in a moderate Sand Bath This is properly called a Corrected Antiepileptick Water of Langius and has been long in request and by the preparing it as here directed it is excellent given in Epileptick-Fits The Dose is two Drams It may be also used for the prevention as well as the Cure of this Distemper and is very proper for all cold Diseases in the Brain Antimonial Claret-Water Take Glass of Antimony finely powdered two Drams Claret-Wine a pint and a half macerate them over a gentle Fire for a considerable time in a Matrass carefully stopt and often shaking it mix then with the whole four Ounces of fine Loaf-Sugar two drops of the Chymical Oil of Cinamon and keep it for use This Liquor must be kept in a double Glass-Bottle well corked and tyed down It is very pleasing and agreeable to the Taste purging gently upward and downward Two Drams being taken for a Dose Antimony its Cinabar Put into your Retort of Sublimate Corrosive and Antimony as much as half fills it powdered and well mingled together let the Retort be placed in Sand in a small Furnace fit to it a Receiver lute the Junctures and so make a Distillation and perceiving a red Vapour appear take away the Receiver and put another into its place not luted encreasing the Fire by degrees till the Retort is red hot and so let it continue three or four hours then suffering it to cool break it and you will perceive a sublimated Cinabar sticking to the Neck of it separate it and keep it It is a very much prized Remedy for the French Disease it likewise forces Sweat and remedies the Falling-Sickness it may be taken if the Party be carefull of him or her self from six to fourteen grains Antimony Diaphoretick To do this mix three parts of purified Salt-Peter with one part of Antimony and your Crucible being very hot cast in a Spoonfull of this mixture which will make a kind of a thundring and after that is past do the like by another Spoonfull and so do by all the rest and when it has been on the Fire about two hours throw the Matter which then will be white into an Earthen Vessel almost full of fair Water let it soke ten or twelve hours that the Salt-Peter which is fixed may dissolve in it then let the Liquor be separated by Inclination wash the White Powder you find remaining in the bottom Five or Six times with hot Water so dry it and you will have Diaphoretick Antimony It is Sudorifick causing Sweats and notably resists Poyson and is approv'd in Malignant Diseases and the Plague The Dose is from six Grains to thirty in some proper Liquid Antimony an Oil or Liquor Take six Ounces of fine white Sugar-Candy beat it to powder then do the like by eight Ounces of Hungarian Antimony and mix them well together and put them into a Glass Retort and distill them on a Sand-Bath with a gradual Fire This Liquor cures intermitting Agues given in White-wine three four five or six drops at the beginning of the Fit and so repeating it two or three times Antinephritick-Water Take of Narbone Honey half a pound Venice-Turpentine two Ounces Nephritick Wood and Roots of Rest-Harrow of each an Ounce and a half Lignum Aloes an Ounce Galingal Cloves Cinamon Mace Cubebs and Mastick of each half an Ounce bruise and macerate them for three days together in two Quarts of Rectified Spirits of Wine or for want of that in Aqua vitae and distill them over a moderate Fire This Water is highly recommended for removing of Gravel or Sand out of the Bladder or Kidneys as also for easing the Pains of the Colick given from one Dram to half an Ounce either alone or mixed with proper Liquors Antiscorbutick Elixir Propritetatis Take Myrrh of Alexandria Aloes Succotrina and Saffron beaten into Powder of each four Ounces digest them in a close stopped Vessel for eight days in a moderate Sand Bath with four pints of Antiscorbutick Spirit then for one hour encrease the heat of the Bath and filtre and keep it apart then pour on the remaining Mass a pint of fresh Spirit and reiterate digestion and filtration then draw off the Spirit in a Sand-Bath with a moderate Fire till there only remains a third part and when the Vessels are cool preserve the Elixir and when it is to be used mix it with a third or fourth part of the volatil Spirit of Harts-Horn This Elixir is now wonderfully in use and highly esteemed in all Diseases that proceed from Corruption of Humours but chiefly used in the Cure of the Scurvy for it purifies the Blood and quickens the Motion of its Circulation It may be taken in Wine or some other Liquors from Seven or Eight to Fifteen or Twenty Drops Appetite to restore Take Wood or Garden-sorrel a Handful boil it in a Pint of White-wine-Vinegar till it becomes very tender then strain it out sweeten it with Two Ounces of Sugar and boil it to a Syrup and take a quarter of an Ounce at any time when you find your Appetite fail you Apple-Cream Take Ten or Twelve Pippens when pretty ripe pare them take out the Cores and slice them thin cut them in quarters and put them into a Pipkin with Claret-Wine a few slices of Ginger Lemon-peel scraped as also some white Sugar let them boil up together till they are very soft then take then off the Fire and put them into a Dish and when they are pretty cool take a Quart of new Cream boil'd with a little Nutmeg and put in of the Apple stuff to make it of what thickness you please and so with a little sprinkling of Sugar and Rose-water serve it up as a most acceptable Banqueting Apple-Tansey To make this Pare your Apples thin cut them in round slices fry them in sweet Butter beat Ten Eggs in a Pint of Cream add Cinnamon Nutmeg and Ginger of each a Dram well beaten or grated Sugar Three Ounces Rose-water Two Ounces these being well beaten together pour on the Batter fry them moderately and dust them over with Sugar and a sprinkling of Rose-water and serve them up Apples a Purging Syrup Take of the Water and Juice of the best scented Pippins of each a Pint and a half Borrage and Bugloss-water and Juice of each Nine Ounces Eastern Senna half a Pound Fennel and Anniseeds of each Three Drams Cretan-Dodder Two Ounces White Agarick and the best Rhubarb half an Ounce Mace and Ginger of each Four Scruples Saffron half a Dram let the Rhubarb be infused with the Senna a part in White-wine and the Juice of Apples of each Two Ounces infuse except the Saffron all the rest in the afore-mention'd Water The following Day pour on the Juices and set them on the Fire let them simper gently take off the Scum then strain the liquid Parts and add Four Pounds of white Sugar boil it to a Syrup the infusion of Rhubarb being put into it
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
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
strain out the Liquor to it and being well mixed boil it up into a Syrup adding two drams more of beaten Cinamon half a scruple of Powder of Nutmeg Ambergrise thirty two grains Musk three grains ten beaten Leaves of Gold and so make it up into an Electuary with four drops of the Spirit of Vitriol This is a singular good Drying Medicine and therefore to be taken in Rheumatisms or Moist Diseases and consequently in Defluxions of Rheums and the Dropsie A dram is sufficient for a Dose in some Cordial-water that is healing or chearing the Noble Parts Elixir for the Head Take Misleto that grows on the Oak Piony-roots and the bigger Valerian of each an ounce and an half Laurel Juniper-berry and Piony-seeds of each an ounce Cinamon Mace and Cubebs of each three drams Flowers of Rosemary and Lavender of each a handful bruise what is to be so bruised and macerate them together twenty four hours in the Water of Black Cherries and Lily of the Valleys and Spirit of Wine rectified of each twenty four ounces then having distilled them dissolve in the Water a pound of the best white Sugar and a dram of the Tincture of Ambergrise keep it close stopped Elixir Proprietatis The new way to do this is to take Saffron Myrrh and Aloes of each half an ounce the rectified Spirit of Wine very near three quarters of a pint Spirit of Sulphur per campanam half an ounce draw in the first place a Tincture from the Saffron into the Spirit of Wine by infusing or digesting it six or seven Days then add grossly bruised Aloes and Myrrh and the Spirit of Sulphur digest them in a long Viol well stopp'd for the space of thirty Days but keep it frequently shaking then you will find a black Tincture on the faeces pour that off and let it stand still for twelve hours and so decant it till you find no faeces at the bottom The Dose is fifteen or twenty drops in a Morning in a glass of Wine or some other convenient Liquor This Elixir is Stomachick Anodyne Alexipharmick and Uterine It has great success in Tertian Agues and may be safely given to all Ages and Constitutions It Alters Evacuates and Strengthens Elixir Proprietatis Vid. Antiscorbutick Elixir Proprietatis Elixir Salutis Take of the Leaves of Senna four ounces Guajacum and the Roots of Elecampane dried of the Seeds of Anise Caraways and Coriander of each two ounces of Licorice two ounces Raisins of the Sun stoned half a pound infuse them cold in three quarts of Aqua-vitae or some other good Spirit of the like Nature not too strong for the space of four Days draw it off and bottle it up If it proves an excellent Cordial you may if you would have it somewhat more Purging put a few slices of Rhubarb into it It is good in the Colick or any Pains of the Belly also it cleanses the Stomach and dissolves the Stone in the Bladder or Kidneys It brings away the Gravel and Stone Two or three spoonfuls are a sufficient Dose for an ordinary Constitution and so more or less as it can be borne Elme The Leaves Branches and Bark of this Tree are Astringent The Leaves bruised with Vinegar stop Bleeding and applied to fresh Wounds facilitate their Cure as also boiled in Vinegar very strong they much avail in the Leprosie The Bark of the younger Sprigs boiled in Spring-water almost to the Consistence of a Syrup and a third part of Aqua-vitae mixed with it is an excellent Remedy for the Gout in the Hip if the Part affected with it be fomented before the Fire The Water in the Bladders on the Leaves clears the Skin and mends the Complexion Cloaths being wet in this VVater and applied helps Burstenness in Children the Bowels being at the same time kept up with a Truss Take of the Bark of Elme six drams Red Roses half a handful Raisins of the Sun stoned twenty boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a pint and an half dissolve in it Honey of Roses and simple Oxymel of each two ounces It is an excellent Gargarisme for Inflammations and in hot Diseases that dry and parch the Mouth or Throat or in such as afflict them with too much Phlegm and slimy Matter Emplaster of Bettony Take green Bettony Burnet Sage Milfoil Agrimony Peneroyal and the lesser Centaury great Comfrey and Clary of each six ounces Mastick and Frankincense of each three drams Orris and round Bithwort of each six drams white Beeswax and clarified Turpentine of each eight ounces Rosin of the Pine six ounces Gum-Elemy and Oil of Firr of each two ounces Whitewine three pints beat the Herbs very well and set them seven or eight Days to infuse in Whitewine stir them well then boil them and strain out the VVine boil it with a gentle Fire to the consumption of a third part add the Oil of Firr next the VVax melted and so the Rosin and Gum and the Turpentine and having boiled them a little and removed them from the Fire cool them by degrees then put to all these well mixed the Powders of Orris and Bithwort and make 'em into an Emplaster This is exceeding strengthening and restoring It is apply'd with great success to fractured or broken Bones al so to strengthen weak Joints and heal Sprains or Bruises of the Sinews small Emplasters of it layed to the Temples and Nape of the Neck draw Rheums away from the Eyes and also ease Pains in the Head Emplastrum Caesaris This is called Caesar's Plaister for the strength it gives to those that are weakned with Sickness or Hurts To make it Take red Roses an ounce and a half the Roots of Bithwort Cyprus Nuts the several sorts of Saunders Mint Corianderseed Dragrons-Blood Hypocistis Acacia seal'd-Earth bole and red Coral powdered of each two drams Turpentine that has been infused in Plantain-water four ounces Oil of Roses three ounces white VVax twelve ounces Rosin of the Pine ten ounces Stone-pitch six ounces Plantane Orpin and Housleek-Juices of each an ounce To the Rosin VVax and Pitch melted together add the Turpentine and Oil then the Hypocistis and Acacia dissolved in the Juices and then the Powders and so over a gentle Fire make them into an Emplaster or Cerecloath It is very astringent and therefore strengthens the Back and all other Parts of the Body removes Pains and is a most excellent Remedy for the over-straining of the Sinews Endive-Water This is an excellent cooling VVater to mix with cooling Syrups and to give in Fevers and hot Diseases It allays Inflammations and the Heat of the Blood The Herb eaten in Sallads raw or boiled resists Choler It prevents Heat breaking out that deforms the Body with Pimples and Redness and frequent flushings of the Face Epilepsie Children it is observed are many times troubled with the Falling-Sickness either during the first Month after a Loosness in which case Diacodium to the quantity of a Pepper-Corn dissolved in
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
of an Egg beaten to Water Pepper and Frankincense of each two drams bruise and mix them well together with some Flower as much as will thicken them to a Past and spread some of it on two pieces of Silk or Leather and apply them to the Temples observing to renew them Morning and Evening Megrim or Vertigo Take Aaron-roots cut them small and steep them in Whitewine twelve Hours then pour fresh Whitewine upon them and steep them a considerable time then dry and reduce them to Powder Take of this Powder two ounces Acorns and Burnet of each an ounce Crabs-Eyes half an ounce Cinnamon three drams Salt of Wormwood and Juniper of each half an ounce Sugar of Roses an ounce make these into a Powder very fine keep them close stopp'd and take a dram at a time in an ounce of Mint and Betony-water This is a good Cephalick and Excellent especially against the before mention'd Grievances It also removes Coldness and Weakness of the Stomach Wind Stone Quartan-Agues and all tartarous Obstructions The Dose to a strong Body may be augmented to two drams Take it in Canary Mellatons to Bake Wipe them clean and put them in a Pye made Scollopwise or some other quaint Device of Paistry put them in whole with their weight in refined Sugar close it up and when it is baked ice it over with Sugar and Rose-water Sometimes for change you may add small bits of Cinnamon or whole Cloves and sliced Ginger Melancholy Take Borrage-flowers Clove-Gilliflowers Couslip-flowers and Conserve of Roses of each an ounce preserved Citrons two ounces Alkermes half an ounce preserved Nutmegs and Mirabolans of each half an ounce Bezoar 15 grains Tincture of Saffron half a dram mix these together and make them up into an Electuary with Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers adding two or three drops of Oil of Cinnamon and take a quarter of an ounce at a time and after it a glass of Canary when you find your Spirits lumpish dull or heavy Melancholy another Before you eat any thing in the Morning and so consequently before every other Meal drink a glass of Claret with a spoonful of the Syrup of Glove-Gilliflowers and after Dinner a quarter of an Hour eat some Marmalade of preserved Quinces or Citron Melancholy another Take Horseleeches and place them to the Fundament and at Spring and Fall purge with Mechoacan-Ale or some such-like like easie Purging-Ale for the space of a Fortnight then take Conserve of Roses two ounces Bugloss and Marrigolds the Conserve of each an ounce Powder of Cinnamon one dram make these into an Electuary with the Syrup of Field-Poppies and take about a quarter of an ounce at a time washing it down with a glass of Sack or some warm Ale Melancholy another Take Borrage and Bugloss-flowers the Conserve of them half an ounce each Alkermes the Confection of it one ounce Diamber a penny-weight Aromaticum Rosatum two penny-weights two Leaves of Gold imbody these well together and make thereof an Electuary and take a little of it every Morning fasting or at any time when you are Afflicted Pensive or Melancholy Melancholy a Cordial-Water This Water the famous Dr. Butler recommended to the World out of his large Experience of its Effects viz. Take Pinks Marrigolds the Flowers of Couslips Clove-Gilliflowers Stock-Gilliflowers single and damask Roses of each three Handfuls the Leaves of Baum the Flowers of Borrage and Bugloss of each two handfuls infuse these damped well in a quart of Canary put them into a close earthen Bottle or Jug stopped with a well boiled Cork often shake them and after two Days put to them Anniseeds bruised one dram Saffron two penny-weighty and within twelve Hours after distil them in a cold Still with a quick Fire hanging at the Nose of the Still a little Ambergrease and Musk in a fine Linnen-Rag and when the Water is distilled put into it six ounces of white Sugar-Candy in powder and put the distilled Water in a glass two Hours in hot Water This Cordial taken three spoonfuls at a time three times a Week in the Morning fasting or oftner if you find your self oppress'd or afflicted expels all melancholy Fumes and infinitely comforts the Heart and vital Spirits Melancholy a Diet-Drink Take Fumitory-Hops before they are ripe for gathering and Borrage of each a pound boil them in two gallons of Spring-water till they come to the consumption of half strain out the Liquid part and sweeten it with Sugar-Candy or Honey and let it stand about eight Days to settle and digest and drink a moderate Draught of it in the Morning fasting and the like at Night when you go to Bed and it will much enliven the Spirits and remove the Causes of Melancholy Melancholy to Suppress Take Epithymum Fumitory the Flowers of Bugloss and Borrage of each a quarter of a pound Senna half an ounce Poly-podium of the Oak an ounce Fennel-seeds two drams Whey three pints infuse them three hours and then boil them to the Consumption of a quart whereunto add two ounces of the Syrup of Roses and when you drink half a pint of it warm in a Morning strained and setled mix with it a dram of the Electuary or Roses and in two or three times taking you will find wonderful Ease and Comfort And so as often as you find your self oppressed with Melancholy use it in the manner prescribed Melion This is cold and moist Take of the Seed and that of Pompion half an ounce the Seeds of white Poppies two drams and eight Almonds blanched beat them in a Mortar mix them with a pint and half of Barly-water strain and sweeten it with fine Sugar and make an Emulsion for the Heat of the Urin. Melilot This Herb mollifies and eases Pain for which purpose it is frequently used in Cataplasms To ease the Pains of the Pleurisie with it take the following Fomentation Melilot and Pellitory of each two handfuls Betony one handful make a Decoction and often wash the Breast or Stomach with it Mermaid-Pye Take a Pig scald it and bone it and having dried it well with a Cloath season it with beaten Nutmeg Pepper and chop'd Sage then take two Neats-Tongues when dried and cold after boiling and slice them in lengths and as thick as a half Grown and lay a quarter of your Pig in a square or round Pye and the slices of the Tongue on it then another quarter and more Tongue and thus do four times double and lay over all these some slices of Bacon scatter a few Cloves put in some pieces of Butter and Bay-leaves then bake it and when it is so fill it up with pieces of sweet Butter and make your Past white of the Butter and Flower This Pig or Mermaid-Pye so called is to be eaten cold Metheglin its Virtues Metheglin has been highly held in Esteem in this Nation and is of excellent use among us if rightly made nor can it be otherways since Honey its principal Ingredient is the
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-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-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
you fry it cut it out in pretty thick slices Scabious This Herb though wild and mostly growing in the Field is of excellent use The Herb and Root boiled in Wine or the Juice of it or the distilled Water of it cures Imposthumes Pleurisies Coughs or other Diseases incident to the Breast or Lungs 'T is good also in the Quinsie Plague Ulcers in the Fundament Itch and likewise for Beautifying Scabs Take the Roots of Celandine Wormwood and red Dock of each a handful Lawrel and Ivy-Leaves of each half a handful bruise them well and fry them in Butter till they become crisp then strain out the Butter with hard pressing and keep it as an Ointment of special use in all manner of Scabs Breakings-out Botches or Blains and if mixed with a little Powder of Sulphur it is excellent for the Itch and to hinder the biting of Bugs or cure those that are Bit. Scabious-Water Take four handfuls of Scabious-flowers a handful of the tender Tops of Comfrey-flowers of Fumitory four ounces Roots of Orris three ounces Baum and Celandinetops of each a pugil distil these in a cold Still with four ounces of Almonds blanched and steeped in warm Water till they swell This is an excellent Beautifier and causes a fresh Colour Scalds to Cure Take a quart of sweet Cream then wash pare and slice a handful of Fern-roots boil them together in an earthen Pipkin with two ounces of Dove's-Dung finely powdered or for want of that Hen's-Dung for the space of half an Hour or till by continually stirring it it jellies or thickens then let it cool and so spreading some of it on a Cloath apply it to the Place scalded So by often applying the Fire will be taken out in a little time and the Pain removed Scaily-Nails to take off Take the Seeds of wild Mint and Linseed of each a quarter of an ounce bruise them and mix them with Honey make a Plaister and fix it on the Nails and in a little while they will fall off and other sound ones grow in their stead Scaily-Spots To remedy these rough and unseemly Deformities of the Skin Take half an ounce of Nigella-seeds bruise and boil them in a quart of strong Vinegar until half be consumed then add as much of the Oil of Walnuts as will when strained and a little more boiled reduce it to an Ointment with which anoint the Place often and it will make it smooth and beautiful This is likewise a Remedy for the fretting and gauling of the Skin and Itch. Sciatica Take four handfuls of Straw-berries boil them in a quart of Water and having bathed the grieved Place with the liquid part strained from them very warm dry it and then anoint it with this Ointment viz. Unguentum Dialtheae one ounce Honey half an ounce Bees-wax a dram mix them over a gentle Fire and make an Ointment for the aforesaid use and by often anointing the Pain will cease Scorbutick-Water Take the Juices of Scurvigrass and Water of Pimpernel depurated of each three pints fine white Sugar two pound make them into a Syrup over a gentle Fire The use of this Syrup is very successful taken in scorbutick Maladies from one spoonful to two in any scorbutick-waters Mint or Penny-royal-waters c. Scorbutick-Water of Scurvigrass Take the Bark of Capers Tamarisk Ash-Tree Polypode-roots of the Oak of each two ounces Water-cresses the Tops of Baum Agrimony Germander and Ground-pine of each two handfuls Fenel and Aniseeds Carduus-Benedictus of each one dram and half the Flowers of Broom St. John's-wort Centaury the Less Elder and wild Thyme of each a pugil let these be infused in Fumitory-water and Whey of each three pints Whitewine two quarts add Oxymel of Squils one pound then strain them by pressing out the Liquor very hard dissolve in it Troches of Capers six drams after distil it in an Ash-bath and take two ounces at a time for Pains in the Stomach Vapours arising to the Brain Breakin gs out Scurfiness of the Body Nodes or Knots in the Skin and for carrying off all gross and ill Humours by Sweat Stool or Urin. Scurvigrass-Bath Take Scurvigrass and Fumitory of each a handful Fenugreek-seeds three ounces and a half Flowers of Mellilot two handfuls and of Camomil one handful Mallow-roots Brooklime and Mugwort one handful and half the Seeds of Water-Bettony and Parsley of each three ounces and half Bay-leaves a handful boil these in two gallons of fair Water to the consumption of a quart This removes hard Swellings and Pains in the Joints allays the Pain occasioned by excessive heat restores shrink'd Nerves and Sinews and is good in easing Pains of the Gout being applied to the grieved Part. Scurvigrass its Essence Take Scurvigrass Fumitory Germander and Wormwood of each three handfuls of Orange-peel six drams digest them with Spirit of Scurvigrass and Elder of each so much as suffices to the Extraction of their Tincture and let them be strongly pressed out and put of the former Herbs and Powder into the straining and do this three or four times and when it is clarified by settling add of the Spirit of Fern and Scurvigrass of each three ounces and a half Spirit of Tartar nine drams mix them and take it from twelve to twenty drops in Ale Beer Wine or any other convenient Liquor This is good against Fits of the Mother Falling-sickness Oppressions of the Stomach Afflictions of the Matrix and cause Urin. Scurvigrass Physick-Wine Take Water-cresses and Wall-rue of each one handful wild Radish-roots and Roots of Polypody of each two drams black Hellebore-roots and Jalap of each one ounce the Leaves of choice Senna one ounce the inward or yellowest Rind of an Orange two ounces best Cinnamon one dram and a half crude-Tartar three drams These being cut and grofly bruised put them into a thin Bag sew them up lay them by in a stone Pot and pour upon it two quarts of Whitewine let it stand eleven Days draw it off and take three ounces or more according to the Strength of your Body This purges Choler and Melancholy cleanses the Stomach and eases Pains in the Bowels causes gentle Sweats and cleanses the Blood Scurvigrass-VVine Take the Juice of Scurvigrass Water-cresses Brooklime Sorrel all depurated of each a quarter of a pint Rhenish-wine two quarts Roots of Horse-radish Elecampane Flower-de-luce cut into thin slices of each an ounce and half two Nutmegs bruised put all into a stone Bottle stop it very close and keep it in a cold place for use Taking Morning and Night a quarter of a pint cures the Scurvy to a wonder and purifies the Blood Scurvigrass-Wine another Take of fresh Scurvigrass four handfuls beat it very small pour upon it two quarts of Rhenish Wine let it stand in a cool place three or four Days then strain it and let it settle and so draw it off from the dregs Drink of this half a quarter of a pint fasting and it will purifie the Blood help Digestion
take away pricking Pains and Heats or Flushings in the Face or Body provokes Urin and evaporates noxious Humours by sweat Sena The best of it is that which is brought from Alexandria in Egypt It purgeth Choler Flegm and Melancholy it cleanseth the Heart Liver and Brain also the Spleen and Lungs and all Parts of the Body it is profitable for all Accidents of them It openeth the Internals and delayeth the Injuries of growing old Age causing exhilaration or Joy in the Mind The Leaves decocted with Camomil are exceeding good to wash the Head for the fortifying the Brain and Sinews and Sight and Hearing as also in all such Diseases as proceed from melancholy Humours likewise for Ulcers or Palsie Head-ach and Falling-evil It fortifieth the Heart especially when mixed with some Violets and Cloves concocted in Whitewine and being mixed with infusion of Roses or laxative Syrup of Roses it is an excellent Purge for all evil Humours There is a Syrup made of Sena Senses to Refresh To enliven the Senses and restore the Memory Take a handful of Baum bruise it and steep it in Whitewine in an earthen Vessel well glazed and covered then put it into an Alembick and of the distilled Water take every Morning fasting a spoonful and fast an Hour after it Sharpness of Vrin Take the dried stuff that divides the Lobes of the Kernels of Wallnuts beat them to a Powder and take about a dram at a time in a draught of Whitewine or Posset-drink or in any other convenient Liquor Shoulder of Mutton with Disters Take a Shoulder of Mutton roast it with Oisters stuffed in the most convenient Places of it then make Sauce with some Gravy Claret-Wine Pepper grated Nutmeg sliced Lemon and Broom-buds giving it a warm or two then dish the Mutton the Oisters being taken out put the Sauce to it and they in it and garnish with sliced Lemon and Barberries Sickness-Falling Take half a dram of the best Amber beat it into fine Powder and take it once a Day when the Stomach is most empty in a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Sight-Weak Take Eyebright sweet Fennel-seeds and fine Sugar of each an ounce reduce them to Powder and mix these together and take the Composition from a dram to two or more as occasion requires Sinews Hurt If these are any ways bruised pained or swelled Take Lavender the Stalk Leaves and Flower cut them small put them into Whitewine and distil them through an Alembick washing the Parts grieved with the said Water and drink abut two ounces of it Morning and Evening and wash the Forehead and Temples with it in case of any Pains there by reason of any Afflictions of the Brain from which the Sinews and Nerves originally proceed Skin Infected Take the Roots of Vines boil them in Water with the Seeds of Vetches commonly called Tares and Fenugreek of each a handfull and therewith wash the Places where ill Humours are apt to settle Skin to keep open If an Issue in the Skin is not easily kept open but too apt to dry up Take Lapis Infernalis an ounce Crown Soap an ounce and half Chalf-finely powdered six drams mix them altogether carefully and keep them close stopt and when you use them mix them well together and lay over it Plaisterwise Sleep to Procure Take Water-Lillies half a handfull Opium one dram steep these the Lillies being bruised in three pints of Malmsey twenty four hours then put in an ounce of Salt finely beaten Poppy-seed a dram Lettice-seed three drams distill them in Balneo Mariae The Dose is from half a dram to a dram when the Party is going to Bed There is likewise an Ointment to cause Sleep viz. Take about half an ounce of Oil of Violets Henbane-seed and Mandragora-roots of each half a dram Saffron and Cassia-wood of each a Scruple Oil of Olives six ounces Oil of Mallows as much bruise and mix these till they may be reduced to an Ointment over a gentle Fire by pressing out the unctuous Matter and with it anoint the Breasts Forehead and Temples when you would go to rest Smack Elixir Take the distilled Oils of Cinamon Cloves and Wormwood Citron and Orange-Peel of each six drops refined Sugar finely beaten Spirit of Wine rectified and Mint and Orange-flower-water of each six ounces mix them well and make an Elixir This Elixir is exceeding good in all cold Infirmities of the Stomach as also to fortifie the Nobler Parts The Dose is from two drams to half an ounce in Wine Ale or the like Small-Pox the Scars thereof To prevent these Make a Liniment of Rose-water four ounces Hogs-lard two ounces Oil of Rosemary halt an ounce Tuttia one dram These being made into a Liniment anoint the Face Hands and Neck just as the Disease is in its declining and the Scabs begin to dry Sores Take a solution of Sublimate and having made with Quick-lime a strong Lime-water that will bear an Egg drop it gradually on the Sublimate till it will precipitate on more redish stuff at all and when you perceive the Liquors act on longer visibly upon one anther pour the Mixture into a filter of Cap-paper which retaining the Orange colour precipitated will transmit an indifferently clear Liquor which must be kept close stopped in a glass Viol viz. to wash the Part grieved This is exceeding good in old Sores Ulcers Breaking-out and other such-like Diseases Sores of the Mouth to Heal Take the Leaves of Marshmallows and boil them in Wine wherein Honey has been dissolved add some Roch-alom in powder then press out the liquid part very hard so suffer it to stand and cool and with this Decoction wash and gargle your Mouth and Throat if it be sore Sore Nose This often happens through the Effects of the French Disease not perfectly cured and many times in the Mouth as well as the Nose For Remedy then Take the Juice of common Hounds-tongue and that of Plantane of each three ounces boil these Juices to a thickness over a gentle Fire adding to them Oxymel Scilliticum and anoint the sore Part often or dipping a linnen Rag in it thrust it up the Nostril if the grief be mostly there Sores Old Take Aristolochia Longa Aloes Epatica of each an ounce make them into a Powder and with Honey of Roses work it into a Past and having cleansed the Sore with Oil of Tartar or the Decoction of Myrrh spread some of the Past on a Leather or pliant Cloath and lay it to the Place grieved and in twice or thrice renewing it you will find wonderful success in the Cure Sores Putrefied Take Milfoil and Sanicola of each half a handful boil them in Water and strain the liquid part through a linnen Cloth and with the Decoction mix the Meal of Fenugreek the Fat of a Goat and as much Olive-oil as will thicken them and make them into an Ointment over a gentle Fire with which often anoint the Sores and it will heal them
Sore Throat Take a piece of greasie linnen Cloth so much as being double may make a Bag in the from of a Stay to reach from one side of the Throat to the other and contain as much Matter as may make it of the thickness of an inch or more then filling it with common Salt heat it thoroughly and apply it to the Part affected as warm as may be well endured and when it grows cold apply another like it well heated and so continue to do forty eight Hours if the Remedy be so long needed This makes the Kernels fallen down retire to their proper places and abates Swellings Speech lost This is not meant of those that are deaf from their Infancy and so consequently dumb but of such as through accident or hoarsness are deprived of their Speech To remedy this Take Ireos half an ounce Pennyroval Hysop and Licorice of each three drams Gum-Tragacanth and bitter Almonds Kernels of Pines Cinnamon and Pepper of each one dram and a half Figs Dates and Currans of each two ounces red Styrax three scruples and a half cut the Fruits small and powder the rest and to every ounce add three ounces of Sugar and make it into an Electuary with Honey or Syrup of Hyssop and take in the Morning fasting and at Night going to Bed a quarter of an ounce washing it down with warm Ale and so do for five or six Days and Nights and the Cure will be effected Speckles For these or Pimples th t are not angry or fiery Take the Blood of a Hare warm if you can get it and the Oil of Cinnamon and anoint the Face with it Specifick-Purge Take raw Antimony and Sal Amoniack powdered and mixed together of each six ounces sublime the combustible red Flowers according to Art and of them take four ounces of the best Nitre take eight ounces let them fulminate in subliming Pots and gather the Flower without wasting any of it dulcifie the Flower with hot Water till there be on more saltness remaining upon this Powder dried over a very gentle Fire pour rectified Spirit of Wine four Fingers breadth above the Matter put them all into an Alembick with a Receiver luted to it then distil them at first with a gentle Fire increase it by degrees that the substance may come to a driness expose the Powder being perfectly dried to the Fire for the space of an Hour and keep it for use in a close Box or Gally-pot This remarkable Preparation of Antimony is sudorisick powerfully provoking Sweat pens the Belly gently being taken at a distance from Meals from twenty to thirty grains in some Conserve in a Bolus or dissolved in some agreeable Cordial-water Speedwel The Male sort of this Herb is of excellent Virtue for opening Obstructions of the Lungs for the Colick and Spleen and is an Antidote against the Plague and is helpful in Wounds curing the Itch. We have it from good Hands That a large Dose of the Decoction of this Herb taken for some time expelled a Stone from the Kidney of a Woman that had been tormented with it for fifteen or sixteen Years Also a Woman that was accunted Barren seven Years conceived upon taking the Powder of it in the distilled Water for a considerable time The Syrup is of great use in the Disease of the Lungs and a Person who had a very dangerous Ulcer in his Leg found Ease and in a short time a Remedy by washing in the Water of it and applying wet Rags dipt in the said Water by taking away the Inflammation and all the Symptoms that accompanied it One who had a Fistula in the Breast and in vain had used divers Medicaments it 's said was cured with this Water by inwardly taking it Rags dipped in it and applied hot do make Scabs fall away in Children and then wash them over with Water of Fumitory and Whey But for all these Experiments the Reader may try them as occasion offers and be more amply satisfied The Virtues of this Herb are many Spirit-Antiscorbutick Take Elder and Juniper-berries and bruise them the Seed of Scurvigrass Carduus-Benedictus and Garden â—…ses of each two poundâ— put them all into a convenient Vessel and having mixed with them a pint of Ale-Yeast set them to ferment in a Stove or hot Place and when that is over distil them and preserve the Spirit Spirit Epileptick Take the Flowers of Lily of the Valley Lavender Sage Tillet Primroses and Rosemary of each two handfuls gather the Flowers in their season and macerate them altogether in six pints of the Spirit of Wine rectified then add to them Misleto of the Oak Roots of Valerian and Male-Peony of each four ounces being bruised and macerated eight Days in a pint of Malmsey Cinamon Cloves Mace and Nutmegs of each half an ounce mix them altogether and distil them in a glass Cucurbit covered with its Head in a Sand-bath and preserve the Spirit as a very excellent one It is very proper for the ease and cure of Epileptick Diseases It is to be given from two drams to half an ounce alone or mixed with cephalick Liquors It may be also put up the Nostrils applied to the Temples and other Parts for easing Pains and preventing the arising of Vapours to the Brain which occasion Fits and Disorders Spirit of Salt Take the finest white Salt and dry it over a Fire or else in the Sun so powder it finely to the quantity of two pound weight mix it well with six pound of Potters-earth finely powdered make them up into a Mass very hard with Rain-water as much as will conveniently do it from this Mass by dividing into Balls in the bigness of a Hazle-nut and let them dry in the Sun a considerable time and when they are dried put them into a large earthen Pot or a Glass that may be luted a third part of it being left empty place the Retort in a reverberatory Furnace and fit to it a large Receiver luting the Joints and give a moderate heat to warm it and so make an insipid Water drop forth and when white Clouds succeed those drops pour out that which is in the Receiver and having re-fitted it lute the Joines close and by degrees encreale the Fire to the last degree of all and so in this condition continue it twelve or fifteen Hours when all that time the Receiver will be hot and full of white Clouds but when it grows cold and they disappear then unlute the Junctures for the operation is at an end and then you will have the Spirit of Salt in the Receiver So pour it into a glass or earthen Bottle and stop it with Wax This singular Spirit has an aperitive quality and therefore is used in Juleps to an agreeable Acidity for such as are subject to the Stone or Gravel 't is also used to cleanse and whiten the Teeth also to fasten loose Teeth being â—empered with a little Water and to consume the rottenness of the
Stumps Spirit of Salt Dulcify'd and Sweet Mix equal Parts of Spirit of Salt and Spirit of Wine set them two or three Days in Digestion in a double Vessel in a gentle Sand-Bath This is taken more safely inwardly than the former because it is less Corrosive It may be given from four to twelve drops in some proper Liquid Spirit of Scurvrigrass Take the Bark of Ash Tree Roots of Fraxinel Tamarisk and Capers each one ounce and half Polypody of the Oak two ounces wild Radish three ounces Scurvigrass-Leaves four handfuls Water-cresses Brook-lime Sorrel and Spleen-wort of each three handfuls Bay-berries and Juniper-berries of each six drams the Tops of the lesser Centaury a handful Seeds of Citron Mustard Carduus-Benedictus of each halfan ounce Cloves Ginger Cinnamon and Nutmeg of each three drams these being cut and bruised digest them in a warm Sand-Bath in a gallon of White-wine and three pints of good Brandy for three Days then distil them in Sand by an Alembick Of this twenty drops is a sufficient Dose for the Scurvy and all the other Distempers attending it as Pains Prickings Shortness of Breath Foulness of the Lungs Yellowness of the Teeth decaying of the Gums and the like This is called the Golden Spirit of Scurvigrass easing the Pains of the Belly in Children and killing Worms But for the latter ten or twelve drops may serve Spirit Uterine Take the Roots of round and long Bithwort Piony and the lesser Valerian of each two ounces Castor one ounce dry Tops of Wormwood Mugwort Tansie Fetherfew Elder and Camomil-flowers of each a handful shred and bruise all together Let them macerate three Days in two quarts of the rectified Spirit of Wine then distil them according to Art and keep the Spirit for your use This is excellent and most effectual to suppress the Vapours that arise from the Matrix and to open Obstructions It is to he given from one to two or three drams at a time in Hysterick Waters or Decoctions It may likewise be put up the Nostrils or applied to the Temples or Navel with good Success Spirit of Wine to Distil Take the Wine and Lees of what sort you think convenient put it into an Alembick draw it off and rectifie it into what heighth you please It is excellent taken in cold Distempers or to mix with any Cordial Water to temper them with heat according to the degrees the Distempers require for which they are to be taken The Joints afflicted with cold Pains being bathed with it ease them It 's good in the Gout and Sciatica the afflicted Parts bathed with it and is used for Lacca to change Silver to a gold colour as also in Varnish and in making up sundry Medicins Baum Rue and the Leaves of Walnuts being beaten and made up into a Conserve with it resist the Plague and pestilential Fevers Spirit of Wine another This Spirit when made the best way is drawn from Branny chiefly and not of that which is usually called Wine Four gallons then of the best Brandy must be mixed with four quarts of ordinary Salt and put into an Alembick or Bay-salt dried and finely powdered Lute the Head and do it over a gentle Fire lest being too long a drawing it off it waft and consume too much that which is the highest or rectified part being fired will burn all away but the second Spirit will not do so This makes curious Tinctures in chymical Operations and being upon other occasions outwardly applied it discusses Tumours and cures Burns if taken in time It also eases the Pains of the Gout and cold Pains in the Joints Spitting Blood Take Ash-leaves and the Seeds of Nettles boil them when well bruised in Whitewine put to the Decoction a little Sanguis Draconis Spodium and Bole-armoniack then these being infused strain it again and drink half a quarter of a pint mixed with half an ounce of the Syrup of red Roses Spots or Stains If in Silk caused by Grease Take the Bone of a Sheep's-foot burn it to powder and beat a red-hot Tobbaccopipe into Powder also then sift these and mingle them together Take of this Powder and lay on the Spot then lay on it the back of a Spoon that has a red-hot Coal in the hollow of it and then the heat if the Grease be little will cause the Powder to suck it out Spots of Pitch and Rosin are taken out by applying Oil of Turpentine rubbing it in and letting it lye and it will crumble away so likewise Tar will rub out like a speck of Dirt. Spots in the Skin to take away Take Water of Talk and Lemon-juice infuse in them the Roots of Mandragora and let them stand five Days in the Sun or some warm place and then strain out the liquid part and with it bath the Spots and in often so doing they will disappear Or for want of these wash them with the Water of Radishes drawn by an Alembick and anoint the Skin with the Meal of Orobo mixed with Honey Spots in Stuff or Woolen Take Fullers-earth two ounces Castile-soap an ounce the fine siftings of coarse Bran half an ounce mix these with fair Water make them up into a kind of Paste and lay then some of it on the Spot and being then a little moist let it dry on before a gentle Fire Stains that come not by Grease are taken out by boiling Lemon-peel in Small-beer with a little Copperas till it be very strong of them then with a hard Brush rub up the place with it and take it out again after a while with fair Water wherein a little Castile-soap has been dissolved Stanching Blood Take round Mushrooms or Puff-balls in Autumn when they are full ripe break them warily and save carefully the Powder that will fly out and the rest that remains in their Cavities and strew this Powder all over the Part affected binding it on with a Liniment and the Bleeding will be immediately stayed Stephens's Water See Doctor Stephens's Water Stiffness of the Sinews to supple Take twelve Frogs Hogs lard one pound Oil of Bays two pound and Bay-berries dried and reduced to Powder two ounces boil them together sufficiently then press them through a linnen Cloath add then white Incense in powder one ounce and make the Liquid into an Ointment over a gentle Fire with which anoint the Parts often and it will comfort the Sinews and restore them to a limberness and make them very supple and always after anointing wash it with the following Decoction viz. Take the Roots and Leaves of Agrimony with the Roots of Mallows boil them in Water till they be tender strain out the liquid part and bath with it Stinging of Insects If you are stung with Wasps Hornets Bees or the like Take Juniper-berries when ripe and bruise them then distil them through an Alembick and not only wash the place stung but drink about a quarter of a pint of it with an ounce of the Juice of Rue
on again till it thickens to a Syrup This cleanses the Stomach and Spleen takes away the Obstructions of the Liver by taking a spoonful fasting often Syrup Epileptick Take Misleto of the Oak Roots of Peony the Shavings of a dead Man's Skull that dy'd a violent Death of each half an ounce Flowers of Lily of the Valley Rosemary Lavender Sage and Marigolds of each a little handful bruise the Misleto and Roots and put them together with the Shavings of the Skull and Flowers into a Matras and pour on them one pint of rectified Spirit of Wine and having well closed the Vessel let them macerate a Week together over a moderate Heat then with a gentle heat draw off half the Spirit of Wine and preserve it a-part The remainder being pressed reduced and filtered bring it into the consistence of a Syrup with eight ounces of the finest Sugar then aromatize it with two drops of distilled Cinnamon This Syrup is very highly commended for the Prevention and Cure of the Epilepsie It is to be taken alone and fasting from half an ounce to an ounce You may re-inforce the Dose with a dram of the Spirit drawn off and mix the Syrup with cephalick Waters or Decoctions Syrup of Rhubarb Take of the best Rhubarb and the Leaves of Senna of each two ounces and a half a handful of Violet-flowers Cinnamon one dram and a half Ginger half a dram the Water of Bettony Bugloss and Succory of each a pint and a half let these infuse over warm Ashes or Embers a Night the liquid part being well pressed out through a close Strainer and then boil it up with Sugar to a Syrup adding to it four ounces of the solutive Syrup of Roses This is a very curious and gentle Purge and may be safely given to Children and weak People upon any urgent occasion they being kept from taking Cold upon its reception The Dose is from one ounce to an ounce and a half It expels evil Humours fortifies the Stomach and causes a good Digestion kills Worms in Children and causes gentle breathing Sweats Syrup for Rheums Take Syrup Jubebs Syrup of Corn Poppy-flowers and dried Roses of each an ounce mix these together and take half a spoonful at a time Syder to Make and Order Take your Apples as you fancy the Syder most convenient to your Palate viz. either Red-streaks Pearmains Pippins Golden-Pippins c. when they are indifferent ripe so that upon shaking they will fall with tolerable Ease bruise or grind your Apples very small and then putting them into a Hair-Bag squeeze out the Juice in a Press by degrees and not over-hastily put up the Liquid part into a Cask seasoned by burning a Rag in it at the end of a Stick dipped in Brimstone when the Smoak is evaporated and the Vessel washed with a little warm Liquor that has run through the second straining or Husks of the Apples and to make it work kindly put in a little Flower and Honey made up in a Past and enclosed in a thin Rag so let it stand in a moderate warm place six or seven Days and then draw it off from the Lees or Settlings into another Cask so ordered or Bottle it up at your discretion But in Bottling take care to leave an inch space from the Cork lest it working or fermenting again it either force out the Cork on break the Bottles Or if such Danger appear by the singing of the Air thro' the porous Part of the Cork you may open them and give them vent or have a Quill run through the Cork which you may stop and open at pleasure with less danger and difficulty And so of the Cask in Winter keep it in a warm place for fear of chilling or freezing and in Summer in a cold Place lest it ferment and that tainting it it grow musty or thick You may likewise preserve it from these latter by putting a little lump of Loaf-Sugar for it to feed on Syder of Codlins This is usually made for present spending for it will not keep longer than Autumn though it is of an excellent Tast and very pleasant and sparkling to the Eye and so called Summer-Syder To do this Take your Codlins when they begin to be ripe and lay them in Hay or Straw three Days after they are gathered to sweat a little then cut them in quarters and take out the Coar and Kernels and bruise them as the former squeeze out the Liquid part and let it run into a Vessel beneath the Press through a very fine Hair or Tiffany-Sieve that may stop the Fragments that will come away with it Being drawn off warm it over a gentle Fire but suffer it not to boil scum off the part that bubbles up and sprinkle into it some fine powdered white Sugar-candy then put it up into a Cask and with a little of it heat about half a pint of Ale-Yeast and pour it in very warm and so let it work for Twenty four Hours then draw it off into another Cask or Bottles and leave either of them open ten or twelve Hours in a cool place till it is fit to stop up close and so ordering it it will be fit to drink in eight or ten Days and have a curious cooling tart flavour with it Syder another way Take such Apples as are suitable to your Palate pare them and cutting out the Core and Kernels slice them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water till a third part be consumed A Peck of sliced Apples to a Barrel of Water when first put in before the consumption is sufficient Then strain the Water from the boiled Apples and pour it on three Pecks of bruised Apples that are not boiled and so letting it after fourteen or fifteen Hours steeping run from them then press out what will not otherways come away by the swelling of the Apples and put it up for use Let it work sufficiently then stop it close and be careful to mind it also giving vent if there be occasion lest it force the Cask or Bottles and when it is fined it will be in Colour and Tast like Champaign Wine Syder another Way Take a peck of Apples and slice them and boil them in a Barrel of Water till the third part be wasted then cool your Water as you do for Wort when it is cooled you must pour the Water upon three measures of grownd Apples then drain out the Water at a Tap three or four times a day for three Days together then press out the Liquor and Tun it up when it hath done working then stop it up close Syder its Spirit This may be gained without distilling and the better way by setting a Hogshead of Syder to freeze in Winter and so the strength of it retiring to the middle which will be about twelve or fourteen gallons when the weaker part is over-power'd by the coldâ— let it out by broaching with a hot Iron It will prove stronger then Canary
let the Party keep close in a warm Bed in order to sweat and repeat this two or three times This was experienc'd by the famous Sir Kenelm Digby and by him ordered to be given to divers Persons which was rarely given without Success treacle-Treacle-Spirit To make this Take the Roots of Master-wort Angelica Athamantick Spignel and the bigger Valerian of each three ounces Juniper-berries and the Seeds of Bishop's-weed and Seseli of Marseiles of each an ounce approved Treacle four ounces The Roots and Seeds being bruised together macerate them eight Days in two pints of rectified Spirit of Wine then make your Distillation and preserve the Spirit This Spirit resists very powerfully all sorts of Poisons It may be taken in Spanish-Wine or any Cordial Liquor from one to four drams It may be also apply'd to the Nostrils Forehead Temples and Sutures of the Skull for Head-achs Fainting Fits or Drousiness of the Brain Treacle-VVater This is the most Excellent sort of all To make it Take the Roots of Gentian Angelica Master-wort Valerian and Contrayerva of each two ounces Citron-rinds and Orange-peels Cinnamon Cloves and Juniper-berries of each an ounce Tops of Water-Germander Rue and St. John's-wort of each one handful infuse them to three Days in Spirit of Wine and Waters of Nuts and Blessed Thistle of each a quart then add four ounces of approved Treacle distil the whole in a Sand-Bath and keep the Water close stopped for use This is an excellent Water to resist Poison and to fortifie all the noble Parts being taken from one dram to half an ounce Some make a Treacle-water by dissolving the Treacle in equal parts of Spirit of Wine and Vinegar using it without any Distillation but Reason and Experience tells us this is far more Excellent Tre-foil or Bucksbane The Decoction of it in White-wine is good against the Scurvy as also for Pains in the Limbs The Leaves boiled in Beer and taken hot ease Pains in the Bowels but being bitter it is best taken in any lenitive Syrup Trembling a Remedy If the Members tremble and shake that you cannot at certain times hold them still though no cause of Fear Danger or Defect is evident to cause it anoint the crown of the Head the Hair being shaven off and the other Parts especially where you find the Trepidation with Oil of Cinnamon and drink two drams of the Water that is made of Man or Swine's Blood brought to putrefaction with Aqua-vitae or Spirit of Wine and afterward distilled and this must be frequently repeated for a Month's space Troches Pectoral Take of white Sugar a pound white Sugar-candy and Penids of each four ounces of the Roots of Florentine-orris half an ounce white Starch an ounce and half Licorice six drams with a convenient quantity of the Mucilage of Tragacanth extracted in Rose-water make the Materials into Troches that they may be perfumed as occasion requires it with four grains of Ambergrease and three of Musk. These are Excellent for Coughs and Catarrhs in Winter and for the preventing taking Cold in such whose Occasions constrain them to Travel in damp and foggy Airs Troches of VVinter-Cherries Take of Winter-Cherries three drams Gum-Arabick Tragacanth Olibanum Pine-nuts bitter Almonds white Starch Juice of Lemons Bole-armoniack and the Seeds of white Poppies of each six drams Melons Cucumbers and Gourds of each three drams and a half Smallage white Henbane white Amber and Earth of Lemons and Opium of each two drams and with the Juice of fresh Winter-Cherries make Troches The Dose is two scruples to be taken at a time This is excellent for expelling Gravel from the Bladder or Kidneys and to provoke Urin. Trochiscs of Benjamine Take Benjamine and the Ashes of a Sallow-Tree of each an ounce Rosin and Storax prepared a like quantity sweet Tacamahacca and Lignum Aloes finely powdered of each half an ounce Ambergrease a dram Musk half a dram Zebit six grains distilled Oil of Lignum Rhodium Cinnamon and Cloves of each six drops make up these with Gum-Tragacanth extracted with Rose-water These are more excellent than any as casting a more fragrant and incomparable sweet Smell Trochiscs Odoriferous Take the Powder of green Willow-coals three ounces Labdanum two ounces Storax and Benjamine of each half an ounce Mastick sweet Tacamahacca and yellow Amber of each two drams Lignum Rhodium a dram and half make them up with the Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth extracted with Rose-water and dry them in the Shade This is an excellent Perfume for Chambers and Rooms of Entertainment as likewise to drive away ill Airs and bad Scents Trochiscs another Way Take the Coals and Ashes of Rosemary beat small and sifted finely four ounces Labdanum two ounces Storax and Renjamine of each an ounce Roots of Cyprus Aromatick red Mastick and Amber of each two drams Cloves one dram Musk Civet and Ambergrease ten grains the Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth extracted with Orange-flower-water as much as will make them up and suffer them to dry as the former These give an excellent Odour and are very wholsom to the Brain and drive away offensive Vermin and Insects being burnt on Coals Trotter-Pye This is done with Wardens Quinces Pears c. and you may either take them severally or altogether quartered or sliced raw it in quarters put some whole ones among them if sliced beaten Spices and a little Butter and Sugar taking to every twelve large Quinces a pound of Sugar and a quarter of a pound of Butter close it up and bake it and when it is well baked mash the Fruit then put in some Cream and Yolks of Eggs well beaten and stir them altogether then cut the Cover into five or six pieces Diamond fashion put in a little Rose-water and scrape Sugar over it Tumour in the Eye This is otherways called a Phlyctena or a little Tumour in the carneous Tunicle of it To remove it Take the Decoction of Mucilages and dress the Eye with if for some time to ripen the Tumour then with a steady Hand open it with a Lancet or Needle and press out the offensive Matter then cleanse and heal the Part with Honey dissolved in a little Saga-water But when the Tumour is beginning and not great if you have not the Decoction of Mucilages you may dress the Eye with the Mixture of equal parts of the Water of Melilot Chamomil and Bettony Tumour of the Knee Take a green Colwort-leaf with red Veins or Streaks pare off the Ribs flat and almost level to the rest of the Leaf then with the haft of your Knife bruise it and apply it to the Part affected renewing it three or four times a Day This also allays any Heat or Pain by other means and draws gently mostly evacuating the Humour by Sweat Tumour to Ripen Take eight ounces of fat Figs two ounces of white Lily-roots two ounces of Bean-flower or Meal boil them the Figs and Roots being bruised in as much Water as will reduce them to the consistence of a
happen Take the Powder of Elecampane an ounce the Conserve of red Roses two ounces Pomgranet-seed powdered an ounce decoct them in White-wine and drink it warm Weakness to Help Take the Powder of Vipers an ounce Diaphoretick-Antimony half an ounce clear yellow Amber two drams Sugar the weight of all that have been mentioned before and fine Starch the like quantity make them into a Past with Spirit of Wine and then into small Cakes of which one may be a sufficient Dose This is successfully used to strengthen the Blood and to strengthen those that have been or are weakned with Sickness Weakness of Stomach Take Baum and Mint boil them in Whitewine with some Rosemary-tops or Flowers and Peeling-off of a Lemon and drink a quarter of a pint of the Decoction half an Hour before Meals Or for this Wormwood and Gentian infused in your Drink is very much available Web in the Eye To remove this Offence of the Sight Take Shell-snails and burn them to Powder beat it fine and sift it add to it the Powder of Cuttle-bone put these into Alom-water wherein Honey is dissolved and shake them about when the Water is thick with the powder drop some of it into the Eye with a Feather keeping the Lids closed a while and turn your Eye to and fro that it may fret off the Film or Skin that hinders the Sight and in often so doing it will wear it away Wen to Cure Take a Lime-stone and slack it in small Soap-lees then mix it with a little Soap spread it as a Plaister and lay it to the Wen and anoint it often with the Lees the Lime was slaked in and it will sink and destroy it Whitepot to Make Take two quarts of Cream or new Milk put in half an ounce of Mace a piece of Cinnamon and half a Nutmeg sliced chip off the Crust from a Penny White-loaf slice it very thin and lay the Slices in the bottom of a Dish cover them with Marrow and put the Yolks of a dozen Eggs to the Cream or Milk well beaten with Rose-water and sweeten it with Sugar then take out the Spices fill up a broad Bason in which the Bread and Marrow is layed bake it but not in too hot an Oven and when it is enough scrape white Sugar over it and serve it up Whitewine that has lost Colour To recover this Rack it from the Lees and if it be a faint tawny Wine put in Coniack-lees putting the Wine upon them rowling them over and beating them and in the space of ten or twelve Days rack it off and it will be of a white Colour and drink very brisk Whitewine to mend its Colour Take three or four gallons of new Milk or less according to the quantity of your Wine put it into the Hogshead and rowl it to a good mixture then letting it settle open your Bung and put in three or four ounces of Isinglass and as much Loaf-sugar then fill up the Hogshead and rowl it three or four times over and so bring it by that means to a colour and fineness Whitewine to Mend If your Whitewine have an ill Tast draw it half off and to either of the halves put two gallons of Morning's-Milk a handful of Rice and as much Bay-salt mix or beat them well together with a Paddle-staff for half an Hour then fill up the Hogshead and rowl it well and turn it over in the Lees and so you may broach it in two Days and it will drink very pleasantly Wine call'd Blessed Wine To make this Take Crocus-Metallorum in Powder one ounce Mace in Powder or grosly bruised one dram Spanish Wine a pint and a half infuse the Crocus and Mace in the Wine a considerable time and then pour off the Liquid This is a very good Vomit and more frequently used than any other and among others it is used with great success in curing the Dropsie Jaundice Phthisick and Diseases in the Head also in the beginning of Fevers and before the coming out of the Small-pox It must consequently in these Cases do a great deal of good by freeing the Parts from the peccant Humours The Dose is half an ounce an ounce or an ounce and a half at a time but the Age and Strength of the Patient is in these Cases to be considered And the best times to take Purges is in the Afternoon having first eaten a light Dinner Wine of Cherries Take out the Stalks and the Stones of your Cherries bruise them with your Hands clean washed or a wooden Ladle and after twelve Hours fermenting together strain them through a Napkin press out the Juice into an earthen Stein and after you have taken off the Scum and Froth cover it close and when it is settled pour it off by inclination to ferment in your Cask with Sugar and this will give it a deep Colour then bottle it up tye down the Corks to prevent flying out and in ten or twelve Pays you may drink it This is a great cooler chears the Heart and revives decaying Nature is good against Fits and violent Pains in the Head But Note This is meant of the best red Cherries Wine of Currans Take a pound of Currans pick them clean and wash them well and putting them in an earthen Vessel pretty deep pour on them about six pints of fair Water very hot in which three spoonfuls of new Ale-yeast has been dissolved then stop it up close about sixty Hours that it may work and ferment and as soon as you find it to your liking let it run through a Strainer to leave behind the exhausted Currans and Yeast and so bottle it up and it will be exceeding quick and pleasing in Tast This is not only pleasant to drink but advantagious to the Body sundry Ways for it cools the Liver cleanses the Blood and is take with good success in all hot Diseases Wine Lowring Take an ounce of Roach-alom and powder it draw from the Hogshead four gallons then strow the Powder of Allom in it and beat in well for half an Hour then fill it up and set it on broach and by this means within three Days if you be careful not to let it take vent you will find it a curious Wine Wine Medicinal Take the best old Mallaga a quart Rhenish-wine a pint Baum Rue red Sage Maiden hair and the Leaves of Germander of each an ounce bruise and boil them gentry in Wine till a third Part be consumed then add Pepper Ginger and Nutmeg of each three drams beat them well then put to them an ounce of Venice-Treacle and a quarter of a pint of Angelica and Saffron-waters and having well boiled them strain out the Liquid part and drink half a quarter of a pint Morning and Evening or oftner if you see occasion and it is excellent good against the Infections of the Plague Measles Small pox and Spotted-fever also to prevent the Infections by ill Airs afflicting the Lungs by Coughs Catarrhs
those that are troubled with Inflammations It Chears Strengthens and Preserves the Sight Falling-sickness Take half a dram of choice Amber powder it very fine and take it fasting once a day in a quarter or a pint of Whitewine for seven or eight days successively Falling-sickness Take Misleto of the Oak the Leaves and Berries and all the tender Branches dry them in a gentle Oven or Stove so that they may be beat to Powder sift it very fine and give as much as will lie on a Shilling for one of riper years for middle age a lesser quantity and so to a Child by lessening the Dose Let it be taken both Morning and Evening in Couslip-water three Days before and three Days after the Full of the Moon repeat the Dose for a considerable time at least two Months if necessity requires it Falling-sickness another Take Senna two ounces Turbith Mechoacan of each half an ounce Raspings of Elks-hoof Powder of a dead Man's Skull and Nutmeg of each two drams Roots and Seeds of Peony Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Cardamom Cassia Lignea and Cloves of each a dram Flowers of Male Peony of Lilly of the Valleys of Lavender of the Tyle-tree of each half a dram Rhenish-wine one quart and half a pint digest these in a warm place for two Days then strain out the liquid part and sweeten in with three ounces of double-refined Sugar This is also good against Vapours Falling-sickness another Take white Incense called Olibanum Mastick and Spicknard of each three ounces Galbanum and Opopanax of each half an ounce Viscus Quercinus an ounce Amber half a scruple Peony-seeds half a dram Labdanum two drams the Seeds of wild Rue one dram Nutmeg and Cubebs of each half an ounce Castor and Copperas of each half a dram having beaten those that are to be beaten very well and dissolved the Gums in Oil of Rue incorporate them with your Hands or some convenient Instrument with the Viscus which being done and the Amber put in last in Powder the Head of the Party being shaven spread a Plaister of the Composition and lay upon it and renew it once in three or four Days And in so doing the afflicted Party will find great ease and in a little time the Cause of this troublesome and dangerous Distemper removed Fat 's to Prepare To do this that they may be in readiness on sundry emergent Occasions Take the freshest of any of them take out the little Veins and Fibers and separate the Fat from the Skin then wash it in clear Water till it is freed from Blood then mince it very small or bruise it and put it into a double Vessel to melt then strain it into clean Water and having remained there till it becomes cold drain the Water from it and keep it in an earthen glazed Pot in a cool place though not too moist and it will keep good for use a Twelvemonth Fevers continual Make a Decoction of the Leaves of Rue in Spring-water or other clear Water till the Liquor be pretty strong of the Plant which being strained make it somewhat a pallatable Liquor with a sufficient quantity of Licorice Sugar or an aromatick Body and to half a pint of it add ten drops of the Spirit not Oil of Vitriol and take it Morning Afternoon and at Night Fevers another Remedy Take in half a pint of some convenient cooling Liquor half an ounce of Harts-Horn burnt to a great whiteness and powdered being first bruised a little in the Liquid and this may be taken as occasion requires Fevers another Remedy Apply to the Soles of the Feet a mixture or thin Cataplasm made of the Leaves of Tobacco cut and beaten into a moisture with new Currans Feverfew This is excellent in the Diseases of the Womb the Decoction of it forces the Courses and expels the After-birth and do's all a bitter Herb is capable of doing It is successful in Fevers by being applied to the Soles of the Feet Take of it a handful warm it between two Tiles and apply it twice or thrice and it cures a Hemicrania and the crude Herb applied to the Crown of the Head cures the Head-ach A Decoction of it with the Flowers of Camomel cures the hysterical Symptoms and forces Child-Bed purgations c. Fig-Tree The Fruit of the Fig-Tree applied outwardly Ripens Mollifies and Attracts being beaten with Salt and Leaven they break pestilential Buboes or other Tumours in few Days The Juice of the Fig-Tree is very biting and may be numbred among Causticks and may be used for the Cure of Warts and such-like excrescencies of the Skin Take Raisins of the Sun stoned one ounce Jubebs and Sebestens of each fifteen eight fat Figgs and six Dates half an ounce of Licorice and an ounce of French Barly of the Leaves of Maiden-hair Hysop Scabious and Colts-foot of each a handful boil them in three pints of Fountain-water till a third part be consumed press out the Decoction and take eight spoonfuls three times a Day This is a very good Pectoral Figwort its Virtues The Powder of the dryed Root applied to Piles drys them up it is also useful in Cancers and eating Ulcers a dram of the Powder taken inwardly expels Worms the Water distilled from the Roots steeped in Water and Vinegar cures the redness of the Face and of this Herb an excellent Ointment is made for killing the Itch and bringing away the Scurf of it The Decoction of it taken inwardly and the Herb bruised and Poultiswise applied dissolves and brings away congealed and clotted Blood The distilled Water takes away Freckles Morphew c. There is a Plaister of it made for the King's-Evil as follows Take the Leaves of Figwort Houndstongue and the Flowers of white Archangel and Foxglove cut them very small then melt a pound of Lard and it being very hot put them into it boil them till they are crisp then strain them out and put in others till the Ointment look very thick of the green then having strained them out put into the Hogs-Lard two ounces of Turpentine and an ounce of Verdigrease and as much Rosin refined and Bees-wax as will make it into a Salve spread a Plaister and apply it to the grieved Part renewing it often It asswages the Swellings disperses the Humours not only of the King's-Evil but of any other Knots Kernels Bunches or Wens Filbert This Garden-Nut is very pleasant and used mostly for serving up at Tables among other Fruits an Oil is extracted from them that supples hard Swellings and is successfully used in old Sores but the much eating of these breeds the Head-ach and much Windiness in the Stomach Films This is when a thin Skin grows over the Eye and clouds the Sight To take it off Make some Lime-water by pouring a gallon of boiling Water on a pound of Lime unslack'd stirring the Lime in it and after some Hours decant warily that which is clear and to a pound of this
having cut it in two halves take out the Core of each of them and fill up the cavity with the tender Tops of common Wormwood and so close them together by tying the halves and when it is well roasted take off the Skin bruise it into a kind of a Poultis and apply it warm to the Eye spread on a Cloth Internal Piles Take two parts of Flower of Sulphur and one of Sugar very finely poudered mix them exactly together and make them up with a sufficient quantity of Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth into Lozenges of about a dram weight and take one at a time thrice a day or if need require four or five times a day St. Iohn's-wort This is a soveraign Herb for Wounds or internal Bruises boil it in White-wine and drink it very warm with a little Sugar For Wounds make it into an Ointment or Bath It opens Obstructions and dissolves Swellings It closes up the Lips of Wounds and strengtheneth the Parts that are weak and feeble The Seed especially if brought into a Powder and drank with the Juice of Knot-grass helpeth all manner of Spitting or Vomiting of Blood closes a Vein broken inwardly and helps those that are stung by any venomous Creature It is good for those that are troubled with the Stone or Gravel in the Kidneys or have difficulty in making Urine Two drams of the Powder of the Seed taken in a little Broth gently expels Choler or congealed Blood in the Stomach The Decoction of the Leaves and Seeds being drank somewhat warm before the Fit of an Ague whether Tertian or Quartan does alter the Fits and by often using takes 'em away The Seed is very much commended being drank for forty days together in helping the Sciatica Falling-sickness and Palsie Ioints Afflicted Take Bay-leaves two large handfuls and of the Berries half a pound Colewort-leaves a pugil Neats-feet-oil five pints Beef-suet two pound bruise what is to be bruised and mingle the rest boil them till the Berries and Leaves are crisp then strain out the Ointment and use it by suppling or bathing pretty hot in all cold Distempers that afflict the Nerves and Joints Ioint-stiffness c. Take of the Flowers and Tops of Rosemary Marjoram Rue Wild Thyme and the Roots of Wake-Robin and Wild Cucumers of each four ounces and an half and of the Leaves of Bays Sage Savin Briony-roots of each three ounces Fleabane Spurge Laurel of each nine ounces the Leaves of wild Cucumers and Calamint of each half a pound they must be gathered very fresh cleansed and bruised and infused seven days in five pints of the best Olive-oil and one of the Spirit of VVine boil them gently till the watery Humour be evaporated strain out the Oil and melt it in fifteen ounces of yellow Bees-wax Bears-grease and the Oil of Bays of each three ounces of Mascheleum half an ounce Petroleum an ounce Butter four ounces stir them and sprinkle in the following Powders viz. of Mastick and Olibanum of each six drams of Pellitory of Spain Pepper Ginger and Euphorbium of each an ounce make them into an Ointment over a gentle fire with well mixing and stirring and lastly straining out the liquid part keep it close stopt in an earthen Vessel for your use This is an excellent Ointment for all cold Diseases as Palsies Stiffness of the Joints Cramps Convulsions and the Colick and Pains of the Reins c. Italian Bisket Take a pound of fine Sugar beat it yet finer and sift it and to it put a pound of fine Wheat-flower and six Eggs beaten very thin then beat them all together in a stone Mortar for an hour's space not suffering it to stand still lest it prove heavy then put in half an ounce of Aniseeds rub Butter over your Plates and drop the Ingredients with a Spoon as fast as possible you can set them into an Oven and bake them but let them not be too much by any means Italian Chips Take Past of Flowers beat them till they are reduced to a fine Powder then sift them and take some Gum-dragon steep'd in Rose-water beat them in a wooden or stone Mortar to a perfect Paste then roul it very thin and lay one colour upon another in a long roul and being rouled very thin cut them overthwart and they will appear of divers curious and delicate Colours like Marbling Itch to Cure Take strong Lime-water one pound and put it into a gallon of Spring-water let them work together for some hours and then carefully pour off what is clear filter the rest and take two ounces of Quicksilver tied up in a linnen Bag let this hang in the Liquor and boil it half an hour or more then pour off the clear Liquor and with it wash the part afflicted and when it is well dried in anoint the same places with Ointment of Tabacco which you may have ready prepared Itch another way to Cure Take a handful of the Roots of Elecampane and as much of sharp-pointed Dock shred them small and boil them in two quarts of Spring-water till a pint be consumed then strain out the Liquor and wash with it the place affliccted once or twice a day Itch a Durge Take Tamarinds half an ounce sharp-pointed Dock-roots two drams Fumitory and Succory of each half a handful white Tartar half a dram Ginger a scruple let the Herbs be shred very small then stamp the Roots and boil all in a sufficient quantity of fair Water till it be consumed to about a quarter of a pint to which being strained add an ounce of the Syrup of Roses and two drams of Syrup of Buckthorn Berries Take it in the Morning fasting and it will purge and cleanse the Blood so that the Humours that occasion the offensive Disease will be expelled by gentle Swellings Iuice of Crabs This is commonly called Verjuice it cools drys binds and quenches the Thirst asswages the heat of burning Fevers stops Fluxes and causes Appetite In other Countries they imitate ours with the Juice of unripe Grapes It is used with Sauces in Food to sharpen the Appetite and made into Lohoch with Virgin-Honey it cools in hot Diseases and cuts tough Phlegm Iuice of Cucumbers Here is meant the wild ones It is Catharick it prevails against the Gout Scurvy and King's-Evil Obstructions of the Viscera and Jaundice also the Dropsie It is to be taken from two drams to three four or five To make a Syrup of it Take of the Juice two pound of choice Senna two ounces and a half mix and infuse them over a gentle Heat close covered sixteen or twenty four Hours then strain it out and boil it up with as much white Sugar as will make it into a Syrup The Dose is from two three four or five spoonfuls in any of the Distempers or Grievances before-mentioned It purges out watery Humours very strongly Iuices Depurated Let your Juices settle for twelve Hours then pour it off gently from the gross Impurities settled at the bottom
and is used for Colds Coughs and shortness of Breath The Juyce drunk in Wine is advantagious in Bruises The green Herb when bruised applied to the Fundament for two or three hours easeth the pains of the Piles but the Juice being made into an Ointment is the more effectual to that purpose The Scabs or breaking out of the Head are taken away being washed with its Decoction in fair Water and has the same Effect upon the breakings out of any other Parts tending to the like nature Nerves afflicted Take the Roots of Male-Peony new taken out of the ground one ounce of the Seeds of that Plant two drams and with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Peony beat them up into an Electuary of which take the quantity of a large Hazel-Nut or more if need require it twice a day Nerves their Diseases to cure Take of the Powder of Castor half an ounce Spirit of Castor half a pint digest them in the Cold ten days then strain out the Spirit and when it is well settled take ten drops inwardly in any proper Liquor This not only strengthens the Nerves and is good for the Diseases of the Head and Fits of the Mother but provoke the Courses and remedies Deafness Nerves prickt Take Peruvian Balsom and warm it a little then bathe it in where the grief is and in a little time it takes off the acrimony of the Sanies from whence proceeds the Pain and Convulsion when we are wounded or bit by venomous Creatures It iâ— excellent in staunching blood insomuch that it is affirmed that the Beads in Peru and New Spain from whence it comes finding themselves so hurt by an Instinct of Nature rub themselves against the Tree from whence it issues It is of a dark colour fragrant Smell and brought to us in little earthen Jars Nerves Vncover'd To Remedy this Take the Oil which is thus prepared Powder grosly three or four ounces of the best Camphire and having put it into a Mattress pour on of Spirit of Nitre twice as much stop the Vessel close and let it over a Pot half full of Water pretty well heated frequently stirring it to help forward the Dissolution which will be done in two or three hours and by this means you will find the Camphire turned into a clear Oil which will swim above the Spirit then separate it in a Viol for use This is not only used to touch the Nerves that lye uncovered but for the caries of Bones yet this Oil is nothing but a Dissolution of the Camphire in the Spirit of Nitre for if you cast Water upon it to kill the Force of the Spirit it will turn into Camphire as before Nerves Wounded Take Horsetail distill it and if the Nerves be much hurt or wounded Take three spoonfulls of it in a morning fasting apply it likewise outwardly this stays bleeding cures Ulcers in the Reins and Kidneys and if the Lungs be ulcerated drink three ounces of the Decoction of it or two ounces of the Juyce morning and evening a dram of Powder made of this Herb and taken in three ounces of Plantane-water morning and evening is held very good for a Consumption Nettle Iuice This is good to stop bleeding and ease the Pains in the Head being drunk it provokes Urine and is helpfull in the Dropsie the Leaves of Nettles made into a Poultis and applied to Inflammations and Tumours allay them mixed with Hogs Lard and Flax-seed Nipplewort Out of this comes a bitter Milk or whitish Juyce which being mixed with Woman's Milk and a little Oil of Roses and mingled well over the fire in a Saucer is greatly available to allay the Heat and Anger of sore Nipples and recover them so that the Infant may suck without giving the Woman any pain Niter This is held an excellent Medicine for the Colick or any Pains prepared after the following manner viz. Take of the best Nitre an ounce rub it sufficiently in a clean Mortar of Glass or Stone then grind it with half a Scruple of Saffron and of this Mixture take about half a dram at a time infused in about three or four ounces of Spring-water Nodes These are a kind of Knots occasioned many times by Scorbutick Humours Take two drams of Rhubarb boil it in half a pint of Ale till it consume to a quarter of a pint drink it in a morning fasting and anoint the place where these Knots are with Oil of Camomil mixed with the Spirit of Wine three or four times intermitting the first for a day Noise in the Ears Take the Oil of Ben-Nut drop it into the ear and it not only cures the Noises but in a great manner helps Deafness It cleanses the Skin from Spots or Morphew and the longer it is kept the better it is This Ben-Nut likewise mixed with Honey dissolves hard Swellings and the Kings-Evil made up to a Poultis with Barly-Meal it is good in the cold Afflictions of the Nerves Mixed with Meal of Lupins it takes off the Obstructions afflicting the Liver and Spleen it subverts the Stomach occasions Nauseousness and moves the Belly It purges gross and clammy Flegm by Vomit and Stool wherefore it is good for a flegmatick Colick Noise a singing Noise in the Ear This is usually the Forerunner of Deafness and few that have it to any purpose escape the losing their Hearing especially for a time therefore the best way is timely to prevent it to do which Take the Pills de Hiera or Hiera cum Agarico with which the Apothecary or Druggist will furnish you Take of them a dram at a time going to Bed and settle your self as well as may be to rest and the next morning take the following Decoction viz. Take the Tops of Mint Marjoram and the Flowers of Wood-Roses Bettony Sage and Camomil of each half a handfull boil them in a convenient quantity of Water 'till half be consumed then taking them from the fire let the Fume or hot Vapour ascend into the Ears by laying first one and then the other side of the head over it or you may drop three or four drops of the Oil of Amber palliated with Oil of Roses into the Ears and stop them close from the Air when you go to Bed Nose Bleeding To stay this speedily and effectually Take the long things that grow on Hazle-Trees before they Leave by some called the Nut-Blossoms burn them so that they may be reduced to a Powder but not to Ashes and when the Blood issues from the Nose blow up some of it with a quill into the Nostrils and let the Party drink the Juice of Plantane or Plantane-water and Milk and the Bleeding will stay This also will stay inward Bleeding till better Remedies can be obtained though many times of it self it is effectual and there needs no other unless some large Vein be broke or some extraordinary Flux of Blood otherways happens Noses to Dress This is meant of an Ox Steer Cow
boil them over a gentle Fire to the consumption of the moisture stirring them often and then strain and press them strongly and keep the Ointment in a glazed Pot for your use and use it with success Ointment another Take sweet Butter two pound melt it over a moderate Fire put into it when taken off the Fire as much Snow then scum off the Butter that swims above the Snow-water and add to it an ounce of Venice Ceruss-powder Camphire a dram mixed with a little Spirit of Wine and make them up into an Ointment over a gentle Fire This Ointment among the Professors of Chirurgery has a great Esteem For it not only cures common Burns or Scalds but those with Gun-powder Lightning melted Sulphur or Lead if curable Ointment for the Small-pox If you would prevent Scars and pitting in the Face Hands or any part of the Body Take a piece of fat rusty Bacon with the Rind off and put it on a Spit set a pewter Platter under it with fair Water and let the Fat drop into and when it has dript away as much as is convenient beat the Dripping and the Water together about a quarter of an Hour and let them stand till they are cold then pour out the Water and pass the Fat with mixing through two or three Waters till all the saltness and offensive Scent is gone then wash it in Rose-water and put it up in a Gallypot and when you use it melt it and pâ—tle it on your Face with a Feather often so doing till the Scabs and Scurf come clear away and a delicate smooth Skin appears under them Ointment for Sores Old or New Take Honey of Roses and common Honey of each four ounces Oil of Turpentine an ounce and three quarters Barly-water half a pint the Yolks of two new-lay'd Eggs mingle them well and keep them stirring over a gentle Fire till the Water is near consumed and they become an Ointment then dip Rags and Pledgits in it and lay to the grieved Place often renewing them Ointment for the Spleen Take Whitewine-Vinegar four spoonfuls red Holly-hock Mallow and Briony-roots the Pith taken out of each a pound sprinkle them with the Vinegar let it steep in and then boil them till the Roots be very soft then stamp them and strain out the Juice Take Boars-grease a pound and a half sour leavened Bread four ounces mingle them together in a Mortar and then sprinkle some more Vinegar on them and over a gentle Fire make the liquid part into an Ointment and in the Morning rub the place where the Spleen is with a warm coarse Cloath then lay on it a piece of blue woolen Cloath wet in the Water of a Man-Child as hot as can be layed on and when it waxes cold take it away and dry the Skin with a warm Cloath and bath in some of the Ointment warmed in a Sawcer rub it well in and lay upon it a quilt of black Wool and in so doing often you will find extraordinary ease Ointment for Vlcers Take six pound of Butter made the latter end of May or beginning of June boil it over a gentle Fire clarifie it and take away the dregs then add yellow Wax four pound Rosin two pound and Venice-Turpentine one pound make these into a proper Ointment over a gentle Fire This Ointment is very solid that it may continue on the Parts grieved and is not only proper for the Cure of Ulcers in the Legs but for Tetters Chilblains Chaps and Rifts of the Breasts and other Parts of the Body Oisters The Flesh of this Fish is nutritive Stomachick and restorative in Consumptions being either pickled stewed roasted or eaten raw they open Obstructions of the urinary Parts and encrease Seed eaten raw they cause a good Appetite and are easie of Digestion confirm a weak Stomach and create good Nourishment to decayed Members There are Waters Oils Spirits and volatil Salts drawn from Oisters in this manner Take five quarts of large Oisters when out of the Shells put them into a Cucurbit and in Balneo Mariae distil off the Water to dryness that it is Flegm with very little volatil Salt in it This may be used in all Cases where a Milk Water is requisite Then put the dried Oisters at the bottom into an earthen Retort or a glass one well coated fixing to it a large Receiver and upon the Fire though not too violent draw off the Spirit Oil and volatil Salt let the Fire at first be very gentle to bring forth the remaining Flegm then encrease it gradually that the Spirit may follow in white Clouds then continue the Fire encreasing it to the highest degree so will the volatil Salt and Oil ascend and come forth which rectified separate and keep for use The Salt restores in Consumptions It is good against all Diseases of the Head Brain and Nerves as the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy and Palsie as also Pleurisies and all Obstructions of the Lungs and Breast Stoppages of Urin Jaundice and the like You may take it from four grains to twelve The Spirit has the fame Virtue but is weaker and therefore may be taken from twenty four to forty fifty or sixty Drops The Oil smells very strong and therefore must be rectified The smelling to it is good against Vapours and Hysterical-Fits especially being anointed on the Nostrils Take of the Oil two ounces Spirit of Niter one ounce mix and digest them ten Days then add eight ounces of rectified Spirit of Wine and digest it a Month filter it and keep it close This opens Obstructions and prevails powerfully against the Obstructions of the Bowels The Dose is from twelve to thirty drops Oisters Broil'd the Dutch way Take two quarts of large Oisters open and parboil them in their own Liquor put them into a strainer and then into a Pipkin with some Mace Butter and slices of Onions then stew them and after that lay the Shells on a Grid-iron and put two or three of them into a Shell and there let them broil or Stew in their Liquor and so setting them on Plates fill them with beaten Butter and serve them up Oister Chewits Take three quarts of large Oisters ready opened and parboiled in their own Liquor then wash them in warm Water dry them and mince them very fine season them lightly with Salt Pepper Cloves Mace Cinnamon Carraway-seeds some minced Raisins of the Sun sliced Dates Currrans Sugar and half a pint of Whitewine mingle all together and put Butter in the bottom of the Pies so fill them up and bake them These must be very small Pyes and ten or twelve of them served upon a Plate together Oisters another way Take the largest wash them in warm Water then parboil them and save the Liquor and steep them in Whitwine-Venegar sliced Nutmeg large Mace whole Pepper Cloves a little Salt and having given them a warm on the Fire set them off and let them steep two or three Hours then
Pike Stewed the City-way Take your Pike splat it and lay it in a dish and when the blood is washed out put to it as much Whitewine as will cover it and set it a stewing and when it boils put in the Fish and scumm it then put in some large Mace whole Cinamon and Salt and being well-stewed dish it up on Sippets finely carved Then thicken the Broth with two or three Yolks of Eggs some thick Cream Sugar and beaten Butter give it a warm and pour it on the Pike with some boiled Currans and boiled Prunes layed all over it as likewise some Mace Cinamon and Bunches of Barberries and sliced Lemon garnish with the same and scrape on fine Sugar In this manner you may stew Carp Bream Barbel Chevin Roach Conger Gurnet Tench Dace Pearch or Mullet Pikes to Souce and Ielly The Fish being scalded and cleansed bone it and season it with Nutmeg and Salt rowl up three or four Pikes like Brawn or coloured Eel and bind them in that posture then put them in a clean Cloth and boil them in Water Whitewine and Salt with the Spice observing always that the Pot boils before you put them in keep it scummed and add some large Mace and slices of Ginger If you only intend to souce them boil them not down so much but if they are to be Jellied put to them some Isinglass and serve them up in the Collars standing in the Jelly and thus you may do with Eels Tench Salmon Congen c. Pike and White-Broth Here the Pike must be cut into three equal pieces and boiled in Water seasoned in a little Salt and sweet Herbs when it boils beat in the Yolks of six Eggs with a little Sack and Sugar melted Butter and some of the Broth then dish the Pike putting the Head and Tail together cleave the middle piece in two and take out the Back-bone put one piece on the one side the other on the other blanch all pour the Broth on and garnish it with Sippets fine Sugar or Ginger and serve it up Pills against Cachexies Take Trochiscs of Alhandal half an ounce Galbanum Myrrh Aloes and Amoniack of each three drams Mercury precipitated prepared with Gold two drams Scamony Jalap the whitest Agarick one dram and half pressed Oil of Nutmegs one dram Amber Cinnamon and Cloves the Oil of each six drops Extract of Juniper as much as will make these into Pills The Pills are much commended for remedying what they are propos'd for also in Quartan-Agues Dropsie and Jaundice and the Retention of the Menstruums the weight of each Pill must not exceed two grains and they may be taken two or three of them as often as is necessary Pills Diuretick Take Chios Turpentine and white Vitriol finely powdered mix them into a mass and make Pills of them exceeding small The vomitive quality of the Vitriol being corrected by the Turpentine the Pills work good Effects especially in all difficulties of making Water being given from half a dram to a dram Pills for the Dropsie Take Elaterium and Extract of Aloes prepared with the Juice of French Orris of each half an ounce choice Mastick made into Powder two drams make them up into Pills according to Art as small as is convenient These Pills powerfully purge Hydropick-Waters they are to be taken in a Morning fasting from six to twelve or fifteen grains using them as often as occasion requires Pills for the Green-sickness Take Extract of Mars prepared with Musk one ounce Aloes-Succotrine prepared with the Juice of Succory six drams Extract of Rhenbarb half an ounce Extract of Saffron two drams distilled Oil of Cinnamon six drops mix them to a mass and so make small Pills of them These Pills cure the Green-sickness in young Virgins the Party so grieved taking a scruple at a time in a Morning fasting and drinking after them two or three ounces of Wormwood-wine and walking after that about an Hour for several Mornings together Pills for the Stomach Take Extract of Licorice two drams and a half Tears of Storax two drams distilled Oil of Cinnamon six drops Extract of Saffron four scruples Labdanum Olibanum choice Myrrh and Extract of Opium of each one dram Ambergrease one scruple Syrup of Citron-peel as much as suffices to make them into a Mass and so into Pills These are excellent to stay Defluxions that fall upon the Lungs and to asswage the violence of Coughs The Dose is from five or six to eight or ten grains Pimpernel Of this there are three sorts the one groweth very great and hath long Roots the other sort is little the third bears red Flowers and grows in most Gardens the Roots of the two first in which consists their main Virtue boiled in Whitewine are very good for Pains in the Reins and Bladder caused by the Stone for it driveth out Gravel and the long retained Urine The Juice of the Root drank in White-wine is good against all Poisons or infectious Airs and the Biting of venomous Creatures It is used with success in the Plague the Root being stamped and laid to the Sore As for the third sort though little differing in likeness yet in Virtue it does from the two former for it is more restringent in Tast and very nourishing for which cause it may be thought to be of a binding nature wherefore it stayeth the Dysentery and other Fluxes and Vomitings proceeding from colerick Humours or Causes it heals Wounds and Ulcers and is of special use in Ointments that are made for Wounds in the Head and for Cankers Some Physicians have much commended it in the Cure of pestilential and contagious Fevers concluding that the often drinking the Juice of it in Wine or other convenient Liquors is a soveraign Preservative against the power of those dangerous Diseases Plague to Preserve from Take Barberries when they are ripe steep them in warm Water that the Husks or outward Skin may come off then dry them that they may be beaten to Powder with a little Salt and when you find your self somewhat discomposed by the effects of ill Airs hot or feverish mix this Powder with strong Vinegar about two drams in half a quarter of a pint and drink it up warm and keep your self warm also that you may sweat upon it but if you find your self under such apprehensions shivering with Cold you must take the Powder in strong Wine Plague-Sickness Take Water of Scabious Endive Rue and red Roses of each four ounces white Dittany Tormentile white Coral Gentian and Bole-Armoniack with Terra-sigillata reduce those that are to be powdered separately Infuse them in the Water in a glass Vessel and drink about an ounce at a time pretty warm keeping the Body warm after it Or Take a Viol or some other Glass and fill it to the third part with Venice-Treacle the other third part with Brandy or Spirit of Wine mix these well together by shaking and take Morning and Evening half an ounce in two ounces
Dish and when it is cold slice it into a Diamond-fashion and chequer it over and serve it on glass or other Plates strewing if you please Sugar mixed with the Powder of Cinnamon on them Almond-Milk To make it according to the best Method you must boil about Two Quarts of Water scumming it well and when it is taken off suffer it to settle pour out the clear part and setting it over the Fire again boil in it Violet-Leaves and Straw-berry-Leaves of the Roots of each a large Handful Sorrel-Roots half a Handful these being well washed put in with them a Crust of Bread and stoned Raisins of the Sun Two Ounces and so suffer them to boil over a gentle Fire till the liquid part be consumed to a Quart and then with Fifty Almonds blanched and Thirty Pompion-Kernels all well beaten draw an Almond-Milk sweeten it with fine Sugar and drink Morning and Evening about Three Quarters of a Pint. This excellently sweetens the Blood and causes a ruddy and fair Complexion being very good in Consumptions Almonds an Oil To make this Take sweet Almonds blanch them and bruise them then pour on them a little Rose-Water and put them into a Vessel that they may be kept warm as it were in hot Water then put them into a Bag that is very porous pressing them at first gently and so continue it by degrees till you perceive a clear Oil come out This by bathing mitigates Pains and Swellings comforteth the exasperated Parts especially the Lungs and Kidneys it mollifyeth dry and hard Swellings and is profifitable in Hectick Feavours to be given in any cooling Liquors and for the anointing the Forehead and Stomach it also supples the Face and Hands and keeps them plump and soft Almond-Pudding To make this Take Two French Rolls or other White-bread slice them and put them into a Quart of Cream put it then on a gentle Fire till both be hot beat it well together add Twelve Eggs and the Whites but of Four Beef-Suet or Marrow Four Ounces as much of Currants and Raisins and season it with grated Nutmegs Mace Salt and Sugar scattering into it a little Flower then make a piece of Puff-past as much as will cover your Dish set it in a quick Oven but not too hot bake it sufficiently and server it up Almond-Snow-Cream Take a Quart of Sweet Cream a quarter of a Pound of Almond-Past beat it well up with Rose-Water mix it with half a Pint of White-Wine and strain it put into it the scrapings of Orange-Peel and Nutmegs sliced Two or Three Sprigs of Rosemary and suffer it to steep Two or Three Hours then put some double refined Sugar to it strain it into a Bason and beat it till it froth and bubble and as the Froth rises take it off with a Spoon and put it into the Dish you serve it up in Almond-Tart Strain beaten Almonds with the Yelks of Eggs well beaten and new Cream Sugar Cinnamon and Ginger boil it thick and fill your Tart and when it is baked ice it over with gleer of Eggs Sugar and Rose-Water beat up well together Aloes-Rosatum Take of the finest Aloes-Succotrine Four Ounces make them into a Powder take the Juice of Damask-Roles clarified two pound put them together and let them stand in the Sun in a glass Vessel or in Balneo till all the moisture be exhaled do this four times and then make it into Pills which are excellent to purge the Stomach for Pains in the Bowels and a gentle Purge upon any Occasion Alom to burn Burn this in a new earthen Vessel keeping as much as may be the more subtil part from evaporating and when it ceases to bubble and no more froth or scum upon the sudden taking off the Cover arises it is sufficient Ambergrease-Cake To make this Take fine white Sugar beat it and sift it well then beat Six new-lay'd Eggs till the Froth rises and by degrees drop them on the Sugar mixing that and them together by stirring round very quick in a marble Mortar and being wrought till it may be drop'd thin on Plates then put in a grain of Civet and Two Grains of Ambergrease then butter your Pye-Plate and taking the stuff up by Spoonfuls drop it on the Plates in the nature of Cakes and put them into a gentle Oven when they begin to rise take them out and keep them for use in a dry Place These are good for the Stomach and Head Ambergrease-Cakes Take fine Flower a quarter of a Peck mix with it slices of Marmalade of Quinces a quarter of a Pound of Sugar and Rose-Water beaten up together of each 10 Spoonfuls Yest half a Pint Currants a Pound clean pick'd and wash'd Cinamon and Mace finely powdered each half an Ounce candy'd Orange-Peel cut very small then with Ten new-lay'd Eggs and a Quart of new Milk thicken it and mix it well then dissolve a Dram of Ambergrease in a quarter of a Pint of White-Wine and mix with the rest So make it up into a Cake and bake it in a gentle Oven and it will prove excellent if iced over with Sugar melted in Rose-Water and the White of an Egg. Ambergrease the Tincture To make this Put in half a Pint of Spirit of Wine into a strong Glass Ambergrease one Ounce Musk Two Drams let the Glass be stopped close with a Cork and tyed over with a Bladder and place it in warm Horse-Dung for the space of 12 Days then pour off the Spirit gently and put on as much new Spirit and place it as before pouring off the second rime clean and after all this the Ambergrease will serve for ordinary Uses And the Tincture drawn off as before one drop of it is an excellent Perfume and being drunk in Tea or Coffee is an excellent Cordial against Fevers and Pestilential Distempers Amber-Pills Take Venice-Turpentine washed one Ounce Powder of white Amber Six Grains mix them well and put them in a clean glazed Earthen Pot upon Embers moderately hot and to try whether it be enough take a drop and let it cool and when it is so stiff that it will not cleave to the Fingers it is enough then take of the Powder of Pearl white Amber and Coral of each a Dram of the inner Bark of an Oak Nutmeg and Cinamon of each a quarter of an Ounce add to these Three Ounces of Loaf-Sugar bruised and sifted then make them into a Powder and seeth them and put the Pills into them but before you take them it will be proper to take a gentle Purge after which wrap up Three of the Pills in as much of the Powder as will lye on a Shilling and take them swallowing after them the Yelk of an Egg a little warm And by so doing Two or Three times it will eradicate noxious Humours and fortifie the Body against violent Distempers Amber-Pudding Take to make this the Guts of a young Hog turn them and wash 'em very clean then take Two Pound
and the Saffron often dipt in it tyed up in a Rag and so squeezed out This Syrup is held to be a very gentle Purge for melancholy People and very safe and easie but proves more effectual in its Operation and Strength if Two Ounces of it be taken in Three Ounces of the Decoction of Dodder Apoplectick-Water Take of the Lilies of the Valley Rosemary Lavender Sage Primroses of each three handfuls let them macerate eight Days in the Sun or in a Stove in rectified Spirits of Wine and Orange-Flower Water of each three pints then distill them in a Sand-Bath and preserve this excellent Water for your use It fortifies the Brain and noble Parts being taken from half to a whole spoonful It is successful as well to prevent as to cure the Apoplexy and all other violent Diseases of the Brain Apoplectick-Water another Bruise four pound of Black-Cherries Roots of Valerian and Shavings of Harts-Horn of each three ounces grated White-Bread one pound Cloves and Mace beaten fine and sifted of each half an ounce Saffron two drams Flowers of Lilies of the Valley and Lavender of each three handfuls mix them well together by bruising and shredding and macerate them twenty four Hours in a warm Water-Bath then encrease the heat and put them in Balneo Mariae This Water eases Apoplectick Pains Palsie and other Distempers in the Head and Brain arising from Cold being taken at seasonable times from half an ounce an ounce Apoplexy To cure this violent and dangerous Distemper Take two quarts of the Spirit of Wine infuse in it a pound of Imperatory Castor and Sarsaparilla of each half an ounce being bruised a little add to them two handfuls of ordinary Lavender and Sage-Flowers steep them in an earthen Pot well glazed stop it very close and set it in a Chimney-corner or other warm place four or five Days often setting it on warm Embers and as often shaking it then take nine Drams of Camphire dissolved in half a pint of Sack and put it in setting it in a cool place and then philter it two or three times and when the Distemper approaches which is known by a shooting Pain in the Head a swimming dizziness of the Eyes c. rub the Forehead and Temples with it till it drys in and it gives speedy ease Apricocks Apricocks are a delicious Fruit to the Tast and much more wholsom than the Peach but above all from the Kernels of them an excellent Oil is extracted for Hemorrhoids Pains in the Ears Swellings and Inflammations The Kernels much avail in the Heart-burn Apricock-Cakes To make this Take the largest and smoothest Fruit parboil them in Spring-Water till they become very tender then pressing out the Pulp put to it an equal weight of Sugar set them over a gentle sire and keep them continually stirring and when you can see the bottom of the Skillet or Pan they are enough then put the Pulp and Sugar into Cards sewed round and dust them over with sifted Sugar and letting them stand two or three Days turn them and then if they be candied take them out of the Cards and dust them with Sugar again and so often turning them let 'em dry for your use in a gentle heat Apricocks to Candy Take the Apricocks pare them very thin and strew fine Sugar lightly on them then lay them on a broad pewter Dish and so put them into an Oven as hot as usually heated for Manchet and as the Liquor comes from them pour it forth and turn them strew more Sugar and sprinkle them with Rose-Water turn and sugar them till near dry then lay them on a Lettice-Wyre till they are dried which you may do in an Oven after the drawing and by this means they will keep all the Year Apricocks to dry In the first place Take out the Stones then weigh the remainder and take the weight of them in double refined Sugar and make a Syrup with so much Water as will wet them and boil it up so high that if a drop be drop'd on a clean Plate it slip off being cold put in your Apricocks pared when the Syrup is heated stir them about and turn them out and tye them one by one in Tiffanies then put them in again and set the Syrup over a quick fire making it to boil as fast as it can and scum it well and when they look clear take them from the fire then lay them on a Sieve to drain and being well drained take them out of the Tiffanies and dry them in a Stove or the Sun in Glasses to keep off the dust Apricock-Iambals Take Apricocks scald them to a tenderness and dry the pulp in a pewter or earthen Dish over a Chafing-dish of Coals then for a Day or two set it on a Stone and beat it afterward in a Stone Mortar adding as much fine Sugar as will make it a stiff Past then colour it with Saunders Cochineel or Indico rowl them long tye them into Knots and so dry them for use Apricock-Past To make this Pare your Fruit and stone them set them between two Dishes on a Chafing-dish of Coals till they are boiled very tender let them cool and lay them out on white Paper take their weight of Sugar and boil it to a Candy heighth with as much fair Water and Rose-Water as will dissolve the Sugar then put the Pulp into it and let it boil till it be as thick as Marmalade still keeping it stirring then on a Pye-Plate fashion it into the shape of whole Apricocks and so being dried it will be very transparent and eat more luscious and pleasant than Apricocks newly gathered from the Trees Apricocks to preserve Take them when they are pretty well buttoned yet so tender that you may run a Needle through the Stones and all without any difficulty then put them into luke-warm Water to break them and let them stand close covered in that Water till a thin Skin will come off with scraping and all this while they will look yellow then put them into another Preserving-Pan or Skillet of hot Water and let them stand covered till they recover a curious green colour then having equally weigh'd them with a like weight of Sugar clarifie the Sugar with the White of an Egg or some Water and so preserve them for use If you would preserve them when ripe you must take out the Stones you need not at all boil them in Water but with the Juice of some of them dissolve the Sugar and stew them in it then having a Syrup of Sugar boiled to a height put them in it till they look clear and so set them up close covered for your use Aqua Coelestis To make this Take of Cinnamon one dram Ginger half a dram the three sorts of Saunders of each of them a quarter of an Ounce Cubebs and Mace of each of them a Dram Cardamum the bigger and lesser of each three drams Setwell-Roots half an ounce Fennel-seeds Anni-seeds and
distilled from it provoke Urine and remove Obstructions in the Reins and Bladder Cammock to make the Distilled Water You must take four pounds of the Rinds of the green Roots cut them very small and infuse them in a gallon of Malmsey or Mallaga and then set them over a gentle heat Distill them in a glass Alembick in Balneo Mariae and you will have a pleasant Water fit for the abovesaid Uses Capon Boil'd the Italian way Take a young Capon draw it and truss it to boil then lay it in fair Water and parboil it a little then boil it in strong Broth until it be enough Then take a good quantity of Beet-leaves boil them in fair Water very tender press out the Water and take six Sweetbreads of Veal boil and mince them and the Herbs very small then add the Marrow of four or five Bones steep the Sweetbread Herbs that are minced small and boil the bigger pieces in Water by themselves and lay on the Capon on the top of the Dish Then take Raisins of the Sun stoned shred them small with half a pound of Dates a quarter of a pound of Pomcitron minced and a pound of Naples Bisket grated put them together in a large Dish or Charger with half a pound of Sweet-butter and work it with your hands into a piece of Paste season it with a little Nutmeg Ginger Cinamon and Salt well beaten and some Parmisan grated and mingled with fine Sugar then make a Paste of fine Flower six Yolks raw of Eggs a little Saffron beaten small and half a pound of Butter and a little Salt then drive out a long sheet with a Rowling-pin very thin and lay the Ingredients in small heaps round or long then cover them with the Paste and cut it asunder and lay about the Capon till you have filled the Dish then pour on Butter with little strong Broth garnish it with Lemons and serve it up Carbuncle Take Salt well beaten to Powder sift it and incorporate it with the Yolk of an Egg and applying it it will draw away the Venom and offensive Humours break any Boil or Plague-sore and contribute much towards the healing of it Carp to Roast Make a Pudding of Almond-paste and Cream grated Bread Nutmeg Currans and Salt and when the Carp is drawn without cutting open viz. through the Gills put in the Pudding that way till the Belly be full tie it to a Spit and when it is roasted make the Sauce with what drops from it and the Juice of Oranges Cinamon and Sugar beaten up with Sweet-butter Carp Stewed Having bled him save the Blood scrape off the Scales and take out the Intrails then put him into your Stew-pan with Made Ginger Cloves Nutmeg Sweet-herbs and a large Onion quartered with half a pound of Butter mix some of the Blood with Claret put it in and being enough garnish it with sliced Lemons and green Spinage and serve it up to the Table Cassia its Vertues It 's Loosening and a Purifier of the Blood it allays Heat and moderately loosens the Belly provokes Urine purges Choler and Phlegm and mollifies the Breast and Throat it resolveth Inflammations and cleanses the Reins from Sand and Gravel Caustick Liquor of Verdigrease Take Verdigrease four ounces Salt of Niter eight ounces mix them together fire them and let them burn in an Iron or Marble Mortar well heated then make them into a Powder and put them into a convenient Vessel Let them by dropping dissolve in a moist place and preserve the Liquor that falls in a thick Glass or glazed earthen Pot. This Liquor is highly approved for consuming proud and corrupted Flesh and likewise all sorts of Excrescencies more particularly such as accompany Venereal Distempers Caustick Powder or Specifick Corrosive of Paracelsus To make it Take Corrosive Mercury Sublimate three ounces Sal Armoniack two ounces powder them together put them into a Matras pour on them a pint of Aqua fortis which evaporate in a moderate heat till the Ingredients come to the consistence of a Paste dry the whole Mass in such a moderate heat as will reduce it to a fine Powder This Powder Cauterizes very speedily and violently any superfluous Flesh and such Excrescencies as are to be removed It is quick in Operation and the regard that is to be had to the Nature of the Corrosive Sublimate requires much Caution and Prudence in the Use of it insomuch that you must put on but a very little at a time and use it only upon strong Bodies and it is to be applied upon no other Parts than what are remote from the Emunctories of the Noble Parts Celandine the greater The Juice of this is very good to take out Spots Pins and Webs in the Eye but by reason of its sharpness you may allay it with a little Breast-milk Being put into hollow Teeth often it will loosen them and greatly facilitate their Drawing Warts frequently rub'd with the Juice of Celandine will dry up and peel off The Decoction of the Root being drank with Aniseeds and Whitewine is good for the Jaundice or to wash eating Ulcers withal The Root being chewed asswageth the Tooth-ach Celandine the less It breaketh the Skin where it is applied as a Poultis it cause bad Nails and Hair to fall off the Juice of it snuffed up the Nose greatly purges the Brain A Gargarism made of the Decoction of it with Honey has the same effect Centaury major The chief Vertues of this consists in the Root which is used for Ruptures Difficulty in Breathing old Coughs Pleurisies and Spitting of Blood It is successfully given in the Dropsie and Jaundice being either infused in Wine or beat to Powder and drank immediately Centaury minor Of this Lesser sort Galen has written a large Treatise It purgeth Choler and Phlegm for which cause the Decoction thereof is given in Tertian Agues It kills Worms in the Belly The Leaves of this Herb being applied fresh to Wounds search them and heal up Ulcers Cephalick Elixir Take Misleto that grows on the Oak Piony-roots the Bigger Valerian of each an ounce and an half Piony-seed Laurel and Juniper-berries of each one ounce Cinamon Mace and Cubebs of each three drams Flowers of Tillet Rosemary and Lavender of each a handful bruise what is to be bruised and macerate them together for twenty four hours in the Water of Lilies of the Valley Black-Cherry-water the rectified Spirit of Wine of each a pint and an half then distill them according to Art To the Liquor distilled add refined Sugar one pound Tincture of Ambergrease a dram put this Elixir in an Earthen-Pot well stop'd and glazed This Elixir is of wonderful Use in Epilepsies Apoplexies and other cold Diseases of the Brain being taken fasting from half a spoonful to two spoonfuls Cerate for Masks for Women Take white Bees-wax four pound Sperma Ceti two ounces Oil of the four greater cold Seeds cleansed extracted without fire and Bismuth precipitated of each
Water mix them very well and spread them upon a very thin Leather or black Silk and apply it to the Temples it draws off the Rheum that afflicts the light Defluction another Take the Tops of Rosemary one dram beat them up with one or two ounces of rotten Pear-mains or Pippins spread them like a Cataplasm and lay them on the Eyes when you go to Bed It asswages the Heat and removes the Pain redness and Inflammation in the Eyes Devils-Bit This Herb and Root being boiled in White-wine makes a Decoction good against the Plague and pestilential Airs and Diseases occasioned thereby as Fevers c. It is an Antidote and much fortifies against Poisons and helps the Pain caused by the stinging or biting of venomous Beasts and also for inward Bruises Contusions by blows and dissolves congealed or clotted Blood The Root and Herb bruised and applied Poultiswise takes away the black and blue Marks in the Skin The Decoction of the Herb only mixed with Honey of Roses is with success applied to Tumours and Swellings in the Throat by often gargling the Mouth and down the Throat as conveniency will permit It helpeth to procure Womens Courses and easeth all Pains of the Mother expels Wind in the Bowels The Powder of the Root drunk in Wormwood-Water kills and drives out Worms The Juice of the distilled Water is good to wash green Wounds with or old Sores It cleanseth the Body being taken inwardly and the Seed decocted takes away the Itch cures old Sores removes Freckles Pimples and Morphew the Parts being bathed with it especially and the sooner when a little Vitriol is dissolved in it Diacodium To make it Take the heads of white Poppys neither the greatest nor ripest about twelve in number Aqua-Coelestis a quart boil them to the consumption of a third part and when it is strained put thereto of the best Sapa that is new Wine boiled to a third part five ounces of the best Honey two ounces boil them together and in the end of the Decoction put red Roses Leaves of Pomgranate Acacia Sumach of each two drams Seeds of Purslain white and red Coral of each a dram This Syrup stays the Flux in the Belly procures Sleep in over-watchful Persons helpeth Catarrhs and violent Colds Diarrhoea Mix fifteen Grains or if the Distemper be but light ten grains of the Powder of Rhubarb with half a dram of Diascordium and take it either going to Bed or early in the Morning after the first Sleep It stays Loosnesses and remedies Fluxes in the Belly Difficult Breathing Take Castoreum dryed to Powder two or three grains at the most but four mix this with ten or twelve grains of Gascoin Powder add a little Syrup or Conserve of Roses and being taken wash it down with a mixture of five drams of Penny royal-Water and two drams at most of compound Water of Briony Difficulty in Hearing Take a chive out of a Root of Garlick put a fine piece of Thread or Silk thorough it at the end that it may easily be pluck'd out again crush it a little between your Fingers and anoint it over with the Oil of Bitter Almonds and so put it into the Cavity of the Ear at going to bed and draw it out the next morning stopping the Ear with Black Wool But if the first time succeed not you must use it oftener Digestives Take two ounces of Venice-Turpentine incorporate it well with the Yolk of an Egg add to it at discretion a little Spirit of Wine With this dress the Part Morning and Evening laying on thicker if the Part be near some Nerve and the less where it is most fleshy and it will soon bring it to a head or dispel the Tumour Humours or Pain contracted It is used instead of Basilicum Digestion to help Take fine Sugar powdered and sifted two ounces sprinkle on it the Spirit of Wormwood then take a quarter of an ounce of Gum-Tragacanth and steep it all Night in Rose-water then take some of this wet the Sugar with it and beat them together till it come to a Past like Dough you may add a little Musk and then make it up into Cakes the breadth of a Groat Lay them upon Plates and dry them gently in an Oven keeping them in a dry place Eat one or two of them in a Morning and they will help Digestion Dill This is a great strengthner of the Brain The Decoction of it is good in Pains and Swelling eases Pains in the Belly and is excellent for Women troubled with Pains and Windiness It stays the Hiccough if you hold your Nose over the steam if boiled in Wine The Seed is of greater virtue than the Leaves as being more powerful to digest vicious and raw Humours and very useful in Medicines appropriated to expel Wind It dries up moist Ulcers more particularly in the Secret Part Dill-oil resolves Humours and Imposthumes eases Pains and procures Rest The Herb or Seed in White-wine expels Winds and provokes the Terms Dill-Seed c. Its Virtues Four drops of the Oil extracted from it and half an ounce of the Oil of sweet Almonds mingled together and taken in warm Ale are excellent good for Hiccoughs when they proceed from cold Causes The Seed bruised and applied discusses and ripens Tumours disposes to Sleep being steeped in Wine They take off the excessive Heat and Desire in Venery stay Vomiting The tender Tops and Roots boiled with the Seeds in White-wine greatly provoke Urine and are helpful in dissolving or bringing away the Stone or Gravel Diseases from Obstructions Drink every Morning the first thing a moderate draught of your own Urin newly made whilst it is warm and forbear eating any thing after it the space of an Hour or two Distilled-Vinegar Put six quarts of strong White-wine Vinegar into an earthen Pan evaporate about a quart in a Bath till the phlegmatick Part is removed pour what remains into a glass or earthen Cucurbit distil it in a strong Sand-heat till nothing but substance like Honey remains at the bottom It is mixed likewise with Cordial Potions to resist putrefaction an outwardly applied it asswageth Inflammations half a ounce of it may be taken at a time in any proper Liquor Diureticks To make them Peel off the inner Rind or Skin of an Egg-shel beat the Shell to a very fine powder and take about a scruple of it at a time in a spoonful of convenient Liquor It eases Pains and Obstructions adding to it Powder of Crabs-Eyes it brings away the Stone or Gravel Diuretick-Tablets Take Stone-Parsly Roots of Rest-harrow Butchersbroom Fenel Eringoes of each half an ounce the Seeds of Burdock and Grounsil of each two drams boil these in two pints of the distilled Water of Radishes Boil the straining according to Art with half a pound of double refined Sugar into Tablets of two drams weight a-piece and take one or two of them in a Morning fasting for the Stone or Gravel or Ulcerations in the
Saxifrage-water or the Woman's Milk is given with success or about the time of their breeding Teeth from the 7th to the 10th Month it is accompanied with a Cough or what is worse Vomiting and Loosness voiding green Excrements In this case apply a blistering Plaister as soon as may be to the hinder Part of the Neck Take of Langius's Epileptick Water three drams Liquid Laudanum two drops or more if the Child be strong Syrup of Peony one dram mix them for a Draught which must be presently given or Take of the VVater of Rue three ounces Langius's Epileptick Water the Compound of Briony-Water of each an ounce Syrup of Gilliflowers half an ounce Of these well mixed together make a Cordial or Julep and give a spoonful every Hour if the forementioned Draught has not discussed the Paroxysm Eringoes otherways called Sea-Holly It forces Urin and the Courses expels VVind helps the Jaundice and eases the Gripes in the Belly and Stomach The Roots candied are reckoned amongst Sweet-meats as very wholsom and pleasant and are good Preservatives against the Plague contagious Fevers and infectious Airs those that have the Consumption would do well to eat them often The Roots candied cure the Gonorrhea and prove advantagious in contributing to the Cure of the French-Pox Some hold that being stamped and applied to the Bellies of VVomen they prevent Abortion Erysipelas This is a very strange Distemper for all Parts of the Body with the Face especially are swollen red and full of Pains overspread with little thick Pimples which sometimes rise into Blisters and the Eyes seem to be closed with the Swellings Coldness Shivering and the like In this case open a Vein in the Arm let not the quantity taken away exceed nine or ten ounces Then take of Lily-roots and Marshmallow-roots of each an ounce Camomil-flowers Elder an Base Mullein Mellilot the Tops of St. John's-wort an the lesser Centaury of each a handful Fenugreekseed and Linseed of each half an ounce boil them to three pound in a quantity of Water sufficient to do it strain out the Liquor and when you design it for use add two ounces of the Spirit of Wine and in this Water so strained out dip pieces of new Flannel and having squeezed them apply them hot often anointing the Parts so grieved after fomentation with the fllowing Direction Take half a pint of the Spirit of Wine Treacle two ounces Long-pepper and Cloves in Powder of each two drams make these by mixture and infusion as strong as may be and being strained dip Cap-paper into the Liquid so strained and apply it wet and warm to the afflicted Part and for the more speedy Remedy after letting Blood the Party may take a Clyster of Milk with Syrup of Violets and cooling Emulsions and Juleps Erysipelas An experienced Remedy for this is the Blood of a Hare best in March but at other times may serve Take it hot if you can and anoint the Place infected with it otherwise apply a Linnen-Rag that has though a good while since throughly imbibed the fresh Blood and dryed in the Air but if it be too hard or stiff soften it with a little fair VVater the cold taken off Evil for this commonly called the Kings-Evil Take Cuttlebone uncalcined scrape off the outside or that which is coloured dry the white part and beat it to Powder very fine and take half a dram in a spoonful of Aqua Malvae Excoriation This is when the true Cutis is affected then Take Prunella called in English Self-heal bruise it well in a Mortar of glass or stone and apply it to the Part afflicted renewing it but seldom and sometimes not at all Excoriations Melt Mutton-Suet of the Kidneys freed from Fibres or Strings two ounces add by little and little sixteen or eighteen drops though in small Matters eight or ten may serve of Oil of Turpentine spread the Mixture on a Linnen-Cloath and apply it to the Part afflicted by binding or otherwise Expectoration This is designed to ripen Coughs and dissolve Phlegm To do it Take hard Onions fry them with sweet Butter or first with a little fair Water to take away their Tast then take them out of the Pan and boil them with new Milk till it be well impregnated with them and they become tender Mash them together and for your better Accommodation you may scrape Among them some Sugar-Candy it matters not whether white or brown and put it up in a Gally pot taking Night and Morning two or three spoonfuls Eyes Blistered Take Saffron half a dram the Juice of Sloes a scruple mix them with Rose-water and beat them into as fine a thinness as you can with the White of an Egg and drop a little of it into the Eyes and anoint the Eye-lids with it when you go to Bed Eye bright It chiefly helps and strengthens the Sight and cures such Diseases as are incident to the Eyes The distilled VVater wonderfully strengthens the Sight and the Juice is very good on the like account Divers knowing Oculists order the Parties whose Sights are defective to use this Herb in Sallads and in their Broths and Drink Eye Bruised Take Bettony and Eye-bright VVater of each a spoonful drop three or four drops of clarified Hony into it then shake them together dip a fine Rag or Cotten into it and lay it to the Part grieved Eyes Burnt or Scalded Take Mucilages of Quince-seed Fleawort Linseed and Fenugreekseed of each a scruple boil them a little in four ounces of Bettony-water filter it and apply it to the Part. Eyes to Cure If the Eyes be dull cloudy or specks spots or films begin to appear on them Take Paracelsus Zibethum Occidentale viz. Human-Dung of a good colour and consistence dry it by degrees moderately till it be capable of being reduced to Powder then powder it and searce it very fine a little of which must be blown once or twice a day into the Eyes as the nature of the defect requires then keep it in for a time by closing the Lids and so wash it off with Eye-bright-water Eyes foul a Water Take prepared Pearl and Coral of each a scruple Aloes finely powdered three grains red Rose-water and Succory of each an ounce mix them well and if you would have the Mixture stronger put in a few grains of Trochisci Albi Rhasis in very fine Powder and wash the Eyes with it as you see occasion Eyes Inflam'd or Blood-shot Boil a new-lay'd Egg hard cut it in halves without taking out the Yolk and apply one of these considerably warm but not too hot to the Eye grieved and keep it on if need requires six or eight hours and it will draw away the Heat Or you may make a Poultis with it and rotten Apples and apply it in the same manner Eyes Inflamed Take the Juice of a rotten Pippin some Hen-dung that of it which is the whitest beat the White of an Egg very fine burn the Hen-dung to Powder
and beaten Pepper and when they are fried make a Leer or Sauce with three or four Eggs dissolved with some Claret-Wine and the Juice of two or three Oranges grated Nutmeg and the Gravy of a Leg of Mutton shake them well and give them three or four tosses in the Pan dish them and garnish the Dish with Orange and Lemon and rub it with a Shalot or Onion and sō serve 'em up Mushrooms the Italian way Peel them wash them and boil them in a Skillet with Water and Salt having boiled in the Water sweet Herbs before you put them in also Parsley and a Crust of Bread boil and drain them from the Water and fry them with the best Olive-Oil and being fryed serve them in a Dish with Oil but not that they were fryed in also Vinegar Pepper and fryed Parsley or for want of Oil you may use sweet Butter If you would Stew them Peel them and take out the under part and do it with sweet Herbs Pepper Salt White wine and Gravy over a gentle Fire put to them when enough some sweet Butter beaten up with the Juice of Lemon or Orange These are good for those that are of a hot or cholerick Constitution but those of a cold or phlegmatick one must eat them sparingly Mushrooms to Pickle To do these that they may keep a long space and not rot as many do that are not well ordered Take the Buttons as soon as they put out of the ground being gathered in a dry Day wash them in Water Salt and Vinegar then scald them in the Decoction of Bay-leaves and Rosemary put them afterward into Glasses that they may be very closely stopt and mingle among them long Pepper Blades of Mace and slices of Nutmeg and Ginger and so close 'em up with a Cover of Leather for your use Musk This is an Excrescence supposed by some to be a Tumour or Swelling of corrupt Blood about the Navel of the Musk-Roe which after putrifaction and ripening becomes Musk in a perfect Cod which others affirm falls off from the Beast of its own accord Being well prepared it is not only a very sweet Perfume but also taken in Cordials cheats and revives the Heart and dispels gross Vapours from the Brain and is good against pestilential Diseases infused in Mint Baum or Rue-water Muskadines to Make Take half a pound of refined Sugar being beaten and fearsed put into it two grains of Musk a grain of Civet and two grains of Ambergrease and about two drams of white Orris-powder beat them with Gumdragon steeped in Rose-water then roul it as thin as may be and cut it into Diamond fashion like Lozenges with your jigging Iron and let them in some warm Oven or Stove then put them into Boxes for use and in this manner they will keep all the Year Musk-Sugar to Make Bruise four or five grains of Musk put it into a piece of Cambrick or Lawn lay it at the bottom of a Pot or Glass and sift fine Sugar on it stop the Pot close from Air and set it in a warm Place and in a few Days the Sugar will have suck'd up the Tincture of the Musk and yield a very pleasant Smell Thus you may perfume Sweetmeats or Comfits by keeping them up very close but if the Air gets in the Spirit of the Musk will evaporate Mutton to Hash Slice a Shoulder of Mutton thin till the Bone is only left then put some Claret sliced Onion and Gravy to die Meat the Tops of Thyme six Anchoveys and three ounces of Capers and the Meat and other things minceable being reduced by that means small take nine or ten Eggs and the Juice of a Lemon or two and make a Leer of them then put the Meat into a Frying-pan and when it is thoroughly hot put the Leer in and soak all together over the Fire till it be very thick then boil the Bone with what Meat is on it and place on the top of your Meat the Dish garnished with slices of Lemon Mutton the Turkish way Cut your Mutton in thin slices wash it in Vinegar and put it into a Pot that has a close Cover then add clean picked Rice and a quantity of whole Pepper and two or three Onions let all these boil very well keep it scuming then take out the Onions and dish it in Sippets Mutton to pass for Venison Take a Shoulder of Mutton pretty large but let it be young and tender strain the Blood of the Sheep amongst grated Bread then prepare your seasoning of ordinary sweet Herbs shread very small take the Bones out of the Meat and roul them up in it or stuff them in at convenient places then wrap it up with a Caul of Veal lay it in the Blood to soak twenty four Hours prick it so with a Knife that the Blood may the more easily penetrate it bake it and serve it as usually Venison is done and it must be a very curious Pallate that can discover it from what it represents Myrrh This pretious Gum grows upon a low prickly crooked Shrub with a smooth Bark like Laurel but the Leaves like Olives and much rougher yet out of this Tree proceeds a Gum little differing in appearance from Drops or Tears but afterwards it becomes of a greener Colour and is clear and sweet to the Smell but not so to the Tast it being somewhat bitter The right Myrrh being drank in White-wine abates the Fit of the Quartan-Ague it is also very good in Antidotes against Poisons and Hurts by venomous Beasts It resists pestilential Fevers and Plague and being applied to Wounds it expedites their Cure And many other excellent Virtues not here mention'd NAils-Cloven Mingle Turpentine and Wax together spreading it as a Plaister lay it on the defective Nail and as it grows cut it away and in a short time it will be reduced as the other NAils falling off Take Powder of Agrimony mix it with the White of an Egg lay it on the Nails and it will strengthen and confirm them it will also take away the aking that usually attends them in such Circumstances Nails to grow Take fine Wheat flower mingle it with Honey lay it on the place where the Nail is defective Plaister-wise and the Nail will sprout out and grow apace to its due proportion Nail-Pricking If a Nail or piece of Iron run into any part so that it causes a pain or festering Take Turpentine half an ounce Bees-wax the like quantity the Juyce of Housleek Burgundy Pitch and Mutton-Suet of each a quarter of an ounce mix them together into a Plaister and by application it will take away the Pain and cure the Wound Nail-Scratching It is held that the Nails of the Hand scratching in some Cases prove venomous yet this is no more than the suffering it to fester or the Humours to flow to that place before prevented to remedy it and cure the Wound made Take Olive-Oil a quarter of a pint Juice of
Fire and put them into an earthen Vessel for four Days then set them on the Fire again till they be thorough hot let them drain and take fresh Sugar boil it to a Candy heighth and put your Oranges to the hot Sugar which being boiled up take out the Oranges and lay them on a Wyre or Sieve to dry in a Stove or Oven and within ten Days they will be dry and fit for use In this manner Lemons are candied Orange-Marmalade Take the fairest Rind Oranges cut them in halves and take out the Pulp boil the Peels tender in fair Water often shifting to take out the bitterness then take them up and squeeze all the Water from them beat them in a stone Mortar with the Pulp of three or four yellow Pippins then strain and boil it with stirring until it become thick take it from the Fire and lay it on White Paper and take as much refined Sugar as the Pulp weighs put it into a Pan with as much Rose-water as will melt it boil it to a Candy height and put the Pulp into the Sugar keeping stirring till it rises from the bottom of the Pan then put it into Boxes and so into a Stove uncovered and when it is tolerably dried cover it up for your use Oranges a Past Take Oranges well coloured and boil them in Water shift them six or seven times in the boiling and put into the first Water a handful of Salt then beat them in a wooden Bowl with a wooden Pestle strain out the Pulp and take the weight of Sugar equal to them boil it up to a Candy height dry it on Plates and fashion it as you please And in this manner you may make Past of Lemons or Citrons Oranges The Water of these besides the pleasantness of the Fruit and other Advantages that arise from them being distilled in an Alembick by paring the Oranges and putting the Peels into a convenient quantity of low Wines or Spirits is not only excellent in Scent and may be sprinkled as a Perfume to give a fragrancy to what you please to asperse it on but is very good in pestilential Fevers It strengthens the Heart and the Brain Three or four spoonfuls taken going to Bed causes likewise a gentle breathing Sweat The Juice of Oranges is cold and therefore resisteth Corruption and is given with a little Sugar successfully to cool and temperate the Blood in Fevers and hot Diseases Orpin This kind of Herb is vulnerary and astringent and is chiefly used for healing Ulcers of the Bowels occasioned by the Bloody-flux also for Ruptures and Burns 'T is held excellent in easing Pains both in fresh Wounds and old Ulcers The Herb roasted on Embers and mixed with Hogs-Lard cures a Fellon Ostiocolla This is a kind of a Stone found in Saxony Silesia c. and grows in the Sand like a Coral It is of a glutinous Quality and therefore of excellent use for binding and knitting broken Bones immediately breeding Matter for a Callus and thereby hastening the Conglutination The Dose in subtil Powder is from one to two drams in any convenient Liquor and outwardly to be applied to the Place in a Cataplasm or Emplaster Aldrovandus affirmeth That broken Bones being rightly placed and tied up it heals them being used outwardly with a mixture of the Oil of Cranes-Bill and inwardly with red Wine It dries and binds without Agrimony and is good against Poison and the Plague Ouzle its Dung Half an ounce of the Dung of this Ouzle or Black-bird mixed with two ounces of the Juice of Lemons and a dram of the Powder of Camphire and applied to the Face or Hands takes away Freckles Lentils and other Deformities of the Skin The Flesh of this Bird frequently eaten wonderfully restores Consumptive People and gives ease to the Colick Pains and is held to be prevalent against the Dysentery and Infection of the Plague especially the raw Flesh being applied to the Sore draws out the Poison Oxgall to Beautifie Of this an excellent Cosmetick is made in the following manner Take four pints of the Galls of an Ox digested twenty four Hours in Balneo Mariae Roach Alom Salt and of glass powdered of each one dram mix them well and put them into a Matras stop it carefully and expose it in May to the heat of the Sun shaking it four or five times a Day then filter the Materials and in the filtered Liquor put two ounces of Porcellane powdered very fine and dissolved in the Spirit of Vinegar Borax and Sperma-Ceti of each an ounce sweet Sublimate and Camphire of each three drams then expose them to the Sun again ten Days often shaking the Ingredients then filter the Liquor and keep it for its proper use Oxymel Simple Take of the best Honey four ounces of Spring-water a pound or pint boil them till half the Water be consumed then pour them into a pint of Whitewine-Vinegar and let them boil to the thickness of a Syrup and take about half an ounce at a time This extenuates gross Humours and carries away slimy Matter opens old Obstructions and Obstructions of the Lungs with Flegm and what Causes arise from shortness of Breath PAin of the Bladder Take of Pulegium and Spicknard of each a little quantity bruise them and putting them into a little Bag apply it warm as near as you can to the Place grieved at the same time drinking about a quarter of a pint of the Decoction of Horehound boiled in a like quantity of Wine and Water Pain in the Eyes Take Melilot-flowers the Flowers of Marigolds and Elder of each a handful Linseed Fenugreek Fleawort Cummin and Quince-kernels of each half a scruple French Barly half an ounce Damask Roses half an ounce Spring-water a pint and half mix and make a Decoction with which foment die Forehead Temples and Eye-brows being sufficiently warm and by Efficiently warm and by often using it the Pain will not only be abated but the Eyes will be very fresh and lively the sight more quick and penetrating than usual Pains in the Loins Take of Quick-sulphur half an ounce beat it into Powder mix it with an ounce of Hogs-lard powder the Seeds of wild Mint add a little Wheat-flower and make them into a Plaister or Ointment with a little Wine over a gentle Fire and apply it warm to the Place grieved often renewing it Pain of the Stomach Take a quantity of green Peach-leaves bruise them with Knot-grass boil them in Whitewine to the thickness of a Poultis and apply them warm to the Stomach or Take Rue Dill Cummin and Smallage of each half a handful boil them in a pint and a half of Whitewine the Leaves picked clean from the Stalks then add three pound of Olive oil boil them again and being taken from the Fire dip therein so much unwashed Wool as spread pretty thick may cover the Stomach lay this where the Grief is most apparent pretty hot and when the heat has dried up
which will likewise add much to the flavour in the Tast Perfumes of Flowers Extract through a Retort after the manner of Aqua-fortis the Spirit of Salt-petre or common Salt and keep it close stopped in a Bottle then take what quantity of Violets Roses or other Flowers you will and put into an Alembick with an ounce of the Spirit of the said Salt a pint of Spring-water and so proportionably till the Alembick be full and let them infuse twenty four Hours till you see the Water well coloured which pour out by inclination into another Glass and it will carry with it the colour and smell of the Flowers infused though it leaves the Flowers fresh as if they had been newly gathered Perfumed Powder Take Florence-Orris a pound dried Roses a pound Benjamin two ounces Storax one ounce Cloves two drams yellow Saunders an ounce and a half Cloves two drams a little Citron-peel beat all to fine Powder in a Mortar put to this twenty pound of Starch or Rice ground mix it well and finely fifting it keep it very dry for use and it will prove an excellent perfuming Powder Perfumed Wash-Balls Take what quantity of Musk you please dissolve them in sweet compounded Water then take about the quantity of one Wash-ball of the Composition and mix it together in a Mortar then mix and incorporate them with your Past and making them up into Balls they will all of them retain a curious perfumed Scent Perfum'd-Water Take Calamint Storax Benjamin Cloves and Mastick beat them well together and put them into Aquavitae or the Spirit of Wine in a glass Viol and when the Liquid is changed to a red colour infuse in it a grain of Musk strain it and keep it for use Pericarpium for Agues This especially for the Tertian-Ague has been often tried with good Success viz. Take a handful of Rue newly gathered half a handful of Sage a spoonful of Bay-salt and a spoonful of good Vinegar beat all these well together into an uniform Mass which must be divided into two parts and make thereof two Wrist-plaisters to be applied at the usual time before the coming of the Fit and to be renewed as occasion requires till they grow dry and troublesom Phthisick a Remedy Bruise a handful of Bettony-leaves put to them half a pound of Honey half an ounce of Licorice-powder and Pine-Apple-kernels that have been boiled in White-wine bruised small make these into an Electuary and let the Party take about a quarter of an ounce at a time Some for this have only eaten the Lungs and Heart of a wild Goose boiled with Hyssop and have found great ease by it yet I cannot but recommend the former to be the more effectual in the Cure Pickled Artichoaks Take the best Bottoms of Artichoaks parboil them and when they are cold and well drained dry them in a Cloath to take away as much of the remaining moisture as can be then putting the Bottoms without the Choak and but a few Leaves remaining on into an earthen Pot boil some fair Water scum it till no more will rise and mix with it so much Salt that it will bear an Egg put these to the Bottoms then melt sweet Butter pour it on this Water and it will by spreading make a Coat to keep the Air out then tye it over with Paper or Leather and they will keep all the Year so that having occasion to boil them for serving up at Table lay them in Water six Hours to take out the Brine then boil them Pickled Oisters Take about a quart of the largest Stewing Oisters with the Liquor that comes from them wash them clean and wipe them put to them a pint of fair Water half a pint of Whitewine-Vinegar and half an ounce of whole Pepper a handful of Salt and a quarter of an ounce of large Mace put Liquor and all together into an earthen Pot over a soft Fire let them simper but not boil about a quarter of an hour then take them up and put them into a little fair Water and Vinegar till they are cold and then put them into the Pickle they were boiled with and Pot 'em up close for your use Pig to Dress To do this the French way which is highly approved The Pig being scalded and drawn spit it and lay it to the Fire and when it is thoroughly hot take off the Skin cut it off the Spit and divide it into twelve pieces then take Whitewine and strong Broth and stew it therein with an Onion of two minced very small as also some stript Thyme Pepper grated Nutmeg and two or three Anchoveys some elder Vinegar Butter and Gravy beat up well together dish it up with the Liquor it was stewed in lay slices of French Bread under it garnished with Oranges and Lemons under and upon it Pig to Dress another way Scald draw and wash it clean put a Crust of Bread and some Sage in the Belly prick it up and spit it roast it and bast it with Butter then salt it and being roasted fine and crisp make Sauce with chopt Sage Currans a little grated Nutmeg boil'd up in fair Water and Vinegar then add a little grated Bread the Brains some Barberries and Sugar give these a warm or two with good stirring and adding a little beaten Butter divide the Pig 's Body and Head take off the Ears place them on the Shoulders and so serve it up Or this way Mince some sweet Herbs as Sage and Pennyroyal rowl them up on Balls with some Butter and prick them in the Pig 's Belly roast him and being roasted make Sawce with some Butter Vinegar the Brains and some Barberries and serve it up Or Flea it only the Head and truss the Head looking over its Back fill the Belly with a Pudding made of grated Bread Nutmeg a little minced Suet and two or three Yolks of raw Eggs a little Salt and Cream roast it and prick it up bast it with Yolks of Eggs being roasted squeeze a Lemon over it and dridge it with grated Bread Pepper Nutmeg Salt and Ginger then make a Sauce with the Yolks of hard Eggs minced Vinegar Butter and the Gravy and serve it on this Sauce Pig to Souce Scald a young Pig and boil it in fair Water and Whitewine a quart of the latter to a gallon of the former put to it a dozen Bay-leaves Ginger sliced and Nutmegs quartered and half an ounce of whole Cloves let it be boiled tender then take it out and lay it a cooling which done put the Liquor it was boiled in into a Tray or Pan and put it in so that it may lie covered adding only a little Salt and White-wine-Vinegar and in this manner it will keep a long time Pig-Pie Court fashion Take off the Skin of a young Pig and cut it into quarters season it with Pepper Ginger and Salt finely beat and mixed lay it in a Coffin of Past made in the fashion of a Pig
in a crucible which must be put in a very hot Fire in a Furnace and when the Salt-Petre is melted put to it an ounce of Flower of Sulphur by a spoonful at a time so that the matter will presently fall into a flame and the more volatil Spirit of the Salt-Petre will evaporate and when the flame is over the matter will remain in a very clear Fusion Then with a pair of Tongs Take out the Crucible and turn it upside down into a very clean Bason a little warmed This beaten into Powder is taken with good Success in the dangerous Distemper called the Quinsie It also cools and works by Urine in burning Fevers and other Diseases that proceed from Heat and Obstructions and the Running of the Reins The Dose is from half a dram to a dram and may be taken in any proper or convenient cooling Liquor Quinsies Description c. This Grievance do's most frequently happen between the Spring and Summer the first Assault of the Fever is seconded by the Pain of the Inflammation of the Jaws which together with the Swelling of the Uvula Tonsils and Larynx renders the afflicted Person unable to swallow and scarcely to breathe In this case let blood in the Arm and take away as much as the Constitution of the Party will conveniently bear then anoint the inflamed part with Honey of Roses impregnated to a very high degree of Acidity with Spirit not Oil of Vitriol or Sulphur and presently after take the following not after the usual manner but only hold it in the Mouth till it is hot and then spitting it out renew it with that which is cool viz. Plantane-water Rose-water and Frog spawn-water of each four ounces the Whites of three Eggs beat and reduced to Water Sugar-candy three drams mix them well and make a Gargarism of them Quinsey Take Milk warm from the Cow and Album Graecum a pint of the one and half an ounce of the other Honey of Roses two spoonfuls Verdegrease half a dram boil them a little then strain it out and Gargarize the mouth and throat often with the Liquid part putting to thin it more a little Borrage Water This is likewise excellent for any sore Throat Tumours or Pains of the Mouth and Jaws Quintessence of Honey This is the curious Extract of Honey and is very useful in divers Diseases and Grievances viz. It helpeth the Cough or Catarrh Palsie Falling-sickness and pains of the Milt and divers other Diseases and it s said that if two or three drams be given to a Party strugling for Life or gasping for Breath it will for a while bring them to themselves again Quinque Nervia This Herb is astringent and vulnerary the Juyce is good against spitting and pissing of blood The Essence of the Juyce taken with Spirit of Wine do's the same The distilled Water of it is good against spitting of blood and the Phthisick The Infipissate Juyce stays the Courses heals all inward Griefs of the Body and Inflammation and is more effectual than any other sort of Plantane This being one of the narrow-leaved sorts call'd by some Ribwort Quinque Folium or Cinque-Foil The root of this is dry and binding and is to he taken from one to two drams in Powder It stays all manner of Fluxes of the Bowels and Fluxes of the blood in any part Catarrhs and Defluxions on the Lungs and allays the sharpness of Choler eases the Pains of the Gout and Gonorrhea's the Juyce of it is good in Fevers and hot Diseases an Infusion of it opens Obstructions RAbbits a Fricasie Take your Rabbit and cut it in pieces put it into the Frying-Pan put in half a pound Of fresh Butter and let it boil then put in your Rabbit and let it be half enough then take it out and clean your Pan and put in some Water and let it boil then put in one slice of Onion stuck with Cloves and a little whole Pepper a Bunch of Thyme and a little Limon-Peel and let them boil together a while then take out your Onion and Thyme and put in your Rabbit then shred some Marjoram Thyme Parsley Limon-peel and Nutmeg and strow on your Rabbit in the Pan then take three Yolks of Eggs and beat them well and a Piece of fresh Butter and a quarter of a pint of White-wine or a spoonfull of White-wine-Vinegar and beat with your Eggs then put them into the Pan and let the Pan be kept shaking and stirring with a spoon till they be thick then pour them into your Dish and serve it up to the Table Rabbits Fricassed Take young Rabbits and cut them into small Pieces mince a handful of Thyme and Parsley clean pick'd season them then with Nutmeg Pepper and Salt take two Eggs and a half a quartern of Verjuice beat them together throw them into the Pan and having sliced it when enough dish it up in Sippets with Butter and Verjuice Rabbits to Hash Wash them take the Flesh from the bones and mince it small then put to them a little strong Broth made of Mutton or Veal some Vinegar and a Shalot or two with a little grated Nutmeg Let it stew and then shred a handful of Parsley then half a pound or as much as will serve of Butter Toast Bread for Sippets serve it up garnished with Limons Rabbits to Stew Take a couple of Rabbits of about three months old half roast them and so take them off the Spit cut them into handsome pieces and put them into a Dish with the Fat and Gravy that fell from them and as much Water with half a pint of White-wine after boiling and scumming as will cover them then put in a piece of fresh Butter and Ginger finely grated with Pepper and Salt and two or three Pippins minced Let these stew about an hour over a gentle fire and dish them up with Sippers Radish or Horse-Radish This is in some places found wild but most usually planted in Gardens encreasing much in most shadowy places it flowers in July The Juyce of it given in drink is held to be very effectual for the Scurvy It kills Worms in Children the Juyce being drunk in convenient Liquors or the Root laid bruised Poultis-wise to the Belly by the latter means it takes away the Pain of the Sciatica Joynt-Ach or the hard Swelling of the Liver and Spleen The distilled Water of the Root and Herb is better taken with a little Sugar That called the Garden-Radish is vulgarly known and though it be but of bad Digestion yet it has some good Qualities with it for though it is held when eaten raw in Sallads or the like to breed ill Humours and corrupt blood yet it wonderfully helpeth those that are afflicted with the Stone and Gravel and the stoppage of Urine and the Juyce of these Roots made into a Syrup is exceeding good to purge Urine Radish a Syrup Take of the Roots of Garden and Wild Radishes before they begin to run to Seed
of each a handfull cut off the Tops and wash the Roots very clean three ounces of the roots of Saxifrage Kneeholm Butchers-Broom Sea-Holly Petty-whin or Cammock or Ground-Furz Parsley Fennel of each alike in all about a handful Leaves of Bettony Pimpernel Thyme the tender Tops of Nettles Cresses Samphire and Maiden-hair a handful in all and of each alike The Fruit of sleepy Night-shade and Jubebs of each Ten ounces the Seeds of Parsley of Macedonia Carraways Seseli yellow Carrots Grummel Bark of Bay-tree-root of each two drams Raisins stoned and Liquorice of each four drams boil them in five Quarts of Water till two be consumed then strain it and dissolve in it two pound of purified Honey and Four pound of white Sugar-Candy so make it into a clear Syrup seasoning it with an ounce of Cinnamon and as much Nutmeg as sufficeth the making of this is worth the Cost and Labour for it excelleth all other in expelling the Gravel and Stone scowers the Kidneys and Bladder and easeth pains in the back opening Obstructions in the Uriters and mixed with Lenitives causes Urine when at any time restrained Ragwort This has several Names as Stammerwort Seggrum St. Jame's-wort It flowers in June or the beginning of July the Seed of it being ripe in August The Decoction of the Herb is good to wash the Mouth that is sore or has Ulcers also for Hardness Swelling or Impostumations it being very cleansing and healing in such Matters as also helpful in the Quinsie and King's-Evil It stays Catarrhs thin Rheums and Defluxions into the Eyes Nose or Lungs proceeding from the Head The Juice is singular good to heal green Wounds to cleanse and heal old Ulcers in the Privities and other Parts of the Body as also inward Ulcers or Wounds and puts a stop to the malignity of running Cankers and hollow Fistula's hindring their spreadings and is much commended for Aches or Pains in the Nerves fleshly Parts or Sinews also the Sciatica or Pain in the Hip or Huckle-Bone to bathe the Place with the Decoction of it or anoint it with the Ointment of the Herb bruised and boiled in Hogs-Lard with a little Olibanum and Mastick in Powder Rails to Boil Cut off their Heads and Leggs truss and put them into a Pipkin of strong Broth add to them Currans Dates some Blades of Mace half a pint of Whitewine Pepper Salt and a piece of Butter and when they are all together stewed enough place them orderly in a Dish upon Sippets thicken the Broth with grated Manchet melt a little Sugar in Rose-water put the Broth to them and serve them up garnished with Lemons or Oranges sliced as a dainty Dish Raphanus or Radish Though no great notice is taken of this Root but the eating them with Sallads and Provisions yet there are many excellent Virtues in it The Root of the Garden Radish cleanses attenuates and opens and in the Stone is of great Virtue for expelling it and provoking Urin if cleanseth the Stomach of slimy tartarous Humours and opens the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Reins and Womb and distributes the Chyle The Seed which has all the Virtues of the Root is hot in the third Degree and dry in the second wherefore two drams of it is successfully given in a spoonful of Wormwood-water for killing the Worms in Children and removing the Gravel and Sand from the Kidneys and Bladder A distilled Water of the Roots and Leaves beautifies the Face and Hands by taking off the Spots Scurf and making the Skin smooth and fair if often washed with it A Syrup of the Juice is excellent against the Stone to make which find the Receipt in this Work It is a singular Remedy against the Scurvy helps all Obstructions and the Asthma's old Coughs and shortness of Breath Rasberries These are very Cordial and good in Tast The Syrup much availeth in Fevers To make which take these Directions Of the Juice clarified and Sugar take an equal quantity boil them to a Syrup and stop or cover the Vessel close It is very cooling and pleasant and is to be given in hot Diseases Again Take the Syrup of Rasberries and Clove-Gilliflowers each two ounces of the Juice of Kerms one ounce make a white Mixture and take a spoonful every Morning and it is an excellent Cordial for Women before Delivery Raspis a Ielly of Take of the Fruit pretty ripe set them over the Fire in a Posnet and extract the thin Juice cooling the bottom of the Skillet as you find occasion with fair Water then strain them with a fine Strainer and when as much is taken as can be add the like weight of Sugar and boil them up into a Jelly Raspis a Syrup Take nine quarts of Raspis or Rasberries gathered dry and clean pickt put them into four quarts of Canary in an earthen Pot and paste or lute it up very close keep it in a cool Place ten Days then distil them in a Glass or Rose-Still adding a fourth part of the former quantity and fresh Berries and Wine and when all the colour is taken out of the Berries strain out the remaining Liquid part and put as much Sugar as will boil it up into a Syrup keeping it scumming during the boiling Rattle-Grass Of these there are two kinds viz. Red and Yellow The first of these is used to heal up Fistula's hollow Ulcers and to stay the Flux of Humours and Fluxes of Blood being boiled in Claret or other red Wine and drank hot about a quarter of a pint at a time The Yellow sort is by some called Cocks-Comb and is held to be good for those that are afflicted with Coughs Catarrhs and the like or Dimness of the Sight if the Herb boiled with Beans and a little Honey added to it be drank or dropt into the Eyes The whole Seed being put into the Eyes draweth out any Skin Film or Dimness from the Sight without any trouble or pain Rawleigh Sir Walter his Cordial-Water Take a gallon of Strawberries put to them a pint of Aqua-vitae and so let them stand four Days then strain them out and sweeten the Liquid part with fine Sugar and add if you please a grain of Musk. This greatly revives the Heart and is good a spoonful or two taken at a time in violent Fevers Red drying Ointment Take Olive-oil two pound and white Bees-wax half a pound melt them together over a gentle Fire then take them off and stir them together with a wooden Spatula till they begin to thicken and when they are cold add the following Powders viz. Calaminaris-stone and Bole-Armoniack of each four ounces Litharge of Gold and Cerusse of Venice of each three ounces Campbire one dram grind the Calaminaris and Bole-Armoniack upon a Stone and fierce it through a fine hair Sieve and powder the Litharge very fine and so put all the Powders into the Ointment stirring it till it becomes cold then add a drop or two of the Spirit of Wine
with Oil of Roses and then apply it and use this Purgation viz. Take Turbith a quarter of an ounce Ginger one dram white Sugar three drams temper them well together and let the Party take it every fourth Day in Wormwood-wine or Water and the other Mornings between them Water of Baum Bettony and Wormwood of each an ounce and half Vinegar of Squills an ounce mix them together and drink them fasting Rupture through Wind In this Case the Party must during the Cure eschew all such Meats and Drinks as cause Windiness in the Body as Milk sweet Wine moist Fruits Pease Beans Turnips c. then take Sulphur-Vine two ounces finely beaten Grains half an ounce grosly beaten Cammomil-flowers a quarter of an ounce seeth these in a pint of Spring-water till a third part is consumed then dip a Sponge in it and apply it to the Place as hot as may be renewing it five or six times a Day Rupture-Wort This is mostly found on dry sandy and rockey Places It is Excellent in the Curing of Ruptures not only in Children but also in those of Years if the Distemper be not too inveterate by taking a dram of the Powder of the dried Herb in a glass of Wine for a considerable time or the distilled Water or Juice of the green Herb taken in like manner It helpeth likewise all other Fluxes in Men or Women Vomitings and the Gonorrhoea and Running of the Reins by being taken either of the ways mention'd It helpeth those that have the Strangury and Stoppage in Urine Stone or Gravel in the Reins or Bladder helps Stitches in the Side or griping Pains in the Stomach and Belly Obstructions of the Liver Worms Yellow-Jaundice Defluctions and foul Ulcers Rushes These some hold so inconsiderable that it is of no value but for making Candle-Wicks But learned Physicians who have searched more curiously into the abstruse Retirements of Nature are not of their Opinion Dioscorides Galen and Pliny agree being powdered and drank in Wine it stayeth the Lask in Women's Courses provokes Sleep but must be taken with caution lest they cause Pains in the Head The Root boiled in Water to the consumption of a third part doth mainly help the Cough Rye This grain boiled in Water or Wine to a strength and drank viz. the Decoction kills Worms in the Belly and brings them away especially if Coriander-seeds be boiled with it SAdness to Expel Take the Herb called Cranesbill Rue and Pulegium of each as much as may be held conveniently between the Thumb and Fore-finger dry them in an Oven and beat them into Powder and being mixed with a little Sugar and Powder of Licorice make them up into little Balls or Lozenges with Cinnamon-water or Rose-water and eat them as you find occasion Saffron The best Saffron is that which tinctures your Hands upon a gentle touch and smelleth somewhat sharp and is not very brittle In property it is good for the weakness of the Stomach and faintness of Heart and being taken in a small quantity of Wine it preserveth from Drunkenness and healeth the Bitings of Serpents and Stinging of Spiders It is restrative The too much Smell thereof is bad for the Brain and the taking too much of it is troublesome to the Spirits Sage This is a singular Remedy against all cold and phlegmatick Diseases in the Head and against all Pains of the Joints either being taken in Drink or applied in Fomentation wherefore it is very good for those that have the Falling-sickness or subject to Lethargies or have at certain times their Members benumb'd or senseless It availeth much against the Defluxions of Flegm and Maladies incident to the Breast and is very advantageous for Women with Child to eat it often especially if they are subject to travail before their time for it keepeth the Child in the Womb and doth quicken it If a Person subject to spit Blood takes three or four spoonfuls of Honey with the Juice of Sage double the quantity in a Morning fasting the Blood will be stay'd in twice or thrice so doing The use of Sage in Pottage and otherwise serves to sharpen the Appetite and cleanse the Stomach that 's oppressed with ill Humours In fine when there is any occasion for heating drying or binding use this Herb as a very good Medicine Saland-Grand To make this of minced Meats Mince Capon Veal dried Neats-tongue in slices Lettuce shred small Olives and Capers Mushrooms pickled Samphire Broom-buds Lemons or Oranges Raisins Almonds Potato's Caparoons or Crucifix-Peas Currans pickl'd Oisters and Tarragon To dish this up Take a little Tarragon and Lettuce mince them small and put the several Things by themselves and garnish the Dish with Oranges and Lemons sliced or in quarters Salmon Fry'd Take the Rand Chine or Jowl of Salmon and fry it cut in thin slices in sweet Butter and when you perceive it begins to grow crisp prepare your Sauce with Claret sweet Butter grated Nutmeg the Juice of Oranges and the Liquor of pickled Oisters heat them over a gentle Fire with continual beating and pour them on the Fish and for garnish lay Sage-Leaves and Parsly fried in Butter but not too crisp Salmon-Pie Take a convenient piece of fresh Salmon two quarts of Shrimps or Prawns and the like quantity of opened Oisters a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace the like of beaten Ginger and four Anchoveys mix what can be conveniently so order'd spread the bottom of the Pie with Butter lay in the Fish and scatter the seasoning all over it and uppermost another laying of Butter Salt-Diuretick Take the Urin of a healthful Man and put it into as much Hungarian Vitriol powdered as it 's capable to dissolve make the Dissolution in a large Vessel that there may be room for Ebullition which being ceased put the Liquor into a glass Cucurbit covered with its Head and distill off the Flegm and Spirit in a Sand-Bath first with a slow Fire then with a gradual Fire encreased and sublimate the volatil Salt at last Salmon to Roast Take a Jowl of Salmon or a Rand and divide it into four pieces season it with Salt and grated Nutmeg stick in it whole Cloves and put it on a convenient Spit laying on it likewise a few Bay-leaves and Sprigs of Rosemary then bast it with Butter and save the Dripping to mingle with other Butter to be served up in Sauce mixed with Verjuice the Juice of Oranges and garnished with the slices of Oranges This Salt composed of the volatil Salt of Urin and several acid Particles of the Vitriol vigorously expels serous Humours by Urin the Passages whereof it opens It is to be taken in White-wine Diuretick-Waters or Decoctions from a scruple to a dram It is very available in Dropsies dissolved in opening Decoctions for which purpose you may mix the Spirit with your usual ordinary Drink The Flegm applied to the Gout asswages the Pain thereof It is also good to allay the Inflammations of the
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
or two of the Juice of Sage Vomiting to Stay another Take bruised Cinnamon two ounces rectified Spirit of Wine a quart infuse them four Days in a large Vessel very close stopt shake it twice or thrice a Day and dissolve a-part half a pound of Sugar-candy in a quart of Rose-water and so mingle the Liquors together and put to them four grains of Musk and half a scruple of Ambergrease This mightily relieves the Stomach when oppressed with Cold or Flegm and consequently stays Vomiting It is also good to stay the Looseness ease the Pains of the Colick and other griping Pains Vrin White as Clay This denotes an ill Digestion a bad Stomach and a bad Liver and if in it there appears any shining Beams it denotes an Impostume in the Milt or if the Urin be white as Whey thick and little in quantity it betokeneth the Flux To Remedy this Take Grommol Saxifrage Parsley and Sage then boil them in stale Ale and drink the Liquid part Morning and Evening You may use them also in your Pottage shred in the nature of Pot-herbs Vrin to Stop If the Party cannot contain the Urin Take the Roots of Male-peony yellow Amber red Coral and choice Gum-arabick of each a sufficient quantity reduce them to a fine Powder mix them well and let the Patient take from ten to twenty grains twice a Day Or this viz. Take a spoonful at a time in any convenient Liquid Vrin Stopt Take the Roots of wild Garlick by some called Crow-Garlick wipe them clean but do not wash them bruise them very well in a stone or glass Mortar strain out the Juice and putting it into a glass of Whitewine drink it off upon an empty Stomach taking it once or twice a Day and you will find great Benefit thereby Vrin Stopt another Take Oil of Walnuts put it into a Frying-pan then put into it some Chervel picked well from the Stalks and apply it pretty warm poultis-wise to the Navel or if need be to the Os pubis or Share-bone For want of Walnut-oil you may do it with Hogs-lard Vrin Stopt another Dissolve a little of the best Spanish Soap in half a pint of Whitewine and pass it through a woolen Filter or Strainer put to it by infusion five or six grains of Saffron divide it into two Doses and take one two Hours after the other especially if the first does not operate well but if it does you may stay a longer time This by the way is taken for Urin that is not very obstinate Vrin Stopt another Take the Powder of a Stag's Pizle a dram Crabs-eyes calcined the like quantity the Juice of Garlick or strong Onions half an ounce Burdock-root finely sliced a quarter of an ounce Powder of Steel half a dram Bay-berries well bruised an ounce Harts-horn Shavings a quarter of an ounce and two drams of the Shavings of Ivory boil or infuse these over a gentle Fire in a pint of Rhenish Wine strain out the liquid part and let the Party drink half a pint as hot as Milk new taken from the Cow Morning and Evening or oftner if the Stoppage be great and it will remove in a little time the Obstruction and cause a free Passage of Urin c. Vsquebaugh To make this the right Irish way who were the first Inventors that we can hear of Take two gallons of rectified Spirit half a pound of Spanish Licorice a quarter of a pound of Raisins of the Sun three ounces of Dates sliced the Tops of Thyme and Baum of each a pugil the Tops or Flowers of Rosemary two ounces Cinnamon and Mace well bruised of each an ounce Anniseeds Coriander-seeds bruised likewise of each two ounces Citron or Lemon and Orange-peel finely scraped of each half an ounce let these infuse in a warm place forty eight hours with often shaking together and somewhat if it may be encreasing the heat then let them stand in a cool place for the space of a Week sweeten it with Sugar-candy and so draw off the Liquor and press out the Liquid part that remains in the Ingredients For a weaker sort put other Spirits to them and do as before This is not only pleasant to drink but moderately taken greatly preserves the Lungs against cold Distillations of Rheums and other Defects that afflict them and encline them to Consumption It lengthens the Breath cheers the Heart and keeps out ill Airs occaâ—…oned by Damps and Fogs c. Vteri Prolapsus Apply to the Navel a pretty large Cupping-glass but suffer it not to continue too long on a quarter of an Hour being the longest for fear of injury especially to the Navel String Vvula Falling Take Coriander-seeds and Rue in Powder boil them in Mint-water and sweetening it with a little Sugar often gargarize the Mouth and it will be remedied Vvula Relax'd Take bluish Pease or for want of them white ones chew them so long till you reduce them to the consistence of a Poultis and lay 'em warm on the Crown of the Head to the breadth and thickness of a Crown piece shifting it for fresh ones when you rise and go to Bed WAlnut-Water Take green Walnuts before they have any hard Shells in them two pound Rue and Carduus of each a handful Roman Wormwood and Baum of each half a handful bruise all these together and infuse them in a gallon of Mallaga draw off the Water in a cold Still and keep it close stopt for use An ounce of it at a time Morning and Evening expels Vapours keeps out infectious Airs restores Appetite and causes good Digestion creates a fresh and lively Countenance and removes Pains in the Stomach Walnut-Water another Take Walnuts with the green Husks on before they come to a hard Shell one pound and a half Roots of Radishes the like quantity green Asarabacca six ounces the Seeds of Radishes four ounces bruise and infuse them in three pints of Whitewine-Vinegar for three Days and then distil them in a leaden Still till all the moisture be exhausted Take an ounce or two of this Water fasting in a Morning and it fortifies against the Infections of evil Airs raw Damps or Fogs and purifies the Blood Walnuts to Preserve Take green Walnuts before they have contracted a hard Shell under them pierce them with a Needle and boil them in three or four Waters to take out the bitterness and when they are tender to twelve pints of the last Liquor put twelve pints of ordinary Sugar boil it up and clarifie it with Whites of Eggs then strain it and boil it to a Syrup and sticking some Cloves Mace and Cinnamon in the Nuts put them into the Syrup when cold These Preserved Walnuts are very Cordial Pectoral and Stomachical they strengthen it and cause a good Digestion and are excellent in Fluxes and Loosenesses also an Antidote against the Plague and all poisonous and pestilential Diseases Warts Take May-Butter melt it in a moderate Heat mix it well with
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
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