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A45501	The family dictionary, or, Houshold [sic] companion wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health ... directions for making oils, ointments, salves, ... chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales and other liquors and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers ... and parts of living creatures used in medicinal potions, ... likewise directions for cookery, ... also the way of making all sorts of perfumes ... together with the art of making all sorts of English wines, ... the mystery of pickling and keeping all sorts of pickles ... : to which is added as an appendix the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare ... : with the art of carving and many other useful matters / by J.H.	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.; J. H.	1695 (1695)	Wing H66; ESTC R30331	305,220	380

to loosen the Belly and contributes much to the freeness of making Urin. Hydropsie Take half a dram of transparent yellow Amber twice or thrice a day in any convenient Liquor This has been proved with good success Hyoscyamus or Henbane A Cataplasm of the Roots applied in the Gout Tumour or Tooth-ach gives present ease The Leaves which have all the Virtues and Preparation of the Root wonderfuly mollifie and ease Pains being layed on as a Poultis A distilled Water of the Flowers and Seeds not ripe and an Oil compressed out of them cure the Pains in the Teeth and Gout and are held to help Deafness and Noise and Worms in the Ears if dropt into them though hot too much A Gataplasm of the Leaves boiled in Vinegar and Whitewine eases all Inflammations of the Eyes asswages Swelling of the Gods or in Women's Breasts Gives ease to the Sciatica and other Pains in the Joints proceeding from hot Causes Hyssop its Virtue The Qualities are piercing and attenuating opening and abstersive and therefore it hath power to heal and purifie Being concocted with Figs Honey and Rue of an equal quantity in fair Water is good for Inflammations of the Lungs old Coughs Difficulty of Breathing and Catarrhs It kills Worms in the Belly and being beaten with Salt and Cummin it remedies the poisonous Biting of Serpents if immediately applied to the Wound with a mixture of Honey It is profitable to those that are troubled with the Falling-sickness the Decoction of it being drunk in VVhitewine as also to cause the voiding of Phlegm especially when it chiefly oppresses the Stomach and Lungs as also the phlegmatick Maladies of the Brain and Sinews and not only purgeth but also fortifieth them It driveth away Ventosities and moveth Appetite provokes Urin and lessens the shaking of the Ague Fit sharpens the Sight and supporteth a good Colour It is good for the Spleen and Dropsie and is singularly good against the Quinsie in the Mouth and Throat being gargarized with the Decoction of it and Figs in fair Water The Oil made of the Leaves and Flowers helpeth refrigerated or benumbed Sinews and Nerves and strengthens them And in brief so admirable are the Virtues of this Plant that it has begot a Saying viz. He that eateth Hyssop shall live long c. Hysterick Affections Take an ounce or sufficient quantity of Volatil Salt of Harts-horn drop on it as much Spirit of Tartar as will satiate it when the Conflict is over digest and mix it for a while that it may acquire a redness in Colour and keep it carefully stopt The Dose is four or five drops in any convenient Syrup This is excellent good for the Genus Nervosum and other Distempers and Afflictions Hysterick-Balsom Take Galbanum Opopanax the Tears of Assa Foetida Sagapenum and Armoniack of each a dram distilled Oils of Rue Juniper-Berries and Amber of each a scruple melt the Gums in a brass Melter and mix the Oils and make a Balsom by remixing them over a gentle Fire This Balsam is very excellent to suppress the Vapours of the Matrix put up into the Nostrils and by anointing the Navel with it it provokes the Terms or by applying it to the lower part of the Belly Hysterick-Elixir Take the distilled Oil of Wormwood Pennyroyal Amber Featherfew and Rue of each six drops Tincture of Castor and Saffron of each three ounces refined Sugar Elder-flower-water and Mugwort of each six ounces make these into an Elixir and let it stand ten Days before you use it It is an excellent Elixir against all Diseases and Infirmities of the Matrix The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one Hysterick-Liquor Take of Castoreum two drams Saffron and Camphire of each an ounce let them macerate fifteen days in a pint of Aqua-vitae not being set on any Fire and then filter the Liquid part This is an excellent Specifick to suppress Vapours especially in Women when arising from the Matrix it may be taken upon any occasion the Party who takes it being fasting that it may operate the better from half a spoonful to a whole one It also may be snuffed up the Nostrils or the Temples bathed with it to ease Pains in the Head and prevent the ascending of offensive Vapours to the Brain Hysterical-Vapours These are usually called Fits of the Mother To cure or avert them Take the Liver of a hunted Hare hang it up for a time in a dry place where it may not putrefie till it may be reduced to powder then take two or three scruples at a time in any convenient Liquor Hysterick-Water Take the Roots of Briony and Piony and Orange-peels of each three ounces Flowers of Mugwort Baum Featherfew Pennyroyol Savin and Elder-flowers of each ● handful Myrrh and Castor of each an ounce Saffron two drams Let these macerate twenty four Hours in two quarts of Canary a pint of the Water of the Catkins of Filberds and the like quantity of Orange-flower-water and distill them all on a Sand-Bath This Water is very highly commended by most learned Physicians for the Cure of the Distempers and Grievances of the Matrix The Dose is an ounce and an half Or take this viz. Juice of Neppe Wormwood Mugwort Pennyroyal Elder-flowers and Hyssop of each half a handful distil them and preserve the Water for Use This is not so powerful as the other though very good and contributing much to the Ease of the aforesaid Grievances and Distempers IAcinth Confection Take Jacinth Stones red Coral Bole Armoniack and sealed Earth of each two ounces and two drams the Shavings of Harts-Horn the Seeds of Sorrel and Purslain of each five drams Leaves of Cretan Ditany Grains of Kermes Roots of Tormentile and Bithworth Seeds of Citron cleansed Aethiopian Myrrh Saffron red Roses the several sorts of Saunders the Shavings of Ivory and of the Bone in a Stag's Heart of each five drams Smaragds Oriential Pearl Topazes raw Silk and Leaves of Gold and Silver of each eight scruples Ambergrease and eastern Milk twenty grains Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers six pound and seven ounces This is an excellent Confection to strengthen the Heart remove Infections and is proper for killing of Worms in the Belly or Stomach It may be taken in a Bolus alone or mixed with other Powders or Opiates or else dissolved in Wine or Broth or in some Cordial Liquor The Dose is from a scruple to a dram and sometimes two It is likewise outwardly applied in Liquid and solid Epithems Iacobine-Dottage Take either a Capon or two Brace of Partridges roast them and take out the Bones and mince the Brawn very small then breaking the Bones boil them in strong Broth with a Faggot of sweet Herbs in an earthen Pot then strain out the Broth upon Sippits of Bread and lay on the Bread a layer of Flesh or grated Cheese then put over it some Broth of Almonds and make it boil then fill up your Dish by little and little till it be quite

of the best Hogs-Lard a Pound and a half of the best Jordan-Almonds Almonds blanched beat one half of them very small and the other half reserve unbeaten take further a Pound and a half of Sugar Four Penny White-Loaves grate them over the former Composition and mingle them well put in half an Ounce of Ambergrease scraped very small half a quarter of an Ounce of Levant-Musk a quarter of a Pint of Orange-flower-Water mingle all these very well fill the Guts but not too tight boil them over a gentle Fire for fear of breaking and they will prove excellent fare Amber a volatil Salt Take of Amber Two Pound let it be finely bruised and reduced to Powder and put it into an earthen Cucurbit or Glass so that Three quarters of the Cucurbit may be empty then set it in Sand fitting the Head to it and a small Recipient and when the Junctures are well luted put a moderate Fire under it for the space of an Hour then the Cucurbit being hot encrease the Fire by degrees to a third degree hotter than at first and so you will find a Flegm and Spirit and after them a volatil Salt which in little Crystals will fasten to the Head and afterward an Oil will distil but from White changing to Red it will continue clear however and when you perceive no Vapours to rise extinguish the Fire and so suffering the Vessels to cool unlute them and with a Feather gather the volatil Salt into a convenient Vessel and although as yet it will remain unpure by reason of the small quantity of Oil that is found to be mixed with it you must have a Viol sufficiently large that a Fourth only may be filled with the volatil Salt and stopping it only with Paper place it in Sand and sublime it with a gentle Fire so that the pure Salt will appear in Crystal very fair at the top of the Viol and when you perceive the Oil begins to rise then raise the Glass from off the Fire and having suffer'd it to cool break it to separate the Salt and here finding at least half an Ounce keep it in a Viol well stopped for use and it will prove very excellent Its Vertues are rare in the Jaundice Scurvy Ulcers of the Bladder to force Urine and for Fits of the Mother It may be taken from Six to Eight Grains in some proper Liquid Anacardiums to prepare Having first powdered and then infused them in a convenient quantity of Vinegar when you have sufficiently imbibed it cause the Vinegar gently to evaporate and dry them Andolians Soak the Guts of a Poarker in Water and Salt turn them and scour them that they may be made very clean let them steep after that a Day and a Night in fair Water dry them well with a Linnen-Gloath turn the fat side outwardmost then shred Sage very small mix it with beaten and then sifted Pepper do the like by Cloves Mace and Coriander-seed mingle with them a little Salt and season the fat side of the Guts then turn that side inward again and draw one Gut over another to what thickness you please boil them in fair Water with a piece of interlarded Bacon some of the Spices before-mention'd and a seasoning of Salt tye them fast at both ends at what length you please and as it is more liking and savoury to your Pallate you may put into them Pennyroyal Savory Leeks Onions or Sweet-Marjoram chop'd or bruised very small or if you please further to gratifie your Appetite Rosemary Thyme Nutmegs Ginger or Pepper grosly bruised Angelica is hot and dry even the Herb but more especially the Root The Root preserves against the Infection of the Plague if infused in Vinegar you frequently chew it and hold it to your Nose Take a Dram of the Powder only of the Root and half a Dram mixed with as much Venice-Treacle and this being taken once in Six Hours will cause a curious breathing Sweat The candied Roots and Stalks sweeten the Breath and help against the Diseases of the Lungs you may make Lozenges of them which are excellent Preservatives being held in the Mouth in pestilential Times Thus Take the Extract of the Roots of Angelica and Contrayerva of each of them an Ounce Three Drams of the Extract of Liquorice of the Flower of Sulphur sublim'd with Myrrh Five Drams of Oil of Cinnamon about Eight Drops fine Sugar twice the weight of all of them with a mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth made in Scordium-Water and so make them up into Lozenges Angelica to Candy Take the Stalks boil them in fair Water till they become very tender then shift them in Three Boilings Six or Seven times that the bitterness may be so taken away then cover them with Sugar and let them boil a Minute then take them out and dry them in an Oven and being dryed boil the Sugar to a Candy heighth and so cast them into the hot Sugar and take them out again suddainly and use them as the former Angelica its Vertues The Powder of the Root of it resists the Plague and Pestilential Fevers being drank in Wine a Dram at a time or infused in Vinegar and held to your Nose It eases violent Pains in the Head The Powder taken with Venice-Treacle or Diascordium causes gentle breathing Sweats carrying off the sharp Humours that many times by settling occasion racking Pains in the Joints Angelot to make To do this Take a Gallon of Stroakings and a Pint of Cream put to them when mixed a little Rennet when you fil turn up the middle side of the Cheese-fat fill them a little at once and suffer it to stand all that Day and the next then turn them and so leave them till they will slip out of the Fat Salt them on both sides and when the Coats begin to come lay them a drying and it will have a very pleasant relish Angling To have the best Sport and Success in this part of Recreation Take Assa-Foetida Camphire Aqua-vitae and Olive-Oil bruise them in a Mortar till they become a pliable Ointment and by anointing your Bates therewith the Fish will presently take them Anodyne-Clyster Boil a Pint of Milk once up and mix with it the Yolk of an Egg well beaten so that in the putting in it curdle not then Four Spoonfuls of brown Sugar and a little of the Decoction of Camomil Flowers and being administred pretty hot it gives speedy and effectual Ease to the gripings and Pains in the Bowels Antiepileptick Water of Langius Take the Shavings of Man's Scull Misletoe of the Oak Peony and White Dittany of each two ounces fresh Flowers of Lillies of the Vallies two handfuls Cinamon six Drams Nutmeg half an Ounce Cloves Mace and Cubebs of each two Drams these being all bruised together put them into a Matras and stop them up as secure from Air as may be in eight pints of Malmsey and when they have macerated for a Week over a gentle Fire distill them

you intend to use it take it out of the Cloath pare it and dish it up place a Sprig of Rosemary in the middle of it and boil up the Liquor it was boiled in to a Jelly by adding a little Isinglass and so serve it to the Table Eels Court-fashion to Bake Cut your Eels being warned stripped and well cleaned into convenient lengths have a convenient earthen Pot or Vessel that being put in they may stand end-ways and put to them a spoonful or two of Water with some chopt Sage Marjoram Thyme and Rose-mary-Tops with a little Pepper Garlick or Shalors small bruised and when they are enough beat up some Butter with Claret Whitewine and the Liquor that comes from them and laying them in order in a fair Dish serve them up Eels another way to Dress Having drawn them and washed them in clean Water rub them in Pepper and Salt finely beaten cut them athwart on both sides a good depth then crossways and so cut them thorough in such pieces as you think convenient then having a pint of Whitewine-Vinegar pretty well heated in a Dish put them to it and sprinkle a little Salt and then having a Pot over the Fire full of fair Water put more to your Eels some sliced Onion a few Cloves and Mace and so place your Dish or other Vessel wherein they are that the boiling Water in the Pot may surround it but not come into it and when by that heat with often turning them they are sufficiently enough take them out and drain them from the liquor and when they are cold take a pint of White-wine boil it up with Saffron to colour it then take out some of the liquor or put it into an earthen Pan take out the Onions and all the Herbs suffering the Cloves and Mace to remain and so serve them up in the Liquor adding some beaten Butter and Powder of Cinamon or Ginger and this way they are accounted the best of any boiled Eels Hash'd Take two or three large Eels bone them when they are drawn and wash'd mince them then season then with some Cloves and Mace and put to them Stewing-Oysters an Onion cut in four quarters and a little White-wine stew them with these and an Anchove or two on a gentle fire then serve them up on fine carved Sippets the Dish being garnish'd with some slices of Oranges run them over with beaten butter the Yolk of an Egg or two grated Nutmeg and the Juice of an Orange Eel-Pye to Season Take about eight silver Eels of a middle size cut them into convenient lengths beat half an ounce of Cloves and Mace scrape two Nutmegs and put in a quarter of an ounce of Pepper then take a quarter of whole Mace break it into little sprigs strew it on with Salt and add two pound of Butter placing it under and above the Eels in thin slices Eel to Roast Take a large silver Eel draw off the Skin and cleanse it well then take a handful of Thyme Winter-savory Marjoram Rosemary and Sage shred them and bruise them small incorporate them with about half a pound of Sweet-Butter and a little grated Nutmeg and Mace stuff it into the Eels Belly sow it up lightly and then draw the Skin over him prick it full of holes to prevent breaking so tie it to a Spit and roast it saving what comes from it to be beaten up with some Butter and Claret for the Sauce Eels Spitchcockt or Broil'd Take a pretty large Eel split it down the Back and joint the Bone but leave on the Skin and cut it into four pieces of equal bigness salt and baste them with Butter and Vinegar broil them on a gentle fire and being well broiled serve them up with beaten Butter and Juice of Lemons and garnish'd with Sprigs of Rosemary Eels Stewed Having drawn and wash'd them place them round or in pieces then with a quart of Whitewine a pint and a half of Wine-Vinegar and a quart of Water some Salt and a handful of Rosemary and Thyme bound hard up letting them boil before you put in the Eels let them take a walm or two and so put to them some whole Pepper and a few blades of large Mace and being boiled dish them with some of the Broth beat up thick with Butter place Sip-pets sliced Lemon Barberries and Grapes about the Dish and so serve them up Eels Stewed To do this You must cut the Eels in pieces at moderate lengths and put them into your Stew-pans with White-wine Butter Parsley shred and some Capers a few Chippings of Bread to allay the Sauce and when all is enough serve it up and if you please you may make a white Sauce to it with Whites of Eggs and Verjuice or Whits-wine and Vinegar Eels another way Cut two or three Eels into pieces of a convenient length set them endwise in an Earthen-Pot and put in a spoonful or two of Water and to them put some Sage Thyme and Winter-savory chopt small season them with Salt and Pepper and so set them in the Oven and serve them up with a Sauce of Butter Mace Nutmeg Verjuice and the Herbs baked with them Eglantine The Vertues of the Flowers are Astringent for which reason they are used with Success in Fluxes of the Womb the Fruit is in high esteem for its Lithontriptick Vertue the Heads being ripe afford a Pulp of a very pleasant sharp Taste which some reckon good in Fevers or to sharpen and restore lost Appetites The Conserve of it is good against Spitting of Blood and the Scurvy The Root boiled in White-wine and inwardly and outwardly applied heals the Bitings of Mad Dogs The Ashes of it cure the Heat of Urine and kill Worms Take the Conserve of Hips and Wood-sorrel of each one ounce Cream of Tartar a dram Conserve of Barberries half an ounce and with the Juice of Lemons and fine Sugar make these into an Electuary and thrice a Day take the quantity of a small Nut. It is excellent in allaying the Heat of Fevers and Cooling the Blood Eggs Fricased Take twelve Eggs Cream Sugar Nutmeg Mace and Rose-water then pare and take out the Cores of some good Apples slice them very thin into the Pan and fry them in Sweet-Butter and when they are enough take them up and fry half the Eggs and Cream with more Sweet-Butter then put in the rest of the Eggs and Cream and lay the Apples round the Pan and the Eggs that were first fryed uppermost Dish them on Plates and put to them the Juice of Oranges and Sugar Eggs to Poach To do these the best and surest way Take a dozen of new-lay'd Eggs and the Flesh of four Partridges or other Fowls mince the Flesh small and season it with a few beaten Nutmegs Cloves and Mace adding a Ladle-ful of the Gravy of Mutton wherein two or three Anchovies are dissolv'd then set it a stewing over a gentle fire and when it is half stewed and boiling up

the same time taking off the Pot from the fire and when the Decoction is somewhat cool strain it and clarifie the Liquor with the White of an Egg and three pound of sine Sugar boil it over a gentle fire to the consistence of a Syrup This Syrup is chiefly given in dry Coughs or hot and thin Defluxions on the Lungs for it thickens the Phlegm and qualifies the Acrimony thereof and helps to expectorate It may be taken from half an ounce to an ounce either alone or else in Pectoral Juleps Apozems or mix'd with Lohochs Iulep To make an excellent Cooler for a Calenture or Burning Fever Pare ten Lemons press out the Juice and let it settle twenty-four hours then pour off the clear part and strain it or filter it and digest it in a stone Bottle in hot Water or in Sand for twelve days then filter it again and digest it as before repeat this until no more faeces settle and during that time calcine the outward or yellow Peel of the Lemons and with distilled Water draw the Salt out of the Ashes and put this Salt into the purify'd Juice and having digested them for some time together put it into little Vials of an ounce a piece which is a Dose sufficient for any one Some say That two Doses of this will allay the greatest Burning Fever and by degrees so cool and temperate the Blood that the Distemper in a little time will cease It may be given by it self but if it prove unpleasant to the Palate you may mix a little Sugar with it Iumbals To make these Take a pint of Wheat-flower and a pound of white Sugar make a mixture of these with the Whites of two or three Eggs finely beaten and a pound of blanched Almonds well beaten with half a pound of fresh Butter and a spoonfull or two of Rose-water To these add half a pint of Cream and mould it till it becomes a Paste so roul it into what shapes you please and dry it a while then bake it in an Oven not too hot to the number of twenty or more Iumbals another Take a pound of fine Wheat-flower the Yolks of four new-lay'd Eggs about a quarter of a pint of sweet Cream a quarter of an ounce of Aniseeds and half a pound of cold Butter make all these into a Paste and roul it into long rouls as big as your Little-Finger and make them into what Knots Forms or Fashions you please then boil them in fair Water after that bake them and keep them in Boxes in dry places to set out the Table as occasion requires Iumbals Sugar'd Take two pound of fine Flower beat a pound of Loaf-Sugar into Powder sift it and mingle it with the Flower then take a pound and an half of Sweet-Butter break it in small pieces among the Flower and Sugar then take five spoonfuls of Canary and three or four Yolks of new-lay'd Eggs and a quarter of a pint of Cream beat them well together and put them to the rest of the Materials and when they are work'd up into a Paste fashion them as your Fancy leads lay them on white Paper or on Plates and put them into an Oven and bake them with a gentle heat taking an extraordinary care that they be not scorched Iuniper-Berries their Virtues The Spiritous Water as also the Oil are either of them proper to free the Reins and Ureters from Gravel and vitious Matter that stops the Passages and hinders the Urine from having its course They are also very useful in cold Maladies of the Brain and in Scorbutick Distempers They fortifie the Stomach and create an Appetite help Digestion and resist Putrefaction and the Humours and kill the Worms in the Body also expel Wind Colick and cold Maladies of the Bowels Ivy This Simple though by some not much regarded is of great virtue for Dioscorides tells us A pugil of the Flowers which may be about a dram boil'd in Red-Wine or powder'd and drank twice a day helps the Lask and Bloody-flux It is an Enemy to the Nerves and Sinews if taken much inwardly but very strengthening to them if applied outwardly in Oil Ointment or Poultis The Berries pouder'd and drank in Ale are good against the Jaundice Black or Yellow they help those that spit Blood and kill Worms They are a great Enemy to Wine for if any one has got a Surfeit by hard drinking of Wine boil a handful of Ivy in the like Wine and the Decoction will greatly contribute towards the Party's Health The Juice of the Berries snuffed up the Nose purges the Head of Rheum and is good for sore Eyes Sir KEnelm Digby's Wound-Drink Take an handful of the Leaves of Sage and Rue bruise them and put them into a thin Bag or Boulter and hang it in four gallons of ordinary Small Ale well brewed and as soon as it is Tunn'd take three hundred live Sows commonly call'd Hog-Lice they live under old Wood and Stones bruise these with a little of the Ale that all the Moisture may be extracted then strain it and pour it among the rest and put the Skins of the Sows to the Herbs in the Bag when it has work'd sufficiently begin to drink it at Meals and at other times when you have occasion to drink and to render it more grateful to the Taste you may add a fourth part of White-wine forbearing during the taking of it to eat salt Fish or salt Meats It is not to be wonder'd at that this Drink should be so efficacious though it be compounded but of few Ingredients since all famous Authors ascribe such wonderful Virtue to these Creatures and Experience testifies that they cleanse resolve and purifie to a wonder They dissolve the Stone in the Reins and Bladder to a Slime and bring it away they open the Obstructions help the Jaundice and all Obstructions Stoppage and Strangury of Urine the Colick Asthma's Shortness of Breath and also restore lost Appetite They are very much recommended for the curing all sorts of Cancers scirrhous Tumors in what part of the Body soever the Kings-Evil and all sordid and inveterate Ulcers and Sores With this Drink did Sir Kenelm do great Cures at Frankford in Germany and at other places It likewise stays the bleeding of Wounds and heals them very speedily Kermes This is usually call'd the Scarlet Oak The Grains of this Tree are doubly useful either for dyeing Scarlet Colour or for Medicine which is most to our purpose Wherefore to omit the former it is astringent and used successfully for Wounds especially where the Nerves are cut and also prevents Miscarriage in Women They are used in sharp Diseases as Apoplexies Palsie c. as also for the Palpitation of the Heart Fainting Swooning and Melancholy Kermes a Confection Take the Juice of pleasant smelling Apples and Rose-water of each a pint boil them almost to the thickness of Honey then take it from the fire and whilst it is hot add two drams

Whitewine or Milk and eaten take away Hoarseness and being beaten with Sage-leaves make a singular Poultiss for Wounds Bruises or Inflammations They also are good against the Biting of any venomous Creature being applied Poultis-wise with Leeks and Onions stamped very small The Juice if dropt into the Ear appeaseth the Tingling Singing or Buzzing Noise in the Head The Herb and Root concocted till the Concoction seem somewhat clammy and sweetened viz. the Liquid part with a little Honey is successfully given to Women to restore Strength after a hard Labour in Child-bearing The Seed if powder'd and drank with Red Wine prevents excess in Vomiting Six ounces of the Juice of Mallows sweetened with a little Sugar extremely removes Melancholy and are of such virtue that they were call'd by the Antients Omnia Morbia that is to say Good against all Diseases Mallows Wild These are another sort which Physicians distinguish somewhat from the former though their Virtues are little less being sod in White-wine or Water and Honey they expedite the healing of Wounds by warning them with their Concoction and being applied Poultiswise they are good to allay the Swellings of the Kings-Evil draw Imposthumes to a Ripeness allay Inflammations of the Breast and help Ruptures of the Fundament Ventosities and Shrinking of the Sinews The Leaves bruised with a little Oil are applied for Bitings Burns or Scalds The Seed powder'd and drank in White-wine is good against the Dysentery and Flux of the Belly Master-wort its Virtues It cures the Bitings of venomous Creatures being stamped and applied to the Wound with bay-Bay-salt It is given in malignant Diseases helps Expectoration sweetens an offensive Breath 'T is also accounted good for the Dropsie and a piece of it stopped in a hollow Tooth eases the Pain thereof May-weed This Herb though very common and of no pleasant scent is nevertheless of admirable Virtue for if boiled in Ale or Small-beer with Figs Licorice and Aniseeds of each an ounce and the Decoction drank hot it eases the Colick and all violent Pains in the Bowels If heated between two hot Tyles with Elder-leaves and applied it draws the violent Heat of the Fever from the Head The Decoction in Whitewine is successfully given for the Kings-Evil and other Diseases Mead-White Take Rosemary Thyme Sweet-Briar Agrimony-wood Betony Eye-bright Roman Wormwood and Scabious of each a like quantity which is the sixteenth part of a handful each cover them with Water in a wooden Vessel open at the top and let them steep a Night and a Day and then boil them very well in another Water till the colour be very high then in another quantity of Water boil them up till the colour looks green and so let it boil as long as any greeness continues then with the Herbs in it let it stand a Day and a Night and to every gallon of Water put two pound of clear Honey the Liquor first strained from the Herbs and when it will bear an Egg to Three-pence breadth above Water work it together until the Honey is quite dissolved then after a Night 's setling boil it again a quarter of an Hour with the Whites and Shells of six Eggs then strain it let it cool and put it up with Cloves Mace Nutmegs and Cinnamon bruised together being hung in the Cask in a Bag and if you require it to drink very speedily take the Whites of two or three Eggs a spoonful of Yeast and two spoonfuls of Wheaten-flower beat them together put them into the Cask and when it has worked stop it up with Clay and Bay-salt well tempered and so it will keep long Measles Take two or three grains of Saffron dry it well by the Fire and then put it into a Rag and tying it infuse it in Posset-Ale and then press it or it may be done in Mace Ale or White-wine till all the Virtue of the Saffron is exhausted in the Liquids and let the Party drink it keeping very warm And if in this Distemper or the Small-pox for it is good in either there is a soreness in the Throat do thus Take half a dram of dried Saffron tye it as the other in a Rag and boil it in half a pint of new Milk till the Milk becomes very yellow then boil in it a Stay of Linnen and put it wet and warm under the Throat where the Sore is and when that is cold and dry put on another so ordered and this will in six or eight Hours take away the Pain or Soreness Meat to Roast When a Capon Chicken or Fowl has been long enough before the Fire and thoroughly hot that they require basting do them once over very well with sweet Butter dridge them over with Flower and by so doing it will make a thin Crust that will keep in all the Juice so that they are best without any more basting till they are enough then bast them well with Butter as before which will make the Crust relent and fall away this being done and they grow brown on the outside sprinkle them over with a little ordinary white Salt in gross Grains then bast them over with Yolks of Eggs finely beaten continuing so to do till another Crust of the Eggs arise on them and they are sufficiently enough to dish sauce and serve up to the Table Medicine for the Stone Take a Male-Kid of nine Months old keep him up in a close Place and feed him with Smallage Parsley Fennel Pimpernel Ivy and Lovage and kill him in the Month of August when the Sun is going into the Sign Cancer and receive the Blood in a clean Vessel take off the thinnest part and Water and dry the rest in an Oven till it may be powdered Take a dram of it in Whitewine wherein Onions or Lily-roots are infused Medlars to Preserve Scald the fairest of them when indifferently ripe till Skin may be easily taken off then stone them at the Head and add to each pound of them a pound of fine Sugar dissolved in the Liquor till it become ropey then take them from the Fire and put them up in a close Pot for your Use Megrim Take a large handful of ground Ivy commonly call'd Alehoof wash it clean and dry it well by swinging in a Cloath shread and bruise it a little in a Mortar boil it in a quart of strong Ale to the consumption of a pint and drink it hot in the Morning fasting This cures Pains and Inflammations Defluxions in the Eyes and is good against the Jaundice and Coughs of the Lungs Consumption Stone and Gravel Obstruction of the Liver and Spleen and according to the Learned and Judicious Sir Kenelem Digby being applied to a Fellon like a Cataplasm it cures it by ripening and kindly breaking it being admirable likewise for old Sores that want cleansing if a little Honey and Copperas be mixed among the Juice Megrim This dangerous Distemper in the Head is removed by taking an ounce of Honey Whitewine-Vinegar the White

take them up and dry them and dip them in a Batter made of Flower and the Yolks of Eggs some Salt and Cream and so fry them and when they are fried keep them warm then take some of the Spices Liquor of the Oisters and some Butter beat them up thick with some slices of Orange or Yolks of Eggs and dish the fried Oisters over a Chafingdish of Coals run the Sauce over them with the Spices and garnish them with Barberries and grated Manchet and then serve them up Oister-Ielly Take ten Flounders two small Pikes or Place and four ounces of Isinglass finely cleansed boil them in an earthen Vessel in two quarts of Spring-water and as much Whitewine with some sliced Ginger and large Mace and being boiled to a Jelly strain it through a Strainer into a pretty deep Dish and when it is cold pare the top and bottom and put it into a Pipkin with the Juice of six or seven Lemons to each two quarts of Jelly also three pound of fine Sugar beaten with the Whites of twelve Eggs. Rub altogether with a Rolling-pin and put among the Jelly being melted but not too hot set the Pipkin on the Fire to stew put into it a grain of Musk and as much Ambergrease well rubbed and let it stew half an Hour on the Embers then stew the Oisters in Whitewine their own Liquor and the Juice of Oranges Mace sliced Nutmeg whole Pepper and some Salt and having dished them with some preserved Barberries large Mace or Pomegranatekernels run the Jelly over them and garnish them with preserved Lemons large Mace and preserved Barberries Oister-Pye Parboil your Oisters and season them with Pepper Salt and Nutmegs and the Yolk of hard Eggs and the Pye being made put a few Currans in the bottom and lay on the Oisters with some sliced Dates blades of and Barberries then put on Butter and close it up and bake it then liquor it with Butter Whitewine and Sugar beat up together Or this way Season them as before but boil them not put in two or three Onions cut in Quarters but leave out the Currans and Sugar slice a Nutmeg on them as also hard Eggs must be layed in halves with large Mace and Barberries liquor them as before only add to the Liquor Juice of Oranges Oister-Shells Take the inward part of the Shell that is of a shining White or Pearl colour and reduce it to powder by calcining It easeth Heart-burnings and the Pain of the Stomach and Colick as also other Pains of the Bowels proceeding from sharpness of Humour it chears the Heart and has almost the Virtue of Pearl Olives their Virtues Olives are gathered either that Oil may be extracted out of them or that they may be reserved for Banquets by pickling them in Salt and Water The Olive hath in it a very restringent Virtue for the Decoction of the Leaves in a Clyster stayeth the Flux of the Belly and the Juice with Whitewine or fair Water being often drank restraineth the Bloody-flux The Sap distilling out of the Olive-Tree or that out of as the Wood where it is burning cures the Itch Tettars and Ring-worms Leuk-Olives especially being eaten provoke Appetite and get a good Stomach The Oil extracted or rather flowing from them of its own accord is of singular Virtue being either applied outwardly or nwardly according to the indisposed Parts of the Body It looseth and mollifieth the Belly abateth the force of Poison taken inwardly and if any Venom Burn or Scald happen on the outward Parts bath it well with this Oil. It is so generally approved that few Oils Unguents or Salves are compounded without it Oleum Magistrale Take a quart of the best old White-wine Olive-oil three pounds Hypericon half a pound Carduus Benedictus Valerian the least and Sage of each four ounces steep them in the Wine and Oil twenty four Hours then boil them in a nealed Pot or copper Vessel keeping them stiring over a gentle Fire till the Wine is consumed strain it and melt in a pound and half of Venice-Turpentine then set it again on a soft Fire a quarter of an Hour add Olibanum five ounces Myrrh three Sanguis Draconis one ounce and make it into an Ointment It 's good against Sores Wounds Gun-shot Blasts by Gun-powder and Pains in the Joints Onion This is proper to such as are afflicted with cold vicious Humours because they procure Sleep and help Concoction prevent sower Belchings open Obstructions force Courses and the Urin promote insensible Transpiration but are not proper to be taken by those that are of colerick Constitutions because they disturb their Heads and cause troublesome Dreams and offend the Eyes an old Onion steeped in Water a Night's time and the Water with a little Honey given the next Morning kills the Worms in Children a large Onion filled with Venice-Turpentine and roasted softens hard Swellings laid Plaisterwise also opens them a raw Onion stamped with Salt draws the Fire out of Burns or Scalds and the inward Cloves under the several Coats of a raw Onion laid to the Gums ease the Pains of the Tooth-ach Opiate-Plaister to Make Take the great Diachylon four ounces Quick-silver two ounces Opium one ounce mingle them and make them into a Salve with a very gentle heat and apply Plaisters of it to any Part afflicted with Pains or Aches Opiate for the Tooth-ach Take Camphire two drams Castor half a dram Opium one dram bring these into a powder mix them with the Syrup of Gilliflowers and make an Opiate This asswageth the Pains of the Teeth very speedily and if any of them be rotten put a very little of it into the hollow Tooth and leaving it there it will ease it Opthalmick Ointment Take Oil of Roses two ounces Narbone-Honey half an ounce choice Aloes and Sarcocol of each two drams infuse them three Days in a Woman's Milk without stiring yet shift the Milk very gingerly powder of white Trochiscs of Rhases Bolearmoniack Tutty prepared of each four scruples white Vitriol and Sugar-candia of each one dram Powder of Saffron Myrrh and Olibanum of each two scruples Thebeian Opium fifteen grains make of these an Ointment according to Art This is excellent for Infirmities of the Eyes Put to this purpose a large drop of it into the Eye and sleep upon it and in the Morning when you rise wash it with white Rose or Plantane-water and so order it once or twice after the first time and you will find wonderful Benefit Oranges to Dry Rasp or scrape off their outward Rinds cut them into halves and take out their Pulp lay them in Water three or four Days then shift them into fresh Water and boil them tender shifting them likewise in boiling to take away their bitterness When they are tender take them out and wipe them with a clean Cloath and put to them as much clarified Sugar as will cover them and let them boil leisurely two Hours then take them off the