put the Apple-juice to the White of the Egg add Loaf-sugar finely scraped and having well mixed them together dip a Feather in them and drop a few drops into the Eyes winking hard to keep it in and by often so doing you will find the Pain Redness and Heat abated Or This especially if the Sight be weakned with the long continuance of the Inflammation or any other matter Pouder very small a whole Nutmeg so that being dried well it may be sifted thorough a fine Lawn do the like by the Leaves and Flowers of Eyebright the tender Tops and the Seeds of Fenel add a small quantity of burnt Alom and fine Sugar as finely powder'd mix these together and take the Composition from a dram to two ounces or more at a time doing it often and washing your Eyes both Morning and Evening with fair Water Eyes an Ointment in general Take new Hogs-lard two ounces Tutia prepared six drams Lapis Haematitis washed one scruple Aloes wash'd and pouder'd twelve grains Seed-pear finely powder'd three grains steep the Lard in Rose-water six hours and then wash it very well in Whitewine powder the Tutia very finely and so over a gentle fire make it into an Ointment with a little fenel-Fenel-water And in case of any grief in the Eyes you may use it with success by anointing the Eye-lids and Corners of the Eyes for present ease till you meet with a more particuâ—… Remedy Eyes Pained For the extraordinary Pain or Heaviness in the Eyes Take Flower of Melilot of Elder and of Marrigolds of each a small handful Linseeds Fenegreek Fleawort Cummin and Quinces of each half a scruple French Barley half an ounce Damask roses half an ounce spring-Spring-water a pint and an half mix boil and strain these well and with the Decoction foment the Forehead and Temples considerably warm Eyes their Pains to asswage Take young Endive and stamp it with the Oil of Roses and Violets and anoint the Corners of the Eyes and the Eye-lids with it and so doing often the Pain will quickly be abated Eye-Salve Take Oil of Myrtle and Juice of Rue of each two ounces boil them and strain out the liquid part and set it again upon the fire and put to it Saphire prepared half a dram Jacinth one scruple and Antimony half a scruple burnt Copper one scruple Tutia prepared three drams let them seeth on a gentle fire and add two or three drams of Bees-wax and so anoint the Eye-lids or spread it on a thin piece of Silk and lay it on the Eyes This helps Watry Eyes the Pains in them and stays Defluxions of Rheums Eye-Salve another Take Starch three quarters of an ounce Tutia prepared in rose-Rose-water half an ounce fresh Hogs-grease an ounce bruise and temper them well together anoint the Eye-lids Forehead and Temples with it It remedies Inflammations Pains Wounds and Bloodshot Eyes Eye-Lid Sore Take Tutia and white Sugar-candy of each half a dram Powder of red Roses a dram and an half the Crumbs of white-Bread half an ounce Coral prepared and Pearl of each half a dram Flowers of Saint John's-wort one dram make these into a Poultis and lay it to the Eye on a fine Cloth Eyes Spotted If any Spots appear growing on the Eye Take fine White-Paper let it flame away upon a clean Pewter Plate till so much Oil of the Paper sticks to the Plate as you have occasion for so blow off the Ashes of the Paper and with a little of your Spittle mingled with the Oil mix it with your Finger or some other convenient thing into an Ointment which with a Feather apply gently to your Eyes once or twice a day as need shall require or as you can bear it for it will make the Eyes smart but in a little time you will find the benefit of it Eyes Red Take three grains of Camphire and a large blanched Almond incorporate them well by grinding them and add by little and little two or three ounces of Red rose-Rose-water still grinding them till the whole be brought to a kind of Emulsion drop a little of this in the place affected and it will by often so doing ease the Pain and take away the Redness Eyes Red and Fiery Take Ground-Ivy single Daisie-roots and Housleek distill them or for want of that Convenience press out the Juice dissolve in two ounces of the Water or Juice about a quarter of a spoonful of clarify'd Honey and suffer them to depurate by residence then drop it into the Eyes two or three drops at a time and continue so doing four or five times a day But if there be no great Inflammation there must be more of the Daisie-root and Ground-Ivy than of the Housleek Eye-Water Take Gum-arabick Rose-leaves Saffron Spica of each a quarter of an ounce beat them small and make Cakes of them with spring-Spring-water and when you are to use it take a dram thereof and steep it in the White of an Egg well beaten and wash the Eye with it and by often so doing it will not only repell the Matter and consume the Pain but produce a clearer Sight than usual Or Take Juice of Fennel well clarify'd an ounce Aloes two drams and a half Leaf of beaten Gold mix them well together then add seven grains of Frankincense and dissolve them in Whitewine mix them all together with Fenel and rose-Rose-water and drop three or four drops of it into the Eye twice a Day Eye-Water another Take two or three ounces of the simple Water of Pimpernel distill it in Balneo and put it into a little Pot or Porringer of Rose-copper and then put into it the quantity of a hazle Nut of strong Quick-lime cover it and let the Ingredients lie till the Liquor hath acquired a bluish Colour very warily pour off the clear and add to it as much live-Honey as will give it a little Taste If you find it too strong weaken it with Water of Pimpernel or clear spring-Spring-water and apply it to the Eyes by bathing them with a linnen Rag dipt in it This takes away Heat Pains sharp Rheums Prickles and Inflammations of the Eyes eye-Eye-Water another Take Red Rose-water and Water of Plantain of each an ounce Tutia prepared half a scruple Lapis Lazuli prepared six grains Red Coral prepared five grains mix and make them into a Collyrium or Eye-Water This dropt into the Eye being first very well mixed by shaking wonderfully revives and clears the Sight provided there be no great foulness nor scrophulous disposition of the Body or temperament of the Party It takes away the Redness from the Eye-lids if a Sponge be dipt in it and often wetted with it it also takes off thin Skins very easily Eye-Water another Take the Flowers of Corn-flower Blue-bottles gathered with their Cups bruise and infuse them in Snow-water twenty-four hours at the least then distill them in a moderate Sand-bath This Water being very Cooling most effectually cures the Infirmities of the Eyes especially
and Thirst and retaineth that Virtue many Days The Juice of it held when very thick in the Mouth and there suffer'd to melt hath the same Effect It is good for the Breast and Lungs and is therefore successfully given to those that are short-winded and breath with much difficulty or such as are in Consumptions or Pleurisies The Juice asswages prickings not only of the Arteries of the Lungs but the Bladder also and does excellently relieve Thirst as being tempered with moisture and colder than our Nature It is to be noted that the Root in which consist all these properties is much better being fresh taken out of the Ground than when it is dry and is exceeding more pleasant in the Tast when used in Medicins Lignum Columbrinum This is a great Expeller of Poison the Wood Bark and Root being beaten grosly and boiled in White-wine and drank hot about a quarter of a pint at a time Lignum Molucense This is brought from the Molucca Islands in the East-Indies This Wood is a great causer of Sleep Taken inwardly or outwardly it expels hot Poisons being rasped and decocted in Whitewine It likewise remedies the Biting of any venomous Creature Ten grains of the Powder of it being taken in Rose-water cures Wounds made by poisoned Arrows yet half a scruple of it is a Dose for the strongest Man When it is used for Purging the Party that takes it must abstain from much eating It purges Humours in general but more particularly gross clammy and melancholy Humours It is good for quotidian Agues and continual Fevers for the iliack Passion Wind-Colick Dropsie and Gravel for Difficulty of making Urin Pain of the Joints and Scirrhus and the King's-Evil It kills all sorts of Worms and restores lost Appetite Some use it against inveterate Head-aches and the noises in the Head The Indians keep it so choice that they will scarce let a Stranger see it though the greatest use they know of it is to catch Birds withal by boiling it with Rice and when the Birds have eaten of the Rice boiled with it they fall down in a Sleep and if they eat too much they dye And if in taking it it work too much let the Party take a little of the Decoction of Rice and it will qualifie it Lily of the Vallies The Flowers and Leaves of this are held exceeding good for the Apoplexy Falling-Sickness Palsie Giddiness and other cold Diseases of the Brain Take the Conserve of these Lilies six ounces of the Powder of Male-Peony half an ounce Man's Skull prepared in powder three drams the Seeds and Flowers of Male-Peony dried and powdered of each two drams Red Coral prepared Pearl and white Amber of each a dram the Salt of Coral four scruples the Syrup of the Flowers of Male-Peony a sufficient quantity to make into an Electuary Take of this two drams Morning and Evening against any of the before-mention'd Distempers but especially in Fits of the Apoplexy c. lily-Lily-Water This is distilled from white Garden-Lilies in a cold Still as you do Roses and other Simples It is given with success to Women that have hard Labours and to expel the After-birth The Root of these Lilies are admirable in Cataplasms to asswage Pains and ripen Tumours The Oil extracted from them has not only the same but a more powerful Virtue We find in several noted Authors that they have mainly contributed to the Cure of divers troubled with the Dropsie viz. The Juice mixed with Barly-Flower and made into Bread and eaten with their usual Diet Thirty or Forty Days together Limbs to Comfort Apply to the Part grieved a Plaister of Oxicrocium made in this manner Take two ounces and a half of Saffron Ship-pitch Colophony and yellow Wax of each four ounces Galbanum Turpentine and Ammoniacum Myrrh Olibanum and Mastick of each one ounce and three drams to the melted Wax add the Pitch cleansed from the Dross and Strained next to that the Colophony These being melted take them from the Fire and let them cool a little then add the Ammoniacum and Galbanum dissolved apart in Vinegar and strained and boiled to the consumption of the Vinegar and mixed with the Turpentine then sprinkle in Frankincense Myrrh and Mastick in very fine Powder a quart and in conclusion the Saffron finely powdered and well mixed and so make it into a Plaister This comforts and strengthens the Limbs and is an excellent Emollient for Aches and to discuss cold Tumours or any cold Humours setled in the Joints or afflicting the Nerves and Sinews and consequently a very good Gout-Plaister Limbs a strengthening Plaister Take Minion powdered one pound Cerusse prepared half a pound Soap ten ounces common Olive-Oil a quart Orange-flower-water nine ounces boil them according to Art till they become thick enough to spread on a Plaister This is very highly commended for strengthning the Ligaments and the Matrix being spread upon a round piece of Leather and applied it also strengthens the Backs of Women near Travel and eases the Pains that frequently afflict them on that score Lime-Tree The Leaves and Bark of this Tree repel dry and provoke Urin A Mucilage made of the Bark is good in Burns and Wounds The Leaves bruised and sprinkled with Water discuss Swellings in the Feet The Flowers are cephalick and of a very fragrant Scent The distilled Water is much in esteem for the Apoplexy Falling-Sickness and Giddiness the Dose being from an ounce to an ounce and a half It is likewise a great Beautifier of the Face and drank with Water of Camomil it cures the Gripes The Berries dryed till reduced to powder are much commended for the Bloody-flux and other Fluxes of the Belly Being mixed with Vinegar and put up the Nostrils the Bleeding at the Nose is stayed Lime-Water to Make Take a pound of clean quick Lime slack it in a gallon of warm Water and let it stand till all that will subside be setled to the bottom and separation being made the Water swim clear at top at which time it will often happen that a kind of thin and brittle substance almost like Ice will cover the surface of the Liquor As soon as the Water is thus impregnated delay not to pour it off warily and keep it well stopped This is useful on divers occasions as to wash Sores supple Pains and Aches cure the Tooth-ach the Mouth being washed with it and a little Honey If it be designed for Consumptions or Obstructions it must be made thus Take a gallon of Lime-water made as the former infuse in it cold Sassaffras Licorice and Anniseeds of each an ounce adding thereto half a pound of Currans or the like quantity of Raisins of the Sun stoned The Dose of this compound Lime-water is from four to five ounces and may be taken twice a Day Limonade To make this Scrape the Lemon-peel as much as you think fit into Water and Sugar and add a few drops of the Essence of Sulphur with some
every two times make a gargling with some Plantane and Rose-water Throat-wort This Plant especially the Root is astringent and drying and therefore the Decoction is excellent at the beginning of Ulcers and Inflammations of the Mouth and Tonsils and for other Diseases that require astringent Remedies Thrush This is usually incident among Children and frequently proves very dangerous wherefore to Remedy it Take an Egg open the top of it and take out the White and Yolk and fill the Shell with the Juice of red Sage and set it on hot Embers till it simpers then skim it with a Knife's point whilst any Scum will rise and take as much Alom beaten as the bigness of a small Hazle-nut and half a spoonful of Honey which when the Juice begins to wast put in to fill it so let it boil a little and having cooled it rub the Party's Mouth with a little of it washing it afterward with the Juice of Sage Thyme here I mean the wild sort It is hot and dry and consequently forces the Courses and Urin. It is Cephalick Uterine and Stomachick and therefore good a-against Spitting of Blood Gripes and Convulsions c. Outwardly applied it eases the Pains of the Head and Giddiness and disposes to Sleep Thyme its Virtues These are very great as will appear to any one that does but observe That it provoketh Urine it doth heat and being taken in Drink doth purge the Internals and expectorates all nauseous and ill Humours of the Lungs by Spitting four drams of Thyme dried and reduced to Powder being taken fasting in a glass of Canary by often repeating eases the Pains of the Gout for it gently purges Choler and other sharp Humours It is good also for Diseases in the Bladder and a dram being taken in an ounce of Water and Honey is good for such as have their Bellies begin to swell for the Sciatica and Pains in the Reins Sides and Breast for Inflammations and Stitches about the fore-part of the Belly for Melancholy Persons and for those that are troubled in Mind and much given to Frights and Fears upon slight occasions if three drams be taken in an ounce of Honey and Vinegar well tempered together it is also profitable against the Inflammations of the Eyes and the vehement Pains thereof and much revives the Sight There is an Oil extracted from it of the colour of Gold which cometh forth with a Water when the Herb being fresh and green is distilled in a Bath of hot Water This Oil smells like a Citron and is very tart in tast its Virtues are to heat all cold Parts but by the way note That for what has been mentioned Black Thyme must not be chosen for it corrupteth the Temperature and engendreth Choler and therefore it must be that which bears a carnation Flower or that which beareth a white one Tickling This is caused by defluxions of Rheum and is often very troublesome To remove it Take Olibanum and Venice-Treacle of each a like quantity incorporate them well and make them up into little Pills and let the Party take a dram of them and if need require it a scruple or two once or twice a Day Tiffanies Faded To recover these Take the Water of Vervain a quart half a pint of the Water that distils from the Vine when it is cut in the Spring c. a handful of the Roots of Primroses and as many Rosemary-flowers to these put a quart of new Milk and boil them together with two ounces of Alom in Powder strain out the Decoction and steep your Tiffanies in it twenty four Hours and then washing them out they will not only look much whiter and be the more capable of a gloss In this manner you may do by Lace Muslins or Lawns if the substance of them be not too much decayed Tiffanies to Wash Take the best crown Soap and soap them on their Hems or Laces and with a gentle Hand pass them over three Lathers and afterwards rince them keeping them as much as may be likewise from the Air and dry them over the Flame of Brimstone then add a quarter of an ounce of Smalt to a pound of Starch and if it be convenient add the bigness of a Hazle-nut in Alom which you may dissolve boil it to a fineness and charge it lightly upon your Tiffanies and dry them being wet by a Fire still clapping them in your Hands and when they are clear shape them by a Pattern you design them for iron them with a smooth though quick Iron till they shine and you will find little difference as to the gloss between them and new Some instead of Starch use gum-Gum-water but this I leave to your Discretion Tincture of Amber Reduce five or six ounces of yellow Amber into an impalpable Powder put it into a Bolt Head and on it pour Spirit of Wine the heighth of four Fingers and stop the Head with another to make a double Vessel and when you have exactly luted the Junctures with a Skin or wetted Bladder place it in Digestion in hot Sand and leave it five or six Days till the Spirit of Wine is sufficiently tinged with the Amber colour then decant the Tincture and put more Spirit of Wine to the Matter and so digest it as before then having separated the Impregnation mix it with the other and filter them and so put them into an Alembick and distil them with a soft Fire About half the Spirit of Wine which might before serve may do in this last Keep the Tincture which you find remaining at the bottom of the Alembick close stopt up You may take ten drops of this in some convenient Liquor for the Apoplexy Palsie or Epilepsie and it is much commended for the helping Women in most Distempers of the Head or Affliction of the Brain Tinctura Sacra Take of the Species of Hiera Picra one ounce Canary a pint infuse the former in the latter in some cool place the space of seven Days shaking it two or three times a Day and then let it stand till the Wine looks clear This wonderfully cleanses and strengthens the Stomach is good for the Jaundice-Dropsie ill Habit of Body and for opening Obstructions in the Liver and Spleen Three spoonfuls may be taken at a time or more or less according to the Age and Strength of the Party afflicted Tincture of Saffron Digest in eight ounces of Treacle-water two ounces of Saffron for the space of six Days then the Tincture being strained out keep it close stopped for use You may take of this half an ounce at a time in a glass of Wine or any other convenient Liquor This is wonderfully efficacious in chearing and comforting the Heart concocting the crude Humours of the Breast helps the Jaundice and is good against the Infection of the Plague and is of singular validity in driving out the Small-pox but in that case you must be wary in taking too much of it for fear of inflaming the
afflicted renewing it as it dries and then bath or anoint the Place with Oil of Roses Artichoaks to bake Boil them first in fair Water and so soon as you can separate the bottoms from the Leaves without breaking lay them in a Dish and season them with Nutmeg Pepper and Cinamon very lightly having layed a Sheet of Past under them with some bits of Butter then lay on Potatoes sliced round the Dish also some Eringo-Roots and Dates Beef-Marrow large Mace sliced Lemon and more Butter close it up with another Sheet of Past and being baked liquor it with Grape-juice or Verjuice Butter and Sugar beat up together ice it with Sugar and Rose-water and so serve it up Artichoaks to dress The best way is to boil them in a Beef-pot and when they are tender sodden take off the tops only leaving the bottoms with some round about them then put them into a Dish putting some fair Water to them and two or three spoonfuls of Sack and a spoonful of Sugar stew them on a Chafing-dish of Coals take the Liquor then from them and make ready some Cream with the Yelks of two Eggs two ounces of Marrow and as much sweet Butter as will serve 'em up Artichoaks stewed Having first boiled the Artichoaks take off the Leaves and the Choak cut the bottoms into quarters split them in the middle put them into a flat Stewing-pan put under them Toasts of Bread and the Marrow of two Bones five or six Blades of large Mace half a pound of preserved Plumbs with two ounces of Sugar and suffer them to stew together the space of two Hours then put them into a Dish with Sippits garnished with Barberrie and so serve them up and they will make a delicate and much approved Dish Ash or Ash-Trèe The Seed of the Ash-Keys dryed powdered and drank in White-wine provokes Urine The Juice of the Leaves drank constantly in drink prevents Fatness and reduces those that are so The Bark and Wood dry and attenuate and are supposed to soften the hardness of the Spleen by a specifick Quality The Juice of Ash-Leaves drank and the beaten Leaves outwardly applied avail much against the biting of any venemous Creature and stench blood The Juice with Honey is good for internal Bruises The Leaves and tender Twigs boiled in your usual drink is good against the Dropsie though the Seeds powdered and taken in Wine in the Opinion of others are more powerful The Salt of Ash provokes Urine Asparagus or Sperage The prickly sort of this which in many Places grows wild being boiled in White-wine provokes Urine is good against the Strangury or difficulty in making Water expels Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder eases Pains in the Reins and boiled in Wine-Vinegar closes the Arteries and eases the Pains of the Hip-Gout or Sciatica The Decoction of the Root boiled to clear the sight and being held in the Mouth eases he Pains in the Teeth Asthma Take the distilled Water of Nettles and Coltsfoot-water of each one pint Anniseeds and Licorice-Powder of each two spoonfuls Raisins of the Sun and Figs sliced of each a handful boil them till half a pint of the Liquor be consumed strain the remainder and with a pound of white Sugar-candy finely pondered make it into a Syrup take a quarter of an ounce at a time and the Stomach will be helped to a good Digestion It removes also Obstructions of the Lungs Astringent-Powder Take Bole-Armoniack and Terrasigillata of each two ounces Pomgranat-Flowers Red-Roses and Dragons-seeds of Sumach and Whortle-Berries Frankincense and Mastick of each two ounces make all these into a fine Powder This Powder taken in Wine or some Decoction from a scruple to a dram in losses of Blood weakness of the Stomach and Intestines is singular good It may likewise be applied outwardly incorporated with Whites of Eggs Vinegar or some Astringent-Water or Decoction like a Cataplasm to stop defluxions and loss of Blood and to strengthen or close the Parts Astringent Saffron of Mars Take of the filings of Steel and Sulphur powdered an equal quantity mix them well and make them into a Past with Water put the Past into an earthen Vessel and suffer it to ferment there four or five Hours after which set the Vessel over a quick fire and with an iron Instrument fit for that purpose stir the Matter about and it will flame suffer the Sulphur to burn out and it will appear very black yet continue it over a brisk fire and stir it about for two Hours after and then you will perceive it of a red Colour then wash it five or six times in strong Vinegar leaving it to steep an Hour at a time and then calcine it in a Pot or on a Tile in a great fire five or six Hours after suffer it to cool and stop it up close Avens This Herb is Astringent in some degrees it strengthens and discusses being cephalick and cordial and resists Poisons though it is mostly appropriated to the Cure of Catarrhs and for quickening the Blood when thick or coagulated Wine wherein the Roots have been steeped have a fine pleasant tast and smell It cheers the Heart and opens Obstructions The Root infused in Beer is excellent in strengthning the Joints and Bowels Two ounces of the Root or a handful of the Herb boiled in Water or Posset-drink to the quantity of a Quart and consumed to a fourth part has been used successfully in the Cure of Agues more particularly the Tertians by taking it two Hours or thereabout before the Fit comes BAck the Crick in it To remove this Pain Take the Marrow of the Bone of a Horse and a little of the Juice of Elder-Leaves mix them together over a gentle Fire and when become an Ointment chafe it into the Place grieved Back heated To remedy this Take rose-Rose-water infuse therein for twelve Hours Red and Yellow-Saunders the Leaves of Red-Roses then bath your Back with the liquid part blood-warm and it will asswage the Pain and in a little time utterly remove it Back wasting Take Plantain and Ribwort distill them in a common Rose-Still and when you are to use the Water take Pippins roast them and take away the Skin and Core then put them into Water making thereof a Lambs-wool as thick as you please and this being sweetned with Loaf-Sugar take thereof half a pint when you go to Bed and so do nine Nights together It is also good for the Strangury and many Pains incident to those Parts Back weak To strengthen the Back if it be over-strained or troubled with Pains or Aches take the Yolk of a new-lay'd Egg put to it a quarter of a pint of Muscadel or Alicant and being well warmed grate in some Nutmeg and drink it hot twice a Day Back weak Take of the Pith or Marrow of a Black Ox's Back-Bone three ounces Dates stoned and sliced two ounces boil them well together in a pint or more of Muscadin and take two or
three spoonfuls Morning and Evening and you 'll find it exceedingly strengthen the Back especially of old People Balls of Eggs tryed Put your Butter or tryed Suet into the Pan and when it is melted and hot stir it about till it runs round in Circles then break an Egg in the midst of the whirling and whirle it round till it becomes as an Egg poached and it will with the motion become as round as a Ball then take it up with a slice and put it into a warm Pipkin or Dish and set it a leaning against the Fire You may do thus by divers and serve them up with fryed and toasted Collops as a dainty Dish Balsom The following Balsom is very excellent for any Wounds Burns Scalds old Sores Botches Scabs c. Take Conduit or Spring-water and Olive-oil of each a quart Turpentine four ounces Liquid-Storax six ounces put them in an earthen glazed Pot and suffer them to stand together all Night in the Morning having melted half a pound of Bees-wax shred Marjoram Rosemary and Bays of each a handful beat and bruise them very small then add Dragons-Blood and Mummy made small of each an ounce Let them boil in the Wax a while then add Oil of St. John's-wort and Rose-water of each two ounces boil it together a little more and then put in some red Balsom and red Saunders pulveriz'd and being cooled make a hole to let out the Water dissolve it again on a Fire and put it up in a close Pot for your use This Balsom likewise cures the Head-ach only by anointing the Nostrils therewith also it is exceeding good in the Wind-Colick or Stitches in the Side being warmly applied to the Side or Belly an ounce at a time for four Mornings Balsom That called Lucatello's so highly in esteem for its Virtues is made after this manner Olive-Oil three pints Venice-Turpentine one pound Sack six spoonfuls yellow Wax one pound natural Balsom half an Ounce Red-Saunders in Powder and Oil of St. John's-wort of each an ounce wash the Turpentine three times in Rose-wawater water then slice the Wax thin and place it on the Fire and being thinly melted put in the Turpentine incorporate them well by stirring then let it stand till the next Day cut it in thick slices and let all the Water drain out and melt it again put in the aforesaid Oils Balsam and Saunders with about six spoonfuls of Sack stir them well together again over a gentle Fire for the space of an Hour that it may become thick and being cool use it for Wounds with Gun-shot Scalds with Lead Sulphur Blasting c. Balsom of Fallopius Take of clear Turpentine two pound Linseed-Oil one pound Rosin six ounces Myrrh Aloes Mastick Sarcocoll Mace Wood of Aloes of each two Ounces Saffron half an ounce put them in a glass Retort and set them in Ashes and when they are distilled there will come out a clear Water and after that a redish Oil which is excellent in curing Wounds healing old Sores cleansing Ulcers c. Balsom of Sulphur It has an excellent Virtue to cure Ulcers of the Lungs and Breast and wonderfully cleanses all other Ulcers The Dose is from ten to twenty Drops and may at any time be taken though not too often with any convenient Liquor mixed with Sugar to abate a little the sharpness of it Barberries These are cooling and astringent they provoke Appetite are great strengtheners of the Stomach which is the reason the Conserve is used so much in Fevers Loosness and Bloody-Flux for which it is very good The inward Bark of the Branches and Root steeped in White-wine are prevalent in the Cure of the Yellow-Jaundice A Concoction of the Bark the Juice of the Berries or the Juice of the Leaves mixed with Vinegar cure the Tooth-ach occasioned by fluxion of Rheums The Conserve is usually taken with success in Inflammations of the Mouth and Throat or more expeditiously if the Mouth be gargled with some of the Conserve dissolved in Vinegar and Water Barberries to pickle Take the largest Bunches steep them an Hour or two in warm Water and Salt then boil up the Water with more Salt having first taken the Barberries out when the Liquor is cool put in a few slices of Ginger and a little lump of Alom and then press the Barberries down with a Stone or Slate cover them close and keep them for your use Thus Medlars Services Grapes and such-like Things are pickled to keep all the Year Barberry-Tree the Virtue The inward Rind of this Tree boiled in White-wine and every Morning a quarter of a pint of it drank is very much approved for cleansing the Body from cholerick Humours and freeing it from such Diseases as Choler causeth viz. Scabs Itch Tetters Ring-worms Yellow-Jaundice Boils and the like It is also excellent for Agues and Burnings scalding Heat of the Liver and the Bloody-Flux The Berries have the same Virtue Barly This is a common Grain amongst us and of great use in many Cases many of its Virtues are known but to a few It is too well known to need a Description Its Virtues The Meal of Barly boiled in Honey and spring-Spring-Water resolveth all Inflammations or Imposthumes with Rosin and Pigeons-Dung it ripeneth all hard Swellings with Mellilot and Poppy-seeds it easeth Pains in the Sides applied Poultiswise pretty hot and mixed with bruised Quinces or Vinegar it easeth the Inflammation of the Gout in the Legs or Feet The Ashes of burnt Barly mixed with Olive-Oil is very good for Burns or Scalds Barly-Posset Boil half a pound of French Barly in three pints of Milk boil it till it is enough then put in a pint of Cream some Mace and Cinnamon sweeten it with fine Sugar and when it is just warm pour in a pint of White-wine froth it up and eat it with a Spoon or press out the liquid part and drink it Barly-Pottage Take a pound of French Barly cleanse it well from Husks put it into two quarts of Milk to steep and boil it a little when it is pretty well boiled put in a quart of Cream an ounce of Salt some Mace a little Stick of Cinamon broken in small pieces and when it is thick enough scrape some fine Sugar into it and serve it up Basil Garden This comforts the Heart and expels Melancholy moves the Courses and cleanses the Lungs There is another sort called Wild Basil which forces the Courses and the Birth and removes Melancholy being bruised and infused in Wine Bastings of Meats or Fowls 1. Clarified Suet. 2. Fresh Butter 3. Minced Sweet-herbs Butter and Claret-wine and this last is excellent for Mutton or Lamb. 4. Water and Salt 5. and especially for a Flayed Pig Cream and melted Butter well beaten up together 6. Yolks of Eggs Juice of Oranges and grated Bisket And if this be intended for large Fowl as Bustards Peacocks or Turkeys you may use the same Bath for the Legs For Diseases in the Legs make
also of single Daisies greatly tempers cholerick Heats refreshes the Liver and other inward parts A Decoction of them much availeth in the cure of Wounds in the hollowness of the Breast or Stomach as also for Ulcers and Pustles in the Mouth Tongue or Privy-Parts The Leaves bruised and applied to the Testicles or any other hot and swelled part dissolves the Swelling and temperates the Heat being boiled with Wall-wort and Agrimony they greatly help in the Palsie Gout or Sciatica dispelling Knobs or Kernels in any fleshy part They help Bruises and Ails occasion'd by Falls or Contusions by Blows They are successfully used in case of Ruptures the Ointment of them cools and expedites the cure of inflamed Wounds especially when they happen in or near the Joynts the Juice may be dropt into rheumatick sore Eyes Damascens to Preserve Gather your Damascens in dry Weather suffering them to be very ripe or they will be but of an indifferent colour to every pound of them put a spoonful of Rose-water and a pound of Sugar finely beaten then put the Fruit in a large bottom'd Pan one by one and set them on a Chafing-dish of five Coals but not at first too hot then put in as much Sugar and Rose-water as will melt it and when the Pan is warm cast on half your Sugar and let it be no hotter than you can endure your hand upon it forbearing to turn them till there be as much Syrup as will bear them up then turn them and cast on the rest of the Sugar not suffering them to seeth when you turn them lest they break on both sides when they are enough take off the Skins gently and when they are cold put them up in a Glass and put into them four or five Cloves and as many little bits of Cinamon and so you may Preserve any Plums Rut to any sort of White Plums put neither Cloves nor Cinamon Dandelyon or Denti de Leon or Lyons Tooth Its Quality is Cleansing and Opening by which means it is effectual in removing the Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Gall and such Diseases as arise from them as Hypochondriacal Passions and the Jaundice c. opening the Passage of Urine in Men and Women of all Ages cleansing Aposthumes and the inward urinary Passages and then by a temperate and drying quality heals them In this case you may boil the Leaves in White-wine or shred small put them into Broth. It is good likewise in a Consumption boiled in Broth or the Juice of the Root drank in Canary or in the bad Disposition of the body call'd Cachexia it procures Rest and Sleep when the Body is disorder'd by Agues The distilled Water is good in Pestilential Fevers and to wash old Sores Dates Of these there are divers kinds and as to their Physical Virtues some of them are dry and binding as those of Egypt others are soft moist and sweet as those growing in Syria Palestine and Jericho the rest are a mean between those two kinds and all of them are hard in Digestion and not very good for the Head because they many times cause the Head-ach but the Powder of them is successfully taken by such as spit Blood or are troubled with the Bloody-flux Deafness Take Betony and Horehound and stamp them in a Mortar strain out the Juice and when the Party is in bed and lying on one side drop in three or four drops into the Ear and it will in a few days time restore the Hearing if the Party was not born Deaf or some Violence has hot been offer'd to the Organs of Hearing Decoction to Open the Body Take twelve Prunes Licorice Aniseeds Currans and Fenel-seeds of each half an ounce Flowers of Borrage and Bugloss of each a dram and an half boil them bruised and shred in a quart of fair Water till the third part be wasted then strain it and drink it at three several times very hot and walk about upon it It loosens the Belly Decoction for Clysters Take the Leaves of Violets Mallows Pellitory Mercury the Herb so called of each a handful the Flowers of Camomil two pugils Sweet Fenel-seeds half an ounce Linseed two drams boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water or Milk to a pint These are the Herbs commonly used in Clysters to cool and empty the Bowels in Stoppages or hot Diseases but to make them work well you must add brown Sugar Decoction Pectoral Take Raisins of the Sun stoned an ounce Jubebs and Sebestenes of each fifteen six Dates and eight fat Figs Barley cleansed an ounce Licorice half an ounce the Leaves of Maidenhair Hyssop Scabious and Coltsfoot of each one handful boil them in three pints of spring-Spring-water to the consumption of a third part A quarter of a pint taken of it every Morning is excellent good for Heats Pains Swelling or any Distemper or Diseases of the Breast and to help Expectorations Decoction of Senna Take two ounces of the Leaves of Senna of the Roots of Polypody of the Oak of each half an ounce Raisins of the Sun stoned two ounces Ginger one dram Sebestens and Damask-prunes of each a dozen of the Flowers of Borrage Red Roses Violets and Rosemary of each two drams boil them in two quarts of Spring-water till half be consumed This is an excellent Purging Potion The Dose is four ounces If it be given to a strong Body that it may work the better put to three ounces of it an ounce of the Syrup of Buckthorn or Roses solutive This may be safely taken as often as any occasion of Ilness or Indisposition requires it or for prevention Decoction of Woods Take Sarsaparilla-roots split and cut small four Ounces Guaiacum three ounces the Bark of the Wood two ounces Sassafras one ounce and an half the Roots of Burdocks and Butterbur of each two ounces and an half Rhodium-wood and Yellow Saunders of each an ounce Carduus-seeds and Juniper-berries of each six drams of the outer Bark of dried Citrons two drams infuse them all night in six quarts of fair Water and then boil them to the consumption of half the Liquid This drank as a Diet-drink is exceeding good for those that are troubled with the French Disease King 's Evil Rheums or Coughs It may be taken four times a day for twenty or thirty days together Decoctum Amarum This bitter Decoction or Draught is made in the following manner Take the Flowers of Camomil the Tops of the Lesser Centaury of each a pugil or very small handful Gentian-root half a scruple the Leaves of Senna cleansed and Carduus-Benedictus-seeds of each one dram boil them in a sufficient quantity of clear spring-Spring-water to four ounces This strengthens the Stomach restores lost Appetite and causes a good Digestion You may take four ounces of it for a Dose fasting five or six Mornings together Defluxion on the Eyes Take red Sage and Rue of each a handful fine Wheat-Flower a spoonful the White of a new-lay'd Egg beaten to
those that are troubled with Inflammations It Chears Strengthens and Preserves the Sight Falling-sickness Take half a dram of choice Amber powder it very fine and take it fasting once a day in a quarter or a pint of Whitewine for seven or eight days successively Falling-sickness Take Misleto of the Oak the Leaves and Berries and all the tender Branches dry them in a gentle Oven or Stove so that they may be beat to Powder sift it very fine and give as much as will lie on a Shilling for one of riper years for middle age a lesser quantity and so to a Child by lessening the Dose Let it be taken both Morning and Evening in Couslip-water three Days before and three Days after the Full of the Moon repeat the Dose for a considerable time at least two Months if necessity requires it Falling-sickness another Take Senna two ounces Turbith Mechoacan of each half an ounce Raspings of Elks-hoof Powder of a dead Man's Skull and Nutmeg of each two drams Roots and Seeds of Peony Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Cardamom Cassia Lignea and Cloves of each a dram Flowers of Male Peony of Lilly of the Valleys of Lavender of the Tyle-tree of each half a dram Rhenish-wine one quart and half a pint digest these in a warm place for two Days then strain out the liquid part and sweeten in with three ounces of double-refined Sugar This is also good against Vapours Falling-sickness another Take white Incense called Olibanum Mastick and Spicknard of each three ounces Galbanum and Opopanax of each half an ounce Viscus Quercinus an ounce Amber half a scruple Peony-seeds half a dram Labdanum two drams the Seeds of wild Rue one dram Nutmeg and Cubebs of each half an ounce Castor and Copperas of each half a dram having beaten those that are to be beaten very well and dissolved the Gums in Oil of Rue incorporate them with your Hands or some convenient Instrument with the Viscus which being done and the Amber put in last in Powder the Head of the Party being shaven spread a Plaister of the Composition and lay upon it and renew it once in three or four Days And in so doing the afflicted Party will find great ease and in a little time the Cause of this troublesome and dangerous Distemper removed Fat 's to Prepare To do this that they may be in readiness on sundry emergent Occasions Take the freshest of any of them take out the little Veins and Fibers and separate the Fat from the Skin then wash it in clear Water till it is freed from Blood then mince it very small or bruise it and put it into a double Vessel to melt then strain it into clean Water and having remained there till it becomes cold drain the Water from it and keep it in an earthen glazed Pot in a cool place though not too moist and it will keep good for use a Twelvemonth Fevers continual Make a Decoction of the Leaves of Rue in Spring-water or other clear Water till the Liquor be pretty strong of the Plant which being strained make it somewhat a pallatable Liquor with a sufficient quantity of Licorice Sugar or an aromatick Body and to half a pint of it add ten drops of the Spirit not Oil of Vitriol and take it Morning Afternoon and at Night Fevers another Remedy Take in half a pint of some convenient cooling Liquor half an ounce of Harts-Horn burnt to a great whiteness and powdered being first bruised a little in the Liquid and this may be taken as occasion requires Fevers another Remedy Apply to the Soles of the Feet a mixture or thin Cataplasm made of the Leaves of Tobacco cut and beaten into a moisture with new Currans Feverfew This is excellent in the Diseases of the Womb the Decoction of it forces the Courses and expels the After-birth and do's all a bitter Herb is capable of doing It is successful in Fevers by being applied to the Soles of the Feet Take of it a handful warm it between two Tiles and apply it twice or thrice and it cures a Hemicrania and the crude Herb applied to the Crown of the Head cures the Head-ach A Decoction of it with the Flowers of Camomel cures the hysterical Symptoms and forces Child-Bed purgations c. Fig-Tree The Fruit of the Fig-Tree applied outwardly Ripens Mollifies and Attracts being beaten with Salt and Leaven they break pestilential Buboes or other Tumours in few Days The Juice of the Fig-Tree is very biting and may be numbred among Causticks and may be used for the Cure of Warts and such-like excrescencies of the Skin Take Raisins of the Sun stoned one ounce Jubebs and Sebestens of each fifteen eight fat Figgs and six Dates half an ounce of Licorice and an ounce of French Barly of the Leaves of Maiden-hair Hysop Scabious and Colts-foot of each a handful boil them in three pints of Fountain-water till a third part be consumed press out the Decoction and take eight spoonfuls three times a Day This is a very good Pectoral Figwort its Virtues The Powder of the dryed Root applied to Piles drys them up it is also useful in Cancers and eating Ulcers a dram of the Powder taken inwardly expels Worms the Water distilled from the Roots steeped in Water and Vinegar cures the redness of the Face and of this Herb an excellent Ointment is made for killing the Itch and bringing away the Scurf of it The Decoction of it taken inwardly and the Herb bruised and Poultiswise applied dissolves and brings away congealed and clotted Blood The distilled Water takes away Freckles Morphew c. There is a Plaister of it made for the King's-Evil as follows Take the Leaves of Figwort Houndstongue and the Flowers of white Archangel and Foxglove cut them very small then melt a pound of Lard and it being very hot put them into it boil them till they are crisp then strain them out and put in others till the Ointment look very thick of the green then having strained them out put into the Hogs-Lard two ounces of Turpentine and an ounce of Verdigrease and as much Rosin refined and Bees-wax as will make it into a Salve spread a Plaister and apply it to the grieved Part renewing it often It asswages the Swellings disperses the Humours not only of the King's-Evil but of any other Knots Kernels Bunches or Wens Filbert This Garden-Nut is very pleasant and used mostly for serving up at Tables among other Fruits an Oil is extracted from them that supples hard Swellings and is successfully used in old Sores but the much eating of these breeds the Head-ach and much Windiness in the Stomach Films This is when a thin Skin grows over the Eye and clouds the Sight To take it off Make some Lime-water by pouring a gallon of boiling Water on a pound of Lime unslack'd stirring the Lime in it and after some Hours decant warily that which is clear and to a pound of this
Oil covâ—… 〈◊〉 very close and let it stand twenty four Hours in a warm Bath make it boil for two Hours and then strain it strongly pressing out the substance Then separate the Oil and keep it for your use This powerfully digests and discusses cold Humours that fall on the Nervous and Membranous Parts It is proper against all Infirmities of the Joints Rheumatisms Sciatica's and cold Gout and may be applied hot to the Parts alone or mixed with other proper Unguents Oil of Iuniper Take the Berries of Juniper gathered from the beginning of August to the end of September bruise them and infuse them in Spring-water three or four Days and the Water of the first Infusion will serve for the rest then take two Alembicks the one full of Berries and the other half full of the Infusion let them be made of earthen Ware put these into the Earth one on the top of the other or conveniently fastned upon the other after having strained it with a Cloth put it into a Furnace and when cold open it and gather the Oil on the top leaving the Water to run out and let it take as little Air as may be This is excellent good for Strains or Afflictions of the Sinews and Nerves and is used with Success in the Pains of the Gout Oil of Lilies Take of Costus Mastick Calamus Aromaticus Oil of Pellitory and Carpobalsom of each an ounce Cinnamon and Cloves of each half an ounce Saffron three drams when you have bruised them infuse them in Water twenty four Hours then boil them a little and having taken them from the Fire pour in Oil of Olives two pound the Leaves of Lilies eight ounces set them forty Days in the Sun then strain it and take off the purest Oil that swims on the top and take it as an excellent Remedy against the Pains of the Gout as also for the Head-ach and many other Use Oil of Lizards Take pressed Oil of Walnuts depurated three pound and three ounces of Whitewine put them into a glazed earthen Pot with a narrow Mouth set in Balneo Mariae boil it till it is exceeding hot then take green vigorous Lizards in number twelve fifteen or twenty as they are in bigness suffocate them in the scalding Oil and having well stopped the Pot boil them to the consumption of their moisture then strain and press them and reserve the pure Oil for use Oil of Lizards is commended for making the Hair grow on bald Heads c. It is a Specifick to cure Burstermess the Bowels being first put up and the Party anointed with it very warm then laying on the Panicle that incloses the Intestines of an Animal moistened with this Oil and strewed over with some astringent Powder binding on a good Pillow to keep the Bowels tight Oil of Mace Three or four drops of it fasting in a little Broth eases the Pains of the Colick and Strangury it comforts the Heart and Stomach and helps cold Diseases of various kinds Oil of Mint Take the Leaves of sown Mint bruise them let them macerate with the Juice in the Oil of Omphacine and change and boil it as you do Oil of Roses This greatly strengthens the Stomach a few drops being taken in Wine Beer or Ale and the Stomach anointed with it it also helps Concoction and does many other good Offices proper to an excellent pectoral Oil. Oil of Mustard-Seed Take two pound of the plumpest Mustard-seed four pound of Olive-oil grind them together and let them stand nine Days then press out the Oil and keen it for your use It is excâ—…t in case of the Palsie Gout Itch or any other such-like Maladies Oil of Nard Take of Spicknard out small and bruised three ounces strong Wine five ounces put them into a strait-mouthed glazed earthen Pot and let them infuse in a moderate hot place then add half a pint of Olive-oil stop up the Pot and keep it in a boiling Balneo Mariae till the Wine be almost consumed after that strain and press it strongly then separate the Oil from the faeces and keep it stopped very close for your use This Oil is proper to Heat Digest and Attenuate being a moderate Closer so that it is very useful against Cold and Windy Afflictions of the Brain Stomach Liver Kidney Spleen Bladder and Matrix it unstops and purges the Brain Cotton being dipped in it and put to the Nostrils asswages the Pains of them it is good against the Palfie and Shaking of the Nerves also Tumours Suffocations and Stranglings of the Matrix being used as a Pessary it is also used by way of Injection to asswage and allay Pains or heat of the Bladder Oil for the Nerves Boil Neats-feet and you will find an oily quality swimming on the top scum it off and purifie it and in case of any Afflictions of the Nerves anoint the Place grieved with it as hot as can be endured and it will extreamly strengthen them taking away Pains Aches or Weakness in the Back Reins Muscles Joints or Nervous parts when anointed with it Morning and Evening It likewise cures a wasting Consumption or Pining in any part of the Body being anointed often with it by reason it nourisheth the fleshy or musculous Parts adding strength to them but is more powerful in its operation if you take a pound of it with the Oils of Amber Lavender Rosemary Oranges of each an ounce Camphire half an ounce mix these well together and in case of Strains Coldness or Weakness of the Joints anoint them with it chafing or rubbing it in warm you will find wonderful ease and a cessation of Pain it makes likewise the Skin plump and smooth Oil of Orris Take the Roots of Florentine-Orris and of the purple Flower two pound also a sufficient quantity of the Water wherein the Roots of Orris are boiled of sweet Oil washed six pints boil them in a double Vessel put in fresh Roots and Flowers till the watry part is consumed then press out the Oil and keep it for use This Oil or Ointment digests crude Humours dissolves hard Swellings mollifies and discusses digests and eases Pains Oil of Osprey Take thirty Scorpions Oil of Bitter Almonds two pound put them into a narrow-necked Vessel and let them digest for thirty Days in the heat of Summer in the Sun then strain it out and keep it close stopped This is good against the Stone or Gravel m the Kidneys the Reins being anointed with it as also the Share and Perinaeum and injected into the urinal Passage it is also good against the Bite or Sting of any venomous Creature and the malignity of the Plague Some think it should be used only as an Ointment but others hold it may be given inwardly against the Pains of the Colick and Stone the Dose being from one to two drams in any Powder or Vehicle Oil of Roses to Make Gather the Buds of those Roses called Provence-Roses take the Flower off clean without
Stiptick-Water the New Way Take Colcothar or red Vitriol which remains in the Retort after the Spirit is drawn out Sugar-candy and Burnt-alom of each half a dram the Urin of a young Lad and Rose-water of each half an ounce Plantain-water two ounces mix them well together for a considerable time then pour the Mixture into a Viol and when you separate it do it by inclination for use This is so excellent for stopping Bleeding that a Bolster dipped in it and applied to an open Artery and held there a while it has stay'd the bleeding of it A Pledget thrust up the Nostrils do's the like for the bleeding there Taken inwardly it cures the Spitting of Blood and Bloody-flux c. The Dose taken inwardly is from half a dram to a dram and it may be given in the Water of Knot-grass Nettles or Wood-sorrel This Water is excellent for any one to carry about them and may upon any Accident happening save a Life that the Effusion of Blood if not speedily stopped may carry away with it Stomach Hot When you find any great Heat or Burning in your Stomach Take green Housleek bruise it and press out the Juice then over a gentle Fire make it into a Syrup with white Sugar This is likewise excellent good a quarter of an ounce taken at a time for the Heart burn Stomach Pain'd If the Stomach be afflicted with Pains occasioned by windiness or Causes proceeding from the defect of the Milt Take an ounce of Cinnamon Rapontici and Galangal as much put to them when bruised half a pound of Sugar and lay it when boiled up to a heighth on Plates make them into Lozenges Take one at a time and drink a glass of Wine after it and it will work gently so that in often taking your Thirst will be much abared Stomachical Tincture Take Agrimony two drams small Centaury-tops one dram Coriander-seeds bruised one scruple Sassafras Shavings and Bark one dram Gentian-root half a dram Zedoary-root ten grains put these to three quarters of a pint of boiling spring-Spring-water cover it and let them steep twelve Hours then strain it and Bottle it up It exceedingly fortifies and refreshes the Stomach eases it of Pains and Gripings and prevents the Iliac-Passion Stone the Cause and Cure The Stone is ingendred of vicious and slimy Flegm in the Reins and Bladder where by heat it petrifies and takes to it self the hardness and nature of a Stone To dissolve and bring away this Take of the Tops of Borrage Fenel Parsly Endive and Succory Spearage and Beets of each a little handful shred them and boil them in three quarts of Rhenish-wine drink a quarter of a pint of it Morning and Evening and once a Week take a Clyster made of Mallows Groundsil Southernwood and Fetherfew boiled in fair Water and mixed with two ounces of brown Sugar especially if the Affliction be in the Reins Stone or Gravel Take thirty or forty Drops of Spirit of Castor in a Glass of Rhenish Wine every Morning fasting Stone and Gravel Take four gallons of running Water four pound of fine Sugar in powder Eringo-roots and Raisins of the Sun stoned of each one pound a branch of fresh Rosemary boil all these together till half be consumed then work it up with a little Yeast tun it and put the Peel of a fresh Lemon into it when it hath done working you may Bottle it if you please Of this drink Morning and Evening and whensoever you are adry Stone and Gravel another Take the White of a new-lay'd Egg and beat it well with a Spoon in a Porringer for a quarter of an hour then let it settle and take off the Scum mix the Clear with two spoonfuls of Whitewine and four spoonfuls of red rose-Rose-water and put to it one ounce of Sugar-candy in Powder mix all well together and take it in the Morning fasting and another at Night going to Bed Continue this seven Days Stone and Gravel another Take of the Juice of Leeks Onions and Radishes of each two pound Juices of Lemons Pellitory and Mouse-ear of each half a pound Calx of Crystal and Pidgeon's-dung of each half a pound digest it for ten Days then distil it You may give it from one dram to half an ounce at a time in Rhenish Wine Stone and Gravel another Gather the Leaves of Golden-Rod when it is in its greatest Vigour dry them in the shade and when you are troubled with the Stone or Gravel take one ounce thereof made into subtil Powder in a small Glass of White-wine and Milk of each a like quantity repeat this as often as there is cause for it When the Herb is green you may boil a handful of it in Whitewine Posset-drink and drink it instead of the dried Herb which is to keep all the Year Stone and Gravel a Diet Forbear eating of Eggs all salt and tart Meats and Sauces Pork Milk or any thing made of Milk except Possets Cabbage Colworts Colliflowers and such-like let your Diet be Mutton Veal Rabbit and Fowl and the quantity moderate let your Drink be of the midling sort and not too stale Forbear drinking Claret drink Spanish Wine rather than French Strain The Strain or Sprain being newly contracted Take a handful of Wormwood and bruise it well in a stone Mortar then put to it the Whites of two Eggs beaten make a Poultis of it and lay it to the grieved place Strangury This is caused either from the Urin's being over sharp which provokes the expulsive Faculties to expel it before any quantity be gathered together or that the retentive Faculty to the Bladder is weakned through some distemperature especially of Cold or else through some Ulcer or Inflammation of the Bladder to which the Urin coming doth extimulate the expulsive Faculty or lastly when the Womb or Bowels being inflamed do trouble or distend the Bladder To remedy this Take Cassia one dram Manna two grains Violets Sorrel and Purslain of each a pugil Licorice Prunes and the Leaves of Mallows of each two ounces bruise and boil these in two quarts of Whey till a fourth part be consumed strain out the liquid part and sweeten it with Honey and drink a quarter of a pint as hot as may be fasting and an hour after take a quarter of an ounce of the Oil of Violets and half an ounce of the Oil of sweet Almonds mixed together Straitness of the Breasts This is frequently occasioned by evil Humours setling in the Breasts To remedy which Take Taxus-Barbatus Fennel and Licorice of each a little handful boil them in Water and Wine a like quantity and when they become tender strain the liquid part through a Linnen-cloath sweeten it with Sugar and take about a quarter of a pint of it pretty hot in a Morning fasting This likewise removes Hoarsness or Defects occasioned by Cold or tough Flegm Strengthning the Bowels Take Cloves or Chives not Bulbs of Garlick and swallow at convenient times one or two of
be violent Virginia Trout to Make This as it is usually done is only the cutting off the Heads of pickled Herrings and the Bodies being layed twenty four Hours in Water wash them and season them with Mace Cinnamon Cloves Pepper and a little red Saunders then mince some Onion and Lemon-peel season them with Mace Cinnamon Cloves Pepper and a little red Saunders then mince some Onion and Lemon-peel strip a few pickled Barberries and sprinkle them on between each Layer of the Fish and when they are thus ordered put in a pint of Claret and tye on a double wetted brown Paper on the Pot and so set it in the Oven with Houshold-bread and being drawn and cooled they will look as red as Salmon or Trout tast curiously and eat altogether as well Vlcers in the Breast Take Millepedes otherways called Wood-lice or Sows-lice wash them clean dry them with a Linnen-cloath and beat them very well in a glass or marble Mortar and press out the Juice that comes from them and if the Mass be too dry you may agitate with them a little Whitewine or Ale which penetrating and softening them the Liquor may the better part with its Juice Half a dram of which take in two spoonfuls of Whitewine fasting in a Morning Vlcers to Cleanse Take four ounces of Turpentine and wash it in Scabeous-water the Yolks of two Eggs and an ounce of Barly-meal Saffron Sarcocol Mastick and Frankincense of each half a dram bruise and mix them well together and make them a Plaister with the addition of clarified Rosin Honey and Oil of Roses This being applied not only cleanses Ulcers but ingenders in them new Flesh where it is wasted and makes after the Cure is past the Skin smooth again Vlcers External Take the gross Stalks of red Colwort dry them pretty well then put them into an earthen refining Pot or such-like and put them on a hot Fire till they are reduced to Ashes and apply those Ashes to the Ulcer or take the green Bark of an Oak chop or bruise it very small pour upon it Lime-water freshly made let it infuse till the Liquor has a duskey colour and with this Water wash the Ulcer twice a Day Vlcer in the Mouth To remedy this Take a pound and a half of white Sugar the Juice of Pomgranates clarified a pint mix these well over a gentle Fire and bring them to the consistence of a Syrup and gargle the Mouth with it also the Throat as far as may be very often and it will bring away the Corruption and Cause the Sore to heal It is astringent and also strengthens the Stomach Vlcers another Take one dram of Corrosive Sublimate reduce it to fine Powder and dissolve it in a quart of fair Water suffering it to lye there four or five Days in a light Digestion then drop in it as much Sal-armoniack or as much Oil of Tartar per Deliquium as will precipitate it all then filter it carefully and keep it close stopt for use viz. To dip Pledgets into it and apply them to the ulcerous Part once twice or thrice a Day as you see occasion Vlcus Vteri Take Asphaltum or the true and choice Bitumen Judaicum reduce it to a curious fine Powder and take of it about a dram at a time in any proper Vehicle once or twice a Day as you see occasion Vmble-Pasty To make a Pasty or Pye after the newest fashion Cut the Umbles in small pieces and do the like by fat Bacon mix them together and season them with Pepper Salt and Nutmeg fill your Pasty or Pye with the Materials having a little stript Thyme and shred pieces of Lemon scatter'd among them then cover them with slices of Butter and Bacon very thin and close it let it soak well in the Oven and when it is drawn beat up Butter with Claret Lemon and stript Thyme and serve it up hot Vmble-Pye Make a Laying of minced Beef-suet in the bottom of your Coffin or Slices of interlarded Bacon cut the Umbles in pieces as big as small Dice and your Bacon in like form season it with Nutmeg Pepper and Salt and fill your Pye with it and close it up with slices of Bacon and Butter when it is enough pour in at the place you have left vacant Butter and Claret beat up together and so serve it up at the Table whilst it is hot Be sure it be well baked or it is altogether spoiled Vnguent for St. Anthony's Fire Take Vervine Pimpernel Bettony of each a handful bruise them and put them into three pints of Whitewine boil them in a fined Vessel if possible then strain them and set the Decoction over a gentle Fire again in a glazed Vessel then take washed Turpentine three ounces Rosin one pound new white Wax four ounces when these are melted and well mixed add to them Mastick-powder one ounce and the Milk of a Woman that has born a Male-Child two ounces make these into an Unguent or Ointment over a gentle Fire and anoint the Party afflicted with this hot Distemper often bathing it in and it will repel the Heat It is also very necessarily used for Fistula's Cankers and hot Swellings in the Joints and Sinews Vnguentum Aegyptiacum Take Verdigrease five drams good Honey fourteen scruples strong Vinegar seven scruples boil them together till they incorporate to the thickness of an Unguent and be of a purple colour This forcibly cleanses inveterate Ulcers and consumes proud spongy and dead Flesh Vnguentum Album Take Ceruse four ounces Litharge half an ounce let them steep a while in rose-Rose-water then put them into a Mortar and by degrees pour in so much rose-Rose-water as they can conveniently soak up continually stirring them till they are formed into an Unguent then add a little Whitewine-Vinegar and of Camphire one dram and a half This Ointment is very cooling it asswageth Pains occasioned by Heat and Inflammations heals Excoriations and takes away Scabs and the Itch. Vnguentum Apostolorum Take Turpentine white Wax Bees-wax and Rosin of each sixteen scruples Opopanax and Verdigrease of each two scruples Amoniacum sixteen scruples long Aristolochia and great Incense of each six scruples Myrrh and Galbanum of each three scruples Bdellium six scruples Litharge nine scruples Olive-oil two pound mix the Litharge with two ounces of the Oil and let them stand five Hours then boil it gently till it be as thick as Honey keeping it continually stirring and take it from the Fire putting in the Wax and Rosin being dissolved with the Oils then whilst it is cooling put in the rest of the Gums dissolved in the Vinegar boiled and incorporated with the Turpentine then the Aristolochia Myrrh and a little Frankincense finely powdered and sprinkled on the rest then make the whole Composition into an Ointment the Verdigrease being put in last This by detersion purgeth and cleanseth Wounds and dangerous Ulcers also Fistula's wasteth dead Flesh and encreaseth the new Vnguentum Aureum
THE Family-Dictionary OR Houshold Companion Wherein are Alphabetically laid down Exact Rules and Choice Physical RECEIPTS FOR The Preservation of Health Prevention of Sickness and Curing the several Diseases Distempers and Grievances incident to Men Women and Children Also Directions for Making Oils Ointments Salves Cordial-Waters Powders Pills Bolus's Lozenges Chymical Preparations Physical-Wines Ales and other Liquors c. and Descriptions of the Virtues of Herbs Fruits Flowers Seeds Roots Barks Minerals and Parts of Living Creatures used in Medicinal Potions c. Likewise Directions for Cookêry in Dressing Flesh Fish Fowl Seasoning Garnishing Sauces and Serving-up in the Best and most acceptable Manner The Whole ART of Pastry Conserving Preserving Candying Confectioning c. Also The Way of Making all sorts of Perfumes Beautifying-Waters Pomatums Washes Sweet-Balls Sweet-Bags and Essences Taking Spots and Stains out of Garments Linnen c. and Preserving them from Moths c. Washing Point Sarsnets and Restoring Faded Linnen and Scowring or Brightning Tarnished Gold or Silver Lace Plate c. Together VVith the Art of Making all sorts of English VVines as Currants Cherries Gooseberries and Cyder Mead Metheglin c. And the ART of Fining and Recovering Foul or Faded Wines The MYSTERY of Pickling and keeping all Sorts of Pickles throughout the Year To which is Added as an APPENDIX The Explanation of Physical Terms Bills of Fare in all Seasons of the Year With the ART of CARVING And many other Useful Matters By J. H. London Printed for H. Rhodes at the Star the Corner of Bride-lane in Fleetstreet 1695. LICENSED February the 28th 1694 5. THE PREFACE Courteous Reader IN this elaborate Work thou wilt find such Satisfaction as perhaps the present or past Ages have not before afforded thee If Health is held valueable in your Eyes and you would avoid the Pains and tediousness of Sickness or Grievances incident to Human Bodies here you may repair to an Asylum and find the Arcana opened for your Good which have been hitherto locked up from the greater part of Mankind All Difficulties and Hard Terms or Words are removed which have puzled Ingenious Persons and the Path is made so smooth that any reasonable Capacity or Understanding may travel in it without the least fear of Stumbling or falling into Error if some particular Cautions that will herein occur are used as a Guide and Conductor For I confess in weighty Matters such as tend to the Preservation of Health the preciousest Jewel of Life things ought to be well weighed and considered that every thing may concur with the Ends for which it was design'd and made publick which is the Benefit of Mankind That it is called a FAMILY-DICTIONARY shows it is intended for the Publick Good containing such Things as cannot in one way or other miss of their designed Ends in being Useful and Advantagious to those that stand in need of Good Advice or Directions and will be so wise or kind to themselves as to consult their own Benefit in what is contained in this Book it being a Mixture of many Rarities that have when practised in Private given Contentment even to Admiration and answered the End beyond Expectation Here you will not only find Physical Receipts for the most reigning Distempers Diseases and Grievances incident to English Bodies but how to Prepare and Administer them in the best and properest Ways and Methods So that every one may be provided with Remedies when Necessity calls for them and a Physician or Surgeon are not to be had which may be done with little Cost and Labour The Rich being Charitably dispos'd may find an easie Means to exercise their Charity in helping the afflicted Poor and even Gardens and Fields may afford Relief without any Cost to ease the Pains and Miseries of those that labour under tedious and troublesome Distempers or Grievances when Friends may fail Here you are also taught how to make all sorts of Wines Cyders Metheglins c. and several sorts of Cordial-Waters Perfumes Washes Beautifying-Waters and other Rarities of the like Nature All sorts of Cookery are herein nicely displayed and the whole Mystery of Confection with many other Things too tedious to be recited in a Preface So that the Roses are twined with the Gessamine and many other Fragrant Branches bearing curious Flowers of Profit and Advantage to render it a Garland lovely and acceptable What shall I further say but that it is recommended to the World by Ingenious Persons who have perused it as a Curious Piece done in an easie Method to direct the Reader in what he is desirous to know or practise And will not only do Good to the present but future Ages Be a Helper at Need and treasur'd up as a Jewel by those who will undoubtedly find their Expectations answered in the Particulars they require to be satisfied about To conclude what is not done from the exactest Experience is taken with Care and Caution from the most approved Authors as well Ancient as Modern Take it then as you find it and let neither Fear small Charges or Neglect deter you from practising what is convenient or advantagious for your Health as occasion offers or requires it And may every thing succeed according to your Wishes and Desires VALE ACH or Swelling Take Sheeps-suet Oatmeal and Black Soap of each Four Ounces boil them in Two Quarts of Water till they come to the thickness of a Salve then spread a Plaister and laying it to the Place grieved it will remove the Pain Aches For Aches in any part of the Body take this following Ointment thus made Take the tender Tops of Wormwood Rosemary and Bay-Leaves of each a Handful Sage and Rue each a Pound the Kidney-suet of a Wether clean picked from the Skin half a Pound Oil of Olives Two Quarts bruise the Herbs and Suet being first shred small then put in the Oil and temper them well and so suffer them to stand in an Earthen Vessel close stopped for the space of Seven Days Then set it on a gentle Fire and let it heat by degrees and keep it stirring till the Herbs are shrivel'd with the Oils and Suet and then strain it and use it with Success not only for Aches but for Lameness in the Limbs Stitches Gout or Bruises Adders Tongue This Herb is used successfully in Wounds new or old either outwardly applied or taken inwardly And in case of Ruptures dry the Leaves and having made them into a Powder take about a Dram and a half according to the Age of the Party in Two Ounces of Oak-buds which you may for the more conveniency of taking sweeten with the Syrup of Quinces and so take it in a Morning fasting for Fifteen Days or thereabouts having the Rupture put up and trussed well before you begin to take it There is also an Oil made of it in this manner viz. Bruise a Handful of the Leaves in a stone Mortar boil them in a Pint of Olive-Oil till they have sucked
Dish and when it is cold slice it into a Diamond-fashion and chequer it over and serve it on glass or other Plates strewing if you please Sugar mixed with the Powder of Cinnamon on them Almond-Milk To make it according to the best Method you must boil about Two Quarts of Water scumming it well and when it is taken off suffer it to settle pour out the clear part and setting it over the Fire again boil in it Violet-Leaves and Straw-berry-Leaves of the Roots of each a large Handful Sorrel-Roots half a Handful these being well washed put in with them a Crust of Bread and stoned Raisins of the Sun Two Ounces and so suffer them to boil over a gentle Fire till the liquid part be consumed to a Quart and then with Fifty Almonds blanched and Thirty Pompion-Kernels all well beaten draw an Almond-Milk sweeten it with fine Sugar and drink Morning and Evening about Three Quarters of a Pint. This excellently sweetens the Blood and causes a ruddy and fair Complexion being very good in Consumptions Almonds an Oil To make this Take sweet Almonds blanch them and bruise them then pour on them a little rose-Rose-Water and put them into a Vessel that they may be kept warm as it were in hot Water then put them into a Bag that is very porous pressing them at first gently and so continue it by degrees till you perceive a clear Oil come out This by bathing mitigates Pains and Swellings comforteth the exasperated Parts especially the Lungs and Kidneys it mollifyeth dry and hard Swellings and is profifitable in Hectick Feavours to be given in any cooling Liquors and for the anointing the Forehead and Stomach it also supples the Face and Hands and keeps them plump and soft Almond-Pudding To make this Take Two French Rolls or other White-bread slice them and put them into a Quart of Cream put it then on a gentle Fire till both be hot beat it well together add Twelve Eggs and the Whites but of Four Beef-Suet or Marrow Four Ounces as much of Currants and Raisins and season it with grated Nutmegs Mace Salt and Sugar scattering into it a little Flower then make a piece of Puff-past as much as will cover your Dish set it in a quick Oven but not too hot bake it sufficiently and server it up Almond-Snow-Cream Take a Quart of Sweet Cream a quarter of a Pound of Almond-Past beat it well up with Rose-Water mix it with half a Pint of White-Wine and strain it put into it the scrapings of Orange-Peel and Nutmegs sliced Two or Three Sprigs of Rosemary and suffer it to steep Two or Three Hours then put some double refined Sugar to it strain it into a Bason and beat it till it froth and bubble and as the Froth rises take it off with a Spoon and put it into the Dish you serve it up in Almond-Tart Strain beaten Almonds with the Yelks of Eggs well beaten and new Cream Sugar Cinnamon and Ginger boil it thick and fill your Tart and when it is baked ice it over with gleer of Eggs Sugar and Rose-Water beat up well together Aloes-Rosatum Take of the finest Aloes-Succotrine Four Ounces make them into a Powder take the Juice of Damask-Roles clarified two pound put them together and let them stand in the Sun in a glass Vessel or in Balneo till all the moisture be exhaled do this four times and then make it into Pills which are excellent to purge the Stomach for Pains in the Bowels and a gentle Purge upon any Occasion Alom to burn Burn this in a new earthen Vessel keeping as much as may be the more subtil part from evaporating and when it ceases to bubble and no more froth or scum upon the sudden taking off the Cover arises it is sufficient Ambergrease-Cake To make this Take fine white Sugar beat it and sift it well then beat Six new-lay'd Eggs till the Froth rises and by degrees drop them on the Sugar mixing that and them together by stirring round very quick in a marble Mortar and being wrought till it may be drop'd thin on Plates then put in a grain of Civet and Two Grains of Ambergrease then butter your Pye-Plate and taking the stuff up by Spoonfuls drop it on the Plates in the nature of Cakes and put them into a gentle Oven when they begin to rise take them out and keep them for use in a dry Place These are good for the Stomach and Head Ambergrease-Cakes Take fine Flower a quarter of a Peck mix with it slices of Marmalade of Quinces a quarter of a Pound of Sugar and Rose-Water beaten up together of each 10 Spoonfuls Yest half a Pint Currants a Pound clean pick'd and wash'd Cinamon and Mace finely powdered each half an Ounce candy'd Orange-Peel cut very small then with Ten new-lay'd Eggs and a Quart of new Milk thicken it and mix it well then dissolve a Dram of Ambergrease in a quarter of a Pint of White-Wine and mix with the rest So make it up into a Cake and bake it in a gentle Oven and it will prove excellent if iced over with Sugar melted in Rose-Water and the White of an Egg. Ambergrease the Tincture To make this Put in half a Pint of Spirit of Wine into a strong Glass Ambergrease one Ounce Musk Two Drams let the Glass be stopped close with a Cork and tyed over with a Bladder and place it in warm Horse-Dung for the space of 12 Days then pour off the Spirit gently and put on as much new Spirit and place it as before pouring off the second rime clean and after all this the Ambergrease will serve for ordinary Uses And the Tincture drawn off as before one drop of it is an excellent Perfume and being drunk in Tea or Coffee is an excellent Cordial against Fevers and Pestilential Distempers Amber-Pills Take Venice-Turpentine washed one Ounce Powder of white Amber Six Grains mix them well and put them in a clean glazed Earthen Pot upon Embers moderately hot and to try whether it be enough take a drop and let it cool and when it is so stiff that it will not cleave to the Fingers it is enough then take of the Powder of Pearl white Amber and Coral of each a Dram of the inner Bark of an Oak Nutmeg and Cinamon of each a quarter of an Ounce add to these Three Ounces of Loaf-Sugar bruised and sifted then make them into a Powder and seeth them and put the Pills into them but before you take them it will be proper to take a gentle Purge after which wrap up Three of the Pills in as much of the Powder as will lye on a Shilling and take them swallowing after them the Yelk of an Egg a little warm And by so doing Two or Three times it will eradicate noxious Humours and fortifie the Body against violent Distempers Amber-Pudding Take to make this the Guts of a young Hog turn them and wash 'em very clean then take Two Pound
in a moderate Sand Bath This is properly called a Corrected Antiepileptick Water of Langius and has been long in request and by the preparing it as here directed it is excellent given in Epileptick-Fits The Dose is two Drams It may be also used for the prevention as well as the Cure of this Distemper and is very proper for all cold Diseases in the Brain Antimonial Claret-Water Take Glass of Antimony finely powdered two Drams Claret-Wine a pint and a half macerate them over a gentle Fire for a considerable time in a Matrass carefully stopt and often shaking it mix then with the whole four Ounces of fine Loaf-Sugar two drops of the Chymical Oil of Cinamon and keep it for use This Liquor must be kept in a double Glass-Bottle well corked and tyed down It is very pleasing and agreeable to the Taste purging gently upward and downward Two Drams being taken for a Dose Antimony its Cinabar Put into your Retort of Sublimate Corrosive and Antimony as much as half fills it powdered and well mingled together let the Retort be placed in Sand in a small Furnace fit to it a Receiver lute the Junctures and so make a Distillation and perceiving a red Vapour appear take away the Receiver and put another into its place not luted encreasing the Fire by degrees till the Retort is red hot and so let it continue three or four hours then suffering it to cool break it and you will perceive a sublimated Cinabar sticking to the Neck of it separate it and keep it It is a very much prized Remedy for the French Disease it likewise forces Sweat and remedies the Falling-Sickness it may be taken if the Party be carefull of him or her self from six to fourteen grains Antimony Diaphoretick To do this mix three parts of purified Salt-Peter with one part of Antimony and your Crucible being very hot cast in a Spoonfull of this mixture which will make a kind of a thundring and after that is past do the like by another Spoonfull and so do by all the rest and when it has been on the Fire about two hours throw the Matter which then will be white into an Earthen Vessel almost full of fair Water let it soke ten or twelve hours that the Salt-Peter which is fixed may dissolve in it then let the Liquor be separated by Inclination wash the White Powder you find remaining in the bottom Five or Six times with hot Water so dry it and you will have Diaphoretick Antimony It is Sudorifick causing Sweats and notably resists Poyson and is approv'd in Malignant Diseases and the Plague The Dose is from six Grains to thirty in some proper Liquid Antimony an Oil or Liquor Take six Ounces of fine white Sugar-Candy beat it to powder then do the like by eight Ounces of Hungarian Antimony and mix them well together and put them into a Glass Retort and distill them on a Sand-Bath with a gradual Fire This Liquor cures intermitting Agues given in White-wine three four five or six drops at the beginning of the Fit and so repeating it two or three times Antinephritick-Water Take of Narbone Honey half a pound Venice-Turpentine two Ounces Nephritick Wood and Roots of Rest-Harrow of each an Ounce and a half Lignum Aloes an Ounce Galingal Cloves Cinamon Mace Cubebs and Mastick of each half an Ounce bruise and macerate them for three days together in two Quarts of Rectified Spirits of Wine or for want of that in Aqua vitae and distill them over a moderate Fire This Water is highly recommended for removing of Gravel or Sand out of the Bladder or Kidneys as also for easing the Pains of the Colick given from one Dram to half an Ounce either alone or mixed with proper Liquors Antiscorbutick Elixir Propritetatis Take Myrrh of Alexandria Aloes Succotrina and Saffron beaten into Powder of each four Ounces digest them in a close stopped Vessel for eight days in a moderate Sand Bath with four pints of Antiscorbutick Spirit then for one hour encrease the heat of the Bath and filtre and keep it apart then pour on the remaining Mass a pint of fresh Spirit and reiterate digestion and filtration then draw off the Spirit in a Sand-Bath with a moderate Fire till there only remains a third part and when the Vessels are cool preserve the Elixir and when it is to be used mix it with a third or fourth part of the volatil Spirit of Harts-Horn This Elixir is now wonderfully in use and highly esteemed in all Diseases that proceed from Corruption of Humours but chiefly used in the Cure of the Scurvy for it purifies the Blood and quickens the Motion of its Circulation It may be taken in Wine or some other Liquors from Seven or Eight to Fifteen or Twenty Drops Appetite to restore Take Wood or Garden-sorrel a Handful boil it in a Pint of White-wine-Vinegar till it becomes very tender then strain it out sweeten it with Two Ounces of Sugar and boil it to a Syrup and take a quarter of an Ounce at any time when you find your Appetite fail you Apple-Cream Take Ten or Twelve Pippens when pretty ripe pare them take out the Cores and slice them thin cut them in quarters and put them into a Pipkin with Claret-Wine a few slices of Ginger Lemon-peel scraped as also some white Sugar let them boil up together till they are very soft then take then off the Fire and put them into a Dish and when they are pretty cool take a Quart of new Cream boil'd with a little Nutmeg and put in of the Apple stuff to make it of what thickness you please and so with a little sprinkling of Sugar and Rose-water serve it up as a most acceptable Banqueting Apple-Tansey To make this Pare your Apples thin cut them in round slices fry them in sweet Butter beat Ten Eggs in a Pint of Cream add Cinnamon Nutmeg and Ginger of each a Dram well beaten or grated Sugar Three Ounces Rose-water Two Ounces these being well beaten together pour on the Batter fry them moderately and dust them over with Sugar and a sprinkling of Rose-water and serve them up Apples a Purging Syrup Take of the Water and Juice of the best scented Pippins of each a Pint and a half Borrage and Bugloss-water and Juice of each Nine Ounces Eastern Senna half a Pound Fennel and Anniseeds of each Three Drams Cretan-Dodder Two Ounces White Agarick and the best Rhubarb half an Ounce Mace and Ginger of each Four Scruples Saffron half a Dram let the Rhubarb be infused with the Senna a part in White-wine and the Juice of Apples of each Two Ounces infuse except the Saffron all the rest in the afore-mention'd Water The following Day pour on the Juices and set them on the Fire let them simper gently take off the Scum then strain the liquid Parts and add Four Pounds of white Sugar boil it to a Syrup the infusion of Rhubarb being put into it
and the Saffron often dipt in it tyed up in a Rag and so squeezed out This Syrup is held to be a very gentle Purge for melancholy People and very safe and easie but proves more effectual in its Operation and Strength if Two Ounces of it be taken in Three Ounces of the Decoction of Dodder Apoplectick-Water Take of the Lilies of the Valley Rosemary Lavender Sage Primroses of each three handfuls let them macerate eight Days in the Sun or in a Stove in rectified Spirits of Wine and Orange-Flower Water of each three pints then distill them in a Sand-Bath and preserve this excellent Water for your use It fortifies the Brain and noble Parts being taken from half to a whole spoonful It is successful as well to prevent as to cure the Apoplexy and all other violent Diseases of the Brain Apoplectick-Water another Bruise four pound of Black-Cherries Roots of Valerian and Shavings of Harts-Horn of each three ounces grated White-Bread one pound Cloves and Mace beaten fine and sifted of each half an ounce Saffron two drams Flowers of Lilies of the Valley and Lavender of each three handfuls mix them well together by bruising and shredding and macerate them twenty four Hours in a warm Water-Bath then encrease the heat and put them in Balneo Mariae This Water eases Apoplectick Pains Palsie and other Distempers in the Head and Brain arising from Cold being taken at seasonable times from half an ounce an ounce Apoplexy To cure this violent and dangerous Distemper Take two quarts of the Spirit of Wine infuse in it a pound of Imperatory Castor and Sarsaparilla of each half an ounce being bruised a little add to them two handfuls of ordinary Lavender and Sage-Flowers steep them in an earthen Pot well glazed stop it very close and set it in a Chimney-corner or other warm place four or five Days often setting it on warm Embers and as often shaking it then take nine Drams of Camphire dissolved in half a pint of Sack and put it in setting it in a cool place and then philter it two or three times and when the Distemper approaches which is known by a shooting Pain in the Head a swimming dizziness of the Eyes c. rub the Forehead and Temples with it till it drys in and it gives speedy ease Apricocks Apricocks are a delicious Fruit to the Tast and much more wholsom than the Peach but above all from the Kernels of them an excellent Oil is extracted for Hemorrhoids Pains in the Ears Swellings and Inflammations The Kernels much avail in the Heart-burn Apricock-Cakes To make this Take the largest and smoothest Fruit parboil them in Spring-Water till they become very tender then pressing out the Pulp put to it an equal weight of Sugar set them over a gentle sire and keep them continually stirring and when you can see the bottom of the Skillet or Pan they are enough then put the Pulp and Sugar into Cards sewed round and dust them over with sifted Sugar and letting them stand two or three Days turn them and then if they be candied take them out of the Cards and dust them with Sugar again and so often turning them let 'em dry for your use in a gentle heat Apricocks to Candy Take the Apricocks pare them very thin and strew fine Sugar lightly on them then lay them on a broad pewter Dish and so put them into an Oven as hot as usually heated for Manchet and as the Liquor comes from them pour it forth and turn them strew more Sugar and sprinkle them with Rose-Water turn and sugar them till near dry then lay them on a Lettice-Wyre till they are dried which you may do in an Oven after the drawing and by this means they will keep all the Year Apricocks to dry In the first place Take out the Stones then weigh the remainder and take the weight of them in double refined Sugar and make a Syrup with so much Water as will wet them and boil it up so high that if a drop be drop'd on a clean Plate it slip off being cold put in your Apricocks pared when the Syrup is heated stir them about and turn them out and tye them one by one in Tiffanies then put them in again and set the Syrup over a quick fire making it to boil as fast as it can and scum it well and when they look clear take them from the fire then lay them on a Sieve to drain and being well drained take them out of the Tiffanies and dry them in a Stove or the Sun in Glasses to keep off the dust Apricock-Iambals Take Apricocks scald them to a tenderness and dry the pulp in a pewter or earthen Dish over a Chafing-dish of Coals then for a Day or two set it on a Stone and beat it afterward in a Stone Mortar adding as much fine Sugar as will make it a stiff Past then colour it with Saunders Cochineel or Indico rowl them long tye them into Knots and so dry them for use Apricock-Past To make this Pare your Fruit and stone them set them between two Dishes on a Chafing-dish of Coals till they are boiled very tender let them cool and lay them out on white Paper take their weight of Sugar and boil it to a Candy heighth with as much fair Water and Rose-Water as will dissolve the Sugar then put the Pulp into it and let it boil till it be as thick as Marmalade still keeping it stirring then on a Pye-Plate fashion it into the shape of whole Apricocks and so being dried it will be very transparent and eat more luscious and pleasant than Apricocks newly gathered from the Trees Apricocks to preserve Take them when they are pretty well buttoned yet so tender that you may run a Needle through the Stones and all without any difficulty then put them into luke-warm Water to break them and let them stand close covered in that Water till a thin Skin will come off with scraping and all this while they will look yellow then put them into another Preserving-Pan or Skillet of hot Water and let them stand covered till they recover a curious green colour then having equally weigh'd them with a like weight of Sugar clarifie the Sugar with the White of an Egg or some Water and so preserve them for use If you would preserve them when ripe you must take out the Stones you need not at all boil them in Water but with the Juice of some of them dissolve the Sugar and stew them in it then having a Syrup of Sugar boiled to a height put them in it till they look clear and so set them up close covered for your use Aqua Coelestis To make this Take of Cinnamon one dram Ginger half a dram the three sorts of Saunders of each of them a quarter of an Ounce Cubebs and Mace of each of them a Dram Cardamum the bigger and lesser of each three drams Setwell-Roots half an ounce Fennel-seeds Anni-seeds and
Birch-Tree-Leaves These are hot and dry cleansing and resolving opening and bitter for which Cause they are much available in Dropsies in the Cure of the Itch and taking away Scurf and Deformities from the Skin and the decoction of them in Water or White-wine is very good to wash old Sores or Breakings-out in any Part of the Body Birds-foot This is of a drying quality and therefore used successfully in Drinks or Potions to be given for Wounds as also to be applied outwardly It also helpeth the Rupture being taken inwardly Bisket To make Bisket the best way Take half a peck of Flower four Eggs half a pint of Yest an ounce and a half of Anniseeds make these into a Loaf with sweet Cream and cold Water fashion it somewhat long and when it is baked and a Day or two old cut it into thin slices like Toasts and strew them over with powdered Sugar dry it in a warm Stove or Oven and sugar it again when dry and so do three or four times and so put them up for use Bistort the greater This is cooling and drying the Root is harsh and astringent being mostly used to stay Vomitings and to prevent Abortion c. The Powder of the Root mixed with Conserve of Roses prevents spitting of Blood as also the Bloody-Flux It stops the immoderate Courses and the Powder sprinkled on fresh Wounds stays Bleeding Take of the Roots of Bistort and Tormentil of each an ounce of the Leaves of Burnet Wood-sorrel and Meadowsweet of each a handful burnt Harts-horn two drams Ivory the like quantity boil them in three pints of Spring-water to the Consumption of a third part then add three ounces of red Roses strain the liquid part and take six Spoonfuls a Day if you see convenient bistort-Bistort-Water It is excellent in making the white Potion for a Gonorrhea and the Whites in Women The fresh Root made into a Cataplasm eases the Pain in the Gout The Herb is cold dry and astringent stays Fluxes in the Bowels also Vomiting and brings a disordered Body into a good Temper and Habit. Biting by a Snake Adder or Mad Dog Take a handful or more of Hazle-Nuts Rue about a quarter of a handful a Clove of Garlick stamp these with a quarter of a handful of Ash-leaves or Ash-keys squeeze out the Juice and put a little Venice-Treacle to it and drink it very warm in Beer Ale or Wine Black-Pudding To make this the best and far exceeding the common way Boil the Umbles of a Hog tender take some of the Lights with the Heart and all the Flesh about them taking out the Sinews and mincing the rest very small do the like by the Liver add grated Nutmeg four or five Yolks of Eggs a pint of sweet Cream a quarter of a pint of Canary Sugar Cloves Mace and Cinamon finely powdered a few Carraway-seeds and a little Rose-water a pretty quantity of Hogs-fat and some Salt roul it up about two Hours before you put it into the Guts and then put it into them after you have rinsed them in Rose-water Blamanger to make Take a Capon either boiled or roasted and mince it small then blanch a pound of Almonds and beat them finely till they become a Past beat the minced Capon among it with some Rose-water mingle it with Cream and ten Whites of Eggs and grated Manchet then strain all the foresaid things with Salt Sugar and a little Musk boil them in a clean Pan or broad Skillet to the thickness of Pap stir it continually in the boiling and being boiled strain it again and serve it according to what form or fashion you please To make your Past into quaint devices Take a quart of fine Flower a quarter of a pound of Butter and the Yolks of four Eggs boil your Butter in fair Water and put the Yolks of eight Eggs on one side of your Dish and make up your Past quick and stiff but not too dry Blamanger another way Take half a pound of fine searsed Rice-flower put to it a quart of Morning-Milk set a broad Skillet and strain them into it set it on a gentle Fire and stir it with a slice and when it is a little thick take it from the Fire and put in a quarter of a pint of Rose-water set it to the Fire again and stir it well and in stirring beat it to the sides of the Skillet and when it becomes as thick as Pap take it off and put it into a fair Dish and when it is cold lay three slices in a Dish and scrape on Sugar Blisters to draw To do this without the help of Cantharides Take Crows-foot a handful put to it about a spoonful of Mustard beat them very well together to the consistence of a Poultis put this to the thickness of a Man's little Finger in a Box-cover cut shallow and about the breadth of the Palm of ones Hand and cut a hole of the wideness of the Box in a Plaister of Diapalma or the like to make it stick and this apply to the Part and let it lye on twelve or fourteen Hours because it works as well more slowly than Cantharides as more safely and innocently Blisters Another Take Cantharides reduced to Powder and upon half an ounce of this put two or three ounces of Spirit of Wine let them continue together four or five Days that the Spirit may gain a good Tincture then filter it and dip into it a Linnen Rag six or seven times double and of the figure and largeness that you desire This Cloath being thoroughly wet and covered with a Melilot-Plaister or a Plaister of Diachylum to keep it sticking on apply it to the Part and at the end of five or six Hours you may take it off Blites This Herb eaten as a boiled Sallad loosens the Belly cools Heats of the Stomach and Bowels The Juice which may be taken to four ounces provokes gentle Vomits A Syrup made of the Juice is very cooling and allays the Heat of the Blood also of the Liver and Spleen abates the Heat of violent burning Fevers and a Saline or salt Tincture of it opens Obstructions cools the Reins and Bladder provoking Urine Blood extravasated Grate or rasp the Roots of well grown Burdocks into a fine Powder spread it on a Linnen-Cloath bind it quite round the affected Part and renew it twice a Day Blood-spitting Take Comfry-Roots six ounces Leaves of Plantain two handfuls beat them well together in a stone Mortar then press out the Juice which strain through a Linnen-Cloth let it settle then boil it up to a Syrup and clarifie it with the White of an Egg. Take a spoonful of this Syrup several times a Day and at any time in the Night Blood-spitting Another Take Leaves of Colts-foot half a Handful shred it very small then fry it with a little Bacon then put to it the Yolk of an Egg and stir it in the Morning fasting Continue this for some time Blood to stanch Take
Hungarian Vitriol and Alom of each half a pound Phlegme of Vitriol ten pounds boil them till the Vitriol and Alom are dissolv'd and being cold filter them through a brown Paper and if any Crystals shoot separate the Liquor from them adding to each pound an ounce of Oil of Vitriol Dip a Cloath into this Liquor and apply it to the Part affected Blood to sweeten Take of the best and clearest red Coral an ounce reduce it by grinding it very well on a Stone or Porphyry to an impalpable Powder Take a dram at a time of this Magistery made without Acids as long as you find you 've occasion Blue-Bottles The distilled Water of the Flowers give help in the Inflammations of the Eyes and in drying up and healing putrid Ulcers The Powders of the Flowers taken inwardly are very effectual in the Jaundice Body-bound To remedy Costiveness boil in a large Porringer about a handful of the Leaves of common Mallows and let the Party sup them up before Meals Bole Armoniack To prepare this you need no more than moisten it with May-dew or any other Dew not too gross and dry it in the shade Borrage This is one of the four Cordial-Flowers it comforts the Heart cheers Melancholy revives the fainting Spirits and purifies the Blood The Water of it is good for Inflammations of the Eyes and for Fevers and the like virtue has the Conserve made of the Flowers The Conserve of the Flowers mixed with Wine opens Obstructions in the Female Sex Bore baked This is usually meant of the Parts of a wild Bore though it will indifferently serve for any Take the Leg season it very and then lard it with Lard seasoned with Nutmeg Pepper and beaten Ginger lay it the Bones being taken out in a Pye with fine but strong thick Crust then sprinkle it over with the foremention'd Spices and Salt putting a few whole Cloves and Bay-Leaves on it with large slices of Lard and store of Butter and being baked liquor it with sweet Butter and stop up the vent and if you would have it keep long bake it in an earthen Pan and filling it up with Butter it will if it be not set in a very moist place keep a whole Year or before you put the Flesh into the Pye you may lay it in soak two Days then parboil it and bake it in all Points seasoned as before Box-Leaves Dry them and powder them then take from one dram to one and a half They purge gently so does the Decoction of an ounce and a half of them in Whey or some such like Liquid Bramble-Berries or Black-Berries The Berries not quite ripe are very astringent A Decoction of them heals sore Mouths and allays the Heat of Fevers Brawn broiled Cut a Collar of Brawn into slices and lay it on a Plate in an Oven and when it is broiled enough serve it up with the Juice of Oranges Pepper Gravy and beaten Butter Brawn of a Pig Let not your Pig be any way spotted yet pretty large and fat and being scalded draw and bone it whole only the Head being cut off then cut it into two Collars overthwart both the sides and being washed soak them in Water and Salt two Hours then dry them with a clean Cloath and season the inside with minced Lemon-peel and Salt rowl them up even at both ends and put them into a clean Cloath bind them about very tite and when the Water is boiling put them in adding a little Salt keeping the Pot clear scummed and when they are sufficiently boiled hoop them and keep them in an even Frame and being cold put them into a souced Drink made of Whey and Salt or Oatmeal boiled and strained and then put them into such a Vessel as you can conveniently stop up from the Air. Brawn to souce Take a fat Brawn about three Years old and bone the Sides cut the Head close to the Roots of the Ears and cut fine Collars of a side Bone and hinder Legs an inch deeper in the Belly than on the Back bind them up equally at both ends soak them in fair Water and Salt a Night and a Day put them into boiling Water keeping the Pot continually scum'd and after the first quick boiling let them boil leisurely putting in Water as it boils away and so lessening the Fire by degrees let them stand over it a whole Night then being between hot and cold take them off into Moulds of deep Hoops bind them about with Packthread and when they are cold put them into Souce-drink made of Oatmeal ground or beaten and Bran boiled in fair Water being cold strain it through a Sieve and putting Salt and Vinegar to it close up the Vessel tite and so keep it for your use Bread the French way Take four pound of Wheat-flower very fine a pint of new Ale Yest beat the Whites of six new-lay'd Eggs mingle them together adding three spoonful of Salt finely beaten a then so much Milk and fair Water an equal quantity as will make it into a Dough so that it may be pretty stiff and having worked it well that it becomes of an even mixture in all Parts cover it with a wooden Tray pretty warm and when the Oven is prepared for receiving it make it into Rouls or as you please and when it rises and begins to look brownish take it out chip off the Crust whilst it is pretty hot Breading Meats or Fowls These being divers ways to be done it is necessary they should be here set down in order to prevent their being frequently mixed and not readily found upon occasion 1. Flower mixed with grated Bread 2. Sweet-Herbs dried and powdered mixed with grated Bread 3. Lemon-peel dryed so that it may be beaten into Powder or Orange-Peel scraped very small and mixed with grated Bread and Flower 4. Sugar finely beaten and mixed with Cinamon grated Bread and fine Flower 5. Coriander-seeds Fennel-seeds Cinnamon and Sugar finely beaten and mixed with Flower 6. For young Pigs beaten Yolks of Eggs beaten Pepper Nutmeg and Ginger mixed with grated Bread and a little fine Sugar 7. Sugar Bread and Salt only mixed This is generally known by the Name of Dredging or scattering over the Fowl or Meat whilst roasting to keep it up to a good colour and secure the Gravy from too much evaporating by the Heat of the Fire or running out into the Dripping-Pan Breast-aching This is either occasioned by the emptyness of the Veins or a pricking caused by virulent Humours To remove this grief take a piece of Flannel of a deep blue Colour so often dipt in the Dye till it looks as if it were black anoint the Breast with Oil of Camomil and Smallage and then cover it warm with the Flannel Breast canker'd To remedy this grievance Take a mellow Pippin of about a Year old cut off the top and take out the Core fill it with Hogs-Lard and cover it with the Cap roast the Apple then to Pap so
take off the Skin and mingle the Pulp and Grease together then spread it thick on a Linnen-Cloath and apply it to the Place grieved very warm and cover it over with a piece of a Bladder or the Skin of Suet and by often renewing it the Party will find it a Remedy Breast cold for a Cold in the Breast Take half a Sheet of brown Paper of as even a mixture as can be had anoint it over as even as may be with the Tallow of Candles that have been made a long time do this before a Fire so that the Paper may be thoroughly penetrated then grate over it as much Nutmeg as will cover it clap it warm to the Pit of the Stomach that it may reach a good way above and below it Breast sore This comes many times though want of Milk and frequently after Child-birth To remedy this Take of Barrows-grease half a pound yellow Bees wax an ounce Burgundy-Pitch five ounces Venice-Turpentine one ounce put these into a Skillet with a quarter of a pint of fair Water and let them simper over a gentle Fire scuming off the bubling Froth and pour it into an earthen Pan to cool when it is cold take it out of the Pan and scrape off the Dregs or Dross at the bottom melt it again and refine it over the Fire and so making it into Plaisters or Cere-cloaths apply it to the Place grieved Breasts of Women Womens Breasts especially after their Lying-in contract a hardness and are sore occasioned by gross Humours fixing there To remedy this Take two Turnips boil them in Spring-water till they are very tender then press out the Water and mash them in a wooden Dish or Mortar scrape on them an ounce of Bole-Armoniack and make them into a Poultis with fresh Butter and being layed to the Breasts very warm on a hot Linnen-Cloath they will take away the Pain Breath shortness thereof to help Take a quarter of a pound of blue Figs an ounce of Licorice Caraways and Anniseeds of each half an ounce boil them in two quarts of Ale till a pint be consumed and then sweeten it with Sugar-Candy Drink half a pint Morning and Evening Breath to sweeten Take the dried Flowers and tops of Rosemary Sugar-Candy Cloves and Mace of each two drams Cinamon one dram dry these and beat them into fine Powder About a dram of this at a time in a new-lay'd Egg suckt up fasting Morning and Night clears the Lungs from offensive Matter and sweetens the Breath Brook-lime is excellent in the Scurvy it powerfully expels the Stone in the Bladder and Kidneys it provokes the Courses For the Scurvy Take the Juice of Brooklime Water-Cresses and Scurvy-grass of each half a pint the Juice of Oranges four ounces fine Sugar two pound make a Syrup of it and take a spoonful of it in your ordinary Drink Broken-Belly or Burstenness Take Cranes-Bill usually called Columbinum reduce the Roots and Leaves to a fine Powder take about half a spoonful of this Night and Morning forabout three Weeks together washing it down with a spoonful or two of Red Wine or Claret Broom The Root of this is an excellent Opener being one of the five opening Roots and is principally made use of for Obstructions of the Liver the Urine and the Courses The Syrup of the five opening Roots is thus Take the Roots of Fenel Butchers-Broom Asparagus Parsley and Smallage of each two ounces Spring-water three quarts digest 'em hot and boil them in Balneo Broom-Rape The Herb or Roots of this are to be had Candied and are very good in the Diseases of the Spleen and Melancholy Broth very excellent Parboil two young Cocks the Legs and Wings being cut off scum the Water you boil them in very clean then take them out and wash them in cold Water and with a pint of Rhenish-Wine and two quarts of strong Broth put them into a Pipkin or convenient Vessel add two ounces of China-Root and an ounce and a half of Harts-horn with an ounce of Cloves Mace Pepper and Ginger mixed together season it with a little Salt and cover the Pipkin close and set it in a Pot of boiling Water so that the Water get not into it let it boil for six Hours then pour out the Broth squeeze into it the Juice of Lemons and serve it This is excellent to strengthen or restore decayed Bodies after Sickness and for such as are Consumptive Bruise To remedy the Pain of a Bruise or Swelling Take a pint of fair Water boil in it a handful of Salt and half a handful of Ash-leaves or Ash-bark bruise then the Bark or Leaves and straining out the Liquid part dip Linnen-Rags in it and apply them to the Place grieved Bruise in the Head Take Rosin and a little Red-Deer's Suet Camphire and White-wine set them over a moderate Fire till it boil then strain it and beat it till it comes to an Ointment over a somewhat gentler Fire and anoint the Place grieved with it as hot as you can and chafe it in Bruise with great Swelling Take Hemp Tow or Flax moisten it with Brandy and spread it over with Honey then sprinkle Brandy again upon the Honey and bathing the swelled Part withsome Brandy very warm lay on the other and it will not only sink the Swelling but give ease to the bruised Part by dispersing the gathering Humours Bucks-Horn This is a small Plant or Herb growing in barren and sandy Grounds and comes up with some of its Leaves jagged or sprouting out at the sides like the Horns of a Buck from which Allusion I suppose it takes its Name This is a kind of Plantane different from some others and has a quality of binding and drying The Decoction in Wine drank and the bruised Leaves outwardly applied ease the Pains and remedy the Bitings of most venemous Creatures and the Juice helpeth those that are troubled with the Stone or Gravel in the Kidneys Bladder or Reins and stops Bleeding Bugle its Virtues Either inward or outward it is a good vulnerary Herb it is used in the Yellow-Jaundice and Obstructions in the Liver Reins and Bladder Bugloss Take the Juice of Bugloss clarified three pound white Sugar two pound boil them up to a Syrup This Syrup chears the Heart prevents swooning Fits and expels Melancholy Bullock's-Cheek the Italian way Break the Bones so that the flesh be as little mangled with them as may be wash it very clean in shifted Waters and let it steep three or four hours then boil it in fair Water with some Bolonia-Sausage and a piece of interlarded Bacon and when they are tender boil'd dish them up and garnish them with Flowers and Greens and serve them up with Mustard and Sugar in Saucers Bullock's-Cheek to Stew Having cleaned well soaked and ordered them by taking out the Bones after you have half-roasted the Meat by an indifferent quick fire save the Gravy and put them into a Pipkin with some more Gravy
another Take half a pint of Small-beer half an ounce of burnt Harts-horn powder it and boil it a little in the Liquor and it will fortifie the Heart and expell the Heat Drink for Malignant Fevers Take spring-Spring-water a quart give it a walm or two put into it an ounce of burnt Harts-horn the Mixture being cold put in three ounces of Syrup made of the Juice of Lemons make them well together and take a quarter of a pint both Morning and Evening Drink for head-Head-Pains Take of the Leaves of Senna one ounce Cinamon Aniseeds Fenel-seeds and Currans of each a dram Licorice two drams Rosemary and Sweet Marjoram a handful shred and bruise these and slice in three or four new Figs boil them in three pints of Water with an ounce of Sugar till a third part be consumed then strain it The Dose to the weak is about two ounces but for stronger Bodies from two to four ounces It removes Pains if the Body be open or soluble that the Vapours arise not too hastily to afflict the Brain ☞ Note If the Heâ—d be pained and the Body bound endeavour the first thing you do to open and render it soluble otherwise the ascending of Vapours to the Brain will so disturb the Head and distemper it with Heat and Pain that Lightness of the Head Phrensies or raging Madness may happen to ensue if not timely prevented Drink correcting sharp Humours Take an ounce of choice Barley wash it very clean then boil it in a quart or more of Spring-water till the Grains begin to burst then strain the Decoction through a Cloth and drink it for your ordinary Drink at Meals Drink for the Scurvy Take two handfuls of Water-trefoyl and suffer it to work in about eight gallons of Wort use it for all or the greatest part of your ordinary Drink and it will purge out by gentle breathing Sweats the noxious Humours that occasion the Distemper Drink for Wheezing Take five pints of fair Water half a pint of Honey six Figs an ounce of Blue Currants two drams of Licorice boil them to the consumption of a pint and drink a quarter of a pint of it both Morning and Evening pretty hot This brings away tough Phlegm cures the phlegmatick and slimy Cough and remedies Shortness of Breath Dropsie Take Smallage Thyme Hyssop Watercresses Pennyroyal Nettle-tops of each a handful Caraway-seeds Calamint Elecampane-roots of each one ounce boil them in six Quarts of running Water until one half be consumed then strain it put to this Liquor two quarts of Canary add Licorice scraped and bruised two ounces Sweet-Fenel-seeds one ounce Cumin-seeds and Alexander-seeds of each two drams boil all these together again for half an hour then strain it for use Take nine spoonfuls of this Liquor in the Morning fasting and as much about three or four in the Afternoon and continue it for some time Dropsie Take the Root of Gors it groweth upon Hills and Heaths and is full of Prickles and yellow Flowers pare off the outward Bark which throw away then scrape off the inner Rinde and fill a pint Bottle with it lightly then fill it up with Rhenish or White-wine let it stand to infuse all night the next morning drink a glass-ful of it and continue it till you are cured Dropsie Take Rue Camomil Melilot Calamint of each two ounces beat them small and boil them in Wine and Oil of Dill then add of Gummi Carana as much as sufficeth to make a Plaister Dropwort-Root its Vertue A Decoction of it provokes Urin and expels Gravel cures the Heat of Urin and removes the difficulty in making it The Juice of the Root and the Powder are held to be successful in the Falling-sickness The Dose is a dram of the Powder or Juice of the Root in Wine It 's excellent in stopping Fluxes It heals the Ruptures of the Belly and cures the Bloody-flux Ducks-Meat It swims on the Tops of Ponds mostly in Summer-time it helps Inflammations and St. Anthony's-Fire as also the Gout when applied Poultis-wise with Barley-meal The distilled Water of it is good against Inflammations inwardly and Pestilential Fevers It removes the Redness of Sore-eyes and the Swellings of the Breasts of Women if apply'd before they be grown too large The Herb fresh easeth the Pains of the Head if caused by Hear or hot Inflammations Dullness of Hearing Take the Juice of Red Onions and drop it into the Ears stopping them with Cotton-wool or the Juice of Briony-root but not too often nor too much at a time and the Obstructions by this means being opened and removed the Hearing will be recovered and removed the Hearing will be recovered and restored Dysentery for this Disease which many times proves very dangerous Take the Dung of a Pig dry it very well and burn it till it becomes grey in Ashes put about half a dram of it into a spoonful of Vinegar and drink it both Morning and Evening and it will remove this Distemper Dysentery To remove this and other sharp Fluxes Take the Herbs and Leaves of Fleabane dry it by degrees till it be reduceable to a Powder take about a dram of it twice or thrice a day in White-wine or you may take it rolled up in Conserve of Roses EArs Imposthumated If you perceive any Imposthume breeding in the Ears To ripen it Take fine Wheat-flower an ounce and an half Fenegreek-seed Eels-grease Litharge of Gold Ceruse and Frankincense of each one dram mix them together and make a Plaister of them lay it all over the Ear having first dropt in some Oil of Myrrh when 't is ready to break take Sarcocolla Aloes Dragons-blood Myrrh and Frankincense the Dross of Iron and Verdegrease of each half a dram mix them with Vinegar to a thinness dip a Taint therein and put it into the Ear. Earth-worms Prepared To do this that they may be kept for any use you must only slit them down the middle wash them well in White-wine or Whitewine-Vinegar then dry them in the Sun and put them up into dry Boxes to make Powders or for other Uses upon occasion Ebony The Decoction of it when rasp'd or made thin in Shavings is approv'd in Convulsions if it be drank sweetned with Honey Eels to Collar Take a large silver Eel take out the Back-Bone dry and season it after its having been washed with beaten Nutmeg and Salt then cut off the Head and roul in the Tail being seasoned in the sides bind it up close and straight in a fine white Cloth then put it into a fit Pipkin with as much fair Water and Whitewine as will cover it upward of two inches of each a like quantity then season it with some Salt and the Eel being put into the boiling Liquor when it is boiled pretty tender take it up and when the Liquor is almost cool put to it a little Vinegar and make a souce of it adding some Blades of Mace and a few Bay-Leaves and Tops of Rosemary and when
Water put an ounce of choice Verdigrease in powder and in a very moderate Heat extract a Tincture of a fine but somewhat dilute saphirine colour but not too deep decant this very warily and let a drop of this as often as necessity requires fall into the Eye the Party winking hard and it will shrivel off the Film Fir-Tree Has its Virtues mostly consisting in its Rosins and Turpentines which in their proper Alphabets you may see The Branches and Tops of this Tree are infused in Diet-Drinks and given for the Scurvy with good Success Fits-Apoplectick Fix a Cupping-glass without scarification to the Nape of the Neck and one to each Shoulder and let them take fast hold till they begin to loosen and they will draw down the afflicting Humour or Vapour from the Brain Fits of the Mother To remedy this Dip Sea-Salt in Vinegar and into it dip a soft Linnen-Rag fold it three or four times double lay it warm to the Soles of the Feet and keep it on till the Fit be over Flag the sweet one This grows in divers Parts of England and is distinguished from others by its curious Scent It is chiefly used in Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Courses also in the Colick it provokes Urin And the Roots of it candied are of a pleasant Tast nourishing and grateful to the Stomach and keeps out evil Airs and Infections and for this cause the Turks frequently chew it and the Tartars boil it in their Water or infuse the Roots of it in cold Water before they drink it Flax There is an Oil made of the Seed of this Plant that is very excellent in sundry Medians as also alone It is taken inwardly in the Colick Quinsie Pleurisie and Consumption outwardly it mollifies hard Swellings eases Pains and is used much in Paintings c. Flax or Wild Dwarf-Flax This Herb infused in Whitewine after it has been bruised for a whole Night over hot Embers purges watry Humours very strongly Take of this purging Flax an handful of sweet Fenelseeds two drams boil them in a sufficient quantity of Spring-water adding to every six ounces two ounces of White-wine and it makes a gentle purging potion being taken two or three spoonfuls at a time Flix of the Liver Take Agrimony one handful Squinant two handfuls Spiknard and Liquorice of each half a handful Mace and Mastick of each half an ounce Lignum Aloes three drams Bole-Armoniack Lapis Hematitis and Terra sigillata of each six drams Corianderseeds prepared one ounce and half Spodium two drams dryed Roses one ounce Barry-Meal two ounces the Filings of Iron prepared one dram the Compound of the three kinds of Saunders made with Camphire half an ounce Oil of Myrtle and Mastick of each two drams powder the Herbs then mix with them the other things made into Powders then add the Oils and being set over a gentle Fire in a close Vessel till dissolved stir them well to the thickness of a Plaister and apply it very large on the right side of the Body so that it may reach from the Breast unto the Stomach Flixweed A dram of the Seed of this taken in red Wine or Syrup of Sloes stays Loosnesses and both the Seed and the Herb help in the Flux of the Belly and the Bloody-Flux It is used in Plaisters for Wounds and sordid Ulcers and some hold that the Seed boiled in Vinegar and drank warm expels Gravel Florentine of Carps Take a quarter of a peck of fine Flower sweet Butter three quarters of a pound and six Yolks of Eggs work these up in the Butter and Flower and dry them then put to it as much fair Water as will make it up into a Past then take the Carp scale it alive and scrape off the slime draw it and take away the Guts and Gall and scotch it season it lightly with Nutmeg Pepper and Salt and lay it into the Past made up into a Pye in the fashion aâ— near as may be of the Fish put the Milt into the Belly lay on sliced Dates in halves Orange or Lemon sliced Barberries Raisins and Butter close it up and bake it and being almost baked close it up and liquor it with Butter Sugar Verjuice Claret and White-wine and ice it over and so serve it up when it is hot and it will prove a very acceptable Banquet Florentine of Eggs To do this Boil about eighteen Eggs hard then mince them with two pound of Beef-Suet clean taken from the Skins and Fibers till it be very small then take a quarter of an ounce of Cloves and Mace one large Nutmeg let these be finely beaten or grated with a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon then add half a pound of fine Sugar and a pound and half of Currans a quarter of a pound of Dates minced very small then mince or bruise very small some choice Lemon-peel and lastly having mixed all the foregoing things well together put about a quarter of a pint of Rose-water and a little Salt in it When you have so ordered the Materials put them into the Oven let it moderately bake and then have in readiness this Leer to put to it when it comes out viz. Heat a little fair Water and beat up half a pound of Butter with it to a thickness add a quarter of a pound of Sugar and the Juice of a Lemon and so serve them up upon it Florentine with Partridge Your Partridge being roasted and minced small with the weight of the Meat in Beef-Marrow put to it two ounces of Orange-peel with as much green Citron small minced season the Meat with beaten Cloves Nutmeg Mace and Salt and Sugar mixing all together put the Materials into a Puff-past and open it being baked and put in half a grain of Musk or Ambergrease dissolved in the Juice of an Orange and Rose-water stir them among the Meat then cover it and serve it up Florentine of Tongues Boil and Blanch a fresh Neats-Tongue and being cold cut it into little square bits as big as great Hazle-Nuts lard it with small Lard then having another Tongue raw take off the Skin mince it with Beef-suet then lay one half of it in a Dish on a Sheet of white Paper and lay on the Tongue being finely larded and seasoned with Nutmeg Pepper and Salt and with the other minced Tongue put grated Bread to it some sweet Herbs small minced and Yolks of raw Eggs and being made up into Balls as big as small Wash-balls lay them on the Tongue with some Barberries Marrow and interlarded Bacon and Butter close it up with a convenient Lid and bake it and being baked liquor it with Butter beaten up with Verjuice and the Yolks of three or four Eggs strained Flower of Rice and Cream To make a dainty Dish of this Take half a pound of Rice see it be well dusted and cleansed then wash it and dry it in a moderate Heat and when it is dry rub it and beat it in
about a quarter of an hour and so put them up for use Gooseberries to Pickle Pick the Berries clean from the Stalks and Buds lay them in soak in Salt and Water all night then put them into the Juice of Crab-cherries Grape-verjuice or other Verjuice and so barrel them up In this manner you may Pickle green Grapes and Plumbs Gooseberry-Wine the best way Take the ripe Berries and put them into a Vessel and pour upon them a sufficient quantity of Water very hot and then covering the Vessel very close let them stand till the Liquor is impregnated with the Juice at least three or four Weeks then draw it out mix it well and ferment it with fine Sugar putting it up in Bottles close cork'd it will become a generous Wine A little of it is good in Fevers and other hot Diseases or it may be drank for Pleasure as ordinary Wine A Decoction of the Leaves of Gooseberries cools and allays hot Swellings and Inflammations and when they first begin to budd being beaten and infused in White-wine they much help in expelling the Stone and being eaten with cooling Herbs as Sallads they allay the excessive Heat of the Liver and Stomach Gout Take the Roots of Red Dock and Burdock bruise them and put to 'em a little Spirit of Wine let 'em stand twenty four hours then hard and put to it a little Oil of Turpentine and Olive-Oil and stop these up close in a Glass for your use and when you are to use them pour out a little into a Saucer warm it over a Chafing-dish of warm Coals and dipping a thick linnen Cloth in it wrap it hard and close about the part grieved and in so doing twice or thrice the Pain will entirely cease Gout to Check it Take three ounces of Sarsaparilla sliced and cut thin to these add an equal weight of Raisins of the Sun rubb'd very clean but not broken put both these into three quarts of strong Water and let them stand on a moderate heat that the liquid part may simper for several hours and being closely bottl'd up take a quarter of a pint when the Pain comes upon you and it will ease it Gout a Plaister Take Paracelsus and Diapalma of each a quarter of an ounce melt and incorporate them well together and spread it Plaister-wise upon Leather then anoint the part grieved with the Ointment of Tabacco and Oil of Turpentine and so laying on the Plaister the Pain in a little time will cease Gout to Remove Take highly rectified Spirits of Man's Urine warm it a little over a gentle fire and rub it in on the part afflicted with a woollen Cloth and in a little time the Pain will remove and at last vanish Gout Running Take Earth-worms well cleansed in Moss and fill an earthen glazed Pot well luted and covered set it with them in a gentle Oven and let it stand there till the Oven becomes cold then take out the Pot and remove the Cover and you will find a gross Liquor strain this and keep it stopt for your use rubbing the part grieved with it very warm once or twice a day And if the Smell be offensive you may put in a few drops of the Oil of Rhodium or any other odoriferous Unguent to correct it Gout-Wort This is so called from the excellent Advantage it brings to those that are afflicted with the Pain of the Gout or Sciatica in the Joints if the Juice or Herb be applied Poultis-wise Some hold it will allay these Pains by being carry'd about the Party afflicted therewith Grapes The sweet ones are of a more hot substance and therefore cause Thirst and loosen the Belly but the sowre ones are binding and of hard digestion The Juice of the ripe Grape applied to Burns or Scalds eases the Pain The Mother of the Wine or Grapes being kept is profitable against Inflammations of the Breasts and Hardness of them through too much abundance of Milk The Decoction of it in Clysters is good for Dysenteries or Fluxes The Stones or Seeds slave a restringent vertue and are profitable for the Stomach and being parched and beat to Powder and drank in Whitewine are very good against the Flux as also the Weakness of the Stomach Dried Grapes and Raisins have yet a greater vertue and property in Physick and more-especially those that are sweetest and of most substance as they of Damascus Cyprus and Candia They are good for Coughs Sore Throats Pains in the Reins and Bladder if you eat the Stones with them Being boiled with Sugar and the Flower of Barley and an Egg they purge the Brain Being reduced into a Plaister with Flower of Beans and Cummin-seed they allay Inflammations The fat Raisins nourish more than the sharp and lean ones Those that are stoned are Lenitive and therefore very helping in Pains of the Breast Coughs Sore Throats Pains of the Bladder or Reins and the Obstruction in the Liver Grapes to Preserve Take the Grapes when green stone them and break the little bunches of the stalk of the great ones then take their weight in refined Sugar finely beaten and strew a row of Sugar in your Preserving-pan and a lay of Grapes upon it then strew some more Sugar on them then put in four or five spoonfuls of fair Water and boil them up as fast as may be Grapes and Wine their Virtues Very admirable are the Virtues of the Vine and the Fruit thereof I had almost said above all other Plants for the Leaves and tender Branches being bruised and laid to the Head by their Cooling quality ease the Pains of the Head occasion'd by Heat also the Inflammations or Heat of the Stomach being applied to it And the Juice drank in Borrage-water helps the Dysentery Fluxes or Spitting of Blood Weakness of Stomach and bad Appetite especially of Women Great with Child The Water which flows from the Vine when it is cut or bleeds as some term if being drank in White-wine purgeth the Gravel The Ashes of the Branches of the Vine and Stones of Grapes mixed with Vinegar help Costiveness It 's good against the Stingings and Bitings of venomous Creatures and if mixed with Oil of Roses Rue and Vinegar and laid Plaister-wise it helpeth the Inflammation of the Spleen Gravel If you be troubled with the Gravel in the Reins Kidneys or Bladder Take Daucus-seeds and Burdock-seeds of each an ounce mix them together and put one ounce of the Mixture into a gallon of small Ale and when that has steep'd a while and is drank up put the other ounce into another gallon and so continue it as a Drink Gravel another Take Crabs-claws one ounce and beat them into Powder Fenel-seed powder'd half an ounce Powder of Nutmegs four drams double-refined Sugar two ounces these being mixed and finely stuff'd take as much at a time as will lie on a shilling in a glass of White-wine in a Morning fasting or it may be taken in Ale or Beer Gravel another
Take a quart of Water that is ready to boil put into it half a handful of Scabious and half as much Sage let it boil pretty well and drink it in the nature of Tea with Sugar and the Juice of a Lemon squeezed into it Gravel to Remove Take a quart of White or Rhenish-Wine boil it well to the consumption of a third part then put in an ounce of the Juice of White Lily roots Juice of Housleek and Syrup of Citron mix them well together over a gentle fire and let the Party drink a quarter of a pint at a time blood-warm and so doing four or five times it will force the Gravel before it and cause it to void through the neck of the Bladder Gravel to Expell Kill a black Hen or Cock if it be to be had if not one of another Colour may serve take out the thick Membrane or Skin that lines the Gizard wipe it clean and dry it cautiously so as it may be beat to Powder with this Powder mix an equal part or half so much red Coral calcined and take thirty or forty grains of it at a time in White-wine or some other such kind of acid Wine Gravel another to Expell Take two large Red Onions and a White Lily-root bruise them in a Mortar squeeze the Juice of them into White-wine and drink it in the Morning fasting sweetned with a little Honey This gives Ease presently and continuing it it removes the Cause Green Ointment Take new Butter toiled and purified four Pound Burgundy-Pitch and Rosin of each a pound Yellow Bees-wax four ounces melt them and make an Ointment of them over a gentle fire adding an ounce of Verdigriese in Powder to make it of a deep green Colour and so keep it stirring till the Ointment be cold This is a wonderful Cleanser and Healer of all sorts of Wounds and Ulcers it gives Ease to Pains and allays Burnings and Heats in the Wounds or any Inflammations It 's greatly in request for Burns and Scalds especially if mixed with Oil of Roses and Snow-water and applied on a linnen Cloth to the place grieved Green-Sauce Take the Blades of Green Wheat Sorrel Parsley and Spinage stamp them in a wooden Mortar or Bowl with some Vinegar and fine White Sugar and serve it up in Saucers somewhat thinnish with a Leg of Veal boiled or a Calf's Head Green or Winter-Green This mainly conduces to the healing of green Wounds the green Leaves bruised or the Juice applied A Salve of the green Herb stamped or the Juice boiled with Bees-wax Hogs-lard Sallad-oil and Turpentine is highly preferred for the Cure of all manner of Wounds or Sores The Herb boiled in Wine or Water and given to such as are troubled with any inward Ulcers of the Kidneys or Neck of the Bladder mainly relieves them It stays the Fluxes It is good in Inflammations rising upon Pains of the Heart also in Cankers or Fistula's And the distilled Water may be carried along with you or kept by you for the above-said uses Gripes in Children Take the Oils of Nutmeg and of Wormwood of each a dram mingle them well with two drams of Camomel and anoint therewith the Party's Navel and Pit of the Stomach and by often so doing the Pain will cease Grounsil This indeed is very common which renders its Virtues less esteem'd though they are very rare for the Seeds cleanse the Reins help much to break and expel the Stone and provoke Urine two drams of it taken in a glass of White-wine in Powder three three or four times a day some say facilitate the Birth if it be taken by the travailing Woman in a little Breast-Milk Ground-Pine This is excellent to strengthen the Nerves and to open the Parts it also provokes the Courses expells the dead Child in the VVomb and the After-birth but not safe to be taken by VVomen during their going with Child because it works so powerfully that it endangers Miscarriage If it be boiled in White-wine or powder'd and made into small Pills with Hermodactyls and Venice-Turpentine it is given in Dropsies and outwardly applied it cures Ulcers by cleansing and filling them with good Flesh Take of this and VVormwood of each two handfuls Scurvygrass five times as much Sage of the Mountain six handfuls sliced Oranges six make a Paste of Barley-meal and Rye an equal quantity make it into the fashion of a Pye and equal these in it small shred then take them out and shred them with the Crust over again and so put all into a Bag hanging it in about five gallons of Ale not too strong nor too small about six days and then drink it twice or thrice a day about half a pint at a time This has been proved for the Scurvy and afflicting Pains of the Gout Guajacum This for its singular Virtues is called Holy-wood The Decoction of it well managed and taken in time is a certain Remedy for the French Disease It is good in Dropsies for Asthma's Falling-Sickness and Diseases of the Bladder and Reins Pains in the Joints proceeding from cold Tumours and Wind. It grows in the West-Indies and there the Spaniards learned the Use of it from the Natives The way to prepare the Decoction of this Wood is in this manner Take twelve ounces of the Wood cut small of the Bark of it beaten two ounces infuse it in six pints of Water in a large earthen Pot the space of twenty four Hours keeping the Pot close stopped and boil it with a gentle Fire to the Consumption of two quarts and when it is cold strain it then put to the same Wood a gallon of fresh Water boil it to a quart and keep these two Waters apart for use Gums Apostemated Take a handful of red Sage boil it in Whitewine add an ounce of the Powder of Burnt-Alom and wash your Mouth frequently with this Water It is also good against the Scurvy It likewise fastens the Teeth and keeps them from rotting it gives them a Whiteness and eases the Tooth-ach Gum of Cedar its Virtues An Oil extracted from this Gum is hot in the fourth degree wherefore it doth without pain rot soft and delicate Flesh but in hard Bodies it operateth with more time and difficulty It dryeth dead Bodies and preserveth them from Putrefaction by consuming the superfluous Humour without touching the sound Parts but in living Bodies the Heat in them augment the force of the Oil which causes it to burn the tender Flesh It is excellent to kill Nits Lice or any Insect crept into the Ear and good in cold Distempers to anoint the Joints and Limbs withal being much available in the Pains of the Gout if mollified with Oil of Camomil or such-like supling Oils Gum Plaister of Diachylon Take Bdellium Sagapenum Amoniacum of each two ounces dissolve 'em in Wine and strain 'em boil them to the consistence of Honey and Great Diachylon This being applied dissolves digests and ripens hard Swellings and is for those
Head cover'd close with a Cap. This is excellent against the Head-ach Pains in the Eyes and likewise Swimming of the Head Head to Purge Take Agarick and Mastick of each three drams the Roots of Flower-de-luce and Hare-hound of each one dram Turbith five drams in Powder Hiera Picra half an ounce Pulp of Coloquintida and Sarcocoll of each two drams Myrrh one dram Sapa as much as shall suffice to make them into a mass These purge very strongly from all parts of the Body both Choler and Phlegmatick Humours but especially from the Head and Breast and are good against old Colds and Catarrhs The Dose is half a dram Head Scald Take Olive-oil put it into a Dish-full of fair Water beat them well together then add some fine Powder of Brimstone and May-Butter make an Ointment thereof and anoint the Head therewith Head Scald another Take Olive-oil two ounces put it into half a pint of Spring-water stir and beat them well together then add half an ounce of Flower of Brimstone and three ounces of May-Butter and over a gentle fire make it into an Ointment and anoint the Head therewith as hot as may be endured bath it about seven or eight hours afterwards with Oil of Roses and Camomel melted or mixt together over a gentle fire and by often so doing you have the Remedy Head Scald another Take half a peck of Oyster-shells out of which the Oysters have newly been unshell'd calcine them in a clear fire so that they may be reduced to Powder sift it as fine as Flower and mix it with White Ointment so that it may be something stiff and anoint the Head with it daily and you will soon find the Effects answer your desire Head to Strengthen Take Ointment of Mastick and anoint the Temples and Forehead therewith You may make it in this manner Take of the Oils of Mastick Wormwood and Nard of each one ounce Mastick Mint Coral Red Roses Cloves Cinamon and Wood of Aloes of each a dram and of Yellow Wax a sufficient quantity to make it into an Ointment This not only strengthneth the Head but the Nerves and Stomach and is Astringent Hearing For Thickness of Hearing Take Garden Daisie-roots and beat then till a Juice may be pressed from them then laying your Head on a Bolster your Body lying at length drop three or four drops into the Ear you hear best withal and so continue to do for three of four days together stopping the Ear with Cotton-wool or Lint to keep the Air out Hearing to Recover Take the Juices of Celandine and Daisie roots and drop into the Ears stopping them afterward with Black Wool or Cotton lying on your Back with your Head very low for the space of half an hour after it and in twice or thrice so doing you will find great advantage by it Heart-Burning Take Red Coral finely poudered about a dram take it in White-wine or Ale for want of this scrape some Chalk that has been well burnt in the fire and drink it in the abovesaid Liquors Heart to Cheer Take Carduus Bean Borrage and Bugloss-waters equal quantities and in all but one ounce put into them three grains of Bezoar-stone finely beaten to Powder and having infused it for the space of an hour drink it off and keep your self warm an hour afterward and then drink a glass of Muskadel and in so doing often it will remove Heart-sickness Pains and Tremblings as also Melancholy c. Heart to Chear and Comfort Take of the Leaves of Celandine the Greater with the Roots three handfuls of Rue a handful of Scordium two handfuls Dittany of Creet and Carduus Benedictus of each a handful and an half the Roots of Angelica and Zedoary of each three drams the outward Peels of Citron and Lemon of each five drams of July-Flowers one ounce and an half Red Roses and of the Flowers of the Lesser Centaury of each two drams shred what is to be shred and infuse them three days in three pints of Malaga-Wine or the Spirit of Wine The Vinegar of July-Flowers and the Juice of Lemons of each a pint distill them in a Bath in a Glass Vessel and to the distilled Liquor add of Cinamon three drams Cloves two drams and an half Mithridate an ounce Venice-Treacle three ounces Troches of Vipers half an ounce Camphire two scruples Wood of Aloes a dram Mace two drams Yellow Saunders one dram and an half of the Seeds of Carduus Benedictus one ounce of the Seeds of Citron three drams let these be infused two days then with a gentle fire distill them twice or thrice and draw off half thereof This Water is excellent to Cheer and Enliven the Heart and for expelling Melancholy Heart-Passion Boil Pimpernel the Garden sort Herb Flower and Roots in Ale till the Ale be very strong of them drink it up hot sweetned with a little Syrup of Roses or Violets this twice or thrice done removes Heartsickness or the Infection of the Plague and made into Posset-drink with Milk is good in Pestilential Fevers Heart-sickness to Remove Take Ale and make a Posset-drink thereof then clarifie it and seeth Pimpernel in it till it becomes strong of the Herb sweeten it a little and drink it often Heat in the Eyes Beat the White of an Egg and dissolve in it a pretty quantity of fine Loaf-Sugar beat them till they become thin then drop it into the Eye Heat in the Face Dip a Cloth in the Juice of Lemons and Salt and Atom heated in White-wine and in often applying it the Heat or Redness of the Face will be removed and the Skin become clear smooth and of its proper Colour Heats or Inflammations of the Eyes Take the Powder of Tutty-stone Aloes and Sugar of each an ounce infuse them in a quart of Red rose-Rose-water and White-wine being put into a double Glass and placed in Balneo Mariae five or six days with often shaking wash the Eyes Forehead Temples and indeed the whole Head with this often so you will find a speedy Remedy Heat of the Liver Take Liverwort Garden and Wild and Endive of each a handful Maidenhair half an handful boil them in Water with a little Sugar and being clarified put into the Decoction a little of the Wine of Pomgranates and drink it alone and in your usual Drink for a Week together or as you see occasion The Dose is a quarter of a pint at a time Hellebore to Prepare Infuse the Roots of Black Hellebore in the Juice of Quinces three days in a moderate Heat then dry them and keep 'em for use Hemlock This by reason of its Coldness is supposed to be poisonous yet it is frequently used and not without success for Tumors and Inflammations of the Spleen A Cataplasm or Plaister of it with Ammoniacum powerfully discuss all Tumors or hard Swellings Twenty grains of the Root in Powder is an admirable Diaphoretick in any Malignant Fevers Hemlock Plaister Take of the Juice of the
Leaves of Hemlock four ounces Vinegar of Squills and Gum-Ammoniack of each eight ounces dissolve the Gum in the Juice and Vinegar and after a sufficient Infusion make them into a Salve over a gentle fire This is a very good Plaister to soften hard Swellings or take away Inflammations Hemorrhoids If these be not too much inflamed dip your Finger or a fine Rag in the Balsom or Sulphur made with Oil of Turpentine and besmear and anoint the Tumours once or twice a day But if inflamed much take Myrrh Olibanum common Frankincense of each a like quantity powder and mix them very well and receive the Fume of this Mixture cast on a Chafing-dish of Coals with Embers in a Close-stool or some such convenient thing about a quarter of an hour more or less as the Party can endure it Hemorrhoids another To prepare these for a Cure Take White-wine boil it in a handfull of Incense which is only to comfort it then wash with it the part grieved very often then dip some Lint or Rags in Oleum Magistrale to make which you will find under O L and often apply it as a soveraign Ointment for this Grievance Then for a Plaister Take the said Oil Venice-Turpentine and new Bees-wax of each an ounce set them over a gentle fire and keep them stirring a quarter of an hour then let it cool and being cold apply it as a Plaister This is good for Fistula's Ulcers and all such Grievances occasion'd by hot Humours offensive to Nature It is applied in Wounds made by a Sword c. Gun-shot and Blasts by Gun-powder Scalding with Lead or any Mineral Hemorrhoids another way Take the Sole of an old Shoe worn by a Man much used to travel cut it to pieces and burn it yet neither to grey nor white Ashes but to a fryable and tender Coal reduce it into an impalpable Powder Take then unsalted Hogs-lard and work it with it to an Ointment and anoint the afflicted part often therewith Hen-Pye Take away the Hens Breast-bone truss and set them in warm Water lard it with Lard not too big season it with Pepper Salt and Nutmeg raise your Paste to an Oval form and put in your Hens and garnish or fill them with Champignons Artichoak-bottoms Livers of Fowls Sweet-Herbs and Lard melted or beaten cover the Pye with the Lid and let it bake for the space of three hours and being baked put in some Juice of Lemons beaten up with Butter and Gravy Hern-Pye Take your Hern and pull the Feathers and Stumps clean off break the Breast-bone and lay it to soak in warm Water and Salt for the space of an hour then having Sweet-Herbs and Onions shred make little Balls of them sticking them together with Butter and put it into the Belly season it with Salt Pepper Nutmeg Mace and Ginger finely beaten then lard the Breast and stick pieces of Lard under the Wings lay also other Balls about it of the Composition of these that were put into the Belly till the Coffin is full then sprinkle on some Juice of Lemon and so bake it for two hours when it is enough pour melted Butter into it set it in a dry place till cold and then serve it up Hern to Roast Take a Hern that is not too old lard the Back and Breast after you have parboil'd it then put it on a Spit baste it with Butter and White-wine beaten up together and dridge it with grated Bread and Sweet-Herbs cut very small and when it is sufficiently roasted make a Sauce of the beaten Yolks of Eggs Anchovy Claret and Vinegar garnish your Dish with Oranges Lemons Savory and Tops of Rosemary Herring-Pye to Season Take about eight middle-sized Herrings the soft-Roes are the best slit them down the Backs and taking out the Bones rub them over with Pepper and Salt then mince Onions Leeks and Apples and scrape in Lemon-peel then strew over them some Nutmeg finely grated half a pound of Currans and mix a pound of Butter with a little Flower and place it above and beneath in thin slices Hiccough This is dangerous when it happens in Fevers therefore to remedy it in that extremity Take only two or three preserved Damascens at a time keeping your mouth close shut and holding your breath now and then Hippocras of White-wine Take about three quarts of the best White-wine a pound and an half of Sugar and an ounce of Cinamon two or three Tops of Sweet-Marjoram and a little whole Pepper let these run thorough a filtering Bag with a grain of Musk then add the Juice of a large Lemon and when it has taken a gentle heat over the fire and stood for the space of three or four days close covered put it in Bottles and keep it close stopt as an excellent and generous Wine as also a very curious Cordial to refresh and enliven the Spirits Or if you think it best as to the Colour you may make it of the Colour of Claret though this at pleasure may be coloured with Red Wine Syrup of Elder-berries Mulberries Clovegilly-flowers c. It easeth the Palpitations and Tremblings of the Heart and removes the Causes of Panick-Fears Frights and sudden Startings It giveth Rest to weary Eyes and heats the cold Stomach Hispidula Known otherwise by the name of Colts-foot is an Herb growing on Hills and bearing a Red Flower and sometimes a White it has a particular Virtue against the Ulcers of the Lungs Phthisick and Spitting of Blood A distilled Water of the whole-Plant and a Syrup made of the Juice are either of them admirable good against the Consumption of the Lungs The Essence of the Juice is singular good against the Bloody-flux and ether Fluxes of the Bowels Hoarseness Take three ounces of hyssop-Hyssop-water and sweeten it with fine Sugar then beat well in it the Yolk of a new-lay'd Egg and drink it fasting Holly The Prickles of Leaves boiled in Posset-drink wonderfully ease the Colick and Pains in the Bowels as hath been often approved when other Remedies more costly have failed Honey Clarified Boil Honey that hath been clarified with the Whites of Eggs until it come to a thickness then take it off the fire and when it is cool put it up for your use This is good in Inflammations either taken inwardly or outwardly applied to any Part where extraordinary Heat is predominant Honey of Raisins the Best Take three quarts of Water heat it and when it bubbles up scum it stone two pound of Raisins and put them into it till they swell and are pulpy then boil them to the consumption of half the Water then strain and press out the remainder of the liquid part boil the Decoction to the thickness of a moderate Honey and then add two pound of clarified Honey and being well mingled boil it to the thickness of a perfect Honey This is good for any Stoppages or Defects in the Lungs if mixed with White-wine it helps Digestion and mixed with cooling simple
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 â— 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
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
of Ambergriese cut small and dissolved with some drops of the Oil of Cinamon which being well mixed add what follows in Powder viz. Wood of Aloes and Cinamon of each six drams prepared Pearl two drams Leaf-gold one dram then drain and mix them with the Syrup of Kermes which is made in this manner mix the Grains in a marble Mortar pulp them thorough a Sieve or Strainer and mix them with an equal quantity of Sugar This is the proper Conserve and to make it a Syrup it is but adding more Sugar raw Silk the Juice of Apples and Rose-water It is a great Strengthener of the Heart and Restorer of Nature expels Melancholy and restores a cheerful and wholsom Complexion Kermes a Confection Take the Juice of pleasant Apples and Rose-water a pound and an half raw Silk cut very small one pound put them into a Matrass well stopped and digest them for twenty four hours in Balneo Mariae then squeeze the warm Silk in a Press and boil the Liquor to the consistence of a solid Electuary with two pound of Sugar then take it from the fire and dissolve in it a pound of the new thicker Juice of Kermes and afterward mix with it Oriental Pearl prepared Yellow Saunders and biting Cinamon of each half an ounce Ambergriese pulverised with three drops of the best distilled Oil of Cinamon Lapis Lazuli burnt wash'd and made smooth three drams Leaf-gold one dram Oriental Musk half a dram This Confection without dispute is a very excellent lam den day one and held to be one of the best and purest Cordials that ever and Galenick Physician invented for it repairs and recreates the Vital and Animal Spirits cures the Palpitations of the Heart and remedies Swooning-Fits it very much fortifies the Brain and all the Noble Parts and is an Enemy to Putrefaction it re-establishes the languishing and decaying Strength and drives away Melancholy and Sadness and restores and preserves both Body and Mind in a good Condition It may be taken upon the Point of a Knife or dissolved in Wine or in Broth or in any Cordial or Cephalick Liquor It is sometimes mix'd with Electuaries or Opiates either soft or solid The usual Dose is from one scruple to one dram It is also mixed in Epithems prescribed for the Heart and Liver and rarely fails the Parent 's Expectation Kermes the Iuice its Virtues Kermes or Alkermes is made of the Kermes-Berries and brought from Marseilles it is of a bright Scarlet Colour well-tasted and of the thickness of an ordinary Syrup It is a very great Cordial it discusses Wind and Vapours cheers the Heart revives the Spirit helps Women in Travail helps Nature cures Wounds and wounded Nerves resists the Poison of the Plague and the malignity of Pestilential Fevers and very powerfully and kindly drives out the Small-pox and Measles The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce and an half and may be taken in this Mixture viz. the Juice of Kermes six drams Aqua Lactis Alexiter four ounces mix them together for a Draught Or in this manner Take the Juice of Kermes six drams the Tincture of Cochineel two drams Aqua Lactis Alexiter four ounces mix for a Dose a Syrup made of this Juice with double-refined Sugar it is good to cut tough Phlegm if mingled with a little Juice of Lemons or Citron also to open Obstructions of the Breast and Lungs and strengthen the Stomach it causes a good Appetite and is good against pestilential Diseases A Water distilled from the Juice very much resists the Plague and creates a good Habit and Constitution of Body Kernels of Peaches These bruised and applied to Inflammations allay the Heat and bring Swelling Humours to a Head there is an Oil drawn from them that in hot Inflammations is very good and also to anoint the Stomach with in fainting or swooning Fits Kernels of Pine-Apples The Decoction of them is taken with good success by such as are of phlegmatick Constitution or afflicted with Rheumatisms as also to wash old running Sores with and to cleanse Ulcers and such-like Matters Kibes Take Navel wort the Leaves and Root stamp it very small to half a handful of both these put two ounces of Linseed-oil and a quarter of an ounce of Alom in powder mix them well together over a gentle fire wash your Kibes first in Water and Salt and being dryed bind this on as a Plaister or Poultis It is the same for Chilblains and helps Corns it being so applied when they are newly cut Kibes Broke to Heal Take the Lungs of a Ram dryed and beat to Powder mixed with the Oil of Earth-worms and Linseed-oil and by applying it three or four times and washing them with Urin your Expectation will be answered or if they be not broken make a Plaister of Alom Vinegar and Mustard and lay it on them Kidneys If you find any Swelling in the Kidneys by reason of Obstruction of Urin Cold some Blow received or otherwise Take the Oil of Roses and Quinces of each two drams warm and mix them well over a gentle Fire chafe it on the Reins of the Back and swath the Body very warm with a Flannel Wrapper Kidney-Beans To enlarge upon these will not be amiss seeing so many and various Uses are appropriated to them They open Obstructions provoke Urin expel Sand Gravel and slimy Matter strengthen wonderfully and cause a good Colour in the Face restore in Consumptions they thicken cleanse and stop Fluxes as Diarrhoea's Lienteries The Decoction of them is good against the Stone a strong Broth of them boiled till they are broken dissolved and strained is good against a Consumption The Flower is used in Poultisses and to ripen Fevers It eases Pains outwardly it takes away Freckles Morphew and Sun-burn and other Deformities of the Skin A Cataplasm made of it discusses Bruises in the Eyes A volatil Salt made of them is good against the Apoplexy Epilepsie Palsie Lethargy and Convulsion Gout Stone Rheumatism Colick and other Diseases of the Head Nerves Womb and Joints The Dose is from six grains to ten They are likewise pleasant for Food and very nourishing Kidneys their Pains Cured Take five ounces of Maidenhair Licorice five ounces infuse them twelve Hours in three quarts of spring-Spring-VVater then boil them gently in a Bath and press out the Liquid part when a third part of it is consumed and add by well mixing three pound of clarified Sugar This not only helps the Diseases and Pains in the Kidneys and Sides but also opens the Obstructions of the Lungs provokes Urin gently and expels the Gravel and Stone out of the Bladder An ounce of it may be taken at a time in any proper Liquor Kidney-Pye or Pasty Take the Kidneys of Veal Fat and all with some of the Meat when the Loins of Veal are just roasted mince them very small with the Marrow of six Bones cold to which add sweet Marjoram Winter-savory and Thyme very well
bruised or small shred Rosewater a quarter of a pint half a pound of Currans a sliced Nutmeg half a pound of Sugar and the Yolks of six Eggs and mixing them well together let the Crust of your Pyes or Pasties be of Puff-past and of but an indifferent size These by some are call'd Marrow-Pasties but then there is usually more of the one than of the other among the Ingredients These being made very small may be fryed in sweet Butter or tried Suet. Kidney the Stone in it We may before-hand perceive the Signs of this dangerous Distemper by a fixed Pain in the Loins bloody Urin or voiding Sand or Stones the numbness of the Legg on the side of the affected Kidney the retraction of the Testicles on the same side the Pain afflicts a queasiness of the Sromach and straining to Vomit In this case if the Person be of a sanguin Constitution about ten ounces of Blood may be taken from the Arm on the side the Pain most afflicts after that drink Posset-drink wherein two ounces of the Roots of Marsh-mallows have been boiled and take the following Clyster viz. The Roots of Marshmallows and Lilies of each an ounce the Leaves of Mallows Wall-flower brank Ursine and Camomel-flowers of each a handful Linseed and Fenugreek-seed of each half an ounce boil them in a convenient quantity of Water to a pint and a half make a Clyster and after the rejection of the Vomit and Clyster let a large Dose of Liquid-Laudanum be exhibited viz. to twenty five drops or fifteen or sixteen grains of Matthew's Pills If the Patient be old and much weakened by the continuance of the Disease or it be a Woman much subject to Vapours especially at the beginning of the Paroxysm and she void black and gravely Urin then omit the Bleeding but in all other Cases proceed according to the Method prescribed Kidneys Vlcerated Take of China-root sliced very small two drams Golden-rod Maiden-hair Bettony Mouse-ear Agrimony Comfrey Scabeous Bugle red Bramble-Leaves Marshmallows Pelletory of the Wall and Plantain of each half a handful then take one spoonful of French Barly and a Stick of Licorice sliced very small a handful of Raisins of the Sun stoned boil them softly in a pottle of running Water to the consumption of a quart and taking it off the Fire add two ounces of the Conserve of red Roses stir and mix them well together and strain the liquid part through a fine Cloath and keep it close stopped in a Glass and drink thereof every Morning fasting about half a quarter of a pint pretty warm Kidney-Wort It is otherways called Wall-penny-royal or Wall-penny-wort The Juice of it being drunk with a little fine Sugar is excellent cooling and good in all Inflammations and unnatural Heats Excellent is the distilled Water of it in cooling a fainting hot Stomach or heated Bowels or hot Liver it takes away Pimples or Redness in the Face St. Anthony's Fire and other outward Heats and Inflammations it also easeth the Pain or Soreness of the Kidneys occasioned by the Stone or Gravel it provokes Urin and is available for the Dropsie The Juice being made into an Ointment is excellent in easing the hot Gout or Sciatica Kidney-Wort The Juice or distilled Water being drank in very effectual for all Inflammations and unnatural Heats It cools the Bowels Stomach and Liver The bruised Herb or the Place bathed with the Juice or distilled Water cures Redness and Pimples in the Face and all other outward Heats and Inflammations and has many peculiar Virtues for the Cure of the Stone especially in the Kidney In Bleeding and Wounds it is very effectual as also in the Gout and most violent Pains in the Stomach Bowels and the like helps Swellings in the Throat and is very good to heal the Blistering or Fretting of the Skin by being applied Some hold it to be good in the Disease called the King's-Evil An Ointment made of it and some of the Skin of the Leaf layed upon them is excellent good in green Wounds and to stay Bleeding of Wounds or upon other Occasions King's-Evil Take a handful of the Herb called White-Archangel stamp it small and mix with it some Hog's-Lard and apply it Plaister-wise to the Swelling or Tumour or Take the lesser Daisie or common wild Daisie usually growing on the Commons and in Fields and stamp the Roots and use them as the former Figwort is likewise applied with very good success in this Distemper King's-Evil another Let a quart of new Milk just boil and taking it off put into it two spoonfuls of Honey which being dissolved with stirring set it on the Fire again and let it boil about a Minute so divide it into four parts and drink one part warm early in the Morning another about ten another about four in the Afternoon and the rest at Bed time Do this daily a Month or two together or less On the Days you Purge which must be once a Week if you be a grown Man or Woman you may take three quarters of an ounce of Caryocostinum dissolved in Posset-drink and keep your self very warm and be careful after it Dress the Sores if they run with any drawing Cerecloath or a Plaister of Burgundy-Pitch This Medicin though not very promising is yet very famous for the many Cures done with it by a very charitable Lady from whose ingenious Chaplain the Receipt was procured King's-Evil another Take the Roots of Pilewort a handful bruise and boil them in Hogs-Lard till they become crisp after that press them hard out and boil in the same Lard as many more fresh ones press them out again and do this the third time and then keep the Lard wherein they have been boiled and with it anoint the grieved Parts twice or thrice a Day Kingfisher This is a Water-Fowl blue green and purple very beautiful it builds in the Winter by the Sea-shore when generally for fourteen Days there is a Calm which is the time of their hatching which makes some believe this Bird has an instinct of Nature to know when the Winds will be still and against that time prepares to build her Nest and breed Kingfishers Flesh is exceeding good for Consumptive Bodies wonderfully restoring them and making the Parties grow fat fresh and lively Take upon this Account of the Potentates two ounces the Powder of Vipers a dram mix them together for a Dose and give them to the consumptive Party Take of the Flesh dried to Powder in an earthen Pot set one ounce of it in a hot Oven Amber half a scruple Man's Skull a scruple and it is a curious Remedy for those that are troubled with the Epilepsie Kite This is a Bird of Prey and very ravenous yet Nature has so ordered it that all Creatures shall one way or other redound to the Good and Benefit of Mankind Some People as the poorer sort in Germany eat the Flesh of this Bird as a great Dainty yet being a gross kind of Food
it is not used by us for Food However Take the Powder of that Flesh a dram volatil Salt of Amber twelve grains Sal Armoniack four grains these being mixed for a Dose are prevalent against the Gout Again Take of the Flesh of a Kite in Powder one dram Salt of Man's Skull a scruple Filings of Elk-hoofs and native Cinabar of each ten grains mix these for a Dose against the Epilepsie Kites-Ashes of the whole Kite given in the same manner as before-mention'd are prevalent against the fame Diseases so also is the volatil Salt and Oil made by distillation as Oil and Salt of Man's Skull which may be given from twelve or sixteen grains to a scruple in any convenient Liquor Kites-Blood Anoint the Forehead and Temples with it and it eases Pains in the Head and prevents strange and frightful Dreams causes Sleep and sets a fair Complexion on the Skin Made up with Oil of St. John's-wort and Wormwood into an unguent it eases Pains in the Joints and is good to anoint the Head and Stomach with in case of the Falling-sickness Kites-Dung Take of the Dung of a Kite the younger the better an ounce and half Camphire in fine Powder two drams common Soap as much as will suffice to make 'em into a Cataplasm This applied hot immediately eases the raging Pain of the Gout insomuch that several Persons of Note who have been troubled with this afflicting Distemper have caused Kites to be taken either the young ones or others and kept them tame as charily as their Hawks for no other purpose than for their Dung Kites-Grease This is good to anoint old Sores and Swellings also Pains and Aches it supples the Joints and resists the penetration of sudden Heats Iron Instruments rubbed with it and afterwards heated in the Fire become very hard and are rarely after subject to rust or decay as some say Kites-Liver is good against the Gout and Epilepsie and also Convulsions Take of the Powder three drams oil of Rosemary and Lavender of each five drops and make them up into one Dose Kites-Testicles Take of the Powder one dram extract of Satyrion one dram and half Powder of Vipers half a dram mix them for a Dose and for some time being taken it helps Barrenness and causes Fruitfulness 't is exceeding good in Consumptions To conclude of a Creature so little taken notice of by most few have better or more Virtues to do good in these kinds Knapweed its Virtue and Use This Herb or Weed grows in Fields and Meadows about the Borders and Hedges its Virtue is to stay Bleeding both at the Mouth and Nose or any other outward parts and those Veins that are broken or inward Wounds as also the Fluxes of the Belly it stays the distillations of thin and sharp Humours from the Head upon the Stomach and Lungs it is good for those that are bruised by any Falls Blows or otherwise it is very profitable for those that are bursten and troubled with Ruptures by drinking the Decoction of the Root and Herb in White-wine and applying it outwardly to the grieved Part it is singular good in all running Sores Cancers and Fistula's drying up the moisture and healing them gently without sharpness it is of special use for the soreness of the Throat the Swelling of the Uvula and Jaws Knapwel This grows in most Fields and Meadows and about their Borders and Hedges and in many wast Grounds As for the time it flowereth it is in June and July and the Seed is soon after ripe This Herb stayeth the Flux at the Mouth Nose and other outward Parts also those Veins that are inwardly broken or inward Wounds as also the Flux of the Belly It stays the Distillation of thin and sharp Humours from the Head upon the Lungs and Stomach It is good for those that are bruised by any Falls Blows or otherwise It is very profitable for those that are Bursten and have Ruptures by boiling the Herb and Root in Wine and drinking the liquid Decoction sweeten'd with Sugar and applying the Herb and Roots so boiled as a Poultis to the grieved Part It is singular good in all running Sores Cancers and Fistula's drying away the Moisture and healing them up gently It does the like to running Sores or Scabs on the Head or other Parts It is of singular use for the soreness of the Throat Swelling of the Uvula and Jaws or to stay Bleeding and heal up green Wounds Knees Swelled Take a handful of Goats Dung and mix it with Barley-Meal boil them in Vinegar and Water till they become thick enough to spread as a Plaister and then apply them to the Swelling often renewing This Plaister will quickly asswage the Pain and in time remove the Swelling It is also good for Swellings occasion'd by Pains of the Gout or the like in any Part of the Body Knot-Grass The common sort of this Grass for there are divers sorts of Knot-Grass has a Root hard woody and single and many Fibres It 's of an astringent Tast and has many Stalls sometimes standing upright but oftner bending towards the Earth The Seeds are pretty large triangular and of a dark Chesnut colour It closes Wounds and contributes towards their healing as being drying and astringent It stops inwardly Fluxes and outwardly the Bleeding of Wounds The Juice of it allays Inflammations especially of the Eyes A noble Man that vomited Blood and had used many other Medicins to no purpose upon the using this viz. the Juice had his Flux of Blood stayed which else perhaps had not ended but with his Life Knot-Grass This kind of Grass springs up late in the Spring and abides till Winter when all the Branches perish The Juice of it is excellent in staying Bleeding being drank in steeled or red Wine It stays Bleeding at the Nose being applied to the Forehead and Temples or squirted up the Nostrils It 's good also for the Bloody-Flux stops the Courses It is singular good to provoke Urine and is helpful against the Dysury Gravel Biting of venomous Beasts Rheums Worms Heat Choler Inflammations Imposthumes Gangreens Fistula's Ulcers Cancers and Wounds in the Ears with many such like Distempers LAce or Point To Wash and Starch these Put your Lace or Point on a Tent and make a strong Lather with Spanish-Soap usually called Castile-Soap then with a small soft Brush dipt therein rub your Point or Lace well but with a light and gentle hand for fear of fretting it continue to wash it on both sides for four Lathers then rince it in Spring-water or Pump-water which is all one and after pass it over on the wrong side very lightly with white Starch made as thin almost as Water and follow it with your Brush then suffer it to dry and with a round Bodkin or Skewer open the holes or parts that were closed in the washing as also set in order the Gimp or Over-layings if it be Point not suffering it to ruckle then with a moderate
and Hyacinth two drams of each the Powder of Pearl an ounce and as much Syrup of Citron as will make them into a Conserve by mixing and bruising them well together with a sufficient quantity of fine Sugar take of it about a quarter of an ounce Morning and Evening it is a great Cordial for refreshing the Spirits and a Preservative against the Plague and Pestilential Fevers marrigold-flower-Marrigold-flower-Water Take the Flowers of Marrigolds a quarter of a peck and distill them in a cold Still then take a fine linnen Cloth and wet it in the distilled Water this applied to the Forehead helps Pains of the Head The Eyes washed with it removes Inflammations and drank in hot Diseases is very available and beneficial to the Party grieved Marjoram Conserv'd Take the Tops and tenderest part of Sweet Marjoram two handfuls or more as you require a greater or lesser quantity of Conserve bruise it very well in a wooden Bowl or Mortar add twice the weight in Sugar boil it up with Marjoram-water till the Sugar comes to the thickness of a Syrup then put in the beaten Marjoram and it will be a rare Conserve Marks to Prevent In case of the Small-pox Measles or such violent Distempers as leave Scars behind them Take Litharge of Gold in fine Powder White-bread or Ceruss washed in Rose-water of each an ounce Oil of the greater Cold Seeds and of Bitter Almonds and Oil of Eggs of each half an ounce Night-shade and Plantane-waters of each half an ounce or so much as will make it into an Ointment by grinding it in a stone Mortar pouring to it sometimes of the Oils and sometimes of the Waters and with this anoint the Face and Hands when the Scab or Scurf is green and it will keep them from Pitting or Scars Marmalade of Cherries Take Cherries not too ripe fairest you can get and having stoned them lay them in a Preserving-pan over a gentle Fire so that they only simper but not boil then take out a part of the Liquor leaving only so much as will moisten them then put in fine Sugar and boil them up over a quicker Fire bruise them well and continue strewing more Sugar till the Colour is very good then take them off and being well incorporated put them up into a Glass or glazed earthen Vessel and they will keep a considerable time and being carefully look'd to and set dry you will find it good for twelve Months Marmalade of Red Currans This is an excellent way if well observed viz. Take of Red Currans when ripe clean pick'd squeeze out the Juice of some of 'em and put the rest into it adding the Juice of Raspberries boil them together gently and when the Currans that were whole begin to break boil up an equivalency of Sugar to a Candy height and put in the Currans letting them boil with the Currans again and sprinkle into it Rose-water and when it comes to the thickness of a Marmalade having taken off the Scum if it rises put them into a glazed Pot being mash'd as they boil till none of them remain whole and so when this Marmalade is cold slice it for your use and it will prove of an excellent Taste and is good to moisten the Mouth and comfort the Stomach in Fevers or other hot Diseases Marmalade of Damascens Take about two quarts of the largest Damascens when they are ripe but not over-ripe pare off the Skins of three pints of them put 'em into an earthen Vessel placing those you have not skinned undermost put as much fair Water as will cover them into a Kettle or Pot and when it boils put in the Pipkin or other earthen Vessel into it close stopped so as the Water cannot get in and when they are by this way of Infusion tender take off the other Skins and Stones out of them all then take their weight of Sugar put it to the Pulp and set them together over a Fire till it boil apace keep it clean scumm'd and when it is boiled to a height put it into a glass for your use Marmalade of Grapes Take White or Red Grapes as you design the Marmalade for Colour let them be gathered in a dry day and dry them afterward on a Table when they are separated from the Stalks then boil them in fair Water often scumming them whilst the Water is reduc'd to a third part and then let there be but a gentle Fire under them and when you find it thickened strain it thorough a Sieve boiling it once more add a small quantity of Sugar and so put it up when cool and cover it close for your use Marmalade of Pippins Take the best Pippins when they are newly gather'd and not too ripe pare them and take the Core out then put to them their weight in fine Sugar put them into a Preserving-pan and pour upon them as much Spring-water as will cover them boil them with a quick Fire till you find them by trial Jellied on a Plate when cold then take it off the Fire and put into it a little of the Scrapings of Lemon-peel and a like quantity of the yellow Rinde of Oranges boiled tender casting away their first Water to correct their Biterness cutting them into narrow slices and so bruising them all together into a Pulp let the Substance cool in earthen Pans or Pots and set 'em in an indifferent dry place strewing some Sugar over the Marmalade and it will keep well a Year or two Marmalade the Spanish way Take of ripe Pear-Quinces pared and cored fifteen pound three pound of fine-white Sugar a quart of fair Water stew them over a gentle Fire and as they grow dryer add a little Rose-water and Whitewine or Canary as the Scent best pleases squeeze out the Juice and Pulp and put to it four pound of Sugar more a little more Rose-water and Orange-water try it on a Plate and if it comes clean off it is sufficiently enough then take it off and let it cool put it in Boxes and strew over it some perfumed Comfits and keep it close for use Marmalade White Take six pound of Quinces pare and core them and then boil 'em to a Pulp put to it two pound of Sugar moistened well with the Juice of Quinces boil them gently together at first till the Liquor be swelled out of the Quinces and the Sugar dissolved and all come into a convenient thickness and so put it up for your use Marrow a fine Dish Take the Marrow of two or three Bones cut it square like Dice and put it into a penny Manchet grated fine with some Dates cut in halves and a quarter of a pound of Currans seven or eight spoonfuls of Cream roasted Wardens Pippins or Quinces sliced and two or three Yolks of raw Eggs season them with Cinnamon and Ginger bake them and serve 'em up Marsh-Mallows Though these are very common yet they are of much Virtue and Value in their Use viz. the Leaves sod in
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-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
your Coffin put in a spoonful or two of Canary and the like quantity of Rose-water into every Pye To make the Crust stand fine and eat short sprinkle the Flower as much as there is occasion with cold Water and work the Past with pieces of unmelted Butter and being brought into a form and thinness the Crust when baked will far out-doe that made with hot Water and melted Butter as the usual way is You may strew over the Tops a little ambered Sugar and grind two or three grains of Ambergrease and half a grain of Musk the which quantity will serve five or six Pyes But instead of Neats-tongues if you please Veal Beef or Calve's Chaldrons will do very well Minced-Pyes to Season To do this Take the Meat you design to make them on minced finely when parboiled let it lye pressed all Night then put two pound of Beef-suet minced small to every pound of Meat mix them very well together and take half art ounce of Cloves and Mace beaten half an ounce of Nutmegs the like weight of Cinnamon and a little Salt half an ounce of Carraway-seeds five Pippins minced small without the Core a Lemon-peel scraped and a quarter of a pint of Rose-water a pound of Dates half a pound of Sugar a pound of Raisins of the Sun two pound of Currans mix them well together and put them to every pound of Meat and Suet. Mineral-Crystal To make this pure Dissolve it when pretty well reduc'd to a smalness before in damask Rose-water evaporate it and then filter it warm through a brown Paper on which Rose-leaves are strewed moistned with a little Spirit of Sulphur with a few grains of Musk and Ambergrease and so let it crystalize and it will become a delicate mineral Crystal pleasant in colour and smell being endued with all the Virtues of exalted and pure Nitre If is a true Anodyn and an excellent allayer of Thirst extinguishing the preternatural Heat of all manner of Fevers It is a peculiar and special Antidote against the Plague and all manner of pestilential Infections It removes Stoppages of the urinary Parts and provokes Urin gives ease in the Quinsie in hot sharp and scalding Urin and Gonorrhoea and for these purposes it is best to take a dram of it in Wine sweetned with Sugar Mint This is meant of that sort of Garden Mint called Spear-Mint Its Virtues are very many viz. Beat it and lay it to the Stomach that is weak and wants digestion and it comforts and fortifies it It is a soveraign Herb to restore the Smelling and Feeling to those wherein they are much decayed for the first being often held to the Nose and for the other the Decoction of it very strong applied to the numbed part The Leaves dried and powdered given to young Children kill and bring away Worms The Juice drank with Vinegar stenches Blood and with the Juice of sower Pomegrante restraineth Vomiting Hicups and Colick-Passions This Mint with rose-Rose-water and grated Nutmeg laid on the Forehead asswageth the Head-ach and laid on the tender Dugs full of Milk it easeth the Pain of them Applied with Salt it is good for the Biting of Mad Dogs And the Juice of it mixed with Honey dissolved in Water being dropt into the Ears easeth the Pain of them The whole Herb distilled In a glass Alembick in a Bath of hot Water or otherways four ounces being drank stayeth Bleeding at the Nose Those that affect much Milk to prevent the curdling of it in their Stomachs would do well to chew Mint in their Mouths and swallow the Juice after it If Cheese be sprinkled with the Juice or Decoction of it it will keep from Corruption or Rottenness Mint-Syrup Take about a pint of the Juice of Quinces when they are almost ripe the Juice of Pomgranets half as much dried Mint six ounces red Roses two ounces steep them in the Juices twenty four Hours then boil it half away and strain out the rest and with fine Sugar make it into a Syrup and if it be too thick add a little Mint-water Mint-Water Take Baum Penyroyal and Mint of each a handful Canary-Lees a gallon and after the Infusion of twenty four Hours put them into a Still of Pewter and keep a quick Fire under it cover the Still with wet Cloaths and put into the receiver as much fine Sugar as will conveniently sweeten it and then distil it over again This is excellent in Fevers or any hot pestilential Diseases It comforts the Heart and strengthens the Memory and given with Syrup of Licorice is good for Obstructions of the Lungs and Difficulty of Breathing Mirabilis To make this Water so wonderfully commended by the Learned Sit Kenelm Digby Take Galingal Cardamums Cubebs Mellilot-flowers Mace Cloves Ginger and Cinnamon of each a dram bruise them small and infuse them in a pint of Celandine-Juice and as much Spear-mint-water half a pint of the Juice of Baum and one pound of the Flowers of Couslips Rosemary Borrage Bugloss and Marigolds of each two drams three pints of the best Canary a pint of strong Angelica-water red Rose-water half a pint bruise the Flowers and Spices and infuse them in the Waters Juices and Wine for twenty four Hours then distil them in a glass Still This Water is excellent against fainting Fits comforts the Heart is good in Consumptions the Spleen and Melancholy it keeps the Countenance fresh and young and very much helps the decay of the Memory Taken fasting it creates a good Appetite is excellent in internal Bruises and indeed a better Cordial for any pectoral Distempers or Defects cannot be founnd Miscarriage In this it is proper that young Women should not be ignorant of the Symptoms or Signs threatning or fore-running Miscarriage and some of them are these Sudden Pains in the Back or Belly the Breasts often filling and falling upon which let her apply this following Cerecloath to the Reins of the Back or Breast Take the Roots of Bistwort and Coriander-seed of each two drams unripened Galls Saunders and Hypocistides of each a dram Labdanum and Mastick of each half an ounce Frankincense and Bdellium of each two drams reduce those that can be so served into a Powder and with Oil of Mastick Turpentine and Bees-wax make two or three Cerecloaths and apply them sometimes to the Loins at other times to the Sides and the Region of the Womb under the Navel the Party for a considerable time altogether avoiding any violent motion both of Body and agitation of Mind as Excess of Joy Anger Melancholy c. relating to the latter also violent Sneezings Coughs Strainings or Affrights Miscarriage to Prevent Take Coriander-seed two drams the Root of Bistwort Shavings of Ivory and red Coral prepared of each a dram of white Amber and Crystal of each a scruple reduce all these to fine Powder make them up into Tablets Lozenge-wise with four ounces of Rose-water and half a scruple of the Confection of Alkermes their weight
Groundsil two ounces Bees-Wax two ounces Stone-pitch half an ounce make these over a gentle fire into a Salve and spreading it on Linnen or Leather apply it to the place grieved and in two or three times changing and anointing with Linseed Oil the danger will be past and the Cure effected Nail wort This is held exceeding successfull being applied to Imposthumes in the Joints and any Defects under the Nails especially for Whitloes Fellons and Nail-wheals Naples Bisket To make these so much in use Take a pound of fine Flower and the like Weight of Sugar eight Eggs and two spoonfulls of Rose-water an ounce of Carraway-seeds beaten small mix them well together and put them when made into a fit thinness with fair Water into Tin Coffins and bake them moderately in a gentle Oven glazing them over with Water in which Sugar has been dissolved Nature to restore Take an Artichoke and dress it with Milk that is first boil your Artichokes in Water till the Leaves will just draw off then put them in New Milk and boil them thoroughly then bruise the Pulp in the Milk and add a little Mace and grated Nutmeg sweeten it with Sugar and eat often of it with a Spoon It exceedingly restores decayed Vigour and strengthens not only the Spirits but the whole Frame of the Body The Germans and French usually eat the tender Stalks of this Plant boiled with Butter and Vinegar the Italians seldom boil the Heads but eat them raw with Salt Pepper Oil and Vinegar they are moreover held to provoke Venery and the Decoction of the Buds drank provoke Urine Navel pained If a pricking or shooting in the Navel happen which frequently by communication extends to the Fundament or Privy Parts by its twitchings and shootings Take Oil of Roses and Camomil of each an ounce and a half Comfry the Herb half a handfull bruise it and fry it in the Oils a little then apply it plaister-wise to the Navel as hot as can be endured it also takes away the Pains of the Belly and causes the Rumbling of the Bowels to cease Navel-wort Ointment This is moderately Astringent and therefore good for hot Distempers or Inflammations some use it for the Kings-Evil and for the curing Kibes Chilblains and the like Nauseousness When the Stomach or Appetite is offended in this manner and brought to a kind of Loathing Take the Powder of the Seed of Common Fennel in a Glass of White-wine sweetened with Sugar every morning fasting till the Offence be removed This likewise wonderfully clears the sight strengthens the Stomach and being mixed with pectoral Medicines it relieves those that are Asthmatick It also resists Poyson and the Leaves of Fennel boiled in Water wherein Barley has been boiled encreases Milk in Nurses and a Concoction of the Seeds and Leaves give ease to the Nephritick Pains forces Urine and expel Is Gravel the Roots provoke the Courses open the Obstructions of the Spleen and Liver and mainly help the Jaundice The whole Herb shred and boiled in Broth takes away Fat and keeps the Body in a good Proportion Many other Vertues are ascribed to it Neats-Foot Pye To do this boil the Neats Feet then take out the Bones and put as much Beef-suet as will answer their quantity mince them and then season them with Cloves and Mace finely beaten add then some grated Nutmeg and Sugar with a little Salt put them into the Coffin or Past with some Barberries Currans and Raisins of the Sun bake it well and serve it up hot Neats-Foot Pye another Take Neats-feet and boil them tender and when they are cold bone them and mince them very small seasoning them with Pepper Nutmeg Cinamon and Ginger a little Salt and a pound of Currans a quarter of a pound of Dates sliced and a quarter of a pound of fine Sugar with a little Rose-water and Verjuice stir them together in a Dish or Tray laying a little Butter in the bottom of the Pve and on the Meat the Marrow of Three Bones stick some Dates on the top of the Meat and close up the Pye and when it is half baked Liquor it with Butter and White-wine or Verjuice and Ice it and so set it in the Oven again 〈◊〉 it be baked and then put into it Rose-water and Sugar well beaten together Neats-Tongues to dry Take Bay-Salt beat it very fine so that it may be sifted through a fine Hair-Sieve and Salt-Peter of each a like quantity and having soaked your Tongues in warm Water rub it on very well in every part especially at the root then lay them in a place where they may be covered with the Salt and as that wasts put on more and when they become sufficiently hard and stiff then rowl them in Bran till they are dry put them into a Mold a while then dry them in a Kill with a soft Fire or for want of that necessary Implement you may hang them up in a Chimney where the Smoke comes but little at them and when they are sufficiently dryed press them out somewhat flattish and at length and so put them in dry Boxes and keep them for use Neats-Tongues to dry another Take Bay-salt bruised small and Salt-peter a like quantity rub the Tongues well with a Linnen-Cloth then put the Salt to them forcing it in especially at the Roots and as it wasts into Brine add more when they are hard and stiff then they have taken Salt enough Rowl them in Bran and dry them in a Mold over a Saw-dust Fire or for want of such a Material hang them up in a Chimney and when you boil them let it be in Spring-water and it will make them look the redder Neats-Tongues divers ways Take a Neats-Tongue being boiled tender blanch and slice it into thick slices about the bigness of a shilling fry it in sweet Butter and being enough put to them some strong Broth Gravy Nutmeg Salt and Saffron stew them together and then have some Yolks of Eggs beaten up with Grape Verjuice put them into a Pan and give them a toss or two and the Gravy and Eggs being pretty thick dish it on fine Sippets or make the same with Cinamon and Saffron sometimes you may slice them as aforesaid no bigger nor thicker than a Three pence and used in all points as before but only add some Onions fryed and stew it with Mushrooms Nutmeg and Mace and serve it up on Sippets first rubbing the Dish with a Shalot or you may stew it with Raisins Mace and blanched Almonds or Pistaches Marrow Claret-wine Butter Salt Verjuice Sugar Strong Broth and Gravy the Yolks of six Eggs with Vinegar or Grape-Juice and so serve it up on Sippits Neats-Tongue roasted the French way Boil and blanch it first and when it is cool Take out the Meat at the great end leaving the Skin whole and having minced it with Sweet Herbs and Apples as also the Yolks of Eggs boiled hard and Beef Suet beaten with Salt and
and is used for Colds Coughs and shortness of Breath The Juyce drunk in Wine is advantagious in Bruises The green Herb when bruised applied to the Fundament for two or three hours easeth the pains of the Piles but the Juice being made into an Ointment is the more effectual to that purpose The Scabs or breaking out of the Head are taken away being washed with its Decoction in fair Water and has the same Effect upon the breakings out of any other Parts tending to the like nature Nerves afflicted Take the Roots of Male-Peony new taken out of the ground one ounce of the Seeds of that Plant two drams and with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Peony beat them up into an Electuary of which take the quantity of a large Hazel-Nut or more if need require it twice a day Nerves their Diseases to cure Take of the Powder of Castor half an ounce Spirit of Castor half a pint digest them in the Cold ten days then strain out the Spirit and when it is well settled take ten drops inwardly in any proper Liquor This not only strengthens the Nerves and is good for the Diseases of the Head and Fits of the Mother but provoke the Courses and remedies Deafness Nerves prickt Take Peruvian Balsom and warm it a little then bathe it in where the grief is and in a little time it takes off the acrimony of the Sanies from whence proceeds the Pain and Convulsion when we are wounded or bit by venomous Creatures It iâ— excellent in staunching blood insomuch that it is affirmed that the Beads in Peru and New Spain from whence it comes finding themselves so hurt by an Instinct of Nature rub themselves against the Tree from whence it issues It is of a dark colour fragrant Smell and brought to us in little earthen Jars Nerves Vncover'd To Remedy this Take the Oil which is thus prepared Powder grosly three or four ounces of the best Camphire and having put it into a Mattress pour on of Spirit of Nitre twice as much stop the Vessel close and let it over a Pot half full of Water pretty well heated frequently stirring it to help forward the Dissolution which will be done in two or three hours and by this means you will find the Camphire turned into a clear Oil which will swim above the Spirit then separate it in a Viol for use This is not only used to touch the Nerves that lye uncovered but for the caries of Bones yet this Oil is nothing but a Dissolution of the Camphire in the Spirit of Nitre for if you cast Water upon it to kill the Force of the Spirit it will turn into Camphire as before Nerves Wounded Take Horsetail distill it and if the Nerves be much hurt or wounded Take three spoonfulls of it in a morning fasting apply it likewise outwardly this stays bleeding cures Ulcers in the Reins and Kidneys and if the Lungs be ulcerated drink three ounces of the Decoction of it or two ounces of the Juyce morning and evening a dram of Powder made of this Herb and taken in three ounces of plantane-Plantane-water morning and evening is held very good for a Consumption Nettle Iuice This is good to stop bleeding and ease the Pains in the Head being drunk it provokes Urine and is helpfull in the Dropsie the Leaves of Nettles made into a Poultis and applied to Inflammations and Tumours allay them mixed with Hogs Lard and Flax-seed Nipplewort Out of this comes a bitter Milk or whitish Juyce which being mixed with Woman's Milk and a little Oil of Roses and mingled well over the fire in a Saucer is greatly available to allay the Heat and Anger of sore Nipples and recover them so that the Infant may suck without giving the Woman any pain Niter This is held an excellent Medicine for the Colick or any Pains prepared after the following manner viz. Take of the best Nitre an ounce rub it sufficiently in a clean Mortar of Glass or Stone then grind it with half a Scruple of Saffron and of this Mixture take about half a dram at a time infused in about three or four ounces of Spring-water Nodes These are a kind of Knots occasioned many times by Scorbutick Humours Take two drams of Rhubarb boil it in half a pint of Ale till it consume to a quarter of a pint drink it in a morning fasting and anoint the place where these Knots are with Oil of Camomil mixed with the Spirit of Wine three or four times intermitting the first for a day Noise in the Ears Take the Oil of Ben-Nut drop it into the ear and it not only cures the Noises but in a great manner helps Deafness It cleanses the Skin from Spots or Morphew and the longer it is kept the better it is This Ben-Nut likewise mixed with Honey dissolves hard Swellings and the Kings-Evil made up to a Poultis with Barly-Meal it is good in the cold Afflictions of the Nerves Mixed with Meal of Lupins it takes off the Obstructions afflicting the Liver and Spleen it subverts the Stomach occasions Nauseousness and moves the Belly It purges gross and clammy Flegm by Vomit and Stool wherefore it is good for a flegmatick Colick Noise a singing Noise in the Ear This is usually the Forerunner of Deafness and few that have it to any purpose escape the losing their Hearing especially for a time therefore the best way is timely to prevent it to do which Take the Pills de Hiera or Hiera cum Agarico with which the Apothecary or Druggist will furnish you Take of them a dram at a time going to Bed and settle your self as well as may be to rest and the next morning take the following Decoction viz. Take the Tops of Mint Marjoram and the Flowers of Wood-Roses Bettony Sage and Camomil of each half a handfull boil them in a convenient quantity of Water 'till half be consumed then taking them from the fire let the Fume or hot Vapour ascend into the Ears by laying first one and then the other side of the head over it or you may drop three or four drops of the Oil of Amber palliated with Oil of Roses into the Ears and stop them close from the Air when you go to Bed Nose Bleeding To stay this speedily and effectually Take the long things that grow on Hazle-Trees before they Leave by some called the Nut-Blossoms burn them so that they may be reduced to a Powder but not to Ashes and when the Blood issues from the Nose blow up some of it with a quill into the Nostrils and let the Party drink the Juice of Plantane or Plantane-water and Milk and the Bleeding will stay This also will stay inward Bleeding till better Remedies can be obtained though many times of it self it is effectual and there needs no other unless some large Vein be broke or some extraordinary Flux of Blood otherways happens Noses to Dress This is meant of an Ox Steer Cow
in a Sand-Bath with a gradual Fire distil the Oil mixed with Spirit Phlegm and volatil Salt This Oil is beyond compare for the Epilepsie A few drops of it taken in some cephalick Waters as that of Bettony Pellitory Camomel or Mint you may take from three or four to five drops Anoint with it in great Pains the insides of the Nostrils Temples and the sutures of the Scull and immediate ease ensues Oil of Bays Take the ripe Berries bruise and boil them a good space in Water then strain it out press the Berries hard and when the liquid part is cool skim gently the Salt that swims on the Decoction which is the Oil and is good to extenuate calefie and dissipate Wind in the Stomach it dissolves cold Diseases in the Head and eases the Pains of the Colick Oil of Bitter Almonds Take bitter Almonds dry and purge bruise and calefie them in boiling Water then strain it out and press out the Oil. This Oil does very much attenuate and dissipate Wind cures the Noise of the Head by â—…opping into the Ears monifies the Stubbornness of the Sinews and opens Obstructions of the Liver Oil of Bitter Almonds another Take bitter Almonds two ounces putting to them half an ounce of Sperma Ceti bruise them and extract an Oil and with it anoint the Face when the Small-pox is drying and by often doing it it will make them shell kindly without leaving any Marks Oil of Camomel Take the Flowers of Camomel the white Leaves taken away bruise them put them into a considerable quantity of Oil and let them infuse in the Sun or some convenient Heat covered with a single linnen Cloath a considerable time then press out the Oil and keep it for use This is Anodyne and gives ease in the Colick and Pleurisie by bathing the affected part It is also given in Clysters to the same effect with good Success Oil of Camomel another Take the Flowers bruise them and put them into Olive-oil let them stand twelve Days boil it a little take it off and press out the Oil and Juice put the Juice or Oil in a Glass and put in â—…esh Flowers This eases Pain in the Joints softens Swellings closes Chops or Cracks in the Skin and supples stiffness of any Member and in a great measure gives ease by being anointed with it very hot or a linnen Rag dipt in it fixed to the place grieved Oil of Cinamon Bruise four pound of Cinamon infuse it in six quarts of hot Water leave it to digest in an earthen Vessel close stopped for two Days then pour the Infusion into a copper Alembick fit the receiver to it and lute the Joints with a wet Bladder distill with a pretty good Fire three pints of the Liquor then unlute the Alembick and pour into it by inclination the distilled Water and at the bottom you 'll find a little Oil put it into a Viol and stop it close distil the Liquor as before and then return the Water into an Alembick Take the Oil found at the bottom of the Receiver and mix it with the first repeat this Cohobation till no more Oil arises This Oil strengthens the Stomach eases Womens Deliverances the Courses and much encreaseth Seed Oil for Deafness Take pressed Oil of Leeks bitter Almonds and Laurel of each two ounces Spicknard Castoreum and Coloquintida shred of each a dram Juice of Rue and Whitewine of each an ounce and a half put these into a Matras close stopped and let them digest twenty four Hours in a lukewarm Balneo Mariae then encrease by degrees the heat of the Bath and boil them to the consumption of the moisture then strain and press the Oil out for use mixing afterward with it six grains of Musk. This Oil put just warm into the Ears a drop or two at a time wonderfully helps Deafness in those that were not born so but such as were born deaf very rarely recover though some foolish pretenders to all manner of Cures will for the fake of your Money promise infallible Success Oil of Eggs Take the Whites of twelve Eggs beat them so that they become a kind of an oily substance extract that and put one spoonful of the Oil of Tartar to it mix them well together and set them in the Sun so that at the bottom a thick settlement will remain take then the Oil that swims a top off and put it into a Viol and let it stand in the Sun till it becomes as white as a Curd This is exceeding good for Pains Aches Bruizes or any hot Humours setling also for Burns or Scalds Oil of Eggs another Take Yolks of Eggs and put them in a Pot over the Fire let them stand till you perceive them to grow black then put them in a Press and an Oil will squeeze out of them which is excellent good in all manner of Burns and Scalds Blasts by Lightning or ill Airs Oil of Elder-flowers This is made with the Flowers infused in good Oil when well beaten and the Oil after a considerable standing pressed out This Oil Discusses Mollified and Resolves Oil of Exeter Take two handfuls of Sage Thyme and the green Sprigs of wild Vine a handful each Hyssop two handfuls St. John's-wort one handful Bay-leaves two handfuls Goose-grass one handful Rosemary two handfuls Peneroyal two handfuls Camomel white Lilies Lavender Dragon-leaves and Wormwood of each two handfuls Mint Sweet-Marjoram Pellitory of Spain Fetherfew and Angelica of each one handful stamp these very small put them into a Pot with as much fair Water as will cover them till the Water be in a manner consumed then put to it two quarts of Couslip-flowers steeped about a Month in the Oil of Olives with two quarts of Whitewine and as much Olive-oil boil them toâ—…her an hour or two till they are almost drained dry then press out the Oil very hard from the Herbs and put it up in a Glass This is excellent good for dressing old Wounds and Sores and gives ease in Aches and violent Pains of the Colick Oil of Fennel Take two handfuls of the tops of Fennel and put it between two iron Plates or clean Tiles when they have been well heated in the Fire and pressing them hard you will find an Oil come out or oily Liquid good to anoint the Stomach with in the Phthisick or any Inflammations Oil of Foxes Take a Fox of about a Year old flea disbone it and cut it to pieces put to it four ounces of common Salt Spring-water as much as will serve to boil it boil it in an earthen glazed Pot covered over a gentle Fire so long that the Bones start out then strain out the Broth and squeeze the Flesh till all the moisture comes from it then put to it Dill and the Tops of Thyme fresh gathered of each two handfuls Sage Rosemary and ground Pine of each one handful Sallad-oil four pound return the Broth into the Pot and having put in the Herbs and
Fire and put them into an earthen Vessel for four Days then set them on the Fire again till they be thorough hot let them drain and take fresh Sugar boil it to a Candy heighth and put your Oranges to the hot Sugar which being boiled up take out the Oranges and lay them on a Wyre or Sieve to dry in a Stove or Oven and within ten Days they will be dry and fit for use In this manner Lemons are candied Orange-Marmalade Take the fairest Rind Oranges cut them in halves and take out the Pulp boil the Peels tender in fair Water often shifting to take out the bitterness then take them up and squeeze all the Water from them beat them in a stone Mortar with the Pulp of three or four yellow Pippins then strain and boil it with stirring until it become thick take it from the Fire and lay it on White Paper and take as much refined Sugar as the Pulp weighs put it into a Pan with as much Rose-water as will melt it boil it to a Candy height and put the Pulp into the Sugar keeping stirring till it rises from the bottom of the Pan then put it into Boxes and so into a Stove uncovered and when it is tolerably dried cover it up for your use Oranges a Past Take Oranges well coloured and boil them in Water shift them six or seven times in the boiling and put into the first Water a handful of Salt then beat them in a wooden Bowl with a wooden Pestle strain out the Pulp and take the weight of Sugar equal to them boil it up to a Candy height dry it on Plates and fashion it as you please And in this manner you may make Past of Lemons or Citrons Oranges The Water of these besides the pleasantness of the Fruit and other Advantages that arise from them being distilled in an Alembick by paring the Oranges and putting the Peels into a convenient quantity of low Wines or Spirits is not only excellent in Scent and may be sprinkled as a Perfume to give a fragrancy to what you please to asperse it on but is very good in pestilential Fevers It strengthens the Heart and the Brain Three or four spoonfuls taken going to Bed causes likewise a gentle breathing Sweat The Juice of Oranges is cold and therefore resisteth Corruption and is given with a little Sugar successfully to cool and temperate the Blood in Fevers and hot Diseases Orpin This kind of Herb is vulnerary and astringent and is chiefly used for healing Ulcers of the Bowels occasioned by the Bloody-flux also for Ruptures and Burns 'T is held excellent in easing Pains both in fresh Wounds and old Ulcers The Herb roasted on Embers and mixed with Hogs-Lard cures a Fellon Ostiocolla This is a kind of a Stone found in Saxony Silesia c. and grows in the Sand like a Coral It is of a glutinous Quality and therefore of excellent use for binding and knitting broken Bones immediately breeding Matter for a Callus and thereby hastening the Conglutination The Dose in subtil Powder is from one to two drams in any convenient Liquor and outwardly to be applied to the Place in a Cataplasm or Emplaster Aldrovandus affirmeth That broken Bones being rightly placed and tied up it heals them being used outwardly with a mixture of the Oil of Cranes-Bill and inwardly with red Wine It dries and binds without Agrimony and is good against Poison and the Plague Ouzle its Dung Half an ounce of the Dung of this Ouzle or Black-bird mixed with two ounces of the Juice of Lemons and a dram of the Powder of Camphire and applied to the Face or Hands takes away Freckles Lentils and other Deformities of the Skin The Flesh of this Bird frequently eaten wonderfully restores Consumptive People and gives ease to the Colick Pains and is held to be prevalent against the Dysentery and Infection of the Plague especially the raw Flesh being applied to the Sore draws out the Poison Oxgall to Beautifie Of this an excellent Cosmetick is made in the following manner Take four pints of the Galls of an Ox digested twenty four Hours in Balneo Mariae Roach Alom Salt and of glass powdered of each one dram mix them well and put them into a Matras stop it carefully and expose it in May to the heat of the Sun shaking it four or five times a Day then filter the Materials and in the filtered Liquor put two ounces of Porcellane powdered very fine and dissolved in the Spirit of Vinegar Borax and Sperma-Ceti of each an ounce sweet Sublimate and Camphire of each three drams then expose them to the Sun again ten Days often shaking the Ingredients then filter the Liquor and keep it for its proper use Oxymel Simple Take of the best Honey four ounces of Spring-water a pound or pint boil them till half the Water be consumed then pour them into a pint of Whitewine-Vinegar and let them boil to the thickness of a Syrup and take about half an ounce at a time This extenuates gross Humours and carries away slimy Matter opens old Obstructions and Obstructions of the Lungs with Flegm and what Causes arise from shortness of Breath PAin of the Bladder Take of Pulegium and Spicknard of each a little quantity bruise them and putting them into a little Bag apply it warm as near as you can to the Place grieved at the same time drinking about a quarter of a pint of the Decoction of Horehound boiled in a like quantity of Wine and Water Pain in the Eyes Take Melilot-flowers the Flowers of Marigolds and Elder of each a handful Linseed Fenugreek Fleawort Cummin and Quince-kernels of each half a scruple French Barly half an ounce Damask Roses half an ounce spring-Spring-water a pint and half mix and make a Decoction with which foment die Forehead Temples and Eye-brows being sufficiently warm and by Efficiently warm and by often using it the Pain will not only be abated but the Eyes will be very fresh and lively the sight more quick and penetrating than usual Pains in the Loins Take of Quick-sulphur half an ounce beat it into Powder mix it with an ounce of Hogs-lard powder the Seeds of wild Mint add a little Wheat-flower and make them into a Plaister or Ointment with a little Wine over a gentle Fire and apply it warm to the Place grieved often renewing it Pain of the Stomach Take a quantity of green Peach-leaves bruise them with Knot-grass boil them in Whitewine to the thickness of a Poultis and apply them warm to the Stomach or Take Rue Dill Cummin and Smallage of each half a handful boil them in a pint and a half of Whitewine the Leaves picked clean from the Stalks then add three pound of Olive oil boil them again and being taken from the Fire dip therein so much unwashed Wool as spread pretty thick may cover the Stomach lay this where the Grief is most apparent pretty hot and when the heat has dried up
the moisture anoint the Stomach with Oil of Nard and walk about with a quick motion This remedies that Disease of the Stomach likewise called Nausea Pannado to Make Take a quart of Spring-water and put it on the Fire in A Skillet then cut A Penny white-Loaf in slices about the bigness of a Sixpence and as thin as a Wafer and lay it on a Dish placed on a Chafing-dish of Coals then put it into the Water with a handful of clean pick'd Currans and a little large Mace and being boiled to a sufficient thickness season it with a little fine Sugar beat well and dissolved in rose-Rose-water Parsly It hath many Properties in Physick as well as for Kitchen uses viz. the Decoction of the Leaves or Roots thereof openeth the urinary Passages bringeth away Sand and Gravel easeth Colick and the Pains in the Reins being used in the nature of a Fomentation upon the grieved Parts And the Seed is of the greatest Virtue in those Matters it voideth Windiness in the Bowels and is good in the Biting of any venomous Creature The often eating of Parsly or drinking the Juice of it sweetens the Breath Being bruised with the Crumbs of fine White-bread and applied it healeth Tetters and Ring-worms and asswageth the Swelling of the Dugs It diminishes the Milk of Women in Child-bed Past of Apricocks Take the ripest Apricocks pare them very thin and set them in a Preserving-pan over a gentle Fire with as much Water as will keep the bottom of the Pan moist then break them and stir them about with a Skimmer suffering it to stand till the moisture consume and they come to something of a driness then with Sugar boil them to the thickness of a Conserve and so by continuing longer it will become stiff in order to a Past Past of Cherries Boil some of the ripest Cherries till they are reduced to a soft Pulp then strain them through a coarse Cloath or hair Bag and boil a fourth quantity of Pippins not over-ripe till they are very soft then take away the Core and Rind and mash them into Pulp add to these an ounce of fine Sugar to every pound spread it then on Plates and fashioning it as you please let it dry for your use Past to scowre the Hands Take the Husks of Bitter Almonds half a pound bruise them in a marble Mortar sprinkling on them a little Salt and Aquavits then add two Yolks of Eggs and Narbone Honey one ounce and half Orris-roots finely powdered one ounce mix and mould them well together and make them into a Past and use it as you see occasion This is excellent to cleanse the Hands and is easily prepared There is little occasion for wetting it in Water for it may be used as it is prepared if you let it not dry too much parsly-Parsly-Water This must be distilled from the Leaf Root and Stalks in Balneo Mariae being gathered in the beginning of the Spring It Attenuates Opens Cleanses and is Hepatick and Diuretick insomuch that many allow it to cure all Pains and Effects of the Stone where the Party frequently and freely drinks of the Water but this is certain that being exceeding Diuretick it nevertheless forces without Pain and makes the Urin come freely from those that have had Obstructions for many Years and in some it has brought away the Urin with ease after it had been totally obstructed for many Days It may be taken from six ounces sweetned with white Sugar-candy or alone to eight or you may add to it ten or twelve grains of Salt of Tartar or what other Diureticks you think convenient Pear-Pie Take Wardens or other hard Winter-Pears bake them with a little Water and a good quantity of Sugar in a Pot covered with a Lid of Dough. Let them not be fully baked e're you draw them then quarter them taking off the Rind and Core raise a Coffin of Past and between every laying scatter a few Cloves Cinnamon and candied Orange-peel cut small and putting in the Liquor that issued from them in the Pot let them bake to a fitness Pear-Pie another Bake your Pears first in an Oven either upon the Stone or in a Pot peel and core them put them in halves into your Coffin with some slices of Quinces between them and the shaving of Lemon-peel some whole Cloves Cinnamon and Sugar and when baked raise the Lid on one side and put into it some Cinnamon Powder beaten up with Sugar and Rosewater and so serve it to the Table either hot or cold as you please Pear-Pudding Take a cold Capon or one half roasted which is the best of the two then shred some Suet very small as also the Meat taken off the Bones with half as much grated Bread and two spoonfuls of Flower beaten Nutmegs Mace Cloves and Sugar as much as will season it half a pound of Currans the Yolks of two Eggs six Pears the Pulp of them and as much Cream as will make it up into a kind of a Past then make it up into the fashion of a Pear stick a piece of Cinnamon for the Stalk and for the Head a Clove Pearls to Whiten Take half an ounce of Bean-flower Lime and Eggs an ounce white Salt a pound Water of Confound Alcohol of Wine eleven ounces distil the Water and if you wash solid or clouded Pearls in it it will restore them to their native Lustre Pectoral Pills for the Lungs Take Tears of Storax two drams Juice of Spanish Licorice a dram and half Tincture of Saffron four scruples Labdanam Olibanum Myrrh and Extract of Opium of each a dram Ambergrease a scruple Syrup of Citron-peels as much as suffices to make a mass for Pills These Pills stop Defluxions on the Lungs and asswage Coughing The Dose to be taken is five or six grains at Night Pepper boil'd in White-wine is good against the Ague and in most cold Diseases but is more commonly used in seasoning Meats than in Physick and indeed is more proper in the general to that purpose by reason its driness qualifies the moisture that ever abounds in many Meats and causes it to digest kindly in the Stomach Perfumed-Cakes Take Benjamin four ounces Storax two ounces Laudanum a dram Cloves in number twelve Calamus Aromaticus a dram and a little Citron-peel Take a new glazed earthen Pot and boil the Benjamin and Storax in it in half a pint of Rosewater for an Hour if the moisture holds long without being evaporated then put in the rest of the Materials mention'd in a little Linnen Bag adding more Rose-water and when they have boiled a while take them off and strain them through a Linnen Cloath and so soon as cold there will be a curious perfumed Past Perfume for Confection Take of Myrrh a scruple Musk or Civet the like quantity Oil of Nutmegs as much infuse them in Rose-water and with it when well dissolved sprinkle your Confections or Sweet-meats and they will have a curious pleasant Scent
is singular good to stay the Flux of the Belly The Leaves of the Pomegranet-Tree well beaten and the Juice of them mixed with the Oil of Roses does very much help the inveterate Pains of the Head and so sovereign it is that most hold that no venomous Creature will come near the Boughs of it for which reason the Ancients laid them in their Beds and stuck them about their Houses The Decoction of the Root of a Pomgranet-Tree being drank kills the large Worms in the Belly and causes them to be cast out Pork-Pie The Pork you intend to put into Pies must have the Skin taken off then cut the Pork in streaks and take half an ounce of Ginger and the like quantity of Pepper well beaten slice or scrape in two Nutmegs season it pretty well with Salt and put in a little fair Water that has been well boiled and scummed and so bake it sufficiently and serve it up Poppy-Red The Flowers are very cooling and asswage Pain and bring Sleep to weary Eyes and therefore are chiefly used for Fevers Pleurisies and Quinsies and other Diseases especially of the Breast that need cooling Medicins and for immoderate Fluxes The Conserve the distilled Water and the Powder of them are greatly in use but the Syrup most To make it Take the fresh Flowers of Red Poppies two pound and pour upon them two quarts of Spring-water well warmed press them out the next Day and infuse the quantity of fresh Flowers in the Liquor as before then strain it and put in as much Sugar as the Liquor weighs and so make it into a Syrup by boiling it to a thickness over a gentle Fire Poppies a Syrup Take the Heads of black Poppies freshly gathered six ounces and of white ones not thoroughly ripe eight ounces Aqua Coelestis two quarts boil them to the consumption of one quart of the Liquid and put therein Sugar and Penids of each eight ounces boil them to a Syrup This is excellent good to allay the Heat of the Forehead or when it too much afflicts the Brain It is given with success in Frensies or to those that are restless and cannot sleep well as also for Catarrhs and Coughs Pottage To make this very excellent nourishing and conducing to Health and Strength take the Knuckle end of a Leg of Veal very largely cut put into it a gallon or six quarts of Spring-water a pint of Oatmeal sifted very fine Pennyroyal Parsly Thyme and Winter-savory of each a little Faggot or bundle unshread also Sweet-marjoram Sorrel Violet and Marrigold-leaves you may let it stand a whole Night over a gentle Fire and boil it up the next Morning with some Mace Currans Harts-horn Shavings and Sugar then strain it and eat it warm This is very good against a Consumption or any Defect in the Lungs or Stomach Powder of Amber Take six ounces of Bean-flower and pass it through a fine Sieve with four ounces of Cyprus-wood two ounces of Saunders two ounces of Benjamine and half an ounce of Storax two drams of Calamus Aromaticus and as much Laudanum pass these likewise through a Sieve and to two pound of the Composition add four grains of Ambergrease and half an ounce of Pomander Privet beaten and sifted which you must mix in a hot Mortar with Amber then mix them altogether and keep them in a glass Bottle close stopped and make of it sweet Bags to perfume your Cloaths Powder of Aromatick-Rosatum Take red Roses the Whites at the bottom of the Flower the Leaves clipped off 15 drams Licorice finely scraped seven drams sharp and quick biting Cinamon five drams Wood of Aloes and yellow Saunders of each three drams Mace Cloves Indian Spicknard Gum-Arabick and Gum-Tragacanth of each two drams and half Cardamoms the Lesser and Galangal of each one dram Ambergrease two scruples and Oriental Musk one scruple reduce these into a Powder by beating and sifting c. This is excellent good to strengthen the Brain and Stomach it dissipates superfluous Humours and moisture of the Entrails resists Putrefaction creates Appetite and stays Vomiting and want of Retention in the Intestines and is proper to strengthen and restore those that have been weakned by long Sickness The Dose is from half a scruple to half a dram in Wine or any convenient Liquor Powder to create Cheerfulness Take the Seeds of Clove Basil Zedoary or Setwell Saffron yellow Saunders Cloves the outward Peel of Citron dried Galangal Nutmeg Mace Calamint and Storax of each three drams and a half Anniseeds Shavings of Ivory Thyme Dodder of Thyme Oriental Pearl prepared and the Shavings of the Bone of a Stag's-Heart of each one dram Ambergrease Oriental Musk and Leaves of Gold and Silver of each a scruple make these into a very fine Powder This corrects the cold and moist temperature of the Stomach and Liver it helps Digestion restores the Appetite it is very good against Weakness and Palpitations of the Heart also to restore a good Habit of Body and to create a good Complexion to keep the Breath sweet and sweeten it when it is defective to restore decayed Strength and dissipate Melancholy proceeding from an internal or no real Cause The Dose is from ten to twenty grains in any convenient Vehicle Powder the Countess of Kent 's Take the black parts of the Claws of large Sea-Crabs four ounces River-Crabs Eyes oriental Pearl and red Coral prepared of each an ounce Roots of Contrayerva and white Amber of each six drams the Bone of a Stag's-Heart four scruples Bezoar-stone three drams Saffron two scruples make these into a fine Powder and sprinkle it with an ounce and a half of the Spirit of Honey and mixed with Jelly of Vipers you may make it into Trochiscs letting them dry in the Shade to be powdered as occasion requires for the better preservation of its Virtue This Powder is highly in Request for the Remedy of Epidemical Diseases particularly in the Small-pox or Measles It is also used in the Plague as well to preserve from the Infection as to cure it when taken by reason it mainly strengthens the Heart and other vital Parts against Infections and the malignity of the before-mention'd Diseases Not only the English but other Nations approve it and use it with wonderful Success The Dose is about ten grains Powder of Diamargaritum Take oriental Pearl prepared half an ounce red Roses cleansed and Flower of Water-Lilies and Violets of each three Drams Wood of Aloes Saunders red and yellow Roots of Tormentil and white Dittany Myrtle-berries Cinquefoil Grains of Kermes Melon-seeds Endive Sorrel Shavings of Harts-horn Ivory white Coral and red Coral prepared of each two drams Ambergrease and the Leaves of Gold of each half a dram oriental Musk four grains make these into a fine Powder This wonderfully strengthens the noble Parts restores the languishing force and cures swimming and fainting Fits It is good in Fevers and other Diseases It is given to asthmatick and consumptive Persons and
six spoonfuls of fine Sugar till it be candy proof then take it in a Ladle fashion it on Plates into Cakes and letting it cool dry them in a Stove or in a gentle Oven soon after the baking is over Quince-Cakes Transparent Take a pint of the Syrup of Quinces and a quarter of a pint of the Syrup of Barberries boil and clarifie them over a gentle Fire scumming them clean then add twenty ounces of fine Sugar stir them well together on the Fire and when it is taken off till it be almost cold spread the Pulp as before and make your Cakes into what fashion you think proper Quince-Cakes White Take a quart and half a pint of Water boil it up and add so much fine Sugar as will heighten it to a Candy then pare about a dozen large Quinces core them and when they begin to be soft in other Water wherein you may first set them over the Fire take them out and beat them into Pulp and so put that Pulp into the boiling Sugar and Water before mention'd and let them continue there a long while then make them into Cakes on a Plate If you would have them very white clarifie your Sugar with Whites of Eggs that you first sweeten your Water withal Quince-Cream Roast four or five ripe Quinces quarter them take out the Core and cut them in thin slices then boil them up gently in a pint of sweet Cream with a whole Race of Ginger and when it comes to a thickness strain it out adding so much Sugar and Rose-water as will sweeten and scent it Quinces a Ielly Take some of the Decoction and Inside of the Rind of the Quince or other Fruit that has boiled long in a considerable quantity of Water The Decoction being made let it wast in the Sun or before the Fire and so boil it up to a Jelly with a quart of Isinglass Quinces to Pickle To do this that you may keep them green all the Year Take them when they are not quite ripe wash them in Salt and Water and rub off the Scurf if any be on and let them lye in that water twenty four hours boil up a Pickle of Wine-Vinegar put into it a handfull of Bay-salt a few blades of Mace and some Cloves with six or seven Bay-Leaves put the Quinces into it scalding hot and parboil them then put them with the Pickle into an earthen Pot and so they will keep and be of use for Tarts or what other use you please to put them to Quince-Pye Take preserved Quinces separated from the paring and the Core then make a Syrup of Spring-water with fine Sugar boiled up in it and take as much as the Quinces weigh to every pound add a pint of the Syrup make the Syrup in a Preserving-pan and being scummed and boiled put the Quinces into it boil them till they be well coloured and then put them into the Pies in halves or quarters make them in fashion round either in Pies Tarts or Patty-pans with a cut cover but before you bake them put in more fine Sugar and leave the Syrup to put in after and then Ice it Thus you may do by Wardens Pippins hard Pears or green Codlings Quinces to Preserve Take of Apple Quinces when moderately ripe lay them a while after they are gathered on fresh Straw or new Hay for three or four days covered so that they may sweat a little and evaporate the superfluous Moisture then pare them very thin and boil them in Spring-water till they are very soft then cut them in Quarters take out the Cores and mingle the Pulp with the Water ten Quinces and two spoonfulls of Sugar being sufficient to boil up a Pottle of Water and when it is boiled to a thickness put in the Quinces you intend to preserve and let them boil till they contract a greener Colour than natural then put to them some more Sugar the scumm being taken off put them up in an earthen glazed Pot and stop them close Quinces Raw To keep these all the year Take some of the worst Quinces and cut them into small pieces boil them in Water putting to each Gallon three spoonfulls of Salt and as much Honey and so let them boil till the Water becomes very strong of the Quinces and when it is cold put in a quart of Whitewine Vinegar and then put the best Quinces into the Liquor close them up in an earthen pot and they will keep fresh all the year so that you may use them for Marmalades or other Matters at any time Quince-Seed an Oil Take the Seeds or Kernels of Quinces bruise them and put them into a Frying-pan with a little Wine Let them be well stirred together till they are so hot you cannot endure your Finger on them then put them into a Canvase Bag and press out the Oil with a considerable strength and having both Oil and Water you must separate them This Oil is very good against all Pains in the Stomach helps Digestion and is good against windiness in the Stomach and Bowels bringing it away It inciteth to Venery and is good against the Hemorrhoids and Pustles the Parts afflicted being anointed with it Quinces the Syrup Take three quarts of the Juyce of Quinces settle it well and clarifie it from the Dregs and boil it over a gentle fire till half be consumed then add three pints of Claret or a deeper Red Wine four pound of White Sugar Cinamon a dram and a half Cloves and Ginger two scruples and boil them up to a Syrup Let it cool by Degrees and keep it close stopped in Glass-Viols for your use this mixed with Water of Endive is very cooling and excellent in Fevers and other hot Diseases two or three spoonfuls being taken at a time Quince Tart Pare and slice your Quinces very thin season them with Candied Citron and beaten Cinamon and andied Orange scraped small or raw Orange or Lemon-peel or Carraway or Anniseeds put ten Pippins to six Quinces and according to the bigness or littleness of your Tart half the weight of the Fruit in Sugar then close it up and bake it and Ice it over with Sugar dissolved in Rose-water and make your Tarts into what Forms you please and serve them up Scrape over them Sugar and Powder of Cinamon Quince Tart Take Quinces newly gathered or kept very dry in straw pare them thin and take out the Cores and being cut in four quarters slice them thin then take Pippins or any hard Winter Fruit gathered before they are ripe and using them in the same manner lay a Laying of each scrape an Orange-Peel and scatter it among the Layings then add Syrup of Quinces and on the top of all strew fine Sugar mixed with a little Powder of Cinamon and close up the Coffin in what Fashion you please baking it well in an Oven not heated with too quick a fire Quinsies to Cure Bruise thirty two ounces of purified Salt-Petre put it
in a crucible which must be put in a very hot Fire in a Furnace and when the Salt-Petre is melted put to it an ounce of Flower of Sulphur by a spoonful at a time so that the matter will presently fall into a flame and the more volatil Spirit of the Salt-Petre will evaporate and when the flame is over the matter will remain in a very clear Fusion Then with a pair of Tongs Take out the Crucible and turn it upside down into a very clean Bason a little warmed This beaten into Powder is taken with good Success in the dangerous Distemper called the Quinsie It also cools and works by Urine in burning Fevers and other Diseases that proceed from Heat and Obstructions and the Running of the Reins The Dose is from half a dram to a dram and may be taken in any proper or convenient cooling Liquor Quinsies Description c. This Grievance do's most frequently happen between the Spring and Summer the first Assault of the Fever is seconded by the Pain of the Inflammation of the Jaws which together with the Swelling of the Uvula Tonsils and Larynx renders the afflicted Person unable to swallow and scarcely to breathe In this case let blood in the Arm and take away as much as the Constitution of the Party will conveniently bear then anoint the inflamed part with Honey of Roses impregnated to a very high degree of Acidity with Spirit not Oil of Vitriol or Sulphur and presently after take the following not after the usual manner but only hold it in the Mouth till it is hot and then spitting it out renew it with that which is cool viz. Plantane-water Rose-water and Frog spawn-water of each four ounces the Whites of three Eggs beat and reduced to Water Sugar-candy three drams mix them well and make a Gargarism of them Quinsey Take Milk warm from the Cow and Album Graecum a pint of the one and half an ounce of the other Honey of Roses two spoonfuls Verdegrease half a dram boil them a little then strain it out and Gargarize the mouth and throat often with the Liquid part putting to thin it more a little Borrage Water This is likewise excellent for any sore Throat Tumours or Pains of the Mouth and Jaws Quintessence of Honey This is the curious Extract of Honey and is very useful in divers Diseases and Grievances viz. It helpeth the Cough or Catarrh Palsie Falling-sickness and pains of the Milt and divers other Diseases and it s said that if two or three drams be given to a Party strugling for Life or gasping for Breath it will for a while bring them to themselves again Quinque Nervia This Herb is astringent and vulnerary the Juyce is good against spitting and pissing of blood The Essence of the Juyce taken with Spirit of Wine do's the same The distilled Water of it is good against spitting of blood and the Phthisick The Infipissate Juyce stays the Courses heals all inward Griefs of the Body and Inflammation and is more effectual than any other sort of Plantane This being one of the narrow-leaved sorts call'd by some Ribwort Quinque Folium or Cinque-Foil The root of this is dry and binding and is to he taken from one to two drams in Powder It stays all manner of Fluxes of the Bowels and Fluxes of the blood in any part Catarrhs and Defluxions on the Lungs and allays the sharpness of Choler eases the Pains of the Gout and Gonorrhea's the Juyce of it is good in Fevers and hot Diseases an Infusion of it opens Obstructions RAbbits a Fricasie Take your Rabbit and cut it in pieces put it into the Frying-Pan put in half a pound Of fresh Butter and let it boil then put in your Rabbit and let it be half enough then take it out and clean your Pan and put in some Water and let it boil then put in one slice of Onion stuck with Cloves and a little whole Pepper a Bunch of Thyme and a little Limon-Peel and let them boil together a while then take out your Onion and Thyme and put in your Rabbit then shred some Marjoram Thyme Parsley Limon-peel and Nutmeg and strow on your Rabbit in the Pan then take three Yolks of Eggs and beat them well and a Piece of fresh Butter and a quarter of a pint of White-wine or a spoonfull of White-wine-Vinegar and beat with your Eggs then put them into the Pan and let the Pan be kept shaking and stirring with a spoon till they be thick then pour them into your Dish and serve it up to the Table Rabbits Fricassed Take young Rabbits and cut them into small Pieces mince a handful of Thyme and Parsley clean pick'd season them then with Nutmeg Pepper and Salt take two Eggs and a half a quartern of Verjuice beat them together throw them into the Pan and having sliced it when enough dish it up in Sippets with Butter and Verjuice Rabbits to Hash Wash them take the Flesh from the bones and mince it small then put to them a little strong Broth made of Mutton or Veal some Vinegar and a Shalot or two with a little grated Nutmeg Let it stew and then shred a handful of Parsley then half a pound or as much as will serve of Butter Toast Bread for Sippets serve it up garnished with Limons Rabbits to Stew Take a couple of Rabbits of about three months old half roast them and so take them off the Spit cut them into handsome pieces and put them into a Dish with the Fat and Gravy that fell from them and as much Water with half a pint of White-wine after boiling and scumming as will cover them then put in a piece of fresh Butter and Ginger finely grated with Pepper and Salt and two or three Pippins minced Let these stew about an hour over a gentle fire and dish them up with Sippers Radish or Horse-Radish This is in some places found wild but most usually planted in Gardens encreasing much in most shadowy places it flowers in July The Juyce of it given in drink is held to be very effectual for the Scurvy It kills Worms in Children the Juyce being drunk in convenient Liquors or the Root laid bruised Poultis-wise to the Belly by the latter means it takes away the Pain of the Sciatica Joynt-Ach or the hard Swelling of the Liver and Spleen The distilled Water of the Root and Herb is better taken with a little Sugar That called the Garden-Radish is vulgarly known and though it be but of bad Digestion yet it has some good Qualities with it for though it is held when eaten raw in Sallads or the like to breed ill Humours and corrupt blood yet it wonderfully helpeth those that are afflicted with the Stone and Gravel and the stoppage of Urine and the Juyce of these Roots made into a Syrup is exceeding good to purge Urine Radish a Syrup Take of the Roots of Garden and Wild Radishes before they begin to run to Seed
This Red Ointment is drying and cooling it closes and strengthens and stops Defluxions that fall upon the Parts It digests and consumes the superfluous moisture of Wounds and Ulcers and is of great use to finish the healing Part and hasten the Cure c. Redness in the Eyes This often proceeds from the over-abundance of Blood that flows into the Eyes and in this case it is necessary if need require it to bleed by Cuping-glasses applied to the Shoulders and on the contrary side to open the Head-vein and purge the Body and outwardly to apply such things to the Eyes as may repercuss and drive back the Humours offending To do which Take the White of an Egg beat it up to a very fine thinness with Woman's Milk and drop it into the Eyes by degrees cooling and keeping them close when it is dropped in Or Take Linseed boil it in Water and wet a Sponge in the Decoction and lay it warm on the Eyes Or do it in like manner with the Decoction of Fenugreek and Camomil or the Juice of Night-shade beaten up with the Oil of Roses and the White of an Egg and dip a Linnen Cloath in it and lay it on the Egg when you lye down to take your rest Redness of the Eyes Take Camphire a quarter of an ounce Dragons-Blood and Bolus of each half an ounce Verdegrease bruised and sifted very fine an ounce infuse these in a pint of the distilled Water of large Plantane with often shaking them wash the Eyes with the Water often and it will take away the Redness and Pains asswage the Swelling of the Eyes that have long so continued and may be used as an excellent Mouth-water for impostumated Sores or Ulcerations Reins Hurt Take Pellitory of the Wall wash it and boil it in Whitewine or squeeze out the Juice only into the Wine and drink it applying the Herb to the Reins likewise as a Poultis Reins Running Take a Parsnip slice it very thin and boil it soft in the new Milk of a Red Cow till it looks very white take it out and mash it with the Juice of Oak-Apples or for want of them Acorns or Oak-leaves and sweetening it with a little Sugar beat up in Butter eat of this Morning and Evening moderately for three or four Days successively Rest-Harrow The Bark and Root provoke Urin expel Gravel ease the Pains of the Teeth and open Obstructions of the Liver being infused in Wine or in Posset-drink and drank fasting Restrictive Ointment Take two quarts of Olive-oil dried Whortle-berries half a pound Green Services and the Juice of Whortle-berries of each a pound Roach-Alom a pound and half put the Berries into a large earthen Pot well glazed pour in the Oil and dissolve the Alom in the Juices and so put it in with them and cover the Pot set it boiling in a Bath till the moisture is near consumed then press out strongly the Matter and having separated the Oil from the Faeces take the same Oil three pound white Bees-wax nine ounces melt the Wax in the same Pot and Bath then the Pot being taken off stir the Ointment with a wooden Spatula and when it thickens and grows half cold take Cypress Nuts Whortle-berries Pomgranet-flowers and Rinds of Garnets and Acorns the Stones of Grapes and Ox's Thigh-Bone calcined Grains of Sumach Burnt-Alom Mastick Acacia and the middle Rind of Chesnuts calcine the Bone and burn the Alom in an ordinary Fire then beat them into Powder with the rest of the Ingredients the Mastick excepted which must be beaten a-part and having sifted the Powders thus prepared mix them with the Ointment stirring it till it becomes cold This is a good Styptick Ointment applied with success to the Reins to strengthen them also the Ligaments of the Matrix the Descent whereof it hinders and prevents Abortion by anointing the entrance thereof and the lower part of the Belly It is also successfully used to close the Neck of the Matrix after Lying-in and to consolidate what Defects may have happened in difficult Labour It is also very proper against the Relaxation of the strait Guts apply'd without and put into the Fundament and to stop the unreasonable Loss of Blood in Women applied to the Region of the Reins and Liver and all the Belly It is also layed upon the Stomach to stay Vomiting This Ointment causes not Heat and is the best known for Cleansing and Consolidation Rheubarb The Root only of this Indian Drugg is here preferred It is an excellent Medicin gentle and without danger wherein many Virtues are comprised It cleanseth and fortifieth the Stomach and Liver heals the Pains and Prickings of them clears the Blood openeth and healeth all Maladies that proceed from Stoppages as the Jaundice Dropsie Swelling of the Spleen and long Fevers It is good against Spitting of Blood and stops it It may be moderately taken at all convenient times without danger The chewing of it purges Choler and Flegm It is excellent boiled and taken in Posset-drink before the cold Fit of an Ague comes and is indeed extolled by all ingenious Physicians for the most excellent of Roots that ever was brought into this Nation from any Foreign Parts Rheum Take a pint of Malmsey or Muscadel boil it gently thicken it to a kind of a Syrup with five ounces of fine Sugar then put in half a quartern of the distilled Water of Horehound and being cool bruise a Licorice-stick at one end and when you take it which will be best towards Bed-time dip the bruised end of the Stick in it and suck from that about as much as comes to an ounce at a time This is excellent good likewise against Colds and cleanses the Stomach and Lungs of offensive Matters Rheum to Dry up Take Lettice-seeds white Poppey-seeds and Purslain-seeds of each a dram Tragacanth Gum-Arabick and Saffron of each half a darm Opium three grains bruise and powder these and make them up into a Past Lozeng-wise with Syrup of Red Poppies and when you take one of them in a Morning and at Night bruise it and put it into a little Wine then keep your self warm and as much from the Air as may be Rheumatick Eyes First gently Purge the Head and Body and let the Patient sweat a little Then use the following Powder for the Eyes Take Tuttia prepared an ounce and a quarter Red Coral and Yellow Mirobolans of each a quarter of an ounce Pepper half a dram powder them very finely and strew some of it in the corners of the Eyes This do frequently and the Rheum will be removed and then by washing the Sight may recover its clearness Or Take Rain-water boil in it Myrtle-seeds and Gall-nuts fine Bolus and Cyperus-nuts and with the Decoction well strained and settled wash the Eyes Morning and Evening Rice This nourishes mainly but it is made of more easie Digestion than to be eat as the Turks use it with their Mutton and other Meats with only boiling
the Juice strengthens the Stomach Head Heart and Liver also the Bowels and gives ease to Wounds It is very famous in the Epilepsie Blague and all sorts of malignant and pestilential Diseases Held in the Mouth it cures the Tooth-ach and drank in a Glass of Wine it provokes the Terms and expels the Birth The Herb is held to cure Quartan-Agues if applied six Hours to the Pulse and the Party bathed with the Water or Decoction of it and often repeated The distilled Water drawn in a glass Still is of a glittering yellow Colour like Gold Rosa Solis the Court way Take of Aqua-vitae two quarts Sugar finely powdered a pound and a half common Water a pint and a half boil them up to a little thickness but not to the consistence of a Syrup then put to it half an ounce of Cinnamon powdered and when it is boiled up strain it through a Cloath with two grains of Musk and half an ounce of Sugar-candy Rose-Lozenges Take Provence or Damask-Roses when they are in their prime of flowring beat them very fine and small yet lose as little of the Juice and Scent as may be then sprinkle over them Citron or Lemon-Juice cover them close and add as much fair Water or White-wine as will boil them up a little till they become tender then having fine Sugar boiled up to a Candy height put them into it boiling exempted from the Water and Juices and keep them well stirring about a considerable time then take cut the Sugar and Roses so mixed with a Spoon and lay it on Pye-plates make it thin as is convenient and cut it out into what form you please Rosemary-Water Take the Flowers and Leaves of Rosemary when they are at their best half a pound of the Root of Elicampane four ounces Red Sage a handful Cloves three ounces and a like quantity of Mace Ani-seeds twelve ounces beat the Spices separately and the Herbs together put to them four gallons of Whitewine and having infused them for the space of seven Days distil them This Water greatly comforteth the Heart removeth Pains of the Stomach creates a good colour and gently purgeth the Blood by breathing Sweats Rose-Water Take Roses when just blown before they open too much and lose their fragrancy in the Air gather them when the Sun has dried off the Dew or Moisture and having picked the Leaves from the Stalks without suffering any Seeds to scatter among them spread them on a clean Carpet free from Dust till they are altogether free from any moisture then put them into a pewter Still and make a Fire under them gently by degrees and fasten your Bottle or Receiver to the Nose of the Still tying Paper or Linnen about it to keep in the scent and so corking them up when full of the Water within an inch of the Cork set them in the Sun two or three Days and then in a warm Place especially lest the Frost take them and either break the Bottles or spoil the Scent of the Water Roses an Oil Compound Take fresh Red Roses bruised one pound Juice of Red Roses four ounces common Oil four pound put them into a glazed earthen Pot with a narrow Neck and stop it well set it in the Sun to macerate and having boiled it in Balneo Mariae strain and press out the Liquor and return it into the same Vessel again do the like two or three times then purifie the Oil and keep it for use If there be any moisture in it it will be easie to separate it because it falls to the bottom This Oil dulcifies and dissipates Fluxions that fall upon the external Parts It extinguishes Inflammations and hinders the descent of the Humours and appeases Pains it tempers the heat of the Stomach and the heat in the Reins it asswageth the Pains in the Head as also Deliriums and provokes Sleep dulcifying the sharp Humours that interrupt by their Acrimony It must be warmed before you anoint the Part with it It may be also internally given against the Worms and Dysenteries from half an ounce to an ounce It is good to anoint the Parts upon Fractures and Dislocations of Bones It is mixed with equal Parts of Vinegar of Roses to anoint the Head when shaved for the abating the Vapours that ascend in burning Fevers which too frequently cause want of Sleep and Deliriums This Oil also mixed in Pain-easing and dissolving Liniments and Cataplasms and softening Plaisters to give them the consistence of Searcloath is of singular use The same way that this is prepared you may prepare the Oils of Myrtle Melilot Elder-Water Lilies or Nimphaea Chamomil Violets Lilies c. Roses-Red Dry There is a Syrup however to be made of these upon necessity and to do it Take two quarts of Water make it pretty warm and infuse in it for the space of twenty four Hours four or five handfuls of dried Roses and when the Scent of them is gone mostly into the Water put fresh ones and squeeze them at the taking out and into this Water dissolve two pound of white Sugar and so dissolve it into a Syrup This mitigates the hot Diseases of the Brain asswages Thirst strengthens the Stomach causes Sleep stays the Flux of the Belly and agglutinates and mundifies Ulcers Roses a Simple Oil Take fresh Red Roses bruised two pound the Juice of them half a pound and common Oil five pints put them all together in an earthen glazed Pot covered and let them if possible macerate thirty or forty Days in the Sun then boil them in Balneo Mariae and press out the Oil very hard and keep it for use It is cooling asswages Heat mollifies Swellings and is good in Burns or Scalds Roses-White Infused To infuse Roses and bring them to a Syrup Take of White Roses half a Peck clean pickt from the Stalks infuse them over a gentle Fire in a gallon of Spring-water strain out the Water and squeeze the remaining Juice out of the Roses into it Take of this Water five pints to which the Gallon ought to be consumed in infusion clarified Sugar four pound boil them over a gentle Fire to the thickness of a Syrup This Syrup extracts thin offensive Choler from the Intrails and waterish Humours from the Stomach and is very good to be given to Children old People and such as are weakned by Sickness and the like Rosin its Virtues The Rosin of the Larch or Turpentine-Tree is hot emollient cleansing healing vulnerary and pectoral c. it heals Ulcers in the Lungs helps and stops the Gonorrhoea It gently provokes Urin and opens the Obstruction of the Reins Uriters and Bladder The Dose in Powder is from one dram to two drams Outwardly it is used in Balsams Ointments and Emplaisters It softens Tumours and ripens them if made up with Beef or Mutton-suet It ripens and heals Felons and Whitlows and cures them when they break cleanses Ulcers and heals green Wounds is much available in the Pains of
the Gout and all other Aches and Pains proceeding from a cold Cause Helps Strains and Hurts of the Nerves and Muscles and strengthens weak Limbs Of this Spirits Oil and Balsam are extracted by distillation in a large Retort in Sand distilling first with a very gentle Heat till all the Flegm and Spirit in which is contained the volatil Salt is come over and then gradually encreasing the Fire to force over the Oil and Balsam which are to be rectified from Colcothar or Bonet Ashes This Spirit is very Excellent For it takes off the tartarous Mucilage in the Lungs Reins Breast and Stomach Uriters and Bladder It hinders the generation of the Stone and Gout The Dose is from one to three drams The Oil dissolves Tumours of the Gout strengthens the Nerves cures the Palsie Tumours Wounds and Ulcers and all manner of Convulsions Cramps Aches Pains Strains and Bruises proceeding from a cold Cause or Violence the Part grieved being often anointed with it The Balsam has the same Virtue but not so penetrating and therefore is mostly used in the curing old Sores Fistula's Ulcers Pain in the Gout and Sciatica's c. Rue This is for its wonderful Virtues called the Herb of Grace 'T is very Attenuative Incisive and Digestive Resolutive and Provocative It driveth out Windiness by reason of its heat in the third Degree and not only sharp in Tast but bitter also by reason whereof it may resolve and penetrate gross and clammy Humours and through the same qualities provoke Urine It consists of subtil Parts and is numbred among Medicins which are great dryers and therefore it is good against Inflammations asswaging any lustful Appetite The Seed boiled and drank in Wine greatly resists Poison The Leaves eaten alone or made into a Conserve if the Party take half an ounce fasting it resists ill Airs causeth pestilential Fevers and consequently the Plague The Decoction drank easeth Pains in the Breasts and Sides Inflammations of the Liver and the Pains of the Gout also the Shaking of Agues Being eaten raw it cleareth the Sight and is good against Difficulties of Breathing and the Cough Being mixed with French Cherries dried it allayeth the Pains and Heaviness of the Eyes and with Oil of Roses and Vinegar it easeth the Head-ach Being bruised and put up the Nostrils it stays Bleeding The distilled Water of it infused into an equal portion of Wine and rose-Rose-water is very soveraign for any Pains in the Head or Stomach Rue of the Meadow This is to be found on the Borders of moist Meadows and by Ditch sides flowring towards the end of July and beginning of August Dioscorides highly approves it for Bruises and the healing of old Sores being applied to them Poultiswise or they washed with the Juice The distilled Water and Flower of this Herb have the like Virtue Some People use it shred among common Pot-herbs in their Broth for opening Obstructions of the Body and to render it soluble But the Roots clean washed shred or sliced and boiled in Ale I hold to operate more in that kind than the Leaves yet they provoke Stool but very gently The Roots boiled in Water destroy Lice and Vermin incident to humane Bodies by only anointing the Places with their Decoction Camerarius tells us That it is in great Esteem in Italy as an Antidote against the Plague and that the Saxons use it with success in the Yellow Jaundice Ruffy's Pills Take of the best Aloes two ounces Myrrh and Saffron of each an ounce mix these finely powdered with as much Aromatick as will make them into Pills These taken one at a time as big as a Pea help Concoction and Digestion clear the Stomach and create a good Appetite and are much available against pestilential Airs and Contagions Ruffs and Redshanks to Boil Take these Fowl put them upon a Spit and lay them to the Fire with a little Basting till they are half roasted then having Water boiling in a Pipkin after you have stuck at few Cloves about them put them into it but it must be very little and when they have taken a warm or two put out all the Water to a pint then put in some Claret-wine and strong Broth a few Mace and Cloves with the Gravy that dropt from them when they were roasting then and some Pepper Ginger fried Onions and Salt stew all well together and serve them up on Sippets Rupture Having a good Truss Take Comfry half a handful bruise it well with the Filings of Iron spread it thin on a Plaister of Diatulum and apply it to the Rupture and keep it close up and by often renewing it great Advantage is found Rupture to Cure Take Cyprus Nuts make them into Powder and take Juice of green Hops or the tender Tops mix them well together and having the Bowels put up and well trussed lay it at the bottom of the Belly and in all convenient Places as a Plaister and as it dries supply the place of it with a moist one Rupture on the Navel The Rupture or Burstenness is generally known by the falling down of the Bowels into the Cods tho' there is a Rupture that appeareth above the Privy Parts or at the Navel of Men and Women the Rupture of the Navel being known by a swelling or hanging out of the fore-part of the Belly To remedy this Take Comfry tow ounces stamp it well mix it well with an ounce of Bees-wax over a gentle Fire till it can be brought into a Plaistor and apply it to the Navel But if the Rupture be great often renew it and anoint the Back-bone of the Party with Bears-grease chafing it in hot and let the Party take Morning and Evening a dram of the Herb Thorough wax in a little Wine Rupture a Plaister Take Daisie-roots the like of wild Tansie and Comfry of each half an ounce Mastick a quarter of an ounce Pomgranet-flowers and the Juice of Sloes half a dram of each Hares-wool clipt small one dram Stone-pitch two ounces Bird-lime an ounce Wax five drams Oil of Roses as much as will make them into a Plaister and apply it to the Intestines being put up and a Truss over them to secure them You need not take off the Truss but when you renew the Plaister which need not be under five or six Days Or use this viz. Take of Cyperus-Nuts two ounces Myrrh and Cyperus-Roots Marjoram Galls Juice of Sloes and Frankincense of each an ounce then dissolve an ounce of Gum-Tragacanth in Wine and temper the rest with it and then over a gentle Fire by well mixing and a consumption of the moisture make it into a Plaister and lay it on the Runture Rupture through Water This is a hydropical watery Humour in the Liver Veins and Pores which falls down into the Cods and is known by the swelling of them and the Navel To remedy this Take Mastick one ounce Cyperus-Nuts half an ounce Gum-Tragacanth half an ounce bruise them and temper them well together
with Oil of Roses and then apply it and use this Purgation viz. Take Turbith a quarter of an ounce Ginger one dram white Sugar three drams temper them well together and let the Party take it every fourth Day in Wormwood-wine or Water and the other Mornings between them Water of Baum Bettony and Wormwood of each an ounce and half Vinegar of Squills an ounce mix them together and drink them fasting Rupture through Wind In this Case the Party must during the Cure eschew all such Meats and Drinks as cause Windiness in the Body as Milk sweet Wine moist Fruits Pease Beans Turnips c. then take Sulphur-Vine two ounces finely beaten Grains half an ounce grosly beaten Cammomil-flowers a quarter of an ounce seeth these in a pint of Spring-water till a third part is consumed then dip a Sponge in it and apply it to the Place as hot as may be renewing it five or six times a Day Rupture-Wort This is mostly found on dry sandy and rockey Places It is Excellent in the Curing of Ruptures not only in Children but also in those of Years if the Distemper be not too inveterate by taking a dram of the Powder of the dried Herb in a glass of Wine for a considerable time or the distilled Water or Juice of the green Herb taken in like manner It helpeth likewise all other Fluxes in Men or Women Vomitings and the Gonorrhoea and Running of the Reins by being taken either of the ways mention'd It helpeth those that have the Strangury and Stoppage in Urine Stone or Gravel in the Reins or Bladder helps Stitches in the Side or griping Pains in the Stomach and Belly Obstructions of the Liver Worms Yellow-Jaundice Defluctions and foul Ulcers Rushes These some hold so inconsiderable that it is of no value but for making Candle-Wicks But learned Physicians who have searched more curiously into the abstruse Retirements of Nature are not of their Opinion Dioscorides Galen and Pliny agree being powdered and drank in Wine it stayeth the Lask in Women's Courses provokes Sleep but must be taken with caution lest they cause Pains in the Head The Root boiled in Water to the consumption of a third part doth mainly help the Cough Rye This grain boiled in Water or Wine to a strength and drank viz. the Decoction kills Worms in the Belly and brings them away especially if Coriander-seeds be boiled with it SAdness to Expel Take the Herb called Cranesbill Rue and Pulegium of each as much as may be held conveniently between the Thumb and Fore-finger dry them in an Oven and beat them into Powder and being mixed with a little Sugar and Powder of Licorice make them up into little Balls or Lozenges with Cinnamon-water or Rose-water and eat them as you find occasion Saffron The best Saffron is that which tinctures your Hands upon a gentle touch and smelleth somewhat sharp and is not very brittle In property it is good for the weakness of the Stomach and faintness of Heart and being taken in a small quantity of Wine it preserveth from Drunkenness and healeth the Bitings of Serpents and Stinging of Spiders It is restrative The too much Smell thereof is bad for the Brain and the taking too much of it is troublesome to the Spirits Sage This is a singular Remedy against all cold and phlegmatick Diseases in the Head and against all Pains of the Joints either being taken in Drink or applied in Fomentation wherefore it is very good for those that have the Falling-sickness or subject to Lethargies or have at certain times their Members benumb'd or senseless It availeth much against the Defluxions of Flegm and Maladies incident to the Breast and is very advantageous for Women with Child to eat it often especially if they are subject to travail before their time for it keepeth the Child in the Womb and doth quicken it If a Person subject to spit Blood takes three or four spoonfuls of Honey with the Juice of Sage double the quantity in a Morning fasting the Blood will be stay'd in twice or thrice so doing The use of Sage in Pottage and otherwise serves to sharpen the Appetite and cleanse the Stomach that 's oppressed with ill Humours In fine when there is any occasion for heating drying or binding use this Herb as a very good Medicine Saland-Grand To make this of minced Meats Mince Capon Veal dried Neats-tongue in slices Lettuce shred small Olives and Capers Mushrooms pickled Samphire Broom-buds Lemons or Oranges Raisins Almonds Potato's Caparoons or Crucifix-Peas Currans pickl'd Oisters and Tarragon To dish this up Take a little Tarragon and Lettuce mince them small and put the several Things by themselves and garnish the Dish with Oranges and Lemons sliced or in quarters Salmon Fry'd Take the Rand Chine or Jowl of Salmon and fry it cut in thin slices in sweet Butter and when you perceive it begins to grow crisp prepare your Sauce with Claret sweet Butter grated Nutmeg the Juice of Oranges and the Liquor of pickled Oisters heat them over a gentle Fire with continual beating and pour them on the Fish and for garnish lay Sage-Leaves and Parsly fried in Butter but not too crisp Salmon-Pie Take a convenient piece of fresh Salmon two quarts of Shrimps or Prawns and the like quantity of opened Oisters a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace the like of beaten Ginger and four Anchoveys mix what can be conveniently so order'd spread the bottom of the Pie with Butter lay in the Fish and scatter the seasoning all over it and uppermost another laying of Butter Salt-Diuretick Take the Urin of a healthful Man and put it into as much Hungarian Vitriol powdered as it 's capable to dissolve make the Dissolution in a large Vessel that there may be room for Ebullition which being ceased put the Liquor into a glass Cucurbit covered with its Head and distill off the Flegm and Spirit in a Sand-Bath first with a slow Fire then with a gradual Fire encreased and sublimate the volatil Salt at last Salmon to Roast Take a Jowl of Salmon or a Rand and divide it into four pieces season it with Salt and grated Nutmeg stick in it whole Cloves and put it on a convenient Spit laying on it likewise a few Bay-leaves and Sprigs of Rosemary then bast it with Butter and save the Dripping to mingle with other Butter to be served up in Sauce mixed with Verjuice the Juice of Oranges and garnished with the slices of Oranges This Salt composed of the volatil Salt of Urin and several acid Particles of the Vitriol vigorously expels serous Humours by Urin the Passages whereof it opens It is to be taken in White-wine diuretick-Diuretick-Waters or Decoctions from a scruple to a dram It is very available in Dropsies dissolved in opening Decoctions for which purpose you may mix the Spirit with your usual ordinary Drink The Flegm applied to the Gout asswages the Pain thereof It is also good to allay the Inflammations of the
you fry it cut it out in pretty thick slices Scabious This Herb though wild and mostly growing in the Field is of excellent use The Herb and Root boiled in Wine or the Juice of it or the distilled Water of it cures Imposthumes Pleurisies Coughs or other Diseases incident to the Breast or Lungs 'T is good also in the Quinsie Plague Ulcers in the Fundament Itch and likewise for Beautifying Scabs Take the Roots of Celandine Wormwood and red Dock of each a handful Lawrel and Ivy-Leaves of each half a handful bruise them well and fry them in Butter till they become crisp then strain out the Butter with hard pressing and keep it as an Ointment of special use in all manner of Scabs Breakings-out Botches or Blains and if mixed with a little Powder of Sulphur it is excellent for the Itch and to hinder the biting of Bugs or cure those that are Bit. Scabious-Water Take four handfuls of Scabious-flowers a handful of the tender Tops of Comfrey-flowers of Fumitory four ounces Roots of Orris three ounces Baum and Celandinetops of each a pugil distil these in a cold Still with four ounces of Almonds blanched and steeped in warm Water till they swell This is an excellent Beautifier and causes a fresh Colour Scalds to Cure Take a quart of sweet Cream then wash pare and slice a handful of Fern-roots boil them together in an earthen Pipkin with two ounces of Dove's-Dung finely powdered or for want of that Hen's-Dung for the space of half an Hour or till by continually stirring it it jellies or thickens then let it cool and so spreading some of it on a Cloath apply it to the Place scalded So by often applying the Fire will be taken out in a little time and the Pain removed Scaily-Nails to take off Take the Seeds of wild Mint and Linseed of each a quarter of an ounce bruise them and mix them with Honey make a Plaister and fix it on the Nails and in a little while they will fall off and other sound ones grow in their stead Scaily-Spots To remedy these rough and unseemly Deformities of the Skin Take half an ounce of Nigella-seeds bruise and boil them in a quart of strong Vinegar until half be consumed then add as much of the Oil of Walnuts as will when strained and a little more boiled reduce it to an Ointment with which anoint the Place often and it will make it smooth and beautiful This is likewise a Remedy for the fretting and gauling of the Skin and Itch. Sciatica Take four handfuls of Straw-berries boil them in a quart of Water and having bathed the grieved Place with the liquid part strained from them very warm dry it and then anoint it with this Ointment viz. Unguentum Dialtheae one ounce Honey half an ounce Bees-wax a dram mix them over a gentle Fire and make an Ointment for the aforesaid use and by often anointing the Pain will cease Scorbutick-Water Take the Juices of Scurvigrass and Water of Pimpernel depurated of each three pints fine white Sugar two pound make them into a Syrup over a gentle Fire The use of this Syrup is very successful taken in scorbutick Maladies from one spoonful to two in any scorbutick-waters Mint or Penny-royal-waters c. Scorbutick-Water of Scurvigrass Take the Bark of Capers Tamarisk Ash-Tree Polypode-roots of the Oak of each two ounces Water-cresses the Tops of Baum Agrimony Germander and Ground-pine of each two handfuls Fenel and Aniseeds Carduus-Benedictus of each one dram and half the Flowers of Broom St. John's-wort Centaury the Less Elder and wild Thyme of each a pugil let these be infused in fumitory-Fumitory-water and Whey of each three pints Whitewine two quarts add Oxymel of Squils one pound then strain them by pressing out the Liquor very hard dissolve in it Troches of Capers six drams after distil it in an Ash-bath and take two ounces at a time for Pains in the Stomach Vapours arising to the Brain Breakin gs out Scurfiness of the Body Nodes or Knots in the Skin and for carrying off all gross and ill Humours by Sweat Stool or Urin. Scurvigrass-Bath Take Scurvigrass and Fumitory of each a handful Fenugreek-seeds three ounces and a half Flowers of Mellilot two handfuls and of Camomil one handful Mallow-roots Brooklime and Mugwort one handful and half the Seeds of Water-Bettony and Parsley of each three ounces and half Bay-leaves a handful boil these in two gallons of fair Water to the consumption of a quart This removes hard Swellings and Pains in the Joints allays the Pain occasioned by excessive heat restores shrink'd Nerves and Sinews and is good in easing Pains of the Gout being applied to the grieved Part. Scurvigrass its Essence Take Scurvigrass Fumitory Germander and Wormwood of each three handfuls of Orange-peel six drams digest them with Spirit of Scurvigrass and Elder of each so much as suffices to the Extraction of their Tincture and let them be strongly pressed out and put of the former Herbs and Powder into the straining and do this three or four times and when it is clarified by settling add of the Spirit of Fern and Scurvigrass of each three ounces and a half Spirit of Tartar nine drams mix them and take it from twelve to twenty drops in Ale Beer Wine or any other convenient Liquor This is good against Fits of the Mother Falling-sickness Oppressions of the Stomach Afflictions of the Matrix and cause Urin. Scurvigrass Physick-Wine Take Water-cresses and Wall-rue of each one handful wild Radish-roots and Roots of Polypody of each two drams black Hellebore-roots and Jalap of each one ounce the Leaves of choice Senna one ounce the inward or yellowest Rind of an Orange two ounces best Cinnamon one dram and a half crude-Tartar three drams These being cut and grofly bruised put them into a thin Bag sew them up lay them by in a stone Pot and pour upon it two quarts of Whitewine let it stand eleven Days draw it off and take three ounces or more according to the Strength of your Body This purges Choler and Melancholy cleanses the Stomach and eases Pains in the Bowels causes gentle Sweats and cleanses the Blood Scurvigrass-VVine Take the Juice of Scurvigrass Water-cresses Brooklime Sorrel all depurated of each a quarter of a pint Rhenish-wine two quarts Roots of Horse-radish Elecampane Flower-de-luce cut into thin slices of each an ounce and half two Nutmegs bruised put all into a stone Bottle stop it very close and keep it in a cold place for use Taking Morning and Night a quarter of a pint cures the Scurvy to a wonder and purifies the Blood Scurvigrass-Wine another Take of fresh Scurvigrass four handfuls beat it very small pour upon it two quarts of Rhenish Wine let it stand in a cool place three or four Days then strain it and let it settle and so draw it off from the dregs Drink of this half a quarter of a pint fasting and it will purifie the Blood help Digestion
take away pricking Pains and Heats or Flushings in the Face or Body provokes Urin and evaporates noxious Humours by sweat Sena The best of it is that which is brought from Alexandria in Egypt It purgeth Choler Flegm and Melancholy it cleanseth the Heart Liver and Brain also the Spleen and Lungs and all Parts of the Body it is profitable for all Accidents of them It openeth the Internals and delayeth the Injuries of growing old Age causing exhilaration or Joy in the Mind The Leaves decocted with Camomil are exceeding good to wash the Head for the fortifying the Brain and Sinews and Sight and Hearing as also in all such Diseases as proceed from melancholy Humours likewise for Ulcers or Palsie Head-ach and Falling-evil It fortifieth the Heart especially when mixed with some Violets and Cloves concocted in Whitewine and being mixed with infusion of Roses or laxative Syrup of Roses it is an excellent Purge for all evil Humours There is a Syrup made of Sena Senses to Refresh To enliven the Senses and restore the Memory Take a handful of Baum bruise it and steep it in Whitewine in an earthen Vessel well glazed and covered then put it into an Alembick and of the distilled Water take every Morning fasting a spoonful and fast an Hour after it Sharpness of Vrin Take the dried stuff that divides the Lobes of the Kernels of Wallnuts beat them to a Powder and take about a dram at a time in a draught of Whitewine or Posset-drink or in any other convenient Liquor Shoulder of Mutton with Disters Take a Shoulder of Mutton roast it with Oisters stuffed in the most convenient Places of it then make Sauce with some Gravy Claret-Wine Pepper grated Nutmeg sliced Lemon and Broom-buds giving it a warm or two then dish the Mutton the Oisters being taken out put the Sauce to it and they in it and garnish with sliced Lemon and Barberries Sickness-Falling Take half a dram of the best Amber beat it into fine Powder and take it once a Day when the Stomach is most empty in a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Sight-Weak Take Eyebright sweet Fennel-seeds and fine Sugar of each an ounce reduce them to Powder and mix these together and take the Composition from a dram to two or more as occasion requires Sinews Hurt If these are any ways bruised pained or swelled Take Lavender the Stalk Leaves and Flower cut them small put them into Whitewine and distil them through an Alembick washing the Parts grieved with the said Water and drink abut two ounces of it Morning and Evening and wash the Forehead and Temples with it in case of any Pains there by reason of any Afflictions of the Brain from which the Sinews and Nerves originally proceed Skin Infected Take the Roots of Vines boil them in Water with the Seeds of Vetches commonly called Tares and Fenugreek of each a handfull and therewith wash the Places where ill Humours are apt to settle Skin to keep open If an Issue in the Skin is not easily kept open but too apt to dry up Take Lapis Infernalis an ounce Crown Soap an ounce and half Chalf-finely powdered six drams mix them altogether carefully and keep them close stopt and when you use them mix them well together and lay over it Plaisterwise Sleep to Procure Take Water-Lillies half a handfull Opium one dram steep these the Lillies being bruised in three pints of Malmsey twenty four hours then put in an ounce of Salt finely beaten Poppy-seed a dram Lettice-seed three drams distill them in Balneo Mariae The Dose is from half a dram to a dram when the Party is going to Bed There is likewise an Ointment to cause Sleep viz. Take about half an ounce of Oil of Violets Henbane-seed and Mandragora-roots of each half a dram Saffron and Cassia-wood of each a Scruple Oil of Olives six ounces Oil of Mallows as much bruise and mix these till they may be reduced to an Ointment over a gentle Fire by pressing out the unctuous Matter and with it anoint the Breasts Forehead and Temples when you would go to rest Smack Elixir Take the distilled Oils of Cinamon Cloves and Wormwood Citron and Orange-Peel of each six drops refined Sugar finely beaten Spirit of Wine rectified and Mint and Orange-flower-water of each six ounces mix them well and make an Elixir This Elixir is exceeding good in all cold Infirmities of the Stomach as also to fortifie the Nobler Parts The Dose is from two drams to half an ounce in Wine Ale or the like Small-Pox the Scars thereof To prevent these Make a Liniment of Rose-water four ounces Hogs-lard two ounces Oil of Rosemary halt an ounce Tuttia one dram These being made into a Liniment anoint the Face Hands and Neck just as the Disease is in its declining and the Scabs begin to dry Sores Take a solution of Sublimate and having made with Quick-lime a strong Lime-water that will bear an Egg drop it gradually on the Sublimate till it will precipitate on more redish stuff at all and when you perceive the Liquors act on longer visibly upon one anther pour the Mixture into a filter of Cap-paper which retaining the Orange colour precipitated will transmit an indifferently clear Liquor which must be kept close stopped in a glass Viol viz. to wash the Part grieved This is exceeding good in old Sores Ulcers Breaking-out and other such-like Diseases Sores of the Mouth to Heal Take the Leaves of Marshmallows and boil them in Wine wherein Honey has been dissolved add some Roch-alom in powder then press out the liquid part very hard so suffer it to stand and cool and with this Decoction wash and gargle your Mouth and Throat if it be sore Sore Nose This often happens through the Effects of the French Disease not perfectly cured and many times in the Mouth as well as the Nose For Remedy then Take the Juice of common Hounds-tongue and that of Plantane of each three ounces boil these Juices to a thickness over a gentle Fire adding to them Oxymel Scilliticum and anoint the sore Part often or dipping a linnen Rag in it thrust it up the Nostril if the grief be mostly there Sores Old Take Aristolochia Longa Aloes Epatica of each an ounce make them into a Powder and with Honey of Roses work it into a Past and having cleansed the Sore with Oil of Tartar or the Decoction of Myrrh spread some of the Past on a Leather or pliant Cloath and lay it to the Place grieved and in twice or thrice renewing it you will find wonderful success in the Cure Sores Putrefied Take Milfoil and Sanicola of each half a handful boil them in Water and strain the liquid part through a linnen Cloth and with the Decoction mix the Meal of Fenugreek the Fat of a Goat and as much Olive-oil as will thicken them and make them into an Ointment over a gentle Fire with which often anoint the Sores and it will heal them
Stumps Spirit of Salt Dulcify'd and Sweet Mix equal Parts of Spirit of Salt and Spirit of Wine set them two or three Days in Digestion in a double Vessel in a gentle Sand-Bath This is taken more safely inwardly than the former because it is less Corrosive It may be given from four to twelve drops in some proper Liquid Spirit of Scurvrigrass Take the Bark of Ash Tree Roots of Fraxinel Tamarisk and Capers each one ounce and half Polypody of the Oak two ounces wild Radish three ounces Scurvigrass-Leaves four handfuls Water-cresses Brook-lime Sorrel and Spleen-wort of each three handfuls Bay-berries and Juniper-berries of each six drams the Tops of the lesser Centaury a handful Seeds of Citron Mustard Carduus-Benedictus of each halfan ounce Cloves Ginger Cinnamon and Nutmeg of each three drams these being cut and bruised digest them in a warm Sand-Bath in a gallon of White-wine and three pints of good Brandy for three Days then distil them in Sand by an Alembick Of this twenty drops is a sufficient Dose for the Scurvy and all the other Distempers attending it as Pains Prickings Shortness of Breath Foulness of the Lungs Yellowness of the Teeth decaying of the Gums and the like This is called the Golden Spirit of Scurvigrass easing the Pains of the Belly in Children and killing Worms But for the latter ten or twelve drops may serve Spirit Uterine Take the Roots of round and long Bithwort Piony and the lesser Valerian of each two ounces Castor one ounce dry Tops of Wormwood Mugwort Tansie Fetherfew Elder and Camomil-flowers of each a handful shred and bruise all together Let them macerate three Days in two quarts of the rectified Spirit of Wine then distil them according to Art and keep the Spirit for your use This is excellent and most effectual to suppress the Vapours that arise from the Matrix and to open Obstructions It is to he given from one to two or three drams at a time in Hysterick Waters or Decoctions It may likewise be put up the Nostrils or applied to the Temples or Navel with good Success Spirit of Wine to Distil Take the Wine and Lees of what sort you think convenient put it into an Alembick draw it off and rectifie it into what heighth you please It is excellent taken in cold Distempers or to mix with any Cordial Water to temper them with heat according to the degrees the Distempers require for which they are to be taken The Joints afflicted with cold Pains being bathed with it ease them It 's good in the Gout and Sciatica the afflicted Parts bathed with it and is used for Lacca to change Silver to a gold colour as also in Varnish and in making up sundry Medicins Baum Rue and the Leaves of Walnuts being beaten and made up into a Conserve with it resist the Plague and pestilential Fevers Spirit of Wine another This Spirit when made the best way is drawn from Branny chiefly and not of that which is usually called Wine Four gallons then of the best Brandy must be mixed with four quarts of ordinary Salt and put into an Alembick or Bay-salt dried and finely powdered Lute the Head and do it over a gentle Fire lest being too long a drawing it off it waft and consume too much that which is the highest or rectified part being fired will burn all away but the second Spirit will not do so This makes curious Tinctures in chymical Operations and being upon other occasions outwardly applied it discusses Tumours and cures Burns if taken in time It also eases the Pains of the Gout and cold Pains in the Joints Spitting Blood Take Ash-leaves and the Seeds of Nettles boil them when well bruised in Whitewine put to the Decoction a little Sanguis Draconis Spodium and Bole-armoniack then these being infused strain it again and drink half a quarter of a pint mixed with half an ounce of the Syrup of red Roses Spots or Stains If in Silk caused by Grease Take the Bone of a Sheep's-foot burn it to powder and beat a red-hot Tobbaccopipe into Powder also then sift these and mingle them together Take of this Powder and lay on the Spot then lay on it the back of a Spoon that has a red-hot Coal in the hollow of it and then the heat if the Grease be little will cause the Powder to suck it out Spots of Pitch and Rosin are taken out by applying Oil of Turpentine rubbing it in and letting it lye and it will crumble away so likewise Tar will rub out like a speck of Dirt. Spots in the Skin to take away Take Water of Talk and Lemon-juice infuse in them the Roots of Mandragora and let them stand five Days in the Sun or some warm place and then strain out the liquid part and with it bath the Spots and in often so doing they will disappear Or for want of these wash them with the Water of Radishes drawn by an Alembick and anoint the Skin with the Meal of Orobo mixed with Honey Spots in Stuff or Woolen Take Fullers-earth two ounces Castile-soap an ounce the fine siftings of coarse Bran half an ounce mix these with fair Water make them up into a kind of Paste and lay then some of it on the Spot and being then a little moist let it dry on before a gentle Fire Stains that come not by Grease are taken out by boiling Lemon-peel in Small-beer with a little Copperas till it be very strong of them then with a hard Brush rub up the place with it and take it out again after a while with fair Water wherein a little Castile-soap has been dissolved Stanching Blood Take round Mushrooms or Puff-balls in Autumn when they are full ripe break them warily and save carefully the Powder that will fly out and the rest that remains in their Cavities and strew this Powder all over the Part affected binding it on with a Liniment and the Bleeding will be immediately stayed Stephens's Water See Doctor Stephens's Water Stiffness of the Sinews to supple Take twelve Frogs Hogs lard one pound Oil of Bays two pound and Bay-berries dried and reduced to Powder two ounces boil them together sufficiently then press them through a linnen Cloath add then white Incense in powder one ounce and make the Liquid into an Ointment over a gentle Fire with which anoint the Parts often and it will comfort the Sinews and restore them to a limberness and make them very supple and always after anointing wash it with the following Decoction viz. Take the Roots and Leaves of Agrimony with the Roots of Mallows boil them in Water till they be tender strain out the liquid part and bath with it Stinging of Insects If you are stung with Wasps Hornets Bees or the like Take Juniper-berries when ripe and bruise them then distil them through an Alembick and not only wash the place stung but drink about a quarter of a pint of it with an ounce of the Juice of Rue
and much of the Tast This Way is frequently used in New-England and other Places where they have great plenty of Syder TAblets of Saffron Take Saffron of Vitriol of Mars half an ounce Earth-worms washed in Wine dried and pulverized one dram Cinnamon Powder very fine half a dram refined Sugar boiled in Mugwort-water six ounces mix them well and make them into Tablets called Tablets of Saffron of Mars These Tablets are proper to open Obstructions of the Bowels and particularly those of the Matrix The Dose is from two drams to half an ounce they are to be taken fasting in a Morning and about an Hour after drink two or three spoonfuls of Wormwood Wine Taffety-Tarts Take fine Flower a quarter of a peck the Yolks of twelve Eggs sweet Butter two pound Yeast a quarter of a pint Sugar two ounces mix these well with hot Liquor till they may be made into a stiff Past rowl it up into small Balls and then into thin Plates with your Roller wash round the Brims of them with new Milk then boil Pippens soft take off the Peel and scrape off the Pulp from the Core mix the Pulp with a little Sugar Rose-water the Scrapings and candied Orange-peel and a little Marmalade of Quinces make them up in the forms of Tarts bake them in a gentle Oven after you have dried them first in a warm Place and serve them up scraped over with Sugar and sprinkled with Essence of Violets or Roses Talk-Water Take of the best Talk six pound slit it in five pieces put it in a thin Canvas Bag and let it down into a Well or any deep damp place by a Rope that it may hang about a Yard from the Water with a Vessel under it to receive the dropping when it moistens Let it hang there ten or twelve Days then take the Water you find and distil it with as much of the Water of Fumitory in a cold Still This is an excellent Beautifier makes the Skin smooth and plump giving a rosie Blush and wonderfully preserves a youthful and healthy Complexion in Men and Women Tansie The Juice is good but the Conserve is most approved 'T is used for the Gripes Stone in the Kidneys Worms in the Belly Obstruction of the Courses and the Dropsie It resists Putrefaction and brings away or expels putrified Blood It is good for the Scurvy and purifies the whole Mass of Blood enlivening the whole Body but especially for the Dropsie it is taken with good success Tansie the New Way Take about twelve or thirteen new-lay'd Eggs to three pints of Cream yet put in but seven of the Whites of the Eggs and strain out a pint of the Juice of Spinage or Endive and Sorrel six or seven spoonfuls of the Juice of Tansie Nutmeg sliced small and half a pound of fine Sugar with a little Rose-water and a little Salt beat together then fry it in a clean Pan that it be not blacked with Butter Serve it up with Sugar Rose-water and Orange-juice Tansie another way Take a penny Manchet grate it very fine add a handful of fine Flower and the Yolks of six Eggs then grate in two Naples Biskets make these thin into a Batter with Rose-water and Canary then add two ounces of the Juice of Garden-Tansie after it is well clarified and settled and an ounce of the Juice of Clary with a little beaten Cinnamon and Sugar Fry these in sweet Butter over a gentle Fire till it becomes somewhat brown but beware of burning it for then it is spoiled then serve it up sprinkled with Rose-water wherein Saffron has been infused and scrape over some Loaf-sugar Taragon This is used frequently in Sallads to correct the coldness of other Herbs and their Crudities It is good for cold Stomachs procuring an Appetite and expelling Wind It provokes Urin and the Courses opens Obstructions and being chewed evacuates Flegm and eases the Pains of the Teeth Taragon-Poultis Take of Taragon a handful Ruetops half a handful Brionyleaves five or six bruise them well and mix them with two ounces of the Oil of Water-lilies This is an excellent Poultis to allay Inflammations in Swellings ease Pains in the Belly by being applied to the Navel pretty warm suddainly draws to a Head and breaks Plague-fores or other Swellings caused by internal Corruption Tar-Water Take of the best Sweeds Tar refined from its dross or settling six pound put it into a thin earthen Vessel and set that Vessel in a cold Still make under it a gentle Fire and when there comes a thorough Heat a thin Vapour will ascend and distil into your Receiver or for fear of injuring the bottom of your Still you may have such an earthen Vessel as will shut close with the head of your Still This is an excellent and approved Water for all dry or old Sores Scurfs Scabs or Ulcers being washed or bathed with it It likewise eases the Pains of the Gout or any Pains occasioned by coldness in the Joints A Lint dipt in it and applied eases the Pains in the Teeth the Temples bathed with it eases the Pains in the Head Tart of Green Pease Boil the Pease tender and pour them out into a Cullender season them with Saffron Sugar and Salt add sweet Butter and then close up these Materials in a Past or Coffin when it is baked ice it over with Sugar and Rose-water put in a little Verjuice and shake it well and so scraping a little Sugar on the Lid serve it to up Tart of Green Sprouts Take green Sprouts and give them a scald in hot Water lay them a draining and so mince them small and put them into fine Paste and garnish them with Herbs season them with Lard melted and Beef-marrow and an Onion stuck with Cloves and Pepper and some thin slices of interlarded Bacon between the interlayings of the Herbs and so cover it up with some Paste and when it is baked put in some Gravy and the Juice of Lemon and serve it up Tart of Pistaches Cut the Pistaches and green Citron and put it into fine Past and season it well with Sugar and Cinamon with the Juice of Lemon and cover it up when you serve it put Orange-flowers flowers to it for garnish or other candied Flowers Tart of Rice Boil the Rice when clean dressed in Cream or Milk and when it is tender put it into a Dish and season it with Nutmeg Ginger and Cinnamon a little Pepper Salt and Sugar the Yolks of six Eggs and the Juice of Oranges bake it in a gentle Oven and being enough draw it then scrape Sugar on the Lid of it and so serve it up Tartar the Cream soluble To make this Soluble Take Cream of Tartar as much as is convenient dissolve it in a sufficient quantity of hot Water then gently drop into it Liquor of Salt of Tartar till the Ebullition cease evaporate the superfluous Moisture and the soluble Cream of Tartar will remain for the quantity of the fixed
Salt surmounting the Acidity of the Cream of Tartar breaks the union of its parts and insinuating its pores makes it dissolvible in cold Water or cold Liquors whereas otherways it could not be dissolved but in those that are boiling hot For Soluble Emetick Cream of Tartar take this Rule Take Crocus Metallorum mixed with Salts and Cream of Tartar of each two ounces pulverize them very finely and let them macerate for fifteen Hours in three pints of cold Spring-water then digest them as long in a moderate Sand-bath and at length encrease the Fire and let them boil gently filter the Liquor and evaporate it till a thin Film cover it then set it in a cool place to crystalize The Parts of the Tartar-Cream being disunited by the fixed Salt remaining in the Saffron of Metals is easily dissolved in cold Water and fitted to purge upward and downward giving it from two to three four five or six grains in Broth or Wine or some other convenient Liquor Teal Boiled Take the largest sort of Teal draw them and pick them clean then take about a dozen stewing Oisters Thyme Sage Winter-savory and Parsly clean stript and cut small make them with a little Butter and Pepper into a Ball stiffned with Flower and the Fowl being trussed put this into the Belly tying the Neck and Vent very close then put the Fowl into the Water when it begins to boil being boiled tender dish them on Sippets with Gravy Anchovy-sauce and the Herbs laying the Oisters with some Lemon-peel and Parsly about the Dish for garnish Tears to Prevent If Tears or watry Humours are usually standing in the Eyes hindring the Sight and being much troubled Take of Aloes Epatick two drams infuse them in about half a pint of Whitewine and Rose-water of each an equal quantity and wash the Eyes with the Liquid part Morning and Evening or else foment them with the Water of Stechado's Teasle its Decoction This is usually called Fullers-Thistle the Roots of it boiled in Wine help to cure Ulcers and Warts There is a Water that is received in the hollowness of the Leaves of this Plant as it grows after a shower of Rain which by long standing there becomes good for the Inflammations of the Eyes also to take away Spots from the Face and beautifie it The Herb boiled in Wine purges by Urin. Teeth to Fasten Take a pint of Red or Claret-wine and about two drams of Japan-earth dissolve it as much as may be then pour off the Clear and wash the Mouth with it often or Take Sage and Winter-savory boil them in spring-Spring-water till the Water is strong of the Herbs then put into a pint an ounce of Honey and half an ounce of Alom boil it a litile till the latter are dissolved and then it being strained wash your Mouth with it at convenient times Teeth to keep Sound Let the Party if it can be agreeable frequently rub his Teeth with the Ashes that remain in a Pipe after it is smoaked washing it afterward with fair Water Or Take the Juice of Housleek and Scabious and wash your Mouth with it once or twice a Week in the Morning Teeth to make Firm Take the Ashes of Vine-sprigs and those of the Root of Burdock put them into Vinegar let them steep about six Hours and then first wash your Mouth with fair Water and afterward with Vinegar strained clear from the Ashes and it will fix and preserve the Teeth to a very great Age. Teeth Offensive If your Teeth by reason of their Rottennest or Humours settling under them cast an ill savour to remedy it Take four ounces of Cummin-seed seeth if in a quart of Whitewine with some Tops of Baum and Mint till a quarter of a pint be consumed and with this wash your Mouth Morning and Evening Tench-Pye To order this and season it well Take about six Tenches and having made the Coffin lay a laying of Butter and some Nutmeg Cinnamon and Mace lightly scatter'd over it then lay in the Tench put over them some more Butter and Spice with a few blue Currans clean washed and pour in about a quarter of a pint of Claret then bake it well when enough take it out and put in more Butter at the spout and serve it up with some fine Sugar dusted over it In this manner you may season a Carp-pye but three of them if any thing large are sufficient in one Pye Tender Eyes Take the Water of Plantane Eye bright Pimpernel and the Oil of Roses beat them up together and wash or anoint the Eyes with them and the Sight will be much strengthened Tenesmus Mix Balsam of Sulphur made with Oil of Turpentine with Linfeed or some other such-like convenient drying Oil till the Balsom be thereby so well allayed that it may be well endured then let the Party dip a Finger in it and use it as a suppository once or twice a Day Terms to Provoke Take for three Mornings together about the expected time of the Menses a dram or a dram and a half of the Galls and Livers of Eels dried and reduced to Powder in a Glass of Whitewine or Canary Tetter To cure this Take black Soap a quarter of an ounce Bole-armoniack two drams Oil of Turpentine three drams Bees-wax half an ounce and Bears-grease one ounce make these up into an Ointment or thin Plaister and apply it to the Place renewing it every Day and a speedy Cure will ensue This also breaks the Whitloe and is excellent against Scalds or Burns Tetters to Kill Take of burnt Alom Ginger and Flower of Brimstone of each a like quantity mix them well and incorporate them with fresh Butter so much as when melted will bring them into the consistence of an Unguent and with it anoint the Part afflicted as hot as can be well endured when you are going to Bed and let it continue on all Night and when you rise wash it off with Celandine-water but upon going to Bed take a little Gascoin-powder in a spoonful or two of Treacle-water to prevent the Humours being driven into the Mass of Blood which oftentimes happens when this is not on bathing the Place with Celandine-water Thorow-war The Decoction of this Herb in Wine of the Leaves powdered are applied successfully in Ruptures and Contusions Some hold it is a proper Remedy for the King's-Evil also Fractures and an Erisipela's Thoru-Apple An Ointment made of the Juice of the Leaves and Hogs lard is excellent for Burns and Scalds The Seed is to be avoided because taken for a time it occasions Madness Throat Sore Take Verjuice of Grapes an ounce best Honey half an ounce crude Alom about a dram and a half Rock or Spanish Salt half a dram make these into a thinness and with a fine Rag at the end of a small Stick or Wyre thrust it as far as is convenient into your Throat where the Sore is and bathe the Place grieved with it Do this often and between
Blood Toasts or Balls c. Fried Take a boiled or raw Pike mince it and stamp it into some old fat Cheese grated into it season it with Cinnamon Sugar and boiled Currans add the Yolks of hard Eggs grated and these being all well mingled together you may make them up into Toasts Balls Pastils or any such little things as you please and frying them with sweet Butter and grated Nutmeg they will tast wonderful pleasant but the chief use they were devised and intended for was to lay about the Dish or under sundry sorts of fried Meats the better to set them off though they eat very curiously Tobaccâ—o Though many are ignorant of any use of this Plant than in smoaking it has nevertheless many other ways of singular Virtue viz. It resists Putrefaction provokes sneezing the smoaking of it stops Catarrhs and disposes to rest takes off Weariness and suppresses the Fits of the Mother It is a good Preservative in Plague times A Gargatism of it cures the Tooth-ach and dissolves the Tumour of the Uvula A Bath of it or the green Leaves applied cure Leprosie the Itch kills Lice and heals Wounds cleanses Ulcers and takes out the Fire of Scalds or Burns The Smoaking of it strengthens the Stomach helps Concoction and gently moves the Belly but is not good to be taken especially to any excess by those of a hot Constitution because it dries up or evacuates too much moisture It eases Pains in the Teeth a hollow Tooth especially being stopt with it either as it is or the Cinder of it not burnt to Ashes And in case of the Palsie take the green Leaves of Tobacco and infuse them in old Mallaga and rub the Parts afflicted with the liquid part after Sweating this has been often tried with success A Pipe lighteÌ„d and the Smoak forced up the Fundament eases the Colick or Pains of the Belly it also cures the Fits of the Mother and Faintings Tobacco Salve To make an excellent Salve of Tobacco Take the Juice of green English Tobacco one quart Olive-oil a pint with as much Turpentine Wax and Verdigrease as will thicken them over a gentle Fire to the consistence of a Plaister This is excellent for Cuts Bruises Burns Scalds Gun-shot and to be applied to the Place which any venomous Creature has bit or stung Tongue-Pye In the first place Take a Neat's-tongue well boiled blanch it and cut it in thin slices as also some interlarded Bacon and lay a Laying of the Bacon between every Layings of the Tongue but let the Bacon be cut much thinner and lesser in quantity then take half an ounce of Pepper two large Nutmegs and three Anchoveys forbearing to sprinkle any Salt after this make a Leer with half a pint of Claret-wine and some Gravy the Yolks of three Eggs a piece of Butter and grated Nutmeg boil them up to a considerable thickness then when the Pye is to be served up put it in with a Funnel at the Pipe or open Place left for that purpose And by this method you may order and season a Hare-pye to the best Advantage to please the Palate Tooth-ach To ease the violent Pain of the Teeth with which old and young are too frequently afflicted Take two parts of Lisbon-Sugar and one part of black round Pepper fine them into Powder and put them into a Spoon over two or three well kindl'd Coals and when the Sugar begins to relent take off the Spoon and whilst the Mixture is soft form it into little grains the size to shape the hollowness of your Tooth and stop it in as close as may be and so renew it as you find the first wast Tooth-ach another Take Henbane-seed and Hyssop-seed bruise them very small then put as much Sweeds-Tar as will fix them together to make then up into little Pellets and stop these into the hollowness of the Tooth tyed up in a little fine Rag. Tooth-ach another Take Ginger beat it fine and sow it up in a fine Rag more long than broad then soâ—… it in the Spirit of Wine laâ— it to the Root of your Toothâ— and though by its Heat it may at first cause the Nerve of the Tooth to rave a little yet in a short time being often dipt and applied it will altogether take away the Pain Or for want of this take what follows viz. Seeth clarified Honey one ounce in two ounces of rosemary-Rosemary-water or hyssop-Hyssop-water and taking off the Scum that will arise put in the sine Dust of Pepper let it consume till a blackness ensue and it thickens then dip into it a Sage Leaf whilst it is hot and lay to the Tooth and the Pain will presently abate Tooth to make Fall out If you have a loose and troublesome Tooth or one that is hollow and offensive that you would remove Take the Shavings of Harts horn burn it to Powder mix with it a little slacked Lime the Tallow of a Ram and the Juice of a white Lily and Plantane-root stop it into the Tooth in a Rag if hollow or otherways lay it to it between the Cheek and the Gum and it will in a little time fall out without any pain at all Tooth not Hollow If there be no hollowness in the Tooth or visible defect and yet it achs Take the Root of â—…ack Hellebore commonly â—…lled Bear's-foot scrape off the Rind and cut a pretty slice and lay it to the Tooth between your Gums and the inside of your Cheek avoiding the Rheum that it will occasion and so renew it with a fresh piece If you fancy by a strange sort of a stirring at certain times that there are Worms in your Teeth sprinkle some Henbane-seed and Frankincense on a Pan of Coals hold a Funnel the broad end over and let the narrow Spout be placed to the bottom of the Tooth that the Fume may come to it and if there be any place for them to do it the Worms will creep out If they do not it will however kill them Tooth-Wort The greater sort of this is excellent for Ruptured and inward Wounds and for Diseases rising from Defluxions by taking two drams of the Powder in Broth successively for several Days It likewise eases Pains and Aches in several Parts of the Body Tormentil This is drying and very astringent and therefore is very powerful in the Fluxes of the Belly and Womb and being mixed with vulnerary precious Ointments and Plaisters it festinates the Cure of Wounds old Sores and Ulcers From half to a whole dram of this taken in Wine is greatly commended for curing an Epidemick Dysentery Rhubarb being used before if occasion require it Treacle Remedy for Agues Take of Venice or London-Treacle put it into about four ounces of White-wine then put it into a Vessel close covered and let it simper for half an hour over the Fire but not boil stirring or rather shaking it sometimes about and take it pretty hot about two Hours before the Fit comes on and
let the Party keep close in a warm Bed in order to sweat and repeat this two or three times This was experienc'd by the famous Sir Kenelm Digby and by him ordered to be given to divers Persons which was rarely given without Success Treacle-Spirit To make this Take the Roots of Master-wort Angelica Athamantick Spignel and the bigger Valerian of each three ounces Juniper-berries and the Seeds of Bishop's-weed and Seseli of Marseiles of each an ounce approved Treacle four ounces The Roots and Seeds being bruised together macerate them eight Days in two pints of rectified Spirit of Wine then make your Distillation and preserve the Spirit This Spirit resists very powerfully all sorts of Poisons It may be taken in Spanish-Wine or any Cordial Liquor from one to four drams It may be also apply'd to the Nostrils Forehead Temples and Sutures of the Skull for Head-achs Fainting Fits or Drousiness of the Brain Treacle-VVater This is the most Excellent sort of all To make it Take the Roots of Gentian Angelica Master-wort Valerian and Contrayerva of each two ounces Citron-rinds and Orange-peels Cinnamon Cloves and Juniper-berries of each an ounce Tops of Water-Germander Rue and St. John's-wort of each one handful infuse them to three Days in Spirit of Wine and Waters of Nuts and Blessed Thistle of each a quart then add four ounces of approved Treacle distil the whole in a Sand-Bath and keep the Water close stopped for use This is an excellent Water to resist Poison and to fortifie all the noble Parts being taken from one dram to half an ounce Some make a treacle-Treacle-water by dissolving the Treacle in equal parts of Spirit of Wine and Vinegar using it without any Distillation but Reason and Experience tells us this is far more Excellent Tre-foil or Bucksbane The Decoction of it in White-wine is good against the Scurvy as also for Pains in the Limbs The Leaves boiled in Beer and taken hot ease Pains in the Bowels but being bitter it is best taken in any lenitive Syrup Trembling a Remedy If the Members tremble and shake that you cannot at certain times hold them still though no cause of Fear Danger or Defect is evident to cause it anoint the crown of the Head the Hair being shaven off and the other Parts especially where you find the Trepidation with Oil of Cinnamon and drink two drams of the Water that is made of Man or Swine's Blood brought to putrefaction with Aqua-vitae or Spirit of Wine and afterward distilled and this must be frequently repeated for a Month's space Troches Pectoral Take of white Sugar a pound white Sugar-candy and Penids of each four ounces of the Roots of Florentine-orris half an ounce white Starch an ounce and half Licorice six drams with a convenient quantity of the Mucilage of Tragacanth extracted in Rose-water make the Materials into Troches that they may be perfumed as occasion requires it with four grains of Ambergrease and three of Musk. These are Excellent for Coughs and Catarrhs in Winter and for the preventing taking Cold in such whose Occasions constrain them to Travel in damp and foggy Airs Troches of VVinter-Cherries Take of Winter-Cherries three drams Gum-Arabick Tragacanth Olibanum Pine-nuts bitter Almonds white Starch Juice of Lemons Bole-armoniack and the Seeds of white Poppies of each six drams Melons Cucumbers and Gourds of each three drams and a half Smallage white Henbane white Amber and Earth of Lemons and Opium of each two drams and with the Juice of fresh Winter-Cherries make Troches The Dose is two scruples to be taken at a time This is excellent for expelling Gravel from the Bladder or Kidneys and to provoke Urin. Trochiscs of Benjamine Take Benjamine and the Ashes of a Sallow-Tree of each an ounce Rosin and Storax prepared a like quantity sweet Tacamahacca and Lignum Aloes finely powdered of each half an ounce Ambergrease a dram Musk half a dram Zebit six grains distilled Oil of Lignum Rhodium Cinnamon and Cloves of each six drops make up these with Gum-Tragacanth extracted with Rose-water These are more excellent than any as casting a more fragrant and incomparable sweet Smell Trochiscs Odoriferous Take the Powder of green Willow-coals three ounces Labdanum two ounces Storax and Benjamine of each half an ounce Mastick sweet Tacamahacca and yellow Amber of each two drams Lignum Rhodium a dram and half make them up with the Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth extracted with Rose-water and dry them in the Shade This is an excellent Perfume for Chambers and Rooms of Entertainment as likewise to drive away ill Airs and bad Scents Trochiscs another Way Take the Coals and Ashes of Rosemary beat small and sifted finely four ounces Labdanum two ounces Storax and Renjamine of each an ounce Roots of Cyprus Aromatick red Mastick and Amber of each two drams Cloves one dram Musk Civet and Ambergrease ten grains the Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth extracted with Orange-flower-water as much as will make them up and suffer them to dry as the former These give an excellent Odour and are very wholsom to the Brain and drive away offensive Vermin and Insects being burnt on Coals Trotter-Pye This is done with Wardens Quinces Pears c. and you may either take them severally or altogether quartered or sliced raw it in quarters put some whole ones among them if sliced beaten Spices and a little Butter and Sugar taking to every twelve large Quinces a pound of Sugar and a quarter of a pound of Butter close it up and bake it and when it is well baked mash the Fruit then put in some Cream and Yolks of Eggs well beaten and stir them altogether then cut the Cover into five or six pieces Diamond fashion put in a little Rose-water and scrape Sugar over it Tumour in the Eye This is otherways called a Phlyctena or a little Tumour in the carneous Tunicle of it To remove it Take the Decoction of Mucilages and dress the Eye with if for some time to ripen the Tumour then with a steady Hand open it with a Lancet or Needle and press out the offensive Matter then cleanse and heal the Part with Honey dissolved in a little Saga-water But when the Tumour is beginning and not great if you have not the Decoction of Mucilages you may dress the Eye with the Mixture of equal parts of the Water of Melilot Chamomil and Bettony Tumour of the Knee Take a green Colwort-leaf with red Veins or Streaks pare off the Ribs flat and almost level to the rest of the Leaf then with the haft of your Knife bruise it and apply it to the Part affected renewing it three or four times a Day This also allays any Heat or Pain by other means and draws gently mostly evacuating the Humour by Sweat Tumour to Ripen Take eight ounces of fat Figs two ounces of white Lily-roots two ounces of Bean-flower or Meal boil them the Figs and Roots being bruised in as much Water as will reduce them to the consistence of a
then put to it some Whitewine-Vinegar Pepper Salt Cloves Mace and Bay-leaves so let it lye three or four Days and bake it in a Rye Past and when it is cold fill it up with Butter and let it stand ten or fourteen Days before you cut it up and it must be a very curious Pallate that can distingush it from Venison of red Deer Venison to Counterfeit another Take Ram or Wether steep it in warm Blood either of a Goat Pig or Sheep and season it as you do Venison the Bones being taken out and a little Claret-Wine added bake it in a Pot or Pye Venison-Pasty Take four pound of Butter to a Peck of Flower and make it up into a Crust or Past with cold Water beat the Past with a Rolling-pin and likewise so order two pound of Beef-suet beaten small then put the Suet into the Pasty both at top and bottom take notice likewise that you put the Whites of twelve Eggs into the Crust then your Meat being boned or the Bones broken to pieces rub it over with an ounce of Pepper and as much Salt mixed with it or if you take out the Bones you may put them well broken into a Pot with a little Claret fair Water Pepper Salt and a slice or two of Nutmeg and bake them that so the Liquor may serve to put it into the Pasty when it comes out of the Oven in order to be served up at the Table And this way without alteration Mutton or Beef-Pasties may be ordered and the latter among the more ignorant so ordered will pass for Venison Venison to Pot Take a Haunch of a fat Buck not lately hunted bone it and beat three ounces of Pepper twelve Nutmegs grated and a sufficient quantity of Salt to season it mix the Spices and Salt with White-wine-Vinegar wash the Venison over with it then make holes in the lean sides with a Knife and stuff it as you do Beef with Parsly small shred and then put it into a convenient earthen Pot with the fat side downward then clarifie three pound of sweet Butter and put it to the Venison cover your Pot with a Past and let it stand in the Oven five or six Hours then take it out and with a vent press it down to the bottom of the Pot and letting it be cold take the Gravy from the top and boil it about half away then put it with the Butter to the Meat again Venison to Souce Boil Water Beer and Vinegar together and having taken off the Scum put in Bay-leaves Thyme Savory Rosemary-tops and Fennel and when it boils put in the Venison let it parboil then press it and season it with Salt Pepper and Nutmeg This takes away the Scent when tainted and it will keep in this Souce-drink a long time and so you may bake it to be eat cold or hot Venison to Stew Slice it out and put it into your Stewing-dish set it on a heap of Coals with a little Claret-wine a Sprig or two of Rosemary and half a dozen Cloves a little grated Bread Sugar and Vinegar so let it stew together a while then grate one Nutmeg into it and serve it up Venison Tainted If you would recover your Venison when Tainted Take strong Ale and as much Vinegar as will make it sharp boil it with some Bay-salt and make a strong Brine scum it and let it stand till it cools then lay your Venison to steep in it twelve Hours press it and dry it then parboil it season it with Salt and Pepper and it will be fit for use Or Bury it in the Ground where there is a kind soft sweet Mould and the Earth will draw to it the strong Scent and the Venison will become sweet Verjuice to Make Gather Crabs as soon as the Kernel turns black and lay them in a heap to sweat then take off the Stalks and separate the Rotten or much bruised if there be any put them into a Trough and stamp them with a Beater or grind them in a Mill then put them in a hair Bag of coarse Cloath lay it in a Press when full with the Mash of the Crabs and by pressing down the Board upon it squeeze out Juice and put it into a Barrel stop it close and set it in a warm Place for ten or twelve Days and it will become excellent Verjuice Vervaine There are many wonderful Virtues attributed to this Herb or Plant 'T is Cephalick and Vulnerary used for Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen also in Diseases of the Eyes and the Stone for Ails in the Breast Bloody-flux and Tertian-Ague to heal Wounds and cause easie and speedy Delivery in Women It is outwardly used for Redness of the Eyes Pains of the Teeth Head-ach Quinsie Glandules of the Jaws and Falling of the Fundament for Pains of the Spleen and cleansing Ulcers The distilled Water of it applied outwardly to the Head and four ounces taken inwardly with four drops of Spirit of Salt are held to ease Pains in the Head though proceeding from different Causes Forestus relates to his knowledge That two Persons when all other Applications failed were cured of inveterate Head-achs with only applying this Herb green Vinegar in Balls to Make Take the Berries of the Bramble when half ripe and dry them and when they are sufficiently so make them into Powder and with strong Whitewine-Vinegar make them into Balls as big as small Nuts then dry them and put them up into wooden Boxes and when you have occasion to use them take Wine or for want of it a little Water or Stale-beer and dissolve a Ball in it or so much as you have occasion for and it will immediately become a strong Vinegar Vinegar Common The usual Vinegar made with us is ordered in this manner Take a midling sort of Beer indifferently well hopp'd put into it when it has worked well and is grown fine some Rapes or Husks of Grapes usually brought home for that purpose mash them together in a Tub then letting the Rapes settle draw off the liquid part put it into a Cask and set it in the Sun as hot as may be the Bung only covered with a Tile or Slat-stone and in about thirty or forty Days it will be a very curious Vinegar and may pass in use as well as that made of Wine if it be fined and kept from musting Vinegar for Digestion Take eight drams of Sea onions a quart of Vinegar as much Pepper as Onions Mint and Juniper-berries let them infuse and drink a spoonful at a time before Meals Vinegar of divers Sorts 1. Take good Whitewine and fill a Runlet full leave it unstop'd and set it in the Sun or in some hot Place and it will soon turn and become special Vinegar 2. If your occasion requires Vinegar in hast put some Pepper Salt and soure Leaven mingled together and a hot Steel stop it up and let the Sun or some other warmth come to it Or for
Take yellow Wax six ounces the best Olive-oil two pound Turpentine two ounces Rosin and Colophonia one ounce and half Olibanum and Mastick of each one ounce Saffron a scruple dissolve Wax in the Oil and so putting in the rest finely bruised make an Unguent and when they are all well incorporated take the whole Mass from it and put in the Turpentine stirring it about that it may dissolve and imbody with the rest This is excellent in fresh Wounds and makes them speedily heal Vnguentum of St. Cosme and Damian Take Bettony Pimpernel and Vervine of each a handful stamp them and put them into five pints of Whitewine boil them together in a tin Vessel to the consumption of a third part then strain out the Liquid part and set it over a gentle Fire again in a glass Vessel then take Turpentine washed six ounces clarified Rosin a pound new white Bees-wax four ounces and when they are melted together in the same Glass or Pot add to them an ounce of the Powder of Mastick of a Woman's Milk who has newly born a Male-Child and another a Female-Child of each two ounces make them into an Unguent by incorporation over the Fire This wonderfully availeth for Wounds or Bruises in the Sinews as also Cankers Fistula's and St. Anthony's Fire the grieved Places being bathed with it hot Vnguentum Enulatum To make this Take the Roots of Elecampane sod in Vinegar and bruised one pound Hogs-lard and Olive-oil of each three ounces new Bees-wax one ounce Quick-silver extinct and Turpentine washed of each two ounces common Salt beaten half an ounce mix the Lard Wax and Oil well together by melting over a gentle Fire then add the Elecampane Quick-silver and Salt and then the Turpentine take care to kill the Quick-silver with a little Grease and Turpentine and so mix them well to the thickness of an Ointment It is an excellent Ointment for Scabs Itch Scurf Breakings-out Botches or the like Vnguentum Populeon Take the Buds of Poplar freshly gathered one pound macerate them in three pound of Hogs-lard prepared for the space of two Months then take of the Leaves of red Poppey and those of Mandrake Henbane and the tender Crops of Black-berry Bramble Night-shade Lettuce Stonecrop Housleek great Burs and Penny-grass of each three ounces White-wine a pint bruise them and mix them with the Buds of Poplar and set them in a warm Place eight Days then add a pint of strong Vinegar and boil them tiil it be consumed which may be known by casting a little of it on the Fire then strain it and keep it close for use This Unguent is good to asswage the Burning of the Fever following the Ague Heat afflicting the Brain Parts of the Head and Kidneys by anointing those Parts with it where the Grief is predominant and the Temples being anointed with it mightily provokes Sleep Vnguentum Vulpinum Take a Fox and draw out the Intrails and take Sage Rosemary Juniper-leaves and Berries Dill wild Marjoram Lavender and Chamomil of each half a pound stamped and well bruised in a stone Martar and the Fox being cut in pieces put him with the Herbs into a Vessel of eight gallons add two quarts of Olive-oil and a pint of Neats-foot-oil Calves and Deers-suet Badgers-grease and Goose-grease of each a pound and a half Water with Salt dissolved in it pretty strong three quarts and as much Malmsey or Mallaga boil them till the Water and Wine appear as consumed and that the Flesh and Bones of the Beast be separated asunder then press it hard through a Linnen-cloath This is a soveraign Ointment for all manner of Aches and to restore the Limbs and Joints lamed through the Pains of the Gout Vnicorn Stone This is of very great Virtue It is mostly found in Germany Moravia Saxony and Silesia in subterraneous Caverns where Nature has lay'd it up for the use and benefit of Man It is drying and binding and stops all manner of Fluxes of the Belly Gonorrhoea's Bleeding at the Nose Hepatick Flux and all other Fluxes of the Blood by strengthning the Stomach Heart and vital Spirits It is also profitable against the Apoplexy Vertigo Falling-sickness and divers other Diseases incident to the Head and Brain the levigated Powder being given to a dram or four scruples in any convenient Liquid It is also good against the Pestilence and Plague and all manner of malignant Fevers likewise the Measles Small-pox Purple or Spotted-fever c. It is also held powerfully to resist Poison whether inwardly or outwardly injurious the Biting of Serpents or any other venomous Creature by causing a gentle Sweat and driving the Poison from the Heart It is good against Faintings and Swoonings and Passions of the Heart Heart-burning and Palpitation the Disease of the Viscera by absorbing the acid Humours when daily taken from half a dram to a dram for a certain time in some proper Cordial-water or Wine Voiding Blood Take two drams of Henbane seed and as much of white Poppy-seed mix them after they are well beaten with an ounce of the Conserve of red Roses and of that take fasting as near as you can the quantity of a Walnut Or Take Plantane-leaves a considerable quantity bruise them and press out the Juice do the like by about six ounces of Comfrey-roots sweeten it with a little fine Sugar and drink it up and you will soon find a restraint of Bleeding though it come from several Parts Vomiting in Children To stay this when excessive and dangerous many times caused by Worms in the Stomach Take dried Rue and Frankincense of each a dram heat them to a fine Powder and give it them in a Glass of Rhenish or Wormwood-Wine Vomiting to Provoke Take the Rind of the Root of an Elder-tree bruise it and steep it in Whitewine all Night so that the Wine may be very strong of it drink off the Wine only luke-warm the next Morning fasting and it will gently cleanse the Stomach and Belly Vomiting to Provoke another Take a pound of the green Husks of Walnuts a pound and a half of the Roots of Garden-Radishes a pound of the green Leaves six ounces of Asarabacca and four ounces of Radish-seed pour on them three pints of Whitewine-Vinegar and let them digest a Day or two then distil it in a glass Vessel in hot Water Two spoonfuls of this will cause a strong Body to vomit therefore those that are weaker may take only a spoonful or one and a half to prevent any overstraining that it may occasion Vomiting to Stay Take Spearmint-water four ounces Syrup of Quinces two ounces and Cinnamon-water two drams Take of this two or three spoonfuls at a time Vomiting to Stay another Take about half an ounce of Cloves bruise them grosly put them into a pint of Ale with half an ounce of Lemon or Citron-peel boil them over a gentle Fire to the consumption of a third part and then drink it cold when strained adding a spoonful
or two of the Juice of Sage Vomiting to Stay another Take bruised Cinnamon two ounces rectified Spirit of Wine a quart infuse them four Days in a large Vessel very close stopt shake it twice or thrice a Day and dissolve a-part half a pound of Sugar-candy in a quart of rose-Rose-water and so mingle the Liquors together and put to them four grains of Musk and half a scruple of Ambergrease This mightily relieves the Stomach when oppressed with Cold or Flegm and consequently stays Vomiting It is also good to stay the Looseness ease the Pains of the Colick and other griping Pains Vrin White as Clay This denotes an ill Digestion a bad Stomach and a bad Liver and if in it there appears any shining Beams it denotes an Impostume in the Milt or if the Urin be white as Whey thick and little in quantity it betokeneth the Flux To Remedy this Take Grommol Saxifrage Parsley and Sage then boil them in stale Ale and drink the Liquid part Morning and Evening You may use them also in your Pottage shred in the nature of Pot-herbs Vrin to Stop If the Party cannot contain the Urin Take the Roots of Male-peony yellow Amber red Coral and choice Gum-arabick of each a sufficient quantity reduce them to a fine Powder mix them well and let the Patient take from ten to twenty grains twice a Day Or this viz. Take a spoonful at a time in any convenient Liquid Vrin Stopt Take the Roots of wild Garlick by some called Crow-Garlick wipe them clean but do not wash them bruise them very well in a stone or glass Mortar strain out the Juice and putting it into a glass of Whitewine drink it off upon an empty Stomach taking it once or twice a Day and you will find great Benefit thereby Vrin Stopt another Take Oil of Walnuts put it into a Frying-pan then put into it some Chervel picked well from the Stalks and apply it pretty warm poultis-wise to the Navel or if need be to the Os pubis or Share-bone For want of Walnut-oil you may do it with Hogs-lard Vrin Stopt another Dissolve a little of the best Spanish Soap in half a pint of Whitewine and pass it through a woolen Filter or Strainer put to it by infusion five or six grains of Saffron divide it into two Doses and take one two Hours after the other especially if the first does not operate well but if it does you may stay a longer time This by the way is taken for Urin that is not very obstinate Vrin Stopt another Take the Powder of a Stag's Pizle a dram Crabs-eyes calcined the like quantity the Juice of Garlick or strong Onions half an ounce Burdock-root finely sliced a quarter of an ounce Powder of Steel half a dram Bay-berries well bruised an ounce Harts-horn Shavings a quarter of an ounce and two drams of the Shavings of Ivory boil or infuse these over a gentle Fire in a pint of Rhenish Wine strain out the liquid part and let the Party drink half a pint as hot as Milk new taken from the Cow Morning and Evening or oftner if the Stoppage be great and it will remove in a little time the Obstruction and cause a free Passage of Urin c. Vsquebaugh To make this the right Irish way who were the first Inventors that we can hear of Take two gallons of rectified Spirit half a pound of Spanish Licorice a quarter of a pound of Raisins of the Sun three ounces of Dates sliced the Tops of Thyme and Baum of each a pugil the Tops or Flowers of Rosemary two ounces Cinnamon and Mace well bruised of each an ounce Anniseeds Coriander-seeds bruised likewise of each two ounces Citron or Lemon and Orange-peel finely scraped of each half an ounce let these infuse in a warm place forty eight hours with often shaking together and somewhat if it may be encreasing the heat then let them stand in a cool place for the space of a Week sweeten it with Sugar-candy and so draw off the Liquor and press out the Liquid part that remains in the Ingredients For a weaker sort put other Spirits to them and do as before This is not only pleasant to drink but moderately taken greatly preserves the Lungs against cold Distillations of Rheums and other Defects that afflict them and encline them to Consumption It lengthens the Breath cheers the Heart and keeps out ill Airs occaâ—…oned by Damps and Fogs c. Vteri Prolapsus Apply to the Navel a pretty large Cupping-glass but suffer it not to continue too long on a quarter of an Hour being the longest for fear of injury especially to the Navel String Vvula Falling Take Coriander-seeds and Rue in Powder boil them in Mint-water and sweetening it with a little Sugar often gargarize the Mouth and it will be remedied Vvula Relax'd Take bluish Pease or for want of them white ones chew them so long till you reduce them to the consistence of a Poultis and lay 'em warm on the Crown of the Head to the breadth and thickness of a Crown piece shifting it for fresh ones when you rise and go to Bed WAlnut-Water Take green Walnuts before they have any hard Shells in them two pound Rue and Carduus of each a handful Roman Wormwood and Baum of each half a handful bruise all these together and infuse them in a gallon of Mallaga draw off the Water in a cold Still and keep it close stopt for use An ounce of it at a time Morning and Evening expels Vapours keeps out infectious Airs restores Appetite and causes good Digestion creates a fresh and lively Countenance and removes Pains in the Stomach Walnut-Water another Take Walnuts with the green Husks on before they come to a hard Shell one pound and a half Roots of Radishes the like quantity green Asarabacca six ounces the Seeds of Radishes four ounces bruise and infuse them in three pints of Whitewine-Vinegar for three Days and then distil them in a leaden Still till all the moisture be exhausted Take an ounce or two of this Water fasting in a Morning and it fortifies against the Infections of evil Airs raw Damps or Fogs and purifies the Blood Walnuts to Preserve Take green Walnuts before they have contracted a hard Shell under them pierce them with a Needle and boil them in three or four Waters to take out the bitterness and when they are tender to twelve pints of the last Liquor put twelve pints of ordinary Sugar boil it up and clarifie it with Whites of Eggs then strain it and boil it to a Syrup and sticking some Cloves Mace and Cinnamon in the Nuts put them into the Syrup when cold These Preserved Walnuts are very Cordial Pectoral and Stomachical they strengthen it and cause a good Digestion and are excellent in Fluxes and Loosenesses also an Antidote against the Plague and all poisonous and pestilential Diseases Warts Take May-Butter melt it in a moderate Heat mix it well with
as much Oil of Tartar per deliquium as will cause a sensible but not considerable strong Tast and\ make it into an Ointment and with it often anoint the Warts as hot as you can well endure it and they will either sink or peel off Warts Bloody For these Cut off the Warts or Knobs of the black Elder and Mallows of each three ounces of the Syrup of Comfrey one ounce let the Party take four spoonfuls immediately and so continue to do four or five times a Day Warts to Remove Wash the Warts often with the hot Blood of a Pig suffering it to dry on them then wash it off with Lye of Wood-ashes and lay on a Plaister of Elder-bark mixed with Oil of Turpentine Wash If you would have your Skin of a sweet and fragrant Scent Supple and of a lively Colour Take Baum and Hyssop of each a handful the Boom of Peaches and Garden Musk a Herb so called infuse them with an ounce of Frankincense beaten to Powder and four drams of the Oil of Spicknard in two gallons of fair Water over a moderate Fire strain them and wash your self with it or make a Bath of it and it will not only render you amiable and charming but contribute to the settling a healthful Constitution Water for Bruises Take two handfuls of Scabious-flowers of Smallage Bay-leaves Pennyroyal and Chamomil of each a handful the Powder of Myrrh half an ounce Harts-horn two ounces bruise the Herbs and put them to infuse in two quarts of Mallaga then distil them and let the Party drink two ounces of it Morning and Evening It is excellent good for internal Bruises or Hurts also for Spitting of Blood and Inflammations Water for Cankers If you are troubled with a Canker in the Mouth c. Take Sage the Bark of Elder-Tree Comfrey Sorrel and Endive of each two handfuls stamp and strain them when infused twelve Hours in two quarts of Whitewine gargle your Mouth with it or anoint or wash the Place with it elsewhere and it will make it at a stay and in a little time heal it Water for the Head-ach Take Roses Bettony and Elder-flowers Sage Chamomil and Marjoram of each four handfuls Lavender and Wheat-bran of each two handfuls boil them in about two gallons of fair Water With this bath your Forehead and Temples and put your Feet info it as into a Bath as hot as may be and then repose your self after it keeping warm taking inwardly a quarter of a pint of Mint and bettony-Bettony-water And in so doing twice or thrice the Pain in the Head will cease and the Brain be much comforted Water for Heat For Hear or Pimples in the Face or hot Inflammations in the Eyes take this recommended Water Take white and red Rose-water of each a pint Tutty-stone in Powdâ—r Aloes Epatick fine Sugar and Rosemary flowers of each an ounce put them in a double Glass and place them in Balneo Mariae five or six Days yet frequently in the mean space move and shake them together then with the Water wash your Face Eyes and other Parts inflamed or breaking out with Heat and it will by a constant use remove it and make the Skin beautiful Water to cool the Liver Take Barberry-leaves and Wood-sorrel of each two handfuls Plantane-roots and Leaves a handful Mellon-seeds Borrage and Comfryflowers of each an ounce bruise them well and infuse them in a gallon of Spring-water distil them in that Water and drink a quarter of a pint of it fasting with the Syrup of Limon Citron or Violets and walk about a while after the taking thereof Water for the Plague Take a pound of Celandine Rosemary Baum Mugwort Rue Pimpernel that is found amongst the Corn Dragons Mugwort Scabious Agrimony Bettony Angelica Pellitory of Spain Carduus Marigold-leaves and Flowers Borrage-leaves and Flowers Rosa-solis Fetherfew Pellitory of the Wall red Sage Setwell Mother of Thyme Devils-bit and Tormentil of each a good handful with a few Sprigs of Rue and Walnut-leaves or green Walnuts bruised bruise them well and let them infuse in a sufficient quantity of White-wine three Days and as many Nights keeping the Pot they are in very close yet often shaking it that the Ingredients may move in the Wine then distil the Wine Herbs and set the Water that is drawn off close stopped in glass Bottles where the Sun may come to them The best time of distilling this Water is in May if the Materials by reason of the forwardness of the Spring may be had so early Ten spoonfuls of it may be taken Blood-warm to prevent the Plague and this must be done when the first Symptoms of it appear And upon taking it walk about till you sweat again for the space of an Hour not eating or drinking after it for the space of two Hours or more and then go to Bed upon it If it chance to cause you to Vomit it is a sign it has taken the better Effect This is also good against Agues or any infectious Diseases of the Stomach being taken before the Fit or Infection too far seizes Water for the Stone Take Saxifrage Pellitory of the Wall Mother-Thyme green Sage Radish-roots sliced of each of them a handful steep the Roots Herbs a Night in Milk and the next Morning distil them Two spoonfuls drank fasting with as much White-wine is good also to provoke Urin and prevent Stoppages Water for Vlcers To cleanse Ulcers use this Water as the most Excellent viz. Take red Rose-water and Plantane-water of each a pint the Juices of Housleek Night-shade and Pimpernel of each two ounces red Roses half a handful Myrtle and Cyprus-nuts of each half an ounce the Rind of a Pomegranet three drams St. John's-wort half a handful Flowers of Mulleyn a pugil Myrrh and Frankincense of each a scruple Honey of Roses four ounces distil them when beaten mixed and well infused and of this Water take a pint and dissolve it in six ounces of the Conserve of Roses and one ounce of the Syrup of dried Roses with twelve drops of the Oil of Sulphur when it has infused a while press out the Liquid part and wash and bath the grieved Place with it often and it will heal it Weakness after Delivery Take Syrup of Violets half an ounce and as much of Citron-syrup add to these two drams of the Powder of Rhubarb and an ounce of Treacle-water with as much Diascordium dissolved in it as will lye on a Groat and to these add half a pint of Hyssop-water let the Party take an ounce at a time and after it some Broth or warm Posset-drink the Woman likewise taking great care of her self after it for fear of catching cold by her too timely rising or stirring for then the Cold has opportunity to penetrate and settle in the open Parts of the Joints causing Numbness and Pains in the Limbs and sometimes by such violent Intrusions ferments the Blood to a Fever And if any such thing unfortunately
c. Wines to Back The best time to do it is when the Wind sits full North the Weather clear and temperate in the encrease of the Moon and when she is under the Earth and not in the full heighth Wine Roping To alter this Take a course Linnen-cloath and place it before your Bore when you have set it abroach then put in your Linnen and rock it in a dry Cask then put in five or six ounces of powdered Alom and jumble them well together and so upon settling it will be fined down and become a very clear and pleasant Wine Wine to Scent well Take two ounces of Brimstone and half an ounce of Calamus mix them well together in a pint and a half of borrage-Borrage-water melt the Brimstone in a Pan and add the rest to it and dip in so many Linnen-cloaths as will soak it up and put them into the Hogshead then take out your Ashes and rack your Wine and so put into it a pint of Rosewater and rowl it well half an hour it being stopt down close after which let it lye still two Days and by this means this or any other Gascoin or red Wine will have a very pleasant Scent Wine of Squils Take the Roots of white Mountain-squills seasonably gathered slice them and lay them a drying for a Month and put a pound of them into a glass and poor on them four quarts of good old Whitewine infuse them for the space of forty Days and then take out the Squills This is likewise a gentle Vomit but most commonly used with Vinum-Benedictum or the Blessed Wine so that an ounce of it may be taken with half an ounce of the other Wines Vicious to Meliorate Take a pint of clarified Honey a pound of Water wherein Raisins have been steeped half a pint and a quarter of a pint of Claret or Whitewine as to what you propose it to boil them over a gentle Fire till a third part be consumed scum it continually in the boiling and put it pretty hot into the Wine and let it stand with the Bung out then put in a Bag of Spices and it wilt fine either new or old Wine that are fouled or decayed and give them a curious Smell or Tast if when it has rested five or six Days you add white Mustard-seed bruised hang it in a Canvas-bag Woman in Labour Take of Cinnamon finely powdered one dram Amber likewise finely powdered half a dram mingle them in a quarter of a pint of Claret and let the Party drink it This is accounted a most approved Medicine to help a Woman in the time of her Travel and cause an easie and safe Labour Womb to Cleanse Take a large old Onion the whitest that may be cut it in pieces and boil it in a pint of Water very soft strain and press it and take about a quarter of a pint of the Decoction at a time putting thereto an ounce of the fresh Oil of Wallnuts and the expected Effects will be compleated by it Worm in the Head If any Worm or Earwig has crept into the Head whilst you sleep to destroy or bring it away Take three or four Cloves of Garlick stamp them in a Mortar or any other convenienient Utensil then lay them in clean Water to soak a while and so wring out the Juice with a clean Cloth and put a few drops of the Liquor into the Ear and it will either kill the Worm and work it out with the Wax or cause it to come out at the Nose It is also good for Noises and Dizziness in the Head and brings away the Furr and Scurf that many times causes Obstruction in the Hearing and much lessens it VVorms Take Rhubarb a dram Wormwood half a dram Coralline a scruple Currans four ounces beat them to a Conserve and mix it with Syrup of Violets till it becomes an Electuary and give the quantity of a Nutmeg in a Morning fasting dissolved in a little warm Ale or Wine This is noted by Dr. Wetherborn to be of excellent use to kill Worms in Children VVorms in the Teeth If you find when you put hot things in your Mouth something to stir in your Teeth or Gums Take black Pepper a quarter of an ounce beat it to Powder and sift it finely then put it into a quarter of a pint of White-wine and boil it over a gentle Fire then take some of it and hold it as hot as may be in your Mouth and it will make those that can crawl out and kill those that are imprisoned whereby the Pain and Defect thereby occasioned will presently cease VVorms in Children Take the green Husks of Walnuts Rue and Baum beat them very fine put as much Sugar to them as will make them into a Conserve and to make them the more pallatable let it be taken in two or three spoonfuls of Canary to the quantity of a large Hazle-nut at a time VVormwood This Excellent Herb is under the Dominion and Government of Mars Its Virtues are very singular viz. It is good for Inflammations of the Liver and Stomach and profitable for those that are sick of the Dropsie the Leaves being made into a Confection with Sugar It is of a restringent quality bitter and sharp altogether being hot it is comforttable and drying and therefore it purgeth downwards and driveth into the Urin and Excrement all cholerick Humours it principally comforteth and fortifieth the Heart and Stomach being infused in Wine The Tops of it and Roots of Dandelion decocted in Water are powerful Expellers of the Humours that occasion the Jaundice The Juice of Wormwood wherein the Kernels of Peaches are bruised and infused kill the Worms in any Part of the Body The Conserve of it taken fasting preserves from Drunkenness sharpens Appetite and is a sovereign Remedy for those that are troubled with Stuffings or Stoppage of the Stomach if the Juice thereof be drank with Whitewine or Vinegar mixed with Milk and Honey it is good to rub those that are afflicted with the Squinsie The Fume of the Decoction the Mouth or Ears held over it easeth their Pains and being infused in Wine of Raisins it easeth the Pains and Pricking of the Eyes they being washed with it Being mixed with Oil of Roses and a Stomach that has been long weakned anointed therewith it mightily strenghthens it With Figs Vinegar and Darnel-Meal it is good applied outwardly and inwardly against the Dropsie and Spleen Dried and powdered it defends Cloaths from Moths and Worms For a continued Dropsie Take two pounds of the Tops of Wormwood make it into a Conserve with as much Sugar and let the Party take half an ounce at a time three or four time a Day VVormwood-VVater Take two gallons of new Ale but well settled and very clear a pound of Anniseeds and half a pound of Licorice bruise them together very sine then take two handfuls of the tender Tops of Roman Wormwood and put them with the other Ingradients into
the Ale let them infuse twelve Hours and then distil them in an Alembick The Water will be stronger if instead of Ale you put Low-Wines or Spirits drawn off decayed Fruit of Grocery-Ware and Molossus VVormwood-VVine To make this Take small Rochel or Campaign-Wine put into it a few drops of the extracted Oil of Wormwood mix it well together by brewing then let it fret and contract a Body twenty-four Hours and it will procure by drinking it a lost Appetite and much enliven Nature Wormwood-VVine Physical Take of Wormwood well dried and seasonably gathered a handful to a gallon of Wine and put into that according to proportion what quantity you please let it infuse in a close stopt Vessel till the Wine is ting'd sufficiently of the Wormwood This Wine is successfully taken to heat and cleanse the Stomach It is good in the Dropsie and excellent in the procuring a lost Appetite VVound-Bleeding To stay the Bleeding of any Wound Take the tender Tops of Nettles bruise them between your Fingers till they have lost their stinging quality then stamp them together with a little white Sugar and lay them on the Wound Or this Take fifteen of the smalllest Earth-worms and a handful of the inner Bark of the Elder half a quartern of red Wine and as much Sallad-oil viz. Oil of Olive a good handful of the Herb called Mouse-ear and a piece of fine Sugar as much new Wax with a very little Salt bruise them and stamp them well together and having well incorporated them over a gentle Fire apply them as a Poultis or Plaister to the Part from whence the Effusion of Blood-proceeds VVounds Green Take Oil of St. John's-wort two ounces Venice-Turpentine the like quantity set them over a gentle Fire and put to them a little Balsom of Kiel incorporate them and keep them as an excellent Balsom for green Wounds of any nature whatsoever VVounds to Incarnate Take the Meal of Orbus Tutty Opopanax and round Aristolochia of each two drams and a half Hog-fenel half an ounce Blood-wort Leaves dried and powdered a quarter of an ounce Flower-de lize five drams Myrrh three drams the greater and lesser Centaury of each two drams by drying bearing and finely sifting make this into a Powder and mix it with Ointments or Plaisters suitable to the purpose to make Flesh grow up in the Wounds where it has been destroyed or wasted VVound-Powder Take Dragons-blood Aloes Frankincense Quick-lime and Copperas of each a like incorporate them and being finely powdered with some Cob-webs and Whites of Egg apply it to the bleeding Wound and it will easily stay the Flux of Blood prevent Putrefaction and contribute much to the cleansing and healing of it VVound-Salve Take a quarter of a pound of clarified Butter Virgins-wax half a pound Turpentine four ounces and two or three Yolks of Eggs beat them to Froth and put to them four ounces of red Rose-water and two drams of Sugar-candy powdered and dissolved in the Rose-water mix these with as much Flower as will make them into a thickness over a gentle Fire keeping them stirring till they become a Plaister apply this to green Wounds or others that have not been of too long standing and it hastens the Cure VVrinkles to Smooth Take the Oil of Swallows an ounce the like quantity of the Oil of Mandrake half an ounce of the Oil of Pomgranet and half an ounce of Ews-Milk incorporate them to the thickness of an ordinary Pomatum over a gentle Fire then add four ounces of the Cream of Almonds spread it thin on a Forehead-cloth or Fillitring and lay it to the Forehead or other Part keeping it up tite and smooth and in so often doing the Wrinkles will dis-appear especially in a great measure It also smooths a rough Skin in any Part. YArd Imposthumated If a Man's Yard be Imposthumated let blood but not over much either in the Foot or Arm dissolve Aloes in White-wine and dip a Linnen Cloth in it then bind it about the Yard and often wash it with the Liquid and if there be any ventosity or windiness of the Belly use a Fomentation of the Decoction of Aristolochia-rotunda or if the Testicles be affected with the Imposthumation Take Bean-flower Barly-meal the Leaves of Henbane of each a like quantity put to them Oil of Roses mix them well together by braying in a Mortar and apply them as a Cataplasm often renewing it as the moisture drys up and wash the Testicles with Rose and Spear-mint-water If any descending of the Bowels happen upon these or the like Occasion Take Acacia and some Cyprus-Nuts dryed Rue Bay-berries Nut-Galls Gum-Arabick of each a quarter of an ounce bruise them in a Mortar and sift them into a fine Powder make them into a Plaister with Bees-wax and a little Hogs Lard put up the descending Bowels and apply it to the bottom of the Belly drinking each morning White-wine wherein Cyprus Nuts have been decocted Yard Swelling Take the Fat of a Loin of Mutton about the Kidneys mix it with the Powder of Pumice-stone and a little Salt finely burned and beaten to Powder make a kind of a Plaister and put it round the Yard where the Swelling is most apparent and after that wash it with the Decoction of Marsh-Mallows and by so doing twice or thrice the Swelling will cease Yarrow This Herb grows in the Fields and hath many long Leaves spread on the Ground and finely jagged and divided into many small Parts its Flowers are white and some of them sometimes enclining to red and stayed in Knots among divers green Stalks arising from the Leaves some call it Nose-bleed others Milfoil it flowereth about the latter end of August An Ointment may be made of it which is excellent in curing Wounds and is proper for such as have Inflammations It stops the Terms being drunk in White-wine when decocted therein as also the Bloody Flux The Ointment of it is a good Healer of Ulcers and Fistula's especially such as abound with Moisture The Hair being anointed with it it stays its falling off especially washing the Head before with the Concoction of it Inwardly taken it strengthens the retentive Faculties of the Stomach it helps the Running of the Reins and such as cannot hold their Urin. The Leaves chewed in the Mouth ease the Pains in the Teeth and is briefly an Herb of a very drying and binding Quality Yawning Where the Party is too much addicted to this which occasions unseemly Proportions and Features in the Face Take the Juyce of Housleek and the Powder of a Frogs Skin in a Glass of Whey fasting in a morning or they may be taken in any other convenient Liquor if you think convenient Yellow Colour If the Face of any part of the Body be of yellowish Tawny Colour by Sickness or Defect in Nature to remove it and restore a whiteness Take the Roots of Turnips and Acorns wash them and distill them in an Alembick and a very fine Water