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A76199	The ladies cabinet enlarged and opened: containing many rare secrets, and rich ornaments of several kindes, and different uses. Comprized under three general heads. Viz. of [brace] 1. Preserving, conserving, candying, &c 2. Physick and chirurgery. 3. Cookery and houswifery. Whereunto is added, sundry experiments, and choice extractions of waters, oyls, &c. / Collected and practised; by the late Right Honorable and learned chymist, the Lord Ruthuen. With a particular table to each part.; Ladies cabinet opened.	M. B.; Forth and Brentford, Patrick Ruthven, Earl of, 1573?-1651.	1654 (1654)	Wing B135; Thomason E1528_1; ESTC R16539	109,847	253

distill it by degrees for 24 hours rectifie the water in sand 13 Water of Snails Take of the juyce of ground Ivy Coles foot Stabious Lungwort of each one pound and a half the juyce of Purslain Plantane Ambrosia Pauls Betony of each a pound Hogs blood White wine of each four pound Garden snails two pound dryed Tobacco leaves eight pouder of Liquorice two ounces Alicampane half an ounce of On is an ounce Cotton seeds an ounce and half the greater cold seeds Annise-seeds of each six drachms Saffron one drachm the flowers of red Roses six pugils of Violets and Borage of each four pugils steep them three days warm and then distil them in a glass Still in sand 14. An excellent VVater against the Stone in the Kidnies Take of the middle rind of the root of Ash bruised two pound Juniper Berries bruised three pound Venice Turpentine that is very pure two pound and a half put these into is pints of spring water in a glass Vessel well closed and there let them putrifie in Horse dung for the space of three months then distil them in ashes and there will come forth an oil and a water separate the one from the other Ten or twelve drops of this oyle being taken every morning in four or six spoonfulls of the said water dissolves the gravel and stone in the Kidnies most wonderfully 15 A water for outward or inward VVounds Impostumes and ulcers and a sore mouth Take Plantain Ribwort Bone-wort wild Angelica red Mints Betony Egtimony Sanacle Blue-bottles White-bottles Scabious Dandelion Avens Honey-suckle leaves Bramble buds Hawthorn buds and leaves Mugwort Daisie roots leaves and flowers Wormwood Southernwood of each one handful Boil all these in a pottle of white wine and as much spring water till one half be wasted and when it is thus boiled strain it from the herbs and put to i● half a pound of Honey and let it boil a little after and put it into bottles and keep it for your use Note that these Herbs must be gathered i● May onely but you may keep them dry and and make your water at any time If the wound be inward 3 or four spoonfuls morning and evening will in a short time ease cure if not too far gone as almost nothing can recover the Patient If outward it must be washed therewith and linnen clothes wet in the same applyed thereto 16. A very excellent Water against Worms Take of Wormseed bruised eight ounces the shavings of Harts-horn two ounces of Peach flowers dryed an ounce of Aloes bruised half an ounce pour on these the water of Tansie Rue Peach flowers and of wormwood of each a pint and a half let them being put into a glass vessel be digested the space of three days then distil them cohobate this water three times This Water may be given from half an ounce to three ounces according to the age of the Patient 17 An Excellent sweet VVater Take a quart of Orange flower water as much Rosewater add thereto of Musk mallow seeds grosly bruised four ounces of Benjamin two ounces of Storax an ounce of Libdanum six drachms of Lavender flowers and sweet Marjoram of each two pugils of Calamus Aromaticus a drachm distil all these in a glasse Still in balneo the vessels being very well closed that no vapour breath forth But upon urgent or sudden occasion you may make a sweet water in an instant by putting a few drops of some distilled oyls together in to some Rosewater and brewing them well together 18 How to make artificial Tunbridg water This water proceeding from an Iron Mine as is granted by all is thus made Take of the Mine or Ore of Iron beat it very small and put it into the Furnace expressed in p. 83. of John French his Art of Distillation and there will come forth an acid spirit and flowers which you must mix together till the acid spirit extracts the salt out of the flowers then decant off the cleer liquor which will have a strong taste and smell of Iron A few drops of this liquor put into a glasse full of fountain water give it the odour and taste of Tunbridg water and communicates the same operations to it It opens obstructions purgeth by Urine cleanseth the Kidnies and Bladder helps pissing of blood and difficulty of making water it allayeth all sharp humours cureth inward Ulcers and Impostumes cleanseth and strengtheneth the Stomack and Liver c. The dose is from one pint to six but by de-degrees Use moderate exercise after taking it and fast seven or eight hours till the water be gone out of the body 19 How to make artificial Epsome water Take of the mine of Allom or Allom stones powder it very small and distill it in the furnace expressed in page 83. of John French his Art of Distillations and there will distil over a certain acid alluminish water which must be mixed with a double quantity of Nitre-water For Epsom water hath a certain kind of acid taste which is partly nitrous and partly alluminous which proceedeth from nitrous air and vapours arising from the fermentation of alluminous mines being first mixed together and then mixed with the fountains passing through the earth A few drops of this water put into a glass full of fountain water will give it the odour and taste of Epsome water so that the smell or operation will scarcely be discerned from it This water purgeth sharp burning humours cools an inflamed and opens an obstructed body cleanseth the Kidnies and Bladder cureth inward Ulcers and Impostumes and is a very good preservative against the Consumption c. Fountain water made acid with this liquor may be taken from one to six pints after it use moderate exercise and fast till the water be out of the body Onely some thin warm suppings may be taken to help its working some take this water warm 20 Spirit of Confection of Alkermes its Vertues It is an excellent comforter of the Spirits vital natural and animal in weak and delicate persons and against all trembling pensiveness and sudden qualms of the heart 21 Spirits of Saffron its vertues It is good to comfort the vital Spirits against passions trembling and pensiveness of the heart and helpeth all malignity oppressing it and expelleth winde suppresseth fumes which arise from the spleen and go up to the head and openeth the obstructions of it It is excellent against all Melancholy and very good for women in travel for it comforteth and hastneth delivery The dose is morning and evening one spoonfull for three dayes together 22 Extract of Ambergreece Take a drachm of Amber-greece grinde it very small on a Tainters stone then put it into a bolt head then take of the best spirit of Wine either Canary or Malago Sack half a pound spirit of Clary two ounces mingle them together well and pour of the Menstrua one pint to this proportion of Amber set them to digest in a gentle Balneo about eight