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A63808	A pocket-companion, containing things necessary to be known by all that values their health and happiness being a plain way of nature's own prescribing, to cure most diseases in men, women and children, by kitchen-physick only : to which is added, an account how a man may live well and plentifully for two-pence a day / collected from The good housewife made a doctor, by Tho. Tryon.; Good house-wife made a doctor. Selections	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1694 (1694)	Wing T3193; ESTC R38375	11,872	24

A Pocket-Companion CONTAINING Things Necessary to be Known By all that Values their Health and Happiness BEING A plain Way of NATURE'S own Prescribing to Cure most Diseases in Men Women and Children by Kitchen-Physick only To which is Added An Account how a Man may Live Well and Plentifully for Two-Pence a day Collected from The Good Housewife made a Doctor By THO. TRYON Licensed Octob. 25th 1693. LONDON Printed for George Conyers at the Golden Ring in Little-Britain 1694. Notable Things Of Consumptions COnsumptions are Decays of the Radical Moisture whereby the natural Heat of the Stomach is so weakened that it cannot make a due Separation of Meats and Drinks received which causes from thence to arise abundance of bad Juices or Phlegm so that no good Nourishment can be bred let the Food be never so Rich nor the Drink Cordial which all People afflicted find by Experience But these Distempers proceed likewise from various Causes As 1. From over-charging Nature with too great Quantities of Rich Food or in Others by drinking much Brandy Wine and strong Drinks which weakens the natural Heat and destroys the Action of the Stomach In Others and idle sedentary Course of Life or want of proper Exercises lying in bed too long too warm Cloathing and too soft Feather or Down Beds which proves always prejudicial to to the Health of all Persons It is caused sometimes by too much frequenting the School of Venus provoking Nature beyond her Ability and oft-times corrupts her in her very Radix Young married People as well as the most lewd are oft caught in this Snare and let this be a Caution Others by excessive Heats or Colds Surfeits and the like Accidents Some by Fevers and long Fits of sickness to some through Melancholly Grief or Trouble of Mind or Despair and Envy Some have Consumptions Hereditary which is the hardest of all to cure Now when thou findest thy self indisposed and thy Stomach to grow weak and a general Disorder to run through thy whole Body and that thy Strength decays consider what it was that caused it whether Temperance or Intemperance in Meats or Drinks in respect of the Quantity or Quality as also their Exercises and all other Extreams thou hast inured thy self to Consider further what Air thou hast lived in where the Disease was bred and by this means thou mayest guess at the Cause of thy Distemper And when this is done thou oughtest gradually to alter for the better the whole Course of thy Life not in the nature and quality of the Meats and Drinks only but in their quantity as also thy Exercises and the Air as far as the Condition of thy Life will admit thereof for change of Food Exercises and Airs work wonders If withal you betake your selves to meer simple Meats and Drinks that are easier of Concoction and generate a freer and firmer Substance I shall now set down what Food Drink and Preparations are agreeable to the Stomachs of sick and languishing Persons And first of Milk Which is an incomparable Food and the best way for weak consumptive People to eat it is Raw Take what quantity of Milk you please let it stand open to the Air one Hour or two then skimm off the Top of it and eat it with well bak'd Bread neither toast your Bread nor warm your Milk except the weather be cold and then you may make it blood warm but then do not toast your Bread You may if you please eat Bisket with your Milk but do not eat too great a quantity at once sometimes you may mix a little Water with the Milk and sweeten it with good white Sugar you may eat this three times aday if you make it your sole Food Continue this six or eight Months at least and you will find great Benefit by it for Distempers that have been many years generating cannot be cured in a moment To prepare Milk with Wheat-Flower an Excellent Way Take a quart of New Milk after it has stood five or six Hours from the time it was milk'd put to it a third part of River or Spring Water set it on a clear fire then take some Wheat-Flower and temper it with either Water or Milk into a Batter and when the Milk is ready to boyl put in your Thickning and stir it a while and when it is ready to boyl again take it off then put as much Salt and Bread to it as you please then let it cool without stirring it and it will eat much sweeter Two spoonfuls of Flower is enough for a quart of Milk and Water make it about the thickness of ordinary Milk-pottage This keeps your Body in excellent Temper neither binds nor loosens too much and it never tires nor clogs the Stomach Another way Take a Quart of Milk and a Pint of Water add to it as much Oatmeal as you please to have 〈…〉 Thickness Thin is best Set it on a 〈◊〉 fire and when it begins to boyl take it off and brew it in two Porringers eleven or twelve times then set it on the fire again and when it begins to boyl take it off and let stand a little and the large Oatmeal will settle to the Bottom then add Bread and Salt to it and eat it when it is blood warm this is an Excellent Food agrees well with weak Natures and affords firm Nourishment And if you add at any time to this a new-laid Egg or two beaten with your Thickening and put it in as aforesaid it will make a rich Dish If you would add Eggs to Milk-pottage first put your Milk and Water into your S●wce-Pan take a spoonful of ground Oatmeal and beat it up with your Egg or Eggs with either a little milk or water and when it is ready to boil stir it in as in flowr'd milk and then you need not brew it put a little Bread and Salt to all your milk meats but no Sugar be sure This is a Substantial and Friendly Food Observe that Milk is best the first half year after the Cow hath Calv'd but not so good after taking Bull or Conception Milk boil'd by it it self is not so good as when mixt with Oatmeal Flower or Water as aforesaid being not of so cleansing a quality ● the best time to begin Milk-Diet I think is about March or April Of Furmety viz. VVheat and Milk are in themselves two good things but ordered with Sugar Spice c. is not at a●l to be commended nor near so good as Milk Flower and VVater the same is to be understood of VVheat butter'd and spiced Of Boniclabber Bonic●●●●●● is made by letting your Milk stand till it sowers which will be in Twenty-fours hours if the weather be very hot It has a pleasant sowerish Taste and must be eaten only with Bread especially by Consumptive People It is Excellent against Stoppages and it 's easie of Concoction and ●igests all hard or sweet Food it cools and cleaneth the whole Body and quencheth

Cordials when you have eat too much in quantity of any Foods too foul or gross in quality Of Cyder Cyder if well made and fermented is a fine brisk Liquor and altogether as good as Claret or White-Wine and perhaps better for English Bodies if drunk temperately Note that no Cyder ought to be Kept above one year if you regard your health Of Mum. Mum if temperately drunk is very wholesome for melancholly Flegmatical people and for those whose Food is coarse Bread and Cheese Flower'd Milk Herbs and Lean Pottages but I think it not near so wholesome as well brewed Ale Of Coffee Coffee ought to be used only in a Physical way by them that are troubled with Fumes and dulling Vapours that fly into their heads it is likewise good after hard Drinking Weariness Labour and Fasting but for others I think it best to forbear it Yet a Dish will do no man harm Tea Is an innocent harmless Liquor that purges by Urine and is of an opening Quality but it is not comparable to an Herb call'd Dandelion which being infused in boyling hot water about half an hour and then pour the Liquor from the Herbs and sweetned with white Sugar is a much better Drink It purgeth by Urine and cleanseth the Stomach Sage Penyroyal Thyme or Mint dried in their proper season and kept in Bags make as good Liquor as Tea Of Sallads Take Sorrel Parsly and Spinnage Lettice and some few Onions then add salt Vinegar and Oyl a good quantity if you cannot get Oyl good Butter melted may serve as well for it is scarce dicernable from Oyl but let the Salt predominate Eat Bread only with the Sallad which is better than if you eat Bread and Meat or Bread and Butter or Cheese Another Take Sorrel Lettice Pepper Grass Spinnage Tops of Mints and Onions seasoned as before Another Take Sorrel Lettice Cellery Spinnage Onions and Endive seasoned as before Another Sage Mint Penyroyal Balm and some Lettice and Sorrel eat them as before This is brave Sallad Another Young green Buds of Coleworts with Onions is a good Sallad seasoned as before Another Taragan Nettle-tops Penyroyal Mint Parsly Sorrel Lettice and Leaves of Coleworts eat as before is an excellent Sallad if seasoned to the highest degrée A Sallad for Winter Parsly old Onions Endive Cellery Lettice Sorrel and Colewort plants Seasoned with Salt Oyl and vinegar is an excellent warming and cherishing Sallad Another Take Cellery Endive Spinnage and Lettice and half a head of Garlick in it seasoned with Salt Vinegar and Oyl this is a brave Sallad Sallads are good at all times but most proper from end of Ianuary to the 1st of Iuly Then again from September till December and indeed all Winter if the Weather be open In Spring Spinnage Corn-sallad Nettle-tops and the Buds of young Cabbage and others the like nature being boil'd is an excellent corrective to them that eat Flesh-meat they loosen the Belly and open Obstructions In April May and Iune eat Spinnage Parsly Lettice Mint-tops Borage Scurvy Dandilyon Comfory and the like boil'd in plenty of Water over a brisk Fire add to them Butter melted and some Salt then eat with Bread or Bread and Flesh is good Food The best way to make Herb-Pottage Smallage Clivers Watercresses Elder-buds and Nettle-tops put water to them proportionable to your Herbs then add Oatmeal as much as you think fit to leave it in thickness when the Water is ready to boil put your Herbs in cut or uncut then when it is again ready to boil take a Spoon or Ladle and lade it so that you keep it from boiling do this eight or nine minutes then take it off and eat it blood-warm with the Herbs in it or strained adding a little Butter Salt and Bread This is an admirable cleansing Sallad Another Spinnage Corn-sallad Tops of Pennyroyal and Mint ordered and eat as before To make the best Herb Diet-drink Supposing your Herbs well gather'd and dry and kept in Bags take what Herb you think fit put it in a Linnen Bag and steep it 7 or 8 hours in Beer Ale or Wine or other Liquor and then take it out and it is done Let not your Wormwood be steep'd above three or four hours observe that one sort of Herb by it self is much better than Compounds To prevent the Scurvy Eat not Meat and Drinks too strong for Nature for Nature ought to be stronger than the Food Meat and Drink ought not to be eat that are of a contrary Quality to the Constitution Have a care of eating to Fulness or to Excess Take care that your Victuals be in all respects properly prepared for some will but half doe it others over doe it Let all sorts of Flesh and gross food be boiled in plenty of Water and over a brisk fire Forbear eating too much flesh It is most unwholsome in Iuly August September October Forbear eating too much Fish Remember you eat not before the former Food be digested Drink moderately let your ordinary Drink not be hard stale nor sowre nor too new Let your Clothing be moderate Let your Houses be airy your Beds hard clean and sweet use proper Exercise and Labour in open airy places take Walks often by River-sides or on Plains and Downs observe the Rules of Chastity avoid all compounded Foods avoid Carking Cares Hates Revenge Envy Violence Oppression keep a good Conscience for that 's a continual Feast Hearken to the Voice of Wisdom and the Dictates of Reason and Nature and that will bring thee to endless Felicity An Excellent Poultice Which cures scalded Limbs Burns Boils Fellons Tumors proceeding from choler phlegm or melancholly It also cures all Contusions Inflammations or Bruises either with or without a Wound old Wounds Ulcers or running Sores Excellent also against the Gout and Inflammation of the Eyes admirable against sore Breasts and Bites of Dogs or any other hurt of what kind or nature soever which is thus Take two Pints of Water River Rain or Spring their take as much ground Oatmeal as will make it thick fit for a Poultice add to it two ounces of good Sugar a handful of Dandelion cut small then place it over the fire in an open and convenient Vessel keep it stirring till it is boiling-hot and then it is made Another Take about a Quart of Water then take as much Houshold-bread as will make it thick and three Ounces of beaten Raisins of the Sun and one Ounce of Sugar and about half a Pint of new Ale stir all together and make them boiling-hot over a clear fire and it 's done Another One quart of Water as much Bread as will make it Thick Five Ounces of Raisins of the Sun and one Ounce of Coriander Seeds beaten with a Glass of Ale made boiling-hot and then it is prepared Another One quart of Water and Bread to make it as thick as a Poultice of Sugar two Ounces a Glass of Sack or for want of that other Wine make

Thrist to a ●onder it is the best Spoon-meat for Consumptive People that I know And though it may not be so agreeable to the Pallat at first yet a little Custom will make it familiar and pleasant Of Water-Grewel This is good for Consumptive People and is made as followeth Take a quart of Spring or River Water put to it two Spoonfuls of Oatmeal then stir it well together set it on the fire and when it is ready to boil take it off and brew it out of one thing into another then let it stand and the greatest Oatmeal will sink to the Bottom then pour it off and add Bread and Salt to it and Butter if you please then eat it when it has stood till it is blood warm This is an Excellent sort of Food Observe that Milk boiled is nothing so good as either Raw or Scalded An Excellent Food for all sorts of People ●ut more-especially for Children and sick People Take a quart of Water two Spoonfuls of Wheat-flower and two or three Eggs beat the Flower and Eggs together with a little water and when the water begins to boil stir in your Thickning and keep it stirring till it is ready to boil then take it off and put Bread and Salt to it when it has stood till it is blood warm eat it you may put some Butter to it or an Egg if you like it best This is an incomparable Food for all sorts of people it breeds good Blood opens the Passages sweetens the Blood prevents windy Distempers and griping Pains it is next to Breast-milk for Children and it is excellent for Consumptive People if they keep to it four or five months or more and eat nothing else and drinking three our four Glasses of good Ale let them use gentle Exercise and moderate Cloathing and good sweet hard Beds This and all other Spoon-meats made thin are best Flummery Is thus made Take three Spoonfuls of Oatmeal more or less and put to it a convenient quantity of water then let it stand till it begins to be sowerish then take this Water and Oatmeal and put it into a Vessel stirring it and making it boiling hot with a quick fire and when it does begin to rise brew it to and fro with your Ladle to keep it from boiling this do about four or five minutes then take it off the fire and it 's prepar'd Some eat it with Ale others with Cream Milk and the like but I think it most beneficial to be eaten with Bread only It removes Obstructions strengthens the Stomach cools the Body openeth the Passages and is excellent good for Breakfast in all hot Climates This is good more-especially for weak Stomach'd People and those whose Breast and Passages are obstructed by though phlegmy matter Another way to make Flummery Take two or three Spoonfuls of Oatmeal more or less and put to it a convenient quantity of Water and let it stand a day more or less then pour off that water and put on fresh four five six seven eight nine or ten times letting each water remain on your Oatmeal a certain time then they take it off boil it up some mix it with Cream and what they please But this way is not near so good as the former Of Bread The best sort for sick People is that which is made of Wheat-flower but not too fine dressed for then it will be dry and husky and your Leaven'd Bread is much better than that made with Yiest you may make it after this manner Take what Flower you please make a hole in the middle of it break then your Leaven in take as much blood-warm Water as will wet about half your Flower mix the Flower and Leaven well together cover it with the remaining Flower close this do in the Evening and by Morning the whole will be well Leavened then add some more blood-warm water as is sufficient and knead it up very stiff and firm the more pains you take the better when you have so done let it lie warm by some fire near two hours till the Oven is ready then bake it but let not the Oven-mouth be close stopp'd that the Air may have more or less Egress or Regress But the best way is to make it into thin Cakes and bake them on a Stone with a Wood-fire under Of Rye Barley Oats you may make Cakes after the same manner put no Salt into your Bread Of Butter Butter affords good Nourishment the best that is for the Stomach is made from May to August It 's very wholesome if eaten moderately with Bread or with Herbs Roots or the like Take good Butter and melt it thick and put it to your Herbs as you do Oyl and it eats as well and pleasant and can scarce be distinguished from Oyl this I believe a great many may have cause to thank me for all Butter ought to be well seasoned with Salt Cheese Affords good Nourishment for healthy working People if eaten with good store of Bread and a Cup of good Drink be not wanting It is altogether as nourishing as Flesh it is clean and of a stronger firmer Substance and digests a Cup of Drink better and he that lives on Bread and Cheese intermix'd now and then with flower'd Milk Water-Grewel Milk-pottage and Raw Sallads seasoned with Vinegar Salt and Oyl and drinks good sound Ale and Beer not over strong shall exceed in Health and Strength him that lives on Bread and Flesh and drinks the same Liquor Of Puddings The best way of making them is thus Take Milk and Water Wheat-flower and Eggs of each a convenient quantity and put a little Salt in beat them well together put this Batter into your Bag boil it in good store of Water your Potlid off and over a quick clear fire when boil'd sufficient take it off butter it and eat it Bak'd Puddings are not so good Of Eggs and their best way of Dressing They are an Excellent Food friendly and innocent in Operation Dress them as followeth Let your Eggs be boiled soft then break the Shell and put them into a Dish and let them stand till they are Blood-warm then with Bread and Salt only eat them A strong Stomach may eat them with Bread and Butter spread upon it not melted Or you may boil them hard then pill off the Shell and eat them with Salt Bread and Vinegar Poaching is a very good way Take an Egg a spoonful of Wheat-flower and beat it well together then put it into a Pint of Water boiling hot stir it together then take it off and eat it with a little Bread Salt and Butter and it will make an excellent Meal Eggs in a Morning supp'd off raw and Bread eaten after them is very wholsome Of Pyes Pear and Apple-pyes are wholesome and healthy Food if the Fruit be thorough ripe and made as they ought to be The best way is thus Take good Wheat-flower make it into a Paste with a little Leaven or Yeast

it boiling-hot Apply these Medicines to the Part afflicted by spreading the Poultice pretty thick on a Linnen Cloth that will cover the whole part somewhat warmer than milk from the Cow but let it not be so hot as is usual for Extreams prove generally prejudicial Apply these Poultices every two hours at least in the day and three or four times in the night if the Wound be dangerous otherwise ten times in a day and a night will do when you take the Poultice off put that away and put a fresh on every time and keep a constant Repetition for 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 or 11 days if occasion be but it will cure most Distempers in less time if you observe this method But be sure wash your sores 'twixt whiles with Water and Sugar and sometimes with Water and fresh Butter beaten together which will keep it clean and pliant How a Man may Live for Two Pence or Three Pence a Day very well A Man in the Countrey may Live Plentifully for Two Pence a Day for in many Countries you may have Two quarts of milk for a Penny to which add a Pint of Water and not half a penny-worth of Flower and make it into Flower'd-milk according to our Directions and you will have a Noble Dish sufficient for Four People and this stands but in Three-half-pence eat some Bread with it and there is no Victuals affords better Nourishment and that to all Ages but especially young people The like is to be understood of other Foods where every one observes his time of eating and his weight and measure of Food and a great Trouble and Waste will thereby be avoided As to Quantity of other Foods we suppose that Sixteen Ounces solid Food to wit Bread Cheese Butter and Eggs may be sufficient Twenty-four hours for a labouring man and the best time for eating we suppose to be about Eight in the Morning and Four in the Afternoon If the Food be Flower'd-milk then a Pint of it and four Ounces of Bread and Butter or Cheese is sufficient If Water-Grewel or Pottage a Pint and four Ounces of Bread and Cheese If Raw milk the same but if Flower'd-milk with an Egg in it Three Ounces of Bread and Butter or of Cheese will be sufficient If you eat Raw Sallad weigh only your Bread ●nd about Five Ounces will be sufficient with an Ounce of Cheese or Butter to eat after your Herbs As for Puddings Apple-Pies and the like I leave ●o every ones Discretion but you must be sparing ●nd temperate As for Drink Water has the first place and a quart of Water mixt with two Spoonfuls of ground Oatmeal and well brew'd together Ten or Twelve times out of one Porringer into another make an Excellent Drink and in Summer-time 't is very pleasant In Winter-time if you make it blood warm it will drink well milk and water is an Excellent Drink Thus you see a Small Matter sufficeth a Moderate Man How the Poor may Subsist well these Hard Times for Two Pence a Day and Less Take a Peck of good Wheat-flower make half of it into a Loaf the other half keep for to use as followeth Put to a quart of water a spoonful or two of Flower and make it as we before d●●rected you to make Milk-pottage eat the Brea● in quantity so much as that it may last till your Pottage is spent This is an Excellent Food and ●ffords good Nourishment and by this the Poor ●ay Subsist well these Hard Times for less than ●wo Pence a Day If you put a Quart of Milk and a Pint of Wa●er a Spoonful of Flower and order it as before ●●rected it will be Excellent and Pleasant Food Another Cheap way for the Poor Take a Pint of Pease and put to them Three Quarts or a Gallon of Water let them stand on a slow Fire two Hours but let them not boil then ●ake an Onion and a little Sage shred well and ●ut into the Pease and stir them a little then ●ake a Spoonfull of Flow●● or Oat-meal ground and beat it well together with a little Water and put to it and then let your Pottage boil up a little then put a little Salt to it Eat with this a little Bread and you will find it an excellent nourishing and pleasant Food To take Ink out of Paper Take Aqua-Fortis and dip a little of it upon the Blot or Writing you would take out and immediately it will disappear then take a little Water steep'd in Allom and wash it over with it and whe● dry it will make it look as clear and white as a● first otherwise the Aqua-Fortis alone will make 〈◊〉 yellow Stain How to Bottle Cyder In March Bottle your Cyder and if you put in a●●ut half a Spoonful of Spirit of Clary it will make ●●e Liqu●● so perfectly resemble the best Canary ●hat few good and exercis'd Pallats will be able to distinguish it How to make Copper-look as well as the Best Silver Take Crema Tartar two Drams the best Leaf-Silver one Dram and Aqua-Fortis four or five Drops make it into a Paste and rub it on your Copper and immediately it will look well FINIS *** Lithgow's Nineteen Years Travels through the most Eminent Places of the Habitable World Containing an Exact Description of the Customs Laws Religions Policies and Government of Emperors Kings and Princes also of the Countries and Cities Trades Rivers a●d Commerce in all Places where he Travell'd c. Printed for George Conyers at the Golden-Ring in Little-Britain