a man a good stomach to his victuals by strengthening the attractive faculty the inner Rind of the Barberry-tree boyled in VVhite-wine and a quarter of a pint drunk each morning doth cleanse the body of Chollerick humors and free it from such Diseases as choller causeth such are Scabs Itches Tetters Ring-worms Yellow-Jaundice Boils c. It is excellent for hot Agues Burnings Scaldings heat of the Blood heat of the Lâ—ver Bloodiflux the Berries are as good as the Bark and more pleasing they may be kept all the year being made into Conserves Preserves c. The Blackberry Bush. THese Berries are good for young Turkies Peacocks and many other Poultry The Vses Physical The Berries or the Flowers are a powerful Remedy against the poyson of the most venemous Serpents as well drunk as outwardly applyed helpeth the Sores of the fundament and the Piles but the flower and fruit unripe are very binding and so profitable for the Bloody-flux or Lask and are a fit Remedy for spitting of blood the distilled water of the branches leaves and flowers or of the fruit is very pleasant in taste and very effectual in Fevers and hot distempers of the Body Head Eyes and other parts also do cure Ulcers Sores VVounds Bloody-flux Quinsie Either the Decoction or Powder of the Root being taken is good to break or drive forth Gravel and the Stone in the Reins and Kidneys the Leaves and Brambles as well green as dry are excellent good Lotions for Sores in the Mouth or Secret parts the Juice of the Berries mixed with the Juice of Mulberries do bind more effectually and help fretting and eating Sores and Ulcers wheresoever the Powder of the Leaves strewed on cankrous and running Ulcers doth wonderfully help to heal them the Leaves boiled in-Lye and the head washed therewith healeth the Itch and running sores thereof and maketh the hair black The Rasberry-Bush Vertues and use THese Berries do make wholsome VVine called Rasberry VVine The Conserves of Rasberries are very good against many distempers of the Body therefore useful to be kept in house all the year the Berries are very pleasant to eat with Cream or VVine the Syrop of the Berries is cooling and good for a sore mouth and throat and other diseases that come of heat also they are vendible at Markets and good food for the young Peacocks Turkies and other Poultry The Gooseberry-Bush Vertues and Vse BEsides the ordinary eating of them they are of good use preserved also baked in Pies or Tarts the overplus may be sold or given to the Swine and Poultry The Currant-Bush Vertues and Vse BEsides the ordinary spending of this fruit there are Syrrups Conserves and Preserves made of them very usefull in a Family what is not spent in the House or sold the little Birds will feed on and in their season you may feed on them so that it is but converting Currants into flesh and you may make a sufficient Improvmement of them Straberries THis is a cool Berry and very wholesome to eat in wine what is not spent in the Family or sold in Markets the Birds will be glad of The Uses Physical The Distilled water of the Berries is a soveraign Remedy and Cordial in the panting and beating of the heart and is good for the yellow Jaundice The Juice or VVater is singular good for hot inflamed eyes if dropped into them The Leaves and Roots boyled in Wine and Water and drunk do cool the Liver and Blood and asswage all Inflammations in the Reins and Bladder allayeth the heat and sharpness of the Urin stayeth the Bloody-flux and Womens Courses and helpeth the swelling of the Spleen The Berries when they are ripe are cold and moist therefore excellent to cool the Liver the Blood and Spleen or an hot chollerick Stomach also to refresh and comfort the fainting spirits and quench thirst they are good also for other Inflammations yet it is not amiss to refrain them in a Fever lest by their putrefying the Stomach they encrease the Fits The Juice or Water is of excellent use for all Pushes Wheals and other breaking forth of hot and sharp humors in the face and hands or other parts of the Body to bath them therewith Lotions and Gargles for sore Mouths or Vlcers therein or in the Privy parts or elsewhere are made with Roots and Leaves We shall here add a Receit or Medicine for Sore-eyes Take so many Strawberries as you shall think fitting and put them into a Distillatory or body of Glass fit for them which being well closed set it in a Bed of horse-dung for twelve or fourteen dayes and afterwards distill it carefully and keep it for your use We shall now proceed to the Orchards and Gardens The Service-tree THese Berries when they are ripe may be spent in the House and some of them sold and what is left Birds and Poultry will help you away with Uses Physical Services when they are mellow are fit to be taken to stay Fluxes Scowring and Costing but if they be dryed before they be mellow and kept all the year they may be used in Decoctions for the said purpose either to drink or to bath the parts requiring it and is profitable used in that manner to stay the bleeding of wounds and at the Mouth and Nose to be applyed to the forehead or nape of the Neck The Mulberry-tree THe Leaves of this Tree are the chiefest food for the Silk-worms and about that time the Leaves grow old and begin to fall then these Worms begin to spin and will require no more food and about the time the sap puts forth leaves again which will be about the next Spring following the said old Worms having laid many Eggs do die and the said Eggs produce young Worms to feed on the new or young leaves The Syrup or Conserves of the Berries are very useful in a Family therefore are to be kept in house all the year There is Wine also made of the Berries which will cheer and comfort the spirits The Uses Physical The Berries being ripe and eaten open the Belly and the unripe bind being dried they are good to stay Fluxes The juice or the syrup made of the juice of the ripe Berries helpeth all Inflammations and Sores in the Mouth Throat and Pallat of the Mouth when it is fallen down The leaves beaten with vinegar is good to lay on any place that is burnt with fire A Decoction made of the bark and leaves is good to wash the mouth and teeth when they ake if the root be a little slit or cut and a small hole made in the ground next thereunto in the Harvest time it will give out a certain juice which being hardned the next day is of good use to help the Tooth-ach to dissolve Knots and purge the Belly This Berry will also sell at Markets the overplus will feed the Swine and Poultry The Ch rry-tree CHerries will vent at most Markets and arise to a considerable profit if you
the Plague Sage Rosemary Honey-suckles and Plantane boyled in Wine or Water with Honey and Allum put thereto is an excellent Gargle to wash sore Mouths and Throats Cankers or the secret parts of Man or Woman A Medicine or Pills much commended for those that are in a Consumption Take of Spicknard and Ginger of each two drachms of the Seed of Sage toasted at the fire eight drachms of long-Pepper twelve drachms all these being brought into fine Powder put thereto so much Juice of Sage as may make them into a Mass for Pâ—lls taking a drachm of them every Morning fasting and so likewise at night drinking a little pure water after them It helpeth also the Falling-sickness the Lethargy the Palsie and all Defluxions of Rheum from the Head and for the diseases of the Chest or Breast also all pains of the Head and Joynts that come of cold Winter and Summer Savory Vertues and Vse THe Conserves and Syrups of these Herbs are a very good Remedy against the Chollick and Iliack passions expelling Wind in the Stomach and Bowels also it is a present help for the rising of the Mother procured by wind it cutteth tough Flegm in the Chest and Lungs and helpeth to expectorate it the more easily The Herbs are both of them hot and dry but the Summer Savory is more effectual to all the purposes aforesaid they are both of them very good Pot-herbs Saffron Vertues and Vse THis Herb is a very good Cordial and a notable expulsive Medicine against Epidemical Diseases as Pestilence Small-Pox and Measles an excellent Remedy for the Yellow-Jaundice it quickens the Brain helps difficulty of breathing Consumption of the Lungs and exceedingly strengthens the Heart but let not above ten grains of the dried Flowers be given at one time for an immoderate quantity may hurt the heart instead of helping it Scurvy-grass Vertues and Vse THe Herb tunned up in new Drink either by it self or with other things openth Obstructions evacuateth cold clammy and flegmatick humors both from the Liver and Spleen wasting and consuming both the swelling and hardness thereof The Juice of Dutch Scurvey-grass if to be had or else the English drunk in the Spring every morning fasting in a Cup of Drink or the Decoction thereof drunk is effectual for all the Diseases before mentioned also to purge and cleanse the Blood the Liver and the Spleen and especially for those that have the Scurvey Sorrel Vertues and Vse THe Roots of Sorrel in a Decoction or in Powder is good in all hot Diseases to cool any inflammation and heat of blood in Agues pestilential or cholletick or other Sicknesses and Faintings rising from heat and to quench Thirst and procure an Appetite in fainting or decayed Stomachs A Syrup made with the Juice of Sorrel and Fumitory is a soveraign help to kill those sharp humors that cause the Itch the Decoction of the Flowers made with Wine and drunck helpeth the Black Jaundice as also the inward Ulcers of the Body and Bowels The Seed and Herb is effectual in all the causes aforesaid Wood-sorrel serveth to all the purposes that the other or Garden Sorrel doth and more effectually Smallage Vertues and Vse THe Juice of this Herb taken but especially if made into a Syrup openeth obstructions of the Liver and Spleen rarifieth thick Flegm and cleanseth it and the blood and is singular good against the Yellow-Jaundice The Juice put to Hony of Roses and Barley-water is very good to gargle the Mouth and Throat of those that have Sores and Ulcers in them and healeth all other foul Ulcers and Cankers elsewhere if washed therewith The Decoction of the Root in Wine or the Juice thereof taken in Wine is held to be stronger in operation than the Herb to all the purposes aforesaid Smallage Potage eaten in the Spring is very effectual to purge and cleanse the Blood Succory Vertues and Vse THe Distilled Water of the Herb and Flowers is especial good for hot Stomachs and in Agues either Pestilential or of Long continuance for Swounings and Passions of the Heart for the Heat and Head-ach in Children A Decoction made in Wine and drunk or a drachm of the Seed in Powder drunk in Wine before the Fit of an Ague helpeth to drive it away A handful of the Leaves or Roots boyled in Wine or Water and a draught thereof drunk fasting driveth forth cholerick and flegmatick humors openeth obstructions of the Liver Gall and Spleen helpeth the Yellow Jaundice the heat of the Reins and of the Urin also the Dropsie English Tobacco Vertues and Vse THe Herb bruised and applyed to the place grieved with the Kings Evil helpeth it effectually in nine or ten dayes it also cureth any fresh wound or cut and the Juice put into old sores both cleanseth and healeth them The Juice made into a Syrup or the Distilled Water of the Herb drunk with some Sugar or the Smoke taken by a Pipe but only fasting The same helpeth to expel Worms in the Stomach and Belly and to ease the pains in the Head and the griping pains in the Bowels It is good to provoke Urin and expel Gravel and the Stone in the Kidneys also to expel Windiness and other Humors which cause the Strangurie or the Mother Tansie Vertues and Vse THe Herb bruised and often smelled unto as also applied to the Navil is very profitable for such Women as are given to miscarry in Child-bearing or the Herb boiled in ordinary Beer and the Decoction drunk doth the like let those Women that desire Children make use of this Herb for if their Womb be not as they would have it this Decoction will make it as it should be The Decoction or the Juice drunk in Wine helpeth the Strangury and those that have weak Reins and Kidneys it also expels wind in the Stomach Belly or Bowels and is good to procuâ—e Womens Courses A Tansie made with the Herb and Eggs helpeth to digest and carry downward those bad humors that trouble the stomach Violets Vertues and Vse THe Syrup of Violets is effectual in the Plurisie and all Diseases of the Lungs to lenifie the sharpness of hot Rheums and the hoarsness of the Throat the heat also and sharpness of Urin and all pains of the Back Reins and Bladder it is good also for the Liver and Jaundice and to cool the heat and quench the thirst in hot Agues and if a little of the Juice of Lemmons be put to it or a few drops of the Oyl of Vitriol it is made thereby the more powerful to cool the heat and quench the thirst A Decoction of the Leaves or Flowers made with Water or Wine and drunk or to ayply them Poultis wise to the grieved place easeth the pains also the pains in the Head A drachm weight of the dried Leaves of the Flowers of Violets taken in Wine or any other Drink a draught in a morning fasting doth strongly purge the Body of cholerick humors and asswageth the
them to Powder and half as much Mastick in Powder and with Gum-Arabick dissolved in Rose-water make it up in Troches of which take about half a drachm weight an hour or two before Meals Motherwort Vertues and Vse THere is no better Herb to strengthen and drive melancholly Vapours from the heart and make a merry chearful blith soul than this herb it may be kept in Syrup or Conserve the Powder thereof to the quantity of a spoonful drunk in Wine is a wonderful help to Women in their sore Travails as also for the suffocation of the Mother it also cleanseth the Chest of cold Flegm and is of good use to dry up the cold humors to digest and disperse them that are settled in the Veins Joynts and Sinews of the Body Sweet-Maudlin Vertues and Vse THis Herb taken in Whey or the Decoction purgeth Choller and Flegm openeth Obstructions and healeth their evil effects and is a wonderful help to all sâ—rts of Day-Agues It is astringent to the Stomach and strengthneth the Liver and all other inward parts taken fasting in the Morning it is very profitable for the pains in the head that are continual it is an especial friend and help to evil weak and cold Livers and very profitable for those that are fallen into a continual evil disposition of the whole Body called Cachexia Mallows Vertues and Vse THe Roots and Seeds hereof boyled in Wine or Water is good for those that have Excoriations in the Guts or the Bloody-flux also for them that are troubled with Ruptures Cramps or Convulsions of the Sinews and boyled in White-wine for the Imposthumes of the Throat called the Kings-Evil and the Kernels that rise behind the Ears and Inflammations or Swellings in Womens Breasts The Juice of Mallows drunk in VVine or the Decoction of them therein doth help Vvomen to a speedy and easie Delivery and is special good for the Falling-sickness The Syrup and Conserve made of the Flowers are very effectual for the same Diseases and to open the Body being Costive the dried Roots boyled in Milk and drunk is special good for a Chine-cough The Marsh-Mallows are more effectual than the ordinary Onions Vertues and Vse TO eat Onions fasting with bread and salt hath been held with divers People a good Preservative against Infection being rosted under the Embers and eaten with sugar and Oyl or honey much conduce to help an inveterate Cough and expectorate the tough Flegm Orpine Vertues and Vse A Syrup made of the Juice with Honey and Sugar and a spoonful or two taken at a time is a speedy Cure for a Quinsie The Leaf bruised and laid to any green wound in the hands or legs doth heal them quickly and being bound to the throat helpeth the Quinsie it helpeth also Ruptures and Burstings The Distilled VVater of the Herb being drunk for certain dayes together is profitable for Gnawings or Excoriations in the Stomach or Bowels or for Ulcers in the Lungs Liver or other inward parts Parsnip Vertues and Vse THe Root is very useful in a Family being good and wholsome Nourishment and fatneth the Body much the Seed hereof being drunk cleanseth the Belly from tough Flegmatick matter therein easeth them that are Liver-grown and VVomens passions of the Mother The Seed and Root of the VVild or Cow-parsnip boyled in Oyl and the head rubbed therewith helpeth those that are fallen into a Frenzy also Lethargie or Drowsie evil and the Headach Parsly Vertues and Vse An excellent Receipt or Medicine to open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and expel the Dropsie and Jaundice by Urin. TAke of the Seeds of Parsley Fennel Annise and Caraways of each an ounce of the Roots of Parsley Burnet Saxifrage and Carawayes of each an ounce and an half let the Seed be bruised and the Roots washed and cut small let them lie all night in steep in a Pottle of VVhite-wine and in the Morning be boyled in a close earthen Vessel until a third part or more be wasted which being strained and cleared take 4 ounces thereof Morning and Evening first and last abstaining from drink after it for three hours this is also good against the Falling-sickness and the Stone in the Kidneys The Distilled Water of Parsley is good to give Children when they are troubled with Wind in the Stomach or Belly Pennyroyal Vertues and Vse THe Herb boyled in Milk and drunk is very effectual for the Cough and for Ulcers or Sores in the Mouth the Decoction thereof being drunk helpeth the Jaundice and Dropsie and all Pains of the Head and Sinews that come of a Cold cause and helpeth to clear and quicken the Eye-sight Penny-royal and Mint together put in Vinegar and put to the Nostrils to be smell'd unto or a little thereof put into the Mouth helpeth Faintings and Swounings and being drunk in Wine it easeth the Headach and the Pains of the Breast and Belly stayeth the Gnawing of the Stomach and inward Pains of the Bowels Pellitory of the Wall Vertues and Vse THe Juice clarified and boyled into a Syrup with Honey and a spoonful of it drunk in a Morning once a week is a certain Cure for those that are subject to the Dropsie The Decoction of the Herb being drunk easeth pains of the Mother it also easeth those griefs that arise from Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Reins the same Decoction with a little Honey added thereto is good to gargle a sore Throat The Juice held a while in the Mouth easeth the pains in the Teeth The dried Herb made up into an Electuaâ—y with Honey or the Juice of the Herb or the Decoction made up with Sugar or Honey is a singular Remedy for any old or dry Cough the Shortnes of Breath and Wheesing in the Trhoat A Poultis made of the Herb with Mallows and boyled in Wine with Wheat Bran and Bean-flower and some Oyl put thereto and applied warm to any bruised Sinew Tendon or Muscle doth in a very short time restore them to their strength The green herb bruised and bound to any green wound for three dayes you shall need no other Medicine to heal it further Pepper-wort Vertues and Vse THe Leaves bruised and mixed with old Hogs-grease and applyed to the place and to continue threon four hours in Men and two hours in Women the place being afterwards bathed with Wine and Oyl and then wrapped with Wool or Skins is very effectual for the Sciatica or any other Gout or pain in the Joynts Purslan Vertues and Vse THis is a very good Sallet Herb to cool any heat in the Liver and in hot Agues nothing better it also cooleth the Blood Reins and Stomach The Herb bruised and applyed to the Forehead and Temples allayeth excessive heat therein hindring rest and sleep The Juice is good to stay Vomitings and taken with Sugar or Honey helpeth an old and dry Cough Shortness of Breath and the Phtisick and stayeth immoderate Thirst The Seed is more effectual than the Herb to
all the purposes aforesaid and is good to cool the heat and sharpness of Urin The Distilled Water of the Herb is used by many as the more pleasing with a little Sugar to work the same effects Rubarb Vertues and Vse THe Powder of Rubarb taken with a little Mummia and Madder Roots in some Red-wine dissolveth clotted blood in the Body happening by any fall or bruise and healeth Burstings The Root steeped all night in White-wine and a draught drunk in a morning fasting or a drachm of the Powdeâ— of the dried Root being either taken of it self or with a scrupâ— of Ginger made into Powder in a Mess of Warm Broth or in a draught of White-wine purgeth Choller and Flegm downwards very gently and safely without danger cleanseth the Stomach Liver and Blood opening Obstructions helpeth those Griefs that come thereof as the Jaundice Dropsie swelling of the Spleen Tertian and Day Agues and the pricking pain of the Sides and also stayeth spitting of blood Rosemary Vertues and Vse THe dried Leaves shread small and taken in a Pipe as Tobacco is taken helpeth those that have any Cough or Phtisick or Consumption by warming and drying the thin Distillations which cause those diseases to burn the Herb in Chambers correcteth the air in them the Flowers and the Conserve made of them is singular good to comfort the heart and to expel the Contagion of the Pestilence the Decoction or Powder of Rosemary taken in Wine helpeth the cold Distillations of Rheum into the Eyes and all other cold Diseases of the Head and Brain as the Giddiness Drowsiness Dulness of the Mind and Senses dumb Palsie or loss of Speech and Falling-sickness to be both drunk and the Temples bathed therewith it is a Remedy for the Windiness in the Stomach or Bowels Wind in the Spleen helpeth those that are Liver-grown it helpeth a weak Memory quickneth the Senses helpeth dim Eyes and a stinking Breath it is very comfortable to the Stomach in all cold Griefs helping both retention of meat and digestion We shall here direct you to make a soveraign Oyl or Balm to heal the Diseases before mentioned Take what quantity you please of the Flowers and put them in a strong Glass tie a fine linnen cloth over the mouth and turn the mouth down into another strong Glass which being set in the Sun an Oyl will distill into the lower Glass this preserve as precious for divers uses to touch the Temples and Nostrils with two or three drops is the Dose allowed for the Diseases of the Head and Brains and a drop two or three as the cause requireth for the inward griefs Rue Vertues and Vse An Excellent Receipt or Antidote against Poison or Infection and to preserve the Body in health TAke twenty leaves of Rue a little Salt two Walnuts and two Figs all of them beaten together into a Mass with twenty Juniper Berries take every morning fasting the quantity of a Hazel Nut. We shall add another Receipt and it is a Remedy for the pains or griefs of the Chest or Stomach of the Spleen Belly or Sides by wind or stitches of the Liver obstructions of the Reins and Bladder by the stopping of Urin. Take of Nitre Pepper and Cummin-seed of each equal parts of Rue clean picked as in weight as all the other three First steep the Cummin-seed in Vinegar twenty four hours then dry it by the fire or in an Oven and then beat them well together and with Honey make it up into an Electuary this will also help to extenuate fat corpulent Bodies A Decoction made of Rue with some dried Dill leaves and flowers easeth all pains and torments inwardly to be drunk and outwardly to be applyed warm to the place grieved the same being drunk helpeth the pains both of Chest and Sides also Coughs hardness of breathing the Inflammations of the Lungs and the tormenting pains of the Sciatica and the Joynts being anointed or laid to the places as also the shaking Fits of Agues to take a draught before the Fit come Roses Vertues and Vse OF the Red Roses are made many Compositions all serving to sundry good uses the moist Conserve is both binding and Cordial for untill it be about two years old it is more binding than cordial and after that more cordial than binding The old Conserve mixed with Aromaticum Rosarum is a very good Cordial against Faintings Swounings Weakness and Trembling of the Heart strengthening both it and a weak Stomach helpeth Digestion stayeth casting and is a very good Preservative in the time of Infection some of the younger Conserve taken with Mithridatum mixed together is good for those that are troubled with Distillations of Rheum from the Brain to the Nose and defluxion of Rheum into the Eyes and being mixed with the Powder of Mastick is very good for the Running of the Reins and for other looseness of humors in the Body The dry Conserve or Sugar of Roses is a very good Cordial to strengthen the heart and spirits The Syrup of drie red Roses strengthens a Stomach given to casting cooleth an over-heated Liver comforteth the Heart and resisteth Putrefaction and Infection Red-rose Water is better than Damask being cooling and cordial refreshing and quickning weak and faint spirits and used either in meats or Broths Honey of Roses is good to gargle the Mouth and Throat to cleanse and heal them the Cordial Powder called Diarrhodon Abbatis and Aromaticum Rosarum doth comfort and strengthen the Heart and Stomach procures an Appetite helps Digestion and stayeth Vomiting Vinegar of Roses is of much good use and to procure rest and sleep if some thereof and Rose-water together be used to smell unto but more usually to moisten a piece of Red-rose Cake cut fit for the purpose and heated between a double folded Cloth with a little beaten Nutmeg and Poppy-seed strewed on the side that must lie next to the forhead and temples and so bound to for all night The Syrup of Damask Roses is both simple and compound the simple solutive Syrup is a familiar safe gentle and easie Medicine purging Choller taken from one ounce to three or four The Syrup with Agatick or the compound Syrup is more forcible in working for one ounce thereof by it self will open the body more than the other and worketh as much on Flegm as Choller Rupture-wort Vertues and Vse THe Juice or Distilled Water of the green Herb taken in Wine and drunk helpeth all Fluxes Vomitings Running of the Reins the Strangury Stone or Gravel in the Reins or Bladder also Stitches in the Side all griping pains in the Stomach or Belly the Obstructions of the Liver and the Yellow-Jaundice A drachm of the Powder of the dried Herb taken in Wine every day for certain dayes together is effectual for all the Diseases aforesaid and is found by experience to be an excellent and speedy Cure for the Rupture Sage Vertues and Vse THe Juice of Sage drunk with Vinegar is very good against