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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40044	A brief collection of many rare secrets many of which are approved and physical and the rest most pleasant and recreative : very necessary for all sorts of people / newly set forth and published by La Fountain, an expert operator.	La Fountaine.; Fountaine, Edward.	1650 (1650)	Wing F1648; ESTC R29853	13,919	13

A Brief COLLECTION Of many Rare SECRETS Most of which are approved and Physical and the rest most Pleasant and Recreative Very necessary for all sorts of People Newly set forth and published by LA FOVNTAIN an Expert Operator living over against Essex House in the Strand near Temple-bar LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1650. To the Reader I Do not attribute to my self to be sole inventor of these insuring Secrets yet know that here are none concerning Curo but what I have experimented or had from good Authors great imitators of Galen and Hippocrates the famousest men of their calling in the World as for what is recreative herein they need no other testimony but your own judicious application The general acceptance of a little Book of twenty Secreets which I published formerly hath obliged me to present you here with a farre better concealing nor retaining nothing to my self from your view that I think may do you good Here you may have more instructions in the things it treateth off for a couple of pence then you can have of another that is more coveteous then charitable of which there are many now a dayes for twenty shillings I direct this chiefly to the poor that are not able to go to the price of higher matters though others may profit by it However to as many as will accept hereof if possibly it lieth in my power I will study to present them with a better thing hereafter In the mean time my greatest ambition shall be alwayes to deserve the title of your Friend and well wisher EDW. FOUNTAIN A Brief Collection of many Rare Secrets I. How to make ordinary diet drink of which good purging diet drink may be easily made as after you may see very good and necessary for most diseases TAke a good handful of Barley pick and wash it in fair water and a dram of green fennel seed or annise seed and half an ounce of liquorish prepared that is scraped clean and somwhat bruised put all this in a pottle of running water to boile skimme it when it boils while it yields any skimme and then it is boiled enough then take it off let it cool and keep it for your ordinary drink this is good drink for most diseases especially being feverish or hot II. How to make the same drink a most excellent purging diet drink Take a pint of the said drink and steep therein half an ounce of sene and a dram of green fennel tyed at liberty in a little clean linnen cloth or bagge for the purpose over night then strain it and take a good glasseful of it in the morning fasting and half an hour after a messe of clear fresh broth That many thousands have been cured of sundry dangerous diseases hereby I can Justifie it continuing to do the same every morning for three or four dayes together as your Doctor shall think best and your necessity require III. How to make and take a vomit Take about twelve spoonfuls of warme water mingle therein four or five spoonfuls of Sallet-oyle and drink it a little while after thrust your finger or a feather in your throat to make it operate the better if it be necessary note that the best time to take this vomit is when your stomack is full presently after dinner or supper for then your victuals will bring up all the flegme and ill humors from the very bottom of your stomack IV. An excellent purging Glister which may easily be made at any time Take a handful of Barley as much clear bran and a quart of running water boil this a little space as two or three boils then take a pint of the said water strained but not squesed and boil therein half an ounce of Sene one boil or two together with two drams of green Fennel-seed or Annis-seed then strain it through a clean linnen cloth squesing it somewhat softly then take a dish and put therein two or three ounces of good honey and an ounce of the coursest red Sugar and seven or eight spoonfuls of the said water hot mingling or stirring all well together with the rest of the foresaid pint of water which done you shall strain it again and put therein five or six spoonfuls of Sallet-oyle or half a quartern of fresh butter which you shall give warm but not too hot and let the patient retain it as long as he can so it exceed not half a quarter of an hower or thereabout V. An other easie Glister both to refresh cool and purge if need require Take a quart of Whey and boil therein a good big handful of the best great lettis you can find and as much purslain then take a pint of the said liquor strained and put therein a quartern of hony and it is done giving it warm as above VI An Astringent or Stopping Glister Take a pint of new milk and then take a good big piece of any Steel red hot and quench it in the said milk then heat and quench it as before in the same milk continue to heat and quench in the same manner three or four times over then strain it and put therein two ounces of oyle of Quinces with two yolks of Eggs and so give it the Patient VIII An easie remedy for them that are bound in their bodies and will by no means take any Glister as I have seen many Take a dram or two a little more or lesse according to the strong or weak Constitution of the Patient of good Sene half a dram of green Fennel-seeds or Annise-seeds put them in a Porrenger and powre thereon four or five spoonfuls of clear water more or lesse according to the quantity of Sene that you use and if the Patient be not troubled with a Cough poure an equal quantity of juice of Lemons and water instead of water alone cover the said Porrenger and put it upon the hot ashes with few or no sinders there let all infuse or steep together an hour or there about then strain and squese it a little through a clean cloth put thereto twice or thrice as much clear broth without salt finally let the Patient take this in the morning fasting two or three hours before he eat any thing this is likewise a very good purge for many diseases and may be taken by young or old or women with child without any perril or danger using discretion VIII An excellent remedy for either Quartan Tertian or Quotidian Ague It is good first to be let blood and purged before you take this insuing Medicine yet I have cured many hereby without either take Roch-allum cut or scrape them round as near as you can in fashion of Pills as big as you think you can swallow them let them that are very young very old or very weak take three of these Pills in three spoonfuls of Angellica-water the stronger Constitution may take five in the same manner the time to take them is when you begin to feel the fit a coming on

and drink not if you can help it during the cold fi● but during the hot fit which ordinarily cometh after drink as much Carduus benedictus Posset drink as you please it is best hot to provoke sweat if your drouth can possibly indure it if not better cold then not at all this will much weaken your Ague at the first taking and at the second or third taking totally cure you God willing IX How to procure Rest and Sleep to them that are hindered there from by head-ach or any such like pain Take Violet-oyle with the yolk of an Egge and b●east-milk of each a like quantity which being well mingled apply like a plaister upon the forhead and temples this will appease the pain and bring on rest and sleep suddenly X. A good and easie remedy for Children troubled with Worms Take of the finest wheat flower you can yet very well sifted as much as a six pence will hold three times covered over then mingle as much fountain-water with the said flower in a glasse as will make it looke like milk which you shall give the Child to drink and soon after you shall see the worms come out dead in the Childs excrement XI How to cure any swelling in ones head caused by a fall a blow or the like very suddenly Take an ounce of salt three ounces of ordinary honey three ounces of Cummin two ounces of Turpentine all which you shall mingle well together about a quarter of an hour upon a soft fire in any clean thing then spread it like a plaister upon a clean piece of linnen cloth and apply it hot upon the swelled place a better cure can hardly be had for this purpose XII How to increase milk in a Womans breast if need require Take a good handful of green Fennel picked from the great stalks and boil it very well in a pottle of white wine or strong ale either being very good for that purpose then keep it up close and let it be your ordinary drink at meals and other times the longer you continue to drink of the said drink the more your milk will increase in this I never saw any to fail XIII An approved remedy to cure Warts Take any piece of Gold or Gold-ring without any stone heat it red hot in the fire and l●y ●t as hot as ever you can indure it upon each w●rt until they be well cauterized thereby instead of Gold you may use Iron or a red coal in the same manner then wash them with good strong Lye do this three times a day or several dayes if you will it importeth not much whether lastly take Radishes and cut them into thin slices in a platter and strew over them a reasonable quantity of salt then lay on another bed of sliced Raddishes upon that and salt as before and so three or four times let all this lye and steep over night in the said platter and in the morning you shall find the salt melted and the vertue of the said Raddishes in it with which water you shall often wash the warts and lay a linnen rag or cotten dipd in the said water upon them in which doing they will in few dayes fall or at the least be easily drawne off likewise any scratching black or blew spots got by fighting or she like the said water will suddenly cure using it as above said XIV How to cure any kind of Itch though ever so bad either inward or outward with a sweet water very cheape and very easie to be done then the which there is nothing better as I can justifie both for this and divers other diseases Take a quartern of Plantain-water half as much Rose water halfe a wine-glasse of Lemond or Orenge flower water and an ounce of Sublimatum beaten into very fine powder all which you shall mingle in a clean skillet upon the fire and there let it boile for a quarter of an hour then let it cool and keep it close in a viol for your use then wash the place or places where you have the itch with the said water and let it dry of it self your convenientest time will be when you are going to bed do this three times leaving four and twenty houers respite between each time the first and second time will bring them all forth and the third time will dry and take them quite off thus leaving aside all stinking ointments and inward physick whatsoever you may have a safe sweet speedy and infallible cure for your itch Likewise using this water as above said it will draw out all kind of foul corrupted humors and leave the skin clear and white what vertue the said water may have to cure the Pox and other soul diseases being rightly used I leave to the judicious Artists censure XV How to cure one that spits blood having some broken vein in his brest Take Mice-dung dried and beaten into powder as much as a sixpence will hold at a time in half a wine-glasseful of juyce of Plantain with a little sugar drink this every morning fasting and as much every night when you go to bed for a week or there abouts and this with Gods help will cure you XVI For the Squinsie Take two or three drops of oile of Vitriol in a glasse of white wine gargle often your mouth and throat therewith this hath cured many and this you see is very easie to be done XVII An excellent Remedy to Cure the Evil Take four ounces of Ceruse otherwise called White-lead in fine powder and boile it five or six houers in half a pint of Sallet oyle or until all be very black stirring it continually wh●le it is on the fire then spread of this upon a piece of leather or clean linnen cloth and apply it upon the Sore and if the Sore runs using this often it will heal it if not it will first dissolve it and afterwards perfectly heal it if it be not too inveterate XVIII How to cure a Cough or Cold either old or new Take Brimstone well powdered half an ounce and mingle it with a new laid Egge boiled soft and half a scruple of Beniamen softly reduced to powder Take this in the morning fasting and as much going to bed at night and you shall be cured thereby at the second or third taking But if your Cough be very inveterate you must take it oftener XIX An assured Remedy for the Plague approved of throughout Venice in the year 1504. Take of a healthy Male young childs water fine Treacle and Annise seed-water of each a like quantity mingle them and give about a quarter of a pint or a little more at a time of it to the Patient in the morning fasting for three mornings together this hath cured many XX An infallible remedy for any Burning or Scalding Cut an ounce of the newest wax you can get in thin slices and melt it in two ounces of Sallet oyle then take it off the fire and mingle well therein two