THE QUEENS Cabinet Newly Opened And the Art of Physick discovered Wherein you shall finde diverse Rare Receipts both of Physick and of Chyrurgery Very good and very profitable for all sorts of Men Women and Children Together with severall Medicines for to prevent and for to cure the most Pestilent Diseases that Raineth in any Cattel and that with small Cost and Charges By Mr. John Ponteus London Printed for Richard Burton at the Horse shoe in Smith-field 1662. THE Queens CABINET newly opened The first Remedy is against the rising of the Mother TAke a quart of the strongest and the stalest bear you can get and nine tops of Rosemary and as much large Mace as will weigh down nine pence and a hand full of inward bark of night-shad boile all these together in a Copper skellet till it comes to a pint then strain it and drink three spoonfuls one after another just as the fit begins to come upon you and you shall finde present remedy For a burning or scalding or any green wound Take Mutten suet and sheeps dung and the inward bark of Elder boile them together and then strain it and then anoint the place grieved therewith and it shall heal it without any scar For any soare new or old Take the inward bark of an Ash-tree and then boile it well in a quart of spring water then bath any sore with it three or foure times every morning evening and then anoint it with fresh butter and flower of Brimstone well mixed together and you shall see a speedy cure For all aches and lame members Take Rye and Rosemary two handfuls put them into sallet oyle and malmsie of each one quart let them boile half an houre together then let the place greived be anointed therewith against the fire being first chaffed with a cloath very well and after nointing wrap it up in a Lambs skin the woolle side inward doe this to bed-ward for the space of three weeks together this cured a man that could neither stand nor goe probatum For the Falling Sickness Take the skull of a man or woman wash it purely clean then dry it in the Oven after your bread be drawn beat it to fine powder then boile it in posset drink then let the party drink thereof Morning and Evening or as oft as need requireth it is an approved remedy For a Tetter or Ring-worm Take half an ounce of white Copperis desolved in a pint of spring water then wash the Tetter therewith and it will kill all Tetters and Ring-worms For the Rickets Take a handful of the inward bark of Tammaras and lay it in steep in a pint of Whitewine two or three daies and let the diseased Child drink now and then two spoonfuls of it at a time and it will speedily cure it For the Pain of the Back Take Sage Rosemary Cammomil of each of them a handful then stamp them together and frie them with the Oyl of Swallows and then annoint your back therewith warm For sore eyes Take Eyebright-water and wash your eyes therewith morning and evening it will both heal the eyes and strengthen the sight For the Cramp Take your fore-finger and rub it between your toes when you go to bed then smell to your finger it will take away the Cramp and cure the Palsie For the Rhume in the Eyes Take Marigold-water and wash your eyes therewith morning and evening it cureth the diseases in the eyes and it will take away the pain of the head For a Quincy or swelling in the Throat Take a needleful of white silk and dip it in the blood of a Mouse and let the party swallow it down and it will speedily cure it For the paine or noise in your Eares First wash your eares with White-Wine then take a good handful of Earth-worms and frie them with Goose-greace then straine it and drop two dropes into each eare when it is hot and it will take away the paine and noise thereof For the Itch. Take four ounces of unsalted Butter take Brimstone Cloves Pepper and Ginger of each of them a pennyworth then mix them together and beat them to fine powder and then anoint your joints against the fire and in three times doing so it will cure you For to remove a Disease from the stomack Take a quarter of a pint of sack and a pennyworth of fine Treacle then mix them together and drink it blood warm going to bed and in twice taking of it will cure you For a burning Feaver Take two handfuls of Redmints boile them in a quart of spring water till it comes to a pint and then strain it and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of white wine Vinegar and as much Hony boil it till it comes to a syrrup take of Endive suckary of each two handfuls boile it in a quart of spring water till half be consumed take two spoonfulls of this and more of the sirrup in the morning fasting and at any other time when you please and the Feaver shall leave you and you will recover probat For an Ague Take all the Urine the party maketh at one time and put some flower into it and knead it and make thereof a Cake and bake it and when it is baked give it to the dog of the house just as the fit begins to come upon you doe so two or three times and the party will be well and the dog sick For the Gout Take a handful of Mugwort stamped and boyled in a pint of the best sallet Oile till the juice be consumed then straine it and it will make an Ointment that shall give speedy ease to the Gout probat For a sore or any green wound Take the coles of a Burtch tree beaten to fine powder and put it into an wound or sore heales it not only perfectly but speedily For the spleen Take the Rine of an Ash Tree boyled in a quart of White Wine then drink it six or seven mornings fasting together will cure you For a Stich. Take oyle of Dil oyle of Capers oyle of Swallowes of each one ounce then mix them together and then anoint your side against the fire when the pain is upon you and it will take away the pain thereof For the Yellow Jaundies Take a handfull of the inward barke of a Barbary tree and Goose dung that feeds on grasse and wash the white of it and put thereto a little Saffron steepe them in Ale and let the Patient drink it in the morning fasting and it is a present remedy For the Scurvey Chop small the knotted place of a Pine tree and boyle it well in a quart of Ale or Beere that the steem may come out and drink of it as often as you please and it will cure the Scurvey For the Black Jaundies Take of Herbe Ambrose Bettony Mugworth of each a handfull three or foure Dock roots clean pickt washt and scraped stampe all these in a Morter till they be indifferent small Then take
Spicknard Turmarick and gallingall of each a handfull Stamp them in a Morter likewise then mix them together and put them into a clean cloath by themselves and tye them fast with strings and then hange them in two gallands of good Ale newly ready to be tunned up and after three or foure dayes drink a good draught thereof every morning next your heart fast after it three hours and do so the like when you go to bed and you shall finde present remedy probat For a Consumption Take three Sheeps hearts slit them and take out the strings and blood and lay them in water to soak a night and a day then wash them clean and put them into a Pipkin lay in the bottom of the Pipkin stalkes of Rosemary in the manner of a Gridiron then lay the hearts on them every heart being stuck with three Cloves and half a quarter of Sugar being put into every heart then stop up the pipkin very close with paste and put it into an oven with houshold-bread and when you think it is sufficiently stewed take out the pipkin again then every morning and evening take a spoonful of this Syrrup and it will cure you A most excellent Water for a Consumption Take Rosewater and Muscadine of each three pints of new Milk a pottle of grosse Pepper one ounce of Cinnamon one ounce of sliced bread a penny-loaf the yolkes of three new laid Eggs of Sugar one pound distil all these as long as any water will come take of this water with a little beaten Pepper a draught fasting and you shall find it do you very much good Probat For the Cough of the Lungs Take Coltsfoot Bettony Burnet and red Rose leaves of each a handful of Comfrey roots scraped and sliced two handfuls boyl all these in a gallon of spring-spring-water till it comes to a pottle then strain it and set it over the fire again then take a pound of double resined Sugar and put into it and let it boyl over a soft fire about a quarter of an hour then take it off and put it into some glasse and stop it up close and then drink six spoonfuls morning and evening and at four in the afternoon it is an approved Remedy For to take away the rednesse of the face Take the roots of white Lillies and boile them in a quart of spring-Spring-water and wash your face in the said water and it will take away the rednesse thereof For Hearing Take four drops of the juice of Bettony and warm it in a sausar then drop it into each ear when you goe to bed then stop them up with black wooll and it will recover your hearing For to take away a Wen. Take unslacked Lime beaten to fine powder then mixed with black Sope then anoint the Wen therewith and it will take it away For the paine at the Heart or Stomach Take four graines of Mastick at evening going to bed and it will take away the paine thereof For a Sinew strain'd Take Nerve oile Pompillion and Oyle of Exeter of each two penniworth then mix them together and warm it in a saucer then anoint the joint therewith and bind it up close and it cureth For the taking away Warts Take Figtree-leaves and rub your Warts therewith and bury the said leaves in the ground and the Warts will consume away as the leaves do rot For Convulsion fits Take black Cherry-water and the Syrrup of Violets of each two peny worth then mix them together and take three or foure spoonfuls of it at a time just as the fit begins to come upon you and you shall finde present remedy probatum For the Cough or stopping of the breath Take the syrrup of Hysop the syrrup of Lickarish the syrrup of maiden haire of each an ounce and take thereof every morning a spoonfull or two For the Head-ache Take a handfull of Speremint and shred it smal then grate some Nut-mege into it with some Rose-water and binde it close to your fore-head and it will take away the pain thereof For the Wormes in Children Take two ounces of Purslain-seed and boil it in a pint of white Wine then give it the Childe fasting three mornings together and it will kill the Worms For a sore Throat Take Collumbine and Cinquefoil then stamp and boil them together and strain them into Milk and drink it very warm For the pain in the Head Take Aloes boyled well with the juyce of Coleworts and made into pills a scruple being taken at a time at night going to bed doth most gallantly ease the head and take away the pain thereof For the Tooth-ach Take two handfuls of Wood bettony and then boyl it in a pint of white Wine till half be consumed then take a spoonful of it and keep it in your mouth do so two or three times together and if there be any worms in them they die and it shall keep the Teeth from all pain For to draw a Thorn out of the Flesh Take a handfull of Bettony bruise it in a Morter then mixt it with Black soap and it will draw out any thing that is gotten deep into the flesh For a Plurifie Take two ounces of Dialthea and annoint the grieved place therewith then take Cummin-seed beaten to fine powder and strew it upon the annointed place then heat a Colewort leaf very hot upon coals and bind it to the place very fast and you shall find a present cure For to cure a Dropsie Take the roots of Elder and boyl them in a gallon of spring water till it comes to a pottle and drink it as common drink and it will speedily cure you For a Canker in the Mouth Take the juyce of Plantain leaves Vinegar and water of Roses and wash your mouth therewith For spitting of Bloud Take Smallage and Mints Rue and Betony and boyl them in good milk and sup it warm For a Pin and Web in the eye Take the fine powder of Licorice blown through a quill into the eyes it will take out the Pin or Web thereof For a scald Head Take two handfuls of Harrife and stamp it a little then let it soak in a quart of spring water twenty foure hours then wash your head therewith or any scabby place with it and it will quickly heal it For the Wormes in Children Take the Gall of an Oxe as much flower of Lupines as will thicken it and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the navel of the belly it will kill the Wormes For to stop a Looseness Make Pap of Bean-flower and put thereto powder of Cinnamon For to stay the bloudy Flux Take Pigeons dung stamped with white Wine Vinegar and applied plaister-wise to the navel of the belly stoppeth all Fluxes Medicines for Cattel For the Plague in the guts in Horses TAke of Cullenbine roots and leaves in all a good handful as much Wormwood and as much Rue wash them well and then bruise them in a morter and then boyl them
in a quart of Ale well and then strain them and add to the liquor half a pound of sweet butter then being but luke-warm give it the Horse to drink or Diapenthe in a pint of Muscadine For the sleeping Evil. First keep him much waking and twice in one week give him as much Soap in the nature of a pill as a Ducks egg and then after give him a little new milk and honey which is a present cure For the Scratches Take a pint of Train oyl and white bread beaten to powder then mix them together and annoint the Horses legs there with and chafe it in well it will bring their legs to be small and dry up the humours For to make a Horse staile or piss Give him some Castle-soap sliced thin in a pint of white Wine and he will presently piss For the Glaunders Take of Auris figmentum two drachms of Tussilaginis made into powder as much then mix them together with Turpentine till they be like paste make thereof little cakes and dry them before the fire then take a chafing-dish of coals and laying one or two of the cakes thereon over them with a tunnel and then the smoak rising put the tunnel in the Horses nostrils and let the smoak go up into his head which done ride the Horse till he sweat do thus every morning before he be watered till the running of his nostrils cease and the kernels under his chaps wear away For the foundring of his body First give him wholesome strong meat 〈◊〉 bread of clean beans and warm drink and for two or three mornings together give him a quart of Ale brewed with Pepper and Cinnamon and one ounce of London Treacle and it will cure him For Bots and Wormes of all sorts Take Savory leaves chopt and mix them with Honey and butter and make two or three balls thereof and make the Horse swallow them down and it will cure him Of the pain of the Kidneys or the Stone Take a handful of Maâ—denhair and steâ—p it all night in a quart of strong Ale and give it the Horse to drink every morning till he be well this will break any stone whatsoever in a Horse For the gravelling of a horse in the foot Cut the hoof till you can find the sore then take one ounce of Virgins wax one quarter of an ounce of Rozen as much Dear Suet half an ounce of Bores Grease one head of Semgreen bruise all these in a Morter and set it over the fire till it be melted then apply it to the horse foot spare not to travaile him for it shall heal him For the Farcy or by some called the Farcion in a horse The farcy cometh of the great abundance of blood therefore you must let him blood on both sides of the Neck a hand breadth from the head then take a gallon of fair water and put thereto a handfull of salt three handfuls of Mallows two handfuls of Rew one pound of hempseed bruse all in a morter then seeth them till the husk be wafted and give it him to drink then to the outward sore apply one once of the oyle of Terpentine one ounce of the oyle of Petre chafe it well in and it cureth For a Canker in the Mouth Take the inward Bark of an Elder Tree Sage and Woodbine leaves chop them smal and boyle them in White wine vineger and put therein a good quantity of Allum and Honey then take a linnen Cloath and tie it upon a stick and wash his Mouth Tongue and Root with the water twice or thrice a day and it will be whole speedily For wind-galls The cure is to prick them and to let out the Gelly and then dry up the sore with a plaster of pitch To draw out a Stub or a Thorne Take a handful of Bettony bruise it in a morter with black soape and lay it to the sore and it will draw out the Splint Iron Thorne or Stub For the Murrain in Cows Oxen or such Cattle Those that are infected first cut off the tip of the Eare then take the leaves of Bares-foot dried and beaten to pouder as much as will lye on a shilling and a quart of milk brew it together and so drench therewith blood-warm To prevent the Murrain Run a Bodkin through the double skin that hangeth at the breast of the beast put therein a root of bares-foot and let it abide Take of old â—…ine a quart and mix it with a handful of Hens-dung â—issolved therein and let your beast drink it For Pissing of Blood Take two handfuls of Shephards purse and boyle it in a quart of Redwine and then strain it and put into it a little Cinnamon and so give it the beast to drink luke-warme and it will speedily cure it For to cure any swelling in a Beast whatsoever If your beast have any outward swelling bath it with salleâ— oyle and vineger exceeding hot and it will asswage it but if the swelling be inward then boile round Aristolochia in his water These Receipts have been perused and approved of by divers people in the City of London and are Printed for the good and benefit of the Kingdome FINIS