Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	boil_v	half_a	pint_n	4,578	5	10.9022	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50847	The countrymans friend, and no circumventing mountebanck But a rare method of chyrurgery and physick, teaching the country people excellent cures, the likewas [sic] never laid open in any age before. Besides here are four arts, three, of them concerning horses, and the fourth an art to keep a field of corn from any manner of fowles, that devour grain, this art is only by anointing a few crow feathers, for neither pidgeon, sparrow, rook nor crow will endure the field where they stick. By Abraham Miles.	Miles, Abraham.	1662 (1662)	Wing M2041; ESTC R217818	15,363	40

sixteen take it oftener in the day time And likewise take three thin rashers or slices of Martelmass-beef And put these three slices of Beef upon the Chaffing-dish of coals and the Caffing dish into a close stool and so it over it and this is so strong and of such vertue that it will go quite through the body when you breath you will tast the sent of it in your mouth do this often and with the help of God you will not miss of the cure The Author of this book hath cured them that hath been far and near before and could get no help and this hath cured them Probatum est An excellent way to cure desperate bleeding at Nose IF you be passing along on the high way and 〈◊〉 bleed at Nose by reason of heat of travel or by the heat of the Sun take green nettles or the roots and bruise them and put them to your Nose and snuf up the juice or sent into your head and this will stop it but if you be at home and at no hard work or labour and your Nose do fall a bleeding take the herb above mentioned and apply first to the Nose and if that will not stop it tie thy left finger for thy right nostril and thy right finger for thy left nostril if an occasion serve tie both if that will not do let the party lie down backward and have a cloath dipt in fair spring water and applie to the private parts of the body 〈◊〉 mean to lay it close too If that will not do take a toad dried in the sun and lay it on the bare chest of man or woman if the party be a little fearful as some maids are to loose their maidenheads but very few wrap the toad in a fine thin white rag and if it be for a woman or maid they will like it the better my reason is the female sex delighteth in clean linnen But friends whosoever you are that makes use of this book these rules before mentioned will not fail you in time of need Probatum est A rare way to cure the Spleen or stiches in the side TAke black double refined Rosin it is clear like glass when you hold it against the light take a little quantity of it a time and beat it to a powder and take up as much of the powder at a time as willie upon a four peny piece called a groat and put it into a quarter of a pint of sack or strong beer or ale and drink it quick and it will give you ease immediately after you have taken it and it will cause you to break wind immediately and give you case and this helpeth either man or woman at a convenient time with speed Probatum est Here is a sure and speedy way to cure the Plurisie in man woman or child THE impediment of the Plurisie is desperate and will kill either man woman or child without they have a speedy remedy but this which I shall here prescribe it is most certain and true Take Stone-horse dung press forth the juice of it and take one spoonful of it and two spoonfuls of Aniseed water and stir them together in a little earthen cup or porringer and let the ●arty drink it up presently and it will give them ease and taking of it three times one after another it cureth either man woman or child of a Plurisie speedily without leting blood Probatum est A most sure and speedy way to cure children of the worms TAke a handful of the young buds of Ashen-trees you may know them from any other buds for the outside shews as black as Seacoal take a handful of the buds before mentioned and a handful of unset Hysop and half a handful of wormwood mix these together and heat them very hot in a Fire-shovel or between two tyles then lay it to the childs belly as hot as the child may suffer it and bind it on with a cloath at night and let it lie till the morning and in the morning give the child three spoonfuls of new milk and put a little of the seeds of Worm-wood into it and bruise it before you put it into the milk and stir them together then give the child the milk and worm-seed stirred together the quantity of three spoonful I mean the seeds of the common worm-word that growes almost in every place this art cures children of the worms and cleanseth the body and causeth children to thrive very lustily after the taking of it Probatum est A fine art to cure and kill all manner of Warts that groweth on the hands of men women or children THere is an herb grows by the high wayside it is called Arssmart one sort of it hath a little black spot grows on it I judge that the Planet Saturn hath some influence over it but I mean the Arssmart that bears a green leafe and it bites if you bruise it and it toucheth any sore all you that have Warts bruise the herb and rub the Wart with it and this will kill all Warts whatsoever Frobatum est A rare way to cure the Ioynt-evil or other foul running sores TAke a handful of the buds of Broom and halfe a handful of Fenel and half a handful of Thime mother Thime or field Thime and half a handful of unset Hysop and a quarter of a handful of Balm and half a handful of Sage boyl these in five ale quarts of fair spring water until it be boyled to five pints and let it boyl gently over a wood fire and when it is cool put it into some manner of Vessel that will keep it closs as a small Firkin or closs Pitcher and take of this five spoonful in the morning and three at noon and five at night after supper This hath cured three or four in a house that have the disease they call the Kings-evil before his Majesty came into the Land and now it doth cure the Joynt-evil the Gout in the Joynts and other foul diseases in the body this hath cured several of these impediments that never could get any help before Probatum est A rare art to cure the Morbus Gallicus or the French Pox. IN he first place purge your self and that you may do and take but a dram of pulvus sanctus in halfe a pint of clear posset-drink and the quantity of five pints of clear posset-drink to to drink after and if you are of a stronger constitution take a dram of the extract of Rudi and make it into five or six pills acording as you can Swallow them and drink about five pints of good strong beer luke warme or as warm as milk from the Cow that you may easily do and set it against the fire now after purging your selfe do this take the barke of an Ashen tree and pare off the outside and take the middle bark as the Tanners do of Oake bark if it be winter dry your bark in an Oven but if it be