate heat strain out the Vinegar then put into it to dissolve six drams of the best Treacle and shake it often and so do when you use it The Dose is half a spoonful at a time in some convenient Liquor It is of excellent use to prevent pestilential Fevers the Plague ill Airs and noisom Vapours being taken fasting in a Morning Violets Simple To make the simple Syrup of Violets infuse the Flowers of blue Violets twice or thrice till they by boiling have lost their Scent then with a convenient quantity of Sugar boil up the Water to a Syrup This asswageth sharp Humours and Pleurisie and is good for the Head-ach and against the Heaviness of the Heart and hinders disturbing Dreams Violets Syrup of To make the compound Syrup of Violets Take the blue Violet-flowers fresh gathered the white ends clipped off and free from Stalks two ounces the Seeds of Quinces and Mallows of each one ounce Jubebs and Sebestens twenty of each boil Gourds or their Seeds in five pints of Water till one half be consumed then take them out and put the other things mention'd into it and having strengthned it with their Scent and Tast so that little or none remains in themselves press them into the Liquid and so with fine Sugar boil it up into a Syrup This mitigates Catarrhs and Hoarsness and wonderfully helps Coughs or Colds and is good in most hot Diseases Vipers Biting As soon as any one is bitten for if the Poison be diffused through the Mass of Blood the Experiment cannot be warranted a hot Iron may as hot as the Party can endure it be held near the Wound till it has as some term it drawn out Poison which sometimes like a yellowish Spot will stick to the surface of the Iron Viper Biting another Take white Horehound and Plantain of each half a handful beat them into the nature of a Poultis and apply it speedily to the Place afflicted ' e're the Poison spread in the Blood and drink at the same time the Juice of them which is very good against the Jaundice and not only for the Biting of the Viper but other venomous Creatures Vipers-Grass This is by many eaten with their Meat having a kind of a tast and sweetness of a Parsnip 'T is applied with success against the Biting of any venomous Creature also in pestilential Fevers Giddiness Melancholy Palpitations of the Heart Falling-sickness Obstructions of the Bowels and Diseases of the Womb for the Jaundice and Dropsie if taken at the beginning In case of any kind of Fevers Take of the Root of Scorzonera and Angelica of each six drams of the Leaves of Wood-sorrel with the Roots two handfuls rasp'd Ivory and Harts-horn of each half an ounce Licorice two drams boil these in a sufficient quantity of Water wherein Barly has been boiled to the consumption of a pint and a half and having strained the Liquor add of the Composition of Scordium-water and of the cold Scordium-water of Saxony of each three ounces Syrup of Rasberries three ounces mingle them well and make an Apozem of which take three or four ounces at pleasure though the Fever