Russel street Colonel Howard Esq Daugly My Lady Johnson in Hattengarden Madam Owen ditto Madam Keckwich ditto My Lady Smith in St. John's My Lady Blake ditto My Lady Greenfeld in York-street one made of Brass My Lady Bridgeman ditto Countess of Bedford in the Strand Countess of Portland Pellmail My Lady Dixon ditto My Lady Temple ditto Madam Atkins in Cabidge-Lane Mrs. Duncomb in Exeter-Exchange-Court My Lady Carterick in Fret-street Soho Mrs. Mansfield in Broadstreet Mrs. Ensworth in Basen-hall street Mrs. Slayter ditto Mrs. Dumstead in Grub-street Mrs. Broughton in Black Fryars Mrs. Willoughby in Coven Garden Mrs. Herbert in Three Crane Court Mrs. Herbert one sent into Wales to a Friend Mr. Whitehall Goldsmith in Lumbard street Mrs. Hoskins at Retheriff Mrs. Braddyll in St. Bartholemew Close Most of these Engines have been made of Tin by Mr. Waterman in Four Dove Court in St. Martins whom I have instructed to make them well as for the Tin-work An Explication of the Parts of this ENGINE A The whole Engine B The first Furnace with a Firestone and a Grate C The Ash-hole D The Hole to put the Fire in E The Second Furnace wherein stands the Balneum or Stew-pan F The Balneum or Stew-Pan G The Cover of the Stew-Pan with a hole in it so big that the upper part of the Cucurbite may come through it H The Cover of the Hole of the Stew-Pan to cover it when one hath a mind to boyl or stew meat in it The Cucurbite K The Glass Head L a little Hole in the Cover of the 〈◊〉 with a little shutter to put more Water into the Balneum when it consumes by Distilling M The Door of the Firehole sliding up and down N A piece fastned like a Spring to hold up the Door O The Lamp made of Tin P A Spout to fit on the Beak of the Glasshead Directions how to use this ENGINE for Distilling in Balneo Mariae which is the best way for Distilling the choicest Waters Having put your Materials which you mean to distill into the Body or Cucurbite marked I place the same into the Balneum F which being filled with Water and placed into its Furnace E put on its Cover G to keep in the heat of the Water Then put on the Glasshead and Lute it with a strap of Paper smeared over with paste made of flower and water then fit on the spout to the beak of the Glass Head with some Paper and this is called Distilling in Balneo Maria when the Body or Cucurbite stands in water But if you will Distill in Sand you must have a Pan or Balneum made of Brass for Tin would melt and unsoder then having but first an Inch thick of Sand in the bottom put your Cucurbite upon that with the Ingredients and then fill up the Pan with Sand round about the Cucurbite and give a gentle Fire and this is called Distilling Sand. A vsefull and necessary Engin for distilling all Sorts of waters ether in Balneo Mariae or in sand As also for boiling and Sterving all Sortes of meats either with charcoal or by a lamp with Spirit CHAP. I. Of Choice and Experimented Remedies in all affects of the Breast and Lungs as Consumption Phthisic Asthma shortness of Breath streightness of Breast Coughs spitting of Bloud c. A very excellent Pectoral Syrup against a Consumption ordered by a Phisitian for a great Lady TAke Ceterach Maidenhair Coltsfoot Aniseeds Liquorice of each one ounce Scolopender Lungwort Knotgrass of each one handful Root of Elecampane half an ounce thirty large Raisins of the Sun slit and stoned fifteen Figs cut small two Radishes cut small shred Herbs small and bruise the Roots and Seeds put them all in a large Pipkin and pour thereon five quarts of Springwater let it boyl gently upon a moderate fire until two quarts of the water be consumed then strain it To the strained liquour put two pound and half of double refined Sugar clarifie it with whites of Eggs and boyl it to the consistence of a Syrup whereof take one spoonful at a time by it self three or four times a day in the Morning fasting before Dinner at four in the Afternoon and at Night going to Bed let it run easily down your Throat you may take of it also at any time in the Night when there is occasion The Description of an Excellent Pectoral Decoction against Consumption Colds Coughs Asthma's c. TAke Paulsbittanny Maidenhair white Horhound of each two handfuls Root of Elecampane Liquorice Florence Orris of each two ounces Flowers of Borage Bugloss Roses red Poppies of each one handful Coltsfoot half a handful Nettleseed Carduusseed Aniseed sweet Fennelseed of each half an ounce Calamus Aromaticus Lignum Vita China Root of each one ounce Cinamon Galingal Cardamums Cloves of each three ounces Boyl all in ten quarts of water to six quarts then strain it and put into it three pound of refined Sugar drink it warm four ounces at a time three times a day Decoction for the Lungs TAke Maidenhair two handfuls Hysop Pennyroyal of each half a handful Roots of Florence Orris three drams Elecampane one dram and half Liquorice scraped and bruised half an ounce large Figs one ounce and half cut the Herbs and bruise the Roots and boyl it in two quarts of Fountain-water to a quart then strain it put to it one ounce tinckture of Safron then sweeten it with Sugarcandy or Loaf-sugar and take six spoonfuls of it warm three or four times a day The Tincture of Safron you may make presently by putting half an ounce of Safron into a Bottel or Phiol and then pouring upon it half a Pint of good Brandy if you have not Rectified Spirit of Wine set the Bottel in a warm place and shake it some times and the Brandy will extract the Tincture out of the Safron and leave it as white as straw which then hath no more vertue Another most Excellent Pectoral Decoction or Drink TAke half an ounce of French Barly boyl it in two quarts of fountain-Fountain-water for a quarter of an hour then put into it Raisins of the Sun stoned six drams Jujubes Sebesstens of each twelve in number fat Figs Dates stoned of each six in number all cut small let all these boyl with the Barly another quarter of an hour then put to them Lungwort Scabious of each one handful Hysop Politrice Flowers of Coltsfoot of each one pugil that is as many as you can hold between two fingers and your thumb Liquorice scraped and bruised two drams let them boyl all together a little more than a quarter of an hour then strain it when it is half cold It is an excellent Pectoral curing Obstructions and most other Diseases of the Breast and Lungs as Coughs Asthma's or shortness of Breath Phthisicks hoarsness c. The Patient may take about half a pint of it warm Morning and Evening Doctor Hornick his Excellent Pectoral Water against a Consumption TAke
on the top of it which scum off then take two pounds of Sugar to a quart or Juyce and having clarified it with the White of an Egg boil it to the Consistence of a Syrup For a Cough of the Lungs or any stuffing or obstruction in the inward Parts which hath often been approved and found effectual by many Take a Cock dress him and cut him all to pieces and bruise all the Bones of him then take of Aniseed bruised four ounces Muiliene and Lungwort shred small of each a handful a Fennel-Root also shred small put all these to boil in a pottle of spring-water for three hours close covered and as the Liquor consumeth supply it with a quart of Hysop-water and at the latter end put into it two ounces of Liquoras bruised then strain it out and press the Ingredients a little then put into the Liquor two ounces of brown Sugar-Candy in powder Take of this Liquor half a pint at night instead of a Supper as hot as you can drink it and lie down upon your back for a quarter of an hour Do the like in the Morning before you rise and fast three hours after it An Excellent Receipt for an old Cough though never so great used by my L. Hatton Take Raisins of the Sun stoned and Figs washed and sliced of each two ounces unset Hysop a handful Enulacampana dried and bruised two ounces Aniseeds bruised one ounce boil all these in a gallon of small Ale till half is consumed then strain it and put to it Honey and sweet Butter of each four ounces Safron dried and powdred half a dram boil them again gently till they be well incorporated Drink of this Liquor warm half a pint in the morning and at night This Proportion made twice hath cured Coughs of long continuance and hath been often approved Dr. Hakins his Excellent Remedy for a Cold or Cough as also to strengthen the Lungs if there be any Defect in them Take three ounces of Enulacampana scrape off the Rind and cut it in thin slices then boil it in three pints of Conduit-water till it comes to a pint and a half then put therein a pound of fine Sugar and let it simper a little on the fire then take it off and let it cool and it will be a perfect Syrup whereof take three spoonfuls morning and evening An Approved Remedy in all Assects of the Breast and Lungs as Colds Coughs Asthma Phthisick Hasing or Wheezing and Ratling in the Pipes Take the best old Malago and distil it in a Glass Cucurbite in Balneo Mariae when you have drawn off the Spirit change the Receiver and continue the distillation drawing off the flegm until there remain in the bottom a Substance like Honey which powr out and mix it again with the flegm that you distilled off last Drink of this Liquor two or three times a day putting into every draught a few drops of the odoriferous Spirit of Benjamin which you may prepare thus Put a Pound of Benjamin into a low Cucurbite of Glass and distil it in B. M. or in a Sand Furnace and there will first come over a clear Liquor which will have all the odoriferous Scent of the Benjamin which is a most excellent thing for the Breast and Lungs A Remedy for the Lungs when they are stopt with Flegm c. Take Enulacampana root well dried Liquoras and Aniseeds of each an ounce Flower of Sulphur half and ounce Sugar-Candy six ounces make all into fine Powder and take thereof half a spoonful three times a day Also take the following Decoction Take a Pottle of hysop-Hysop-water Maidenhair Scabious Colts-foot and Horehound of each a handful Aniseeds and Liquoras bruised of each one ounce Figs sliced Raisins of the Sun stoned Dates sliced of each three ounces boil it all to a quart and sweeten it with fine Sugar Take a small draught of this warm in the morning fasting and at four in the Afternoon and at Night and as often as you think good An Excellent Mead for the same Boil one Gallon of Honey with half a pint of Water and scum it clean then add four Gallons of Water and boil it gently for two hours scumming it all the while then put into it four ounces of Raisins of the Sun stoned Enulacampana roots two ounces Fennel roots Marsh mallow roots and Polypode of each one ounce Maidenhair Colts-foot Sage Betony Scabious and Hysop of each a handful Aniseeds one ounce put all these Ingredients into it so soon as there rises no more scum then let it cool and work it with yeast and Tun it Drink thereof warm at pleasure It is excellent for the Breast and Lungs Against the Rising of the Lungs an Excellent Remedy There is nothing better than the water of Enulacampana roots stamp the green Roots in a stone-mortar and mix with them half as much of green Liquoras then distil it in a Glass-Still Take of this Water half a spoonful at a time whensoever the raising doth trouble you mix it with as much Muscadine or old Malago or take it in the water of Ladies Mantel or Leons foot if you cannot take it alone To make Excellent Lozenges against a Cold Cough of the Lungs and Consumption Take one pound of fine Sugar in Powder Liquoras and Enulacampana finely powdered of each four ounces put them into a little earthen Pan and moisten them with two or three spoonfuls of Unset hysop-Hysop-water distilled when it is in its Flower then sprinkle into it a little powdred Pepper and cast them upon a Pie-plate with Flower strewed on it when it is cold form them out Lozenges to hold under the Tongue against Cough Defluxions and Rheumes Take Mastick Nutmegs and Orrice roots in fine Powder of each half an ounce red Storax and Frankincense of each an ounce and half Raisins stoned and Sugar penidies of each two ounces make a Paste thereof with Mead and form it into Lozenges about the bigness of a small Bean a piece Hold one under your Tongue at your pleasure night and day but especially when you are laid to rest and let it dissolve of it self To make white Lozenges for the Breast and Lungs Cold Cough and Rheum in the Head Take fine Sugar four ounces white Sugar-Candy and Penide-Sugar of each one ounce Florence Orice-root in fine powder two drams Liquoras in powder three drams fine Starch-flower three drams Mix them all together and with Gum-Dragant steeped in Rose-water make Lozenges To make Penide Sugar Dissolve fine Sugar in Barley-water over a gentle Fire and clarifie it with Whites of Eggs twice then strain it and boil it gently until it rises up in great bubbles and being chewed sticks to your Teeth Then powr it upon a Marble-stone anointed with Oyl of Almonds letting first the bubbles sink being removed from the Fire and almost cold keep it up in a body as near as you can by bringing back the outside to the middle with your Fingers being rubbed
and boil in it five or six handfuls of Mallows and two pound of fresh Mutton-Suet that which is next the Kidneys skinned and shred small and half a peck of Wheat bran boyl it till the Fat be throughly melted and the Vertue of the Mallows drawn out into the Liquor then strain it into a Tub or a large wooden Bowl and bath your feet and legs therein for half an hour or an hour fomenting the legs with the Herbs as hot as you can endure it This will draw much water from the legs for after you have taken the Garlick and Wormwood-Ale awhile it will drive the humors into the legs and feet which will be much swelled with it and pit much but the Bath will draw all the Humors and Water out of them This hath often been experienced with happy success You may also use the following dry Bath Take yellow Amber the worth of three pence or four pence pulverize it and mix it with a quart of good Wine-Vinegar then take a Brick and make it hot but not red hot put it into a Tub putting some Ashes under it then powr upon the Brick the mixture of the Vinegar and Amber and hold the swell'd legs over the smoak of it covering the Tub well with Sheets or Blankets that none of the Smoak may come out and immediatly the Water will come out of the Legs and they will be cured whether they be swoln with the Dropsie or with any other bad Humour Sir Kenelm Digby relates that an Eminent person of Quality was exceedingly overgrown with the Dropsie and his Belly swell'd to a prodigious Bigness he sate in a sweating Stove such as men use to sweat in and used this Remedy powring the Liquor with the Amber upon hot Bricks laid upon Ashes to save the wood from burning when the Bricks grew cold they changed them putting in other hot ones and in a little while it melted him away to an incredible proportion but whilst he was in that Steam he felt a wonderful active heat piercing into his Body The Stove was covered close at the top with Sheet and Blankets leaving only his Head in the Air with the Cloaths fastned about his Neck Once sweating thus served his turn all his Servants with fresh hot Napkins could not suffice to wipe dry the sweaty water that ran out of his Body Another Excellent Remedy against the Dropsie which Dr. William gave to Sir K. Digby Take Elder wood and pare off first the grey outward Bark then scrape off the inner green Rind whereof take four handfuls and one handful of Wormwood then take two quarts of Beer and as much Ale and two quarts of white Wine put them together with the Ingredients into a large Stone Bottel stop it close and let it stand so three or four days that the Liquor may imbibe to it self all the virtue of the Ingredients then strain it and bottle it up into quart Bottles which being stopt close it will grow very quick and pleasant Drink of this at Meals and all times when you have need to drink If you add to this Composition two handfuls of the inner Rind of the Root of Gost it will be more efficacious as you will understand by the following Remedy If you find the Drink too strong of the Ingredients you may add more Beer and Ale and Wine The Doctor said that the mixture of the several sorts of Liquors will cause the Patient to make water in abundance Another Experimented Remedy against the Dropsie wherewith a man was cured who had been in the Hospital but without Benefit or Hope of Cure Take the Root of the Shrub called Gost it groweth upon Hills and upon Heaths it is full of Prickles and yellow Flowers pare off the outward Bark which throw away then scrape off the inner Rind and fill a pint-pot therewith loosly then fill it up with Rhenish or white Wine let it stand to infuse all night the next morning drink a good Glass full of it and continue it till you are cured A Famous Cure of a desperate Dropsie by a Diet of Garlick performed by Dr. Farrar upon an Eminent Lord. Having well purged the Patient first with some fit Purge to carry away waterish Humors the Doctor ordered him the following Diet of Garlick Make some moderate Broth of Mutton Chickens and Capon or Hen but not Veal it must not be too strong of the Meat nor too weak but such as you may drink all the day for you should drink no other Liquor You must make but about a Pottle of Broth at a time by reason it will not keep and for this quantity you must take a Gallon of Water into which put above a handful of Garlick and Rosemary Thyme Penniroyal sweet Marjoram Fennel roots and Parsly roots as also Currans and a sufficient quantity of Salt And after some days taking the Broth put into every draught you take of the Broth a spoonful or more of the Juice of Garlick made by stamping raw Garlick and then pressed out But if you cannot bear it always to take this Broth then use the following Decoction Take Sarsaparilla twelve ounces China root five ounces Sassafras three ounces cut all these very small and powr upon them so much fountain-Fountain-water as may cover them the breadth of three fingers let them infuse in a Pipkin which set in a Kettle of hot water for the space of four hours then throw away this water and stamp the Ingredients in a Stone-Mortar then boyl them in ten quarts of Fountain-water in a Vessel close covered till four quarts of it be consumed Of this Decoction drink without any other Liquor but the Garlick-broth taking sometimes the one and sometimes the other Another Drink Take all the aforesaid Ingredients in the same manner prepared and stamped and put them into a Bag and hang them in a clean Vessel filled with Beer to every of the Ingredients you must take a quart of Beer Either of these Drinks is only in case you cannot bear the Use of the Garlick-broth which alone will dispatch the Cure much the sooner if you can bear it This course of the Garlick-broth is for all Obstructions and Superfluity of cold raw Humors clogging the Brains as well as for the Dropsie To strengthen the Liver use the following Electuary Take Powder of Turmerick make an Electury of it with Sugar add to every ounce of it three drops of Oyl of Aniseeds made by distillation and if you put a little Ambergreece to it it will be better Take of this Electuary two or three times a day the quantity of a hazel-nut but take not above one ounce in a day Besides this to strengthen the Stomach use this following Stomacher Take Wormwood Marjoram Rosemary Rue of each one handful Cloves Cinamon Mace of each an ounce bruise these Spices and mix them with herbs shred small and make a Stomacher thereof and apply it And you may likewise anoint your Stomach and Region of
wall broom bay-berries of each two drams prepare them all and powr thereon a sufficient quantity of Rhenish wine digest it in the Sun or in warm Sand for twenty days It is an excellent Remedy against the Stone and Gravel Vlcers in the Reins and Bladder it is good against the Colick it provokes Vrin and the Terms The Dose is seven or eight spoonfuls in morning fasting Another Remedy against the Stone and Gravel Make a Posset of a quart of Milk Ale and white wine a quarter of a pint then having taken off the Curd put into the Posset Parsly roots Leaves of Pellitory of the wall and Mallows of each a handful water cresses half a handful two sprigs of Thyme Liquoras bruised one ounce shred the herbs and let all boil until there remain but a quart which sweeten with Sugar-Candy and drink a Draught of it in the Morning or at any time before meat Dr. Horstius his great and approved Water to break dissolve and bring away the Stone and Gravel Take of the Juice of Leeks Onions and Radishes of each two pounds Juyces of Limons Pelitory and Mouse-ear of each half a pound Calx of Christal Pigeon-dung of each half a pound digest it for ten days then distil it This is recommended to be one of the most excellent Medicines yet known against the Stone and Gravel Dr. Salmon says he hath known it do wonders even in desperate Cases You may give it from one dram to half an ounce at a time in some fit Vehicle as Rhenish wine or Allone or in Perficary water Note That if you add to the Composition two pound of Monkey-pease the headâ— of them being pulled off and thrown away and then the Bodies bruised it will be much the better A Remedy to provoke Vrine much approved Take a black Flint stone that strikes Fire heat it red hot in a strong fire then put it into a pint of white wine and cover the pot and when it is thorowly quenched let the Patient drink it clear off Another for the same Take Horse-dung new made boil it in Malago then strain it and lay the Horse-dung very warm between two cloaths or Plaister-wise from the Throat to the bottom of the Belly eight or ten Inches broad apply it at night the Patient lying upon his Back apply hot Tiles on the outside to continue the Heat This hath been proved by many with good success To provoke Vrine in an hours time mix fine Powder of Saffron with black Sope and apply it to the Navil being spred on Leather Sir Kenelme Digby's Excellent Remedy against the Stone which the Lady Digby Sir Kenelme's Mother usually took and found the greatest Benefit by it Gather the Leaves of Golden-rod when it is in its greatest vigor 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 fresh and green you may boil a handful of it in white wine Posset Drink and drink it instead of the dried Herb which is to keep all the year The Lord Ruthen's Receipt to prevent the growth of the Stone and Gravel Take French Barly a handful wash it in several waters Marsh-mallow roots half a handful Liquoras two drams sweet Fennel seed a spoonful boil these in a Pottle of spring-Spring-water till a Pint is consumed or more then strain it and dissolve in it a dram of Gum Arabick Drink of this cold in the Morning fasting and as often as you please till it gives you ease Another very good Remedy against the Stone and Gravel in the Kidneys Take of Mallows and Pelitory of the wall of each a handful sweet Fennel seeds Grumwel seeds bruised and Raisins of the Sun stoned of each one ounce Liquoras scrap'd and bruised half an ounce ten Figs sliced boil all these in a quart of new Milk till a fourth part is consumed then strain it and with white wine and small Ale of each three quarters of a Pint make a Posset drink thereof at pleasure half a Pint at a time adding to it a spoonful of Syrup of Marsh-mallows to every draught Another very good Remedy for the same much approved Take Saxifrage Pelitory of the wall wild Thyme young Radishes Leaves and Roots Parsly Leaves and Roots the tops of red Nettles red Sage and Harrs-horn rasped of each a handful shred them all very small or rather stamp them and infuse them all night in a Gallon of new milk the next morning distil it with a moderate heat Drink of this Water with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows Another for the Stone and Gravel and for Strangury and Stoppage of Vrine much approved Take the Fat of a Buck Rabbit melt it and anoint the Back and Reins with it This will open the Passage of Vrine wonderfully A Child was cured with this so that in twenty four hours it made four Pots full of Vrin Diet for prevention of the Stone and Gravel or to be observed by such as are troubled with it Forbear eating of Eggs all salt and tart meats and sauces Pork Milk or any thing made of Milk except Possets Cabbage Colworts Colli-flowers 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 CHAP. V. Select Remedies against all sorts of COLLICKS Dr. Turner's Remedy for the Cholick and Stone TAke two drams of Jet one dram of Elder-flowers Date-stones one Nutmeg Parsly-seeds and Gromwel seeds of each a spoonful let them be all powdered and finely searced take the weight of sixpence thereof in a draught of Posset-drink made with Ale and white Wine take it in the Morning fasting and about four in the Afternoon Another for the same Drink of the distilled water of Parsley in white Wine or good Ale it helpeth the Collick or Strangury and consumeth the Stone Another for the Collick Stone Strangury and Dropsie Take Sena one ounce Ginger Aniseeds Liquoras Mace Nettle-seeds and great Saffron of each two peny weight Cinamon three peny weight reduce it all into a fine Powder and take half a spoonful thereof in Posset Wine Ale or Broth. A present Remedy for all kind of Collick whatsoever Take Mint Sage both of them dry of each two handful digest them in a Pottle of the best Spirit of Wine in a Cucurbite for eight days then distil it in Balnco Mariae taking but a third part of it the rest is good but in a weaker degree Take of the first Spirit a dram and half in two ounces of white Wine For the Wind-Collick and Stone-Collick Take four long Pepper Corns two Races of Ginger both bruised two sprigs of Rosemary the shells of two new-laid Eggs in fine Powder the inner Skins being taken away boil
Mouth with the Water and rub it with the Herbs three or four times a day or oftner if need be Another for the same Take Honisuckles Plantane and Sage of each a handful Daizy Leaves an ounce boil them in a quart of Water till they come to a pint then put to it Vinegar and Honey of each one spoonful and a little Allom and white Salt Another Approved Medicine for a Canker in the Mouth Take a Pint of Wine-Vinegar the red is best Herb of Grace Red Mints Red Sage and Rosemary of each a sufficient quantity shred them small and boil them together in the Vinegar then put into it a spoonful of Honey the bigness of a Walnut of Allom and half a spoonful of white Salt Wash the Mouth well therewith It is a present and infallible Remedy which hath Cured many An Excellent Gargle for Inflammations of the Mouth Jaws and Throat desperate Squinsies and other Diseases of the Mouth Take Poppy-water Plantane water of each an ounce clarified Juice of Self-heal two ounces Diamoron six drams Saltpetre four drams mix them together and gargarize with it often Another for the same Take Album Grecum two drams Liquoras scraped one ounce Roch Allom one dram boil them a little in Rose and Poppy water and Self-heal water of each a sufficient quantity then strain it Take of this Decoction one pint Rhenish or White Wine a quarter of a pint Diamoron and Dianucum of each half an ounce mix them together and make a Gargle and use it often in a day Dr. Scroderus his Water against the Distempers and Inflammations of the Throat and Palat Take Leaves of wild Pear-tree Parsley Sanicle Woodbine Water-Germander Cinquefoil round Birthwort of each two handful Thorough-wax four handful Stale Ale six quarts bruise the Herbs and put all into a Vessel close stopped and let them ferment for three weeks then add three ounces of Album Graecum and distil them It is excellent against all Inflammations of the Throat and Palat and Soreness of the Mouth Drink two or three spoonfuls of it in the Morning in the Afternoon and at Night likewise gargle often with it or dip a linnen Rag into it and wrap it about the Throat An Excellent Water to cure the Squinsie sore Throats Cankers in the Mouth Heat and Inflammations Bleeding of the Gums and to fasten and whiten the Teeth Take Waters of Self-heal poppy-Poppy-water of each four ounces Diamoron Syrup of dried Roses of each an ounce Spirit of Sulphur half a dram mix them together and gargle your Mouth with it An Anodine Gargle for the Tooth-ach Take Roots of Pelitory of Spain two drams Ginger Olibanum of each half an ounce Red Sage Henbane Seeds bruised of each one dram Long Pepper Opium of each a scruple boil these in a pint of Vinegar then strain it and gargarize with it It gives present ease in all Pains of the Teeth Another Excellent Gargle against the Squinsie sore Throat Tumors and Pain of the Mouth and Jaws Take Milk hot from the Cow Album Graecum half an ounce Honey of Roses two spoonfuls Verdigreece half a dram boil them a little then strain it out and gargarize with it often It cleanses and heals Vlcers An Approved Remedy for the Tooth-Ach Take a little Cotton and imbibe it with Lucatellus 's Balsom and so put it into the hollow Tooth This cured a Person that had the Toath-Ach in great Extremity and had tried many Medicines in vain after a little while he had used this Medicine the Pain ceased but came again within a week after Then he applied the same Remedy a second time and the Pain soon ceased and never came again though before he was very often subject to this Pain An Excellent Water for the Scurvey in the Mouth and to fasten loose Teeth to preserve and strengthen the Teeth and Gums c. often approved Take Allom one dram Bolearmonick two drams Myrrh half a dram pulverize them and put them into a pint of Claret and when you use it shake it well and take a spoonful of it in your Mouth and rub the Teeth and Gums with it you may warm it Another for the same The Oyl of Myrrh is a most excellent thing to preserve the Teeth and Gums and to fasten loose Teeth Make it thus Take fine chosen Myrrh in subtil Powder put it in the Whites of hard Eggs which set in a Cellar in a Bason putting some Sand in the bottom of the Bason to set the Whites of Eggs in that they may stand upright and the Myrrh will all dissolve into an Oyl which is very excellent mix this Oyl with some Oyl of Sage made by distillation and put them into Canary wine wherein dissolve a little Salt Wash your Teeth and Gums with this Another Remedy for the Tooth-Ach Take Mastick and chew it in your Mouth till it be as soft as wax then put it into the hollow Tooth and let it remain till it is consumed and it will certainly take away the Pain thereof Sir Kenelm Digby 's Sympathetical Powder hath cured many Persons of the Tooth-Ach the Preparation whereof with its Vse and Virtues will be set down in another Chapter below Dr. Mynsight his Excellent Remedy for the Tooth-Ach Take the Shaving of Lignum Vitae which you may have at the Turners Shavings of Sassafras Sarsaparilla of each an ounce Roots of Pelitory of Spain Raw Allom Nitre of each half an ounce Seeds of Staves-acre and of Henbane of each two drams Opium Cloves Mother of Thyme Organy Saffron of each a dram reduce to powder what is to be powdered and then mix them well together and put them into a Bottle or Matress and powr upon them good Nantz Brandy and Vinegar of each one pint and half keep it in a warm place or set it in warm water for some days shaking it often let the Bottle be stopped very close with a Cork and tied with a Bladder Take a little of this Liquor in your Mouth and hold it on that side the Teeth ake and the Pain will cease immediately also given inwardly and used outwardly it is one of the greatest Anodines in the world eases Pain and causes Rest Dose is half a spoonful in a little Wine To Cure the Tooth-Ach by the Lady Jennings Take white Hellebore infuse it in white Wine Vinegar over a Chasing-dish of Coals then take half a spoonful of it and hold and gargle it in that side of your Mouth where the Pain is and it will give you present Ease Proved by Mr. Bearson Another against the Tooth-Ach and Rheum in the Teeth and Jaws Take a quart of old Crab-Verjuice put it into an earthen Pipkin put thereto Roch-Allom the quantity of a Walnut a few Cloves bruised Rosemary and Thyme of each one Branch boil all together to a Pint when it is cold put it into a Bottle and take a spoonful of it warm in your Mouth and gargle with it on that side the
quarts of Damask-Rose-water fit on the Head and lute it well and let it stand to digest eight days then distill it so long till you have seaven pints of water In this Water put Lignum Câ—ssia well bruised two ounces Safron half a dram Juice of Alkerms let it stand to digest for some days then strain it and sweeten it with fine Sugar or white Sugarcandy It is a most excellent Cordial and very odoriferous It exhilerates and comforts the Heart revives the Spirits comforts the Brain and Stomach augments natural heat causes a good digestion expels wind and is a most incomparable Remedy against the Chollick and griping of the Guts it takes awâ—y Colds and opens Obstructions of the Lungs Liver and Spleen preserves Health and as the Author says keeps back grey hair and prolongs life Those that love Amber and Musk may put into the distilled Water with the other Ingredients Ambergreece and Musk of each half a scruple ground together in a little Mortar with a little Sugar and then tyed up in a little Sarsenet or you may perfume it at any time as you use it with a drop or two of the Tincture of Amber set down in the Chap. of Perfumes The Dose is one spoonful or two Cordials to be taken after Phisick to comfort and settle the Stomach and to cause Rest and Sleep Take of Alkermess one dram and half Syrup of Cowslips a good spoonful Dragon and red Poppy-water of each one ounce mix them and take it when you go to Bed Or take of the Conserve of Clove Gilly-flowers two drams Diascordium one dram Syrup of Cowslips one spoonful mix them with Strawberry-water Lettice Carduus or Rose-water and take it Bedward Or take Conserves of Roses and Methridate of each the quantity of a Hasle-nut mix them with some Cordial Waters and Syrup Another Excellent Cordial to cause Rest and Sleep in a Fever or when one is oppressed with pain as also in a Surfeit or after Phisick Take Confection of Alkerms one dram and an half Diascordium one dram Syrup of Clove Gilly-flowers a good spoonful mix them very well with two ounces of Dragon-water or red poppy-Poppy-water or carduus-Carduus-water as the Disease requires It is an excellent Cordial Dr. Farrar his great strengthening and restoring Cordial Electuary and Drink Take Conserves of Rosemary-flowers Conserve of Borage-flowers Conserve of Clove Gilly flowers of each half an ounce Electuary of Diasatirrion one ounce Candid ringo-Ringo-Roots six drams Venice-Treacle two drams Nettle-seeds and Seeds of Rocket of each half a dram Species Diomoschi duleis two scruples Syrup of Stoechado's so much as will suffice to make it up into an Electuary Take the quantity of a Nutmeg of this Morning and Night or when you will and drink a little of the following Decoction after it Take Leaves of Sage of Organy or wild Marjoram Rosemary and Nettle-tops of each one handful Chamaede Chamepit Stoechao's of each half an handful Seeds of Nettles of Rocket and of sweet Fennel-seeds of each three drams Roots of Pellitory of Spain half an ounce shred them all small and boil them in a quart of Fountain-water then strain it and mix the strained liquor with a pint of old Mallago-Sack This strengthens Nature wonderfully and is excellent for old Men taking a little glass-full after the foregoing Electuary CHAP. XII Select Cordial JULEPS An opening purging and cooling Julep for Choller and burnt Humors TAke French Barly two spoonfuls Succory with the Roots of Maidenhair Liverwort and Sorrel of each half a handful Roots of Fennel and Grass of each half an ounce of the four cold Seeds beaten of each two ounces boil them in a sufficient quantity of Fountain-water a pint and half then strain it and infuse in it half an ounce of Sena then take Tamarins and Polipode of each three ounces Mechoacan Jallop and Hermodactils of each two ounces Currans bruised half an ounce of Borage Bugloss and Rosemary-flowers of each half an ounce if they are to be had if not you may leave them out bruise them all and infuse them warm in a sufficient quantity of Succory-water then boil them until there remains a pint then strain it and infuse in it four scruples of Rubarb in thin slices and three ounces then strain it again and add Syrup of Roses and Cream of Tartar of each one ounce then add the first decoction Take of this a quarter of a pint every Morning as long as it lasts A cooling opening Cordial Julep good in Feverish Distempers Take succory-Succory-water four ounces Rose-water two ounces Syrup of Violets of Rosae Salutive of each half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol fifteen or sixteen drops mix and shake them together and take thereof two or three spoonfuls at a time Another Cooling Julep Take Barley-water and Sorrel-water of each half a pint Syrup of Violets and Syrup of Juice of Citrons of each one ounce Spirit or Oyl of Vitriol twelve or fifteen drops or so much as will make it of a grateful ascidity A Cordial Julep against Melancholy Vapors and Palpitation of the Heart Take Bawm-water half a pint Borage and Rose-water of each two ounces a few drops of Oyl of Sulphur in which infuse cold one scruple of Safron for four hours then strain it and dissolve in it one ounce of manus Christi Confection of Alkermes one ounce Syrup of Citrons and Clove Gilly-flowers of each half an ounce mix all and make a Julep It is comfortable and refreshing as also restorative Drink a spoonful or two at pleasure Dr. Mynsight his excellent Cordial and cooling Julep Take half an ounce of Endive-water of Sorrel and Rose-water of each half a pint of Water-lillies and Scabio's of each six ounces Cinamon-water two ounces Syrup of Violets or Roses half a pound Juice of Limons two ounces mix them and add Spirit of Vitriol so much as to give it a grateful ascidity It is an excellent Remedy in a burning Fever in a spotted purple malignant Fever and all other malignant Distempers It is a very excellent thing it cools Insflammations quenches Thirst moistens a dry body and is a pleasant Cooler being cordial The Dose is five or six spoonfuls A most excellent Cordial cooling Tincture of Roses Take two quarts of water make it boiling hot then powr it into an earthen or white Bason or a deep Pan and put into it two or three spoonfuls of Spirit of Vitriol and stir it with a clean wooden stick then put into it a good handful of red dried Roses of that year stir them well and thrust them even in the liquor then cover it and let it stand to cool then strain it without pressing the Roses and you shall have a Tincture as red as a Ruby Be sure you do not make it in any Tin or Powter Vessel for it will lose the color It is a very pleasant Cooler and a great Cordial and strengthens the Liver the Kidneys and the Stomach It is excellent in Fevers A Cordial Water
set the Vessel in warm water to digest two days then strain it and add two ounces of Honey of Roses and take thereof from three ounces to six ounces It temperates and expells adust Humors abates the Heat of Fevers and cleanses the Skin from Scabs and Heat Monsieur Boucaud his Purging Infusion which purges universally all Humors and is very good to Purge and Prepare the Body before one enters into a Diet-Drink or at any other time Take Succory one handful French Barley one Spoonful boil them together in a pint of fair water to half a pint then strain it and let it cool well then put into it Sena two drams Rhubarb one dram Agarick half a dram let them infuse twenty four hours the next Morning strain it without pressing it and put into it half an ounce of Syrup of Limon and one ounce of Syrup of Violets The said Mr. B. took this usually himself and found it operate well and pleasantly without disturbance it is a very good Purge both for men and women it is good to cleanse a Woman after her lying in you may diminish the Dose as you see occasion A Purging Powder good against the Sciatica or Hip-Gout Take Seeds of Dwarf-Elder Turbith Hermodactils Sena and white Tartar of each a dram Cinamon two drams make all into a fine Powder for four Doses to be taken for four Mornings every third day Dr. Quercetan's Purging Decoction for Ladies Take Sena six drams strawberry-Strawberry-water half a pint infuse them in a close Vessel a Day and Night then add a spoonful of Juice of Limons and two Spoonfuls of Juice of Pearmains Sugarcandy two drams boil it a walm or two and clarifie it with the White of an Egg and a little cinamon-Cinamon-water This was invented to pleasure Ladies with being very pleasant in Taste and Purging gently without griping or making sick Another Purging Decoction called the Bitter Decoction Take the Tops of lesser Centery Flowers of Camomil of each one Pugil Roots of Gentian half a scruple Seeds of Carduus bruised one dram Sena two drams a little sliced Ginger to correct the Windiness of the Sena Cream of Tartar half a dram steep them all in half a pint of fair water all Night the next Morning boil it only a walm or two and then strain it and if you will have it work strongly you may add to the strained Liquor an ounce of Syrup of Roses or half an ounce of Syrup of Buck-thorn Berries It opens Obstructions and is prevalent against Agues and Fevers it eases Pains of the Breast and Spleen and is good against the Green Sickness and Stoppage of the Terms c. A very good Purge for the Itch. Take Tamarinds half an ounce sharp-pointed Dock-root two drams Fumitory and Succory of each half a handful white Tartar half a dram Ginger one scruple shred the Herbs small and stamp the Root and boil it in a sufficient quantity of fair water till there remain about a quarter of a pint to which being strained add one ounce of Syrup of Roses and two drams of Syrup of Buck-thorn Berries and take it in the Morning It is a good and approved thing for the Intention An Vniversal Purging Potion Take Sena two drams Ginger one scruple Rhubarb a dram Agarick two scruples sweet Fennel seeds half a dram Cinamon a scruple bruise them all and steep them all Night in a little more than a quarter of a Pint of the Decoction of Currans Press the Liquor the next Morning through a Strainer and dissolve in it one ounce of Syrup of Roses Another Vniversal Purge Take six Damask Prunes a handful of Agrimony half an ounce of Polipode roots one ounce of Currans half an ounce of Sena one dram of Aniseeds bruise them and boil them gently in half a pint of water strain and press it and sweeten it with brown Sugar Another Vniversal Purge Take of Sena half an ounce sweet Fennel-seeds bruised a dram steep them all night in a little more than a quarter of a pint of Posset made with Ale the next Morning boil it a walm then strain and press it out in the Liquor dissolve an ounce of good Manna while it is hot then strain it again and drink it A good Pectoral Purge for Consumptive People c. Take Roots of Marsh-Mallows and Liquoras of each two drams sweet Fennel-seeds half a dram yellow Saunders a scruple cream of Tartar half a dram bruise the Roots and Seeds and boil them in half a pint of water with a spoonful of French Barly till near half is consumed then strain it and whilst it is hot dissolve in the Liquor an ounce and half of Manna then strain it again and drink it I will recommend here to the Publick a most Excellent Purging Powder which Sir Kenelm Digby made much Vse of in his Family Take Scammony the purest and best an ounce Powder it grosly and spread it upon a piece of brown Paper then take some Fire in a Fire-shovel and put upon it some Brimstone hold the Paper with the Scammony over the Flame of Brimstone until you see it grow moist then Powder it finely and mix it with six drams of Diaphoretick Antimony and two drams of Cream of Tartar both in subtil Powder grind them together to incorporate and mix them well then put it in a Glass Vial and stop it close This Powder was called Cornachine by reason that Cornachine a Physitian of Bisa in Italy was the Inventer of it and had made a great Commentary upon it It hath done wonderful Effects it operates quickly safely and pleasantly it gently purges superfluous Humors from the Bowels and roots up the Cause and Matter of Agues Fevers and many other tedious Diseases as Monsieur Charras relates in his Royal Dispensatory Dr. Scroderus in his Chymical Dispensatory also recommends it as one of the best Purgatives that can be prepared Sir K. D. recommended it to me for the same The Dose is from half a scruple to half a dram or a whole dram It is to be taken in the Morning fasting in white Wine Broth in the Yolk of an Egg in a little Syrup or in some Confection The Diaphoretick Antimony you may buy for six pence an Ounce the Scammony for ten pence the Ounce and the Cream of Tartar one penny the Ounce This Powder is easie to give to Children for the Itch or Scab as also for the Worms CHAP. XXVIII Select VOMITIVES A Gentle Vomit TAke of Hemetick Wine and Oximel of Squills of each an ounce mix them together and take it taking Posset-drink with a Spoonful of Oyl of sweet Almonds in every draught to make it come up easie Another Dissolve two drams of Saltpeter in fat Broth and drink it Another Take three drams of Broom-flowers boil them in half a pint of small Ale for a quarter of an hour then strain it and drink it warm Another Take a dram of Nettle-seeds poudred or a dram of the inner Bark of
dram Roots of Tormentil two drams Syrup of Purslan as much as suffices to make an Electuary Take thereof the quantity of a large Nutmeg twice a day Drink after it a Draught of the following Decoction Take Succory Roots six drams Leaves of Lettuce Purslan and Horse-tail an Herb Shepherds purse of each a handful the four greater cold Seeds Purslan Seeds Sorrel Seeds of each a dram red Roses dried a handful bruise the Seeds and shred the Herbs and boil them all in a sufficient quantity of Water to a pint and a half then strain it and dissolve in it Gum Tragant and Arabick of each two scruples then add two ounces of Syrup of Purslan The Dose is a quarter of a pint Let the Patient wear about the Neck a little Bag with the Powder of a dried Toad Calcin'd which alone many times is said to Cure this Disease CHAP. XXXI Select Remedies to procure CONCEPTION Of choice and experimented Remedies to procure and forward Conception prescribed by several learned Doctors An excellent Remedy to procure Conception TAke of Syrup of Motherwort of Syrup of Mugwort of each half an ounce of Spirit of Clary two drams of the Root of English Snakeweed in fine powder one dram Purslain-seed Nettle-seed Rocket-seed all in subtil powder of each two drams candid Nutmegs Eringo-Roots Satirion-Roots preserved Dates Pistaches Conserve of Succory of each three drams stamp and work all these Ingredients in a Mortar to an Electuary then put it up into Gally-pots and keep it for use Take of this Electuary the quantity of a large Nutmeg in a little glassful of white Wine in the Morning fasting and at four in the Afternoon and as much at Night going to Bed but be sure not to do any violent exercise Another experienced by the Countess of Arundel Make a Syrup of Eringo-Roots and take thereof three times a day in the Morning fasting and in the Afternoon and at Night having first prepared the Body with some gentle Purge The foregoing Remedy is more effectual Another approved Remedy to procure Conception Take of Clarified Honey 3 drams of Linseed and shavings of Ivory of each an ounce Borage three ounces beat it into an Electuary with four ounces of fine Sugar Musk and Amber of each one scruple and a half Oil of Cinamon two grains Oil of Cloves and Mace of each one grain Take of it Morning and Evening Dr. Scroderus his Cordial Drink to cleanse and strengthen the Womb and procure Conception Take Bawm Penyroyal Maidenhair Sage Calaminth Mugwort of each half a handful Shenath half a dram Marygolds Wall-flowers of each two pugils that is as much as you can hold betwixt two Fingers and the Thumb Nutmegs Mace Cubebes Cardamoms grains of Paradice Zedoary of each one dram prepare them all and infuse them in two quarts of Canary Wine for some days in a Bottle close stopp'd then strain it and sweeten it with fine Sugar to your Taste drink thereof three times a day This I know an approved Remedy Dr. Mynsight his Bath against Barrenness much approved Take Roots of Madder of Parsley of Polipode of the Oak Valerian of each three ounces Seeds of wild Rue and Darnel of each two ounces green Juniper-berries of each one ounce and a half Leaves of Motherwort Mother of Thyme Bawm Mugwort Fumitory Marjoram Lavender Agrimony Mellilot Mullin Camomil Calamint Organy of each one ounce shred and bruise them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of water for a Bath Let the person sit therein in a bathing Tub as hot as can be endured repeating it every day for fifteen or twenty days abstaining all the while from Venery The Author says it is an approved thing for the intention She may also at the same time use either the Electuary with the white Wine or Dr. Scroderus his Drink By using the said Remedies and abstaining all the while from Venery she will be very apt afterwards to conceive for the parts will be very well disposed It is much observed also that Women after long absence from their Husbands when they come again usually soon conceive Note That the greater the womans desire of Copulation is the more subject she is to conceive Women are most subject to conceive a day or two after their monthly Terms are stayed It is good to eat Crabs Lobsters Prawns and Shrimps for they are fruitful Creatures and very nutritive as also Pigeons and Sparrows half a dram of Castor being taken in powder or a scruple in Malmsey Wine in the Morning is good to procure Conception As also the stones of a Fox dryed and beaten to powder and a dram taken in milk in the Morning As also the stones of a Boar taken in the like manner A Plaister of Labdanum spread upon Leather and applied to the Region of the Womb mightily disposes it to Conception Dr. Farrar his great Venereal to procure Conception Take Conserve of Rosemary-flowers of Borage-flowers and of Conserve of Clove-gilly-flowers of each half a dram of the Electuary of Diasatirion one ounce candid Eringo-Roots six drams old London or Venice Treacle two drams Seeds of Rocket and of Nettles of each half a dram Species Diamoth dulcis two scruples make it up into an Electuary with Syrup of Stechados as much as will suffice Take the quantity of a Nutmeg of this Electuary Morning and Night or when you will and drink a little of the following Decoction after it Take Leaves of Sage of Organy Rosemary Calamint Nettles of each a handful Chamedee Chamepit and Stechados of each half a handful of Nettle-seeds Rocket-seeds and sweet Fennel-seeds of each three drams Roots of Pellitory of Spain half an ounce boil all these in a quart of Fountain-water then strain it and put to it a pint of Malago Sack I could tell some great Secret to Women which for several Reasons I omit to publish here but if any Lady desires it of me I shall very freely communicate it to her CHAP. XXXII Rules and Signs of CONCEPTION Certain Signs whereby Women may know when they have Conceived AUthors have left many Ways for Women to know whether they be with Child or not which proves true indeed in many Women but not in all Some of them I shall relate here 1. A Coldness and Chilliness of the outward parts after Conception for the Heat retires inwardly to make the Conception 2. The Belly groweth very flat first of all because the Womb closeth it self together to nourish and cherish the Seed 3. The Breasts begin to swell and grow hard not without Pain and Soreness 4. The Tops of the Nipples look redder than formerly 5. Wringing or griping pains like Cramps happen in the Belly about the Navil 6. Loss of Appetice to Meat and illness after Meat and weakness of the Stomack 7. The Veins of the Breasts are more clearly seen than they were wont to be 8. It is a good Sign when the Veins in the Eyes are clearly seen and the Eyes seem
five times at last the dye will be so deep that it will look almost black lay of it on a good deal beyond the pained part on all sides keep it thus continually covered and warm with it CHAP. XXXVIII Select Remedies for the Back For weakness in the Back TAke Dates stone them and take out the inner hard white skin then stamp them and mix them with the pith of an Oxe beat and work them well together then add to it eggs and grated bread mix them all well together with a sufficient quantity of cream fry them and eat thereof in the morning fasting strowing sugar upon it Another Take the pith of an Oxone pound Ale and Muscadine or Alegant or old Malaga of each one â—ynte Rasins of the Sun stoned half a handfull Currans four ounces ten or twelve dates sliced a stick of Liquorice bruised Anniseeds half an ounce boyl all these to the consumption of half then strain it and drink thereof warm in the morning fasting grating nutmeg into it Another for weakness in the Back Take the Kidneys of an Oxe or Steer slice them very thin then stew them easily in a quart of water close covered to the consumption of half then add half a pynte of Red Rose water and as much Alegant or Muscadine add Sugar and grated nutmeg take thereof four or five spoonfuls in the morning and at four in the afternoon for a week together then intermit a week and then take it again another week if you think it need Another to strengthen the Back and to restore marrow in it Take the pith of an Oxe half a handfull blew Currans washed and bruised two ounces boyl them together in Allegant or Muscadine then mix it with the yolks of two new layd eggs and grated nutmeg and take a spoonfull or two warm in the morning fasting Another often approved Remedy for a sprain in the Back and to strengthen it Take the yolk of a new layd egg beat it with a glass-ful of Muscadine Alegant or old Malaga then warm it well and grate nutmeg in it and drink it twice a day For a Crick in the Back an outward Remedy Take the marrow of the bone of a Horse warm it and anoynt the Back with it it will give speedy ease and in four or five times anoynting perfectly cure it For heat in the Back and Reins Take Rose water and infuse therein red and yellow saâ—â—ders and red rose leaves let it infuse for twelve hours then bathe your Back very well therewith it will asswage the heat and greatly comfort the Reins For pain in the Back Take Comfry roots and stamp them and boyl them in posset drink thereof four or five days together Also take Knot grass shred it and mix it with butter and make Tansie thereof and eat it it much availeth to the said Cure Sr. Kenelm Digby's Excellent astringent Plaister for the Back Take Comfry Roots Knot grass Cinquefoil roots Budweed or Bawdweed of each two good handfulls stamp all these and put to them a quart of the best sallet oyl let it boyl softly til the oyl hath extracted the vertues of the Roots then strain it then put to it four ounces of Venice Turpentine and as much of Virgin wax and two ounces of Pitch For an Ach in the Back Take Lilly roots Camomile Anniseeds of each a good handfull stamp them together and fry them in Hogs grease with a little Clarret wine make a plaister thereof and apply it to the Reins An Approved Remedy for a Sprain in the Back Take good Muscadine or in want thereof good old Malaga and a spoonfull of Madder incorporate them well together give it the Patient to drink for three mornings together and if need requires he may take it three times a day CHAP. XXXIX Select Remedies Relating to CHILDREN Of Choice and Approved Remedies for such Diseases as are incident to Children A Rare Balsom for Children breeding teeth to make them come without pain TAke two or three River Crabs and beat them in a stone Mortar then moisten them with a little water of blew bottles and press out two ounces of the juice take also two ounces of muscilage of Marshmallow roots put them together with May butter or other fresh unsalted butter three ounces Hens fat and Ducks fat of each two drams put them into a pipkin and boyl them over a gentle fire to the consumption of half the moisture then strain them and add Sugar candy finely powdered four ounces the yolk of one egg Musk and Amber grease of each six grains This Balsom hath been much experimented by many Persons of Quality in France for its Excellency to soften the gums of Infants whose teeth are ready to cut their Nurses must be carefull to anoint their gums often with it The use of it is no way inconvenient and being pleasing to taste and wholsome it can do no harm though it should be swallowed In Dr. Cnarra ' s Royal Dispensatory Another Balsom for the same Take the brains of a Hare either roasted or boyl'd mix it with honey and unsalted butter and a little distill'd water of Cullendine anoynt the Childs gums frequently therewith An approved Remedy for the Rickets Take roots of Smallage Parsly Fennel and Angelica of each a handfull slice them and boil them in distilled waters of Angelica unset Hysop and Colts foot of each one part till they are tender then strain it and boyl it up to a syrrup with white honey Then take a stick of Liquorice and scrape and bruise one end of it and give the Child with it one spoonfull of the syrrup in the morning at four in the afternoon and at night A Bath for the Rickets Liver grown or opilation of the Liver in a Child Take a Sheeps head with the wool on it cleave it in the middle and boyl it til it be tender and that the bones slip clean out of the flesh boyling with it Smallage Camomile Primrose leaves and Hysop of each four handfulls then bathe the Child all over with this broath as hot as it can endure twice a day then mash the herbs with the flesh and bind it warm to the joynts that are weak It is a certain and much approved Remedy Another Approved Remedy for the Rickets Take a quart of new milk boyl it with a handfull of Sanicle shred small til a pynte be boyl'd away let the Child drink of it warm in the morning fasting and let it neither eat nor drink within an hour after it And at night boyl a handfull of Red mint in a quart of milk and let the Child eat it last at night Continue this for a month An Oyntment for the Rickets Take Sanicle and red mints of each two handfulls shred them small and stamp them then boyl them in a pound of fresh butter then strain and press it out and anoynt the Childs breast Arms and Gullet-Bones with it warm before the Fire Another for the same Take
the strong Decoction of the broken bones and flesh instead of a Decoction in water you may boil it by it self in Balneo in duplici vase or bake it in a pot with Broth and Gravy of Mutton then set it in again to make an end of its baking and soaking The Meat within even the Lean will be exceeding tender and like a Jelly so that you may cut all of it with a Spoon If you bake a Side at once in two dishes the one will be very good to keep cold and when it is so you may if you please bake it again to have it hot not so long as at first but enough to have it all perfectly heated through She bakes thus in Pewter Dishes of a large size Mutton or Veal may be thus baked with their due seasoning as with Onions or Onions and Apples or Larding or a Cawdle c. Sweet-breads Beatilles Champignons Treuffles c. My Lady of Monmouth Boyleth a Capon with White-Broath thus Make reasonable good Broath with the scragends of Necks of Mutton and Veal of which you must have so much as to be at least three quarts of White-broath in the dish with the Capon when all is done else it will not come high enough upon the Capon beat a quarter of a pound of blanched Almonds with three or four spoonfuls of Cream and if you will a little Rose-water then add some of the Broth to it so to draw out all their substance mingling it with the rest of the broth Boyl your Capon in fair water by it self and a Marrow-bone or two by themselves in other water likewise some Chesnuts instead of which you may use Pistacheos or macerated pine kernels and in other water some Skirrets or Endive or Parsley roots according to the season Also plump some Raisins of the Sun and stew some sliced with Sugar and water when all is ready to joyn beat two or three new layd eggs whites and all with some of the white broth that must then be boyling and mingle it with the rest and let it boyl on and mingle the other prepared things with it as also a little sliced Oringiado from which the hard Candy Sugar hath been soaked off with warm water or a little pill of Orange or some Limon pickled with Vinegar and Sugar such as serves for Sallets which you throw away after it hath been a while boyled in it and put a little Sack to your broth and some Amber-grease if you will and a small portion of sugar and last of all put in the marrow in lumps that you have knocked out of the boyled bones Then lay your Capon taken hot from the Liquor he is boyled in upon Sippets and slices of toasted dryed light bread and pour your broth and mixture upon it and cover it with another dish and let all stew together a while then serve it up Of Boyling the Capon in the weak broath of Mutton and Veal instead of water so to make the broth the better You must remember to Season your Broth in the due time with Salt and such Spices as you like Minced-Pyes My Lady Lusson makes her finest Minced-Pyes of Neats-Tongues but she holdeth the most savoury ones to be of Veal and Mutton equal parts very small minced Her finest Crust is made by sprinkling the flower as much as it needs with cold water and then working the paste with little pieces of raw butter in a good quantity so that She useth neither hot water nor melted Butter in them and this makes the Crust short and light After all the meat and Seasoning and Plumbs and Citron-Peel c. is in the Coffin She puts a little ambered Sugar upon it thus Grinde much two grains of Amber-grease and half a one of Musk with a little piece of hard Loaf-sugar This will serve six or eight Pyes strewed all over the top then cover it with the lid and set it in the Oven To Roast fine Meat When the Capon Chickens or Fowl have been long enough before the fire to be through hot and that it is time to begin to baste them baste them once all over very well with fresh Butter then presently Powder it all over very thin with flower This by continual turning before the fire will make a thin crust which will keep in all the juice of the meat therefore baste no more nor do any thing to it till the meat be enough roasted Then baste it well with Butter as before which will make the Crust relent and fall away which being done and that the meat is growing brown on the outside besprinkle it over with a little ordinary white salt in gross grains and continue turning till the outside be brown enough The Queen useth to baste such meat with yolks of fresh Eggs beaten thin which continue to do all the while it is Roasting Savoury Collops of Veal Cut a Leg of Veal into thin Collops and beat them well with the back of a knife then lay them in soak a good half hour in the yolks of four Eggs and two whites very well beaten and a little small shredded Thyme mingled with it then lay them in the Frying-pan wherein is boyling butter and pour upon them the rest of the Eggs that the Collops have not imbibed and carried with them and fry them very well turning them in due time Then pour away all the butter and make them a sauce of Gravy seasoned with Salt and Spice and juice of Orange at last squeezed upon them To make Excellent Hare-pyes Mrs â—â—â—â—le makes Excellent Hare Pyes thus 〈◊〉 â—he flesh of as many Hares as you please very small then beat them strongly in a Mortar into Paste which Season duly with Pepper and Salt Lard it throughly all over with great Lardons of Lard well rowled in Pepper and Salt put this into a straighter earthen pot to lie close in it If you like Onions you may put one or two quartered into the bottom of the Pot put store of sweet butter upon the meat and upon that some strong red or Clarret wine Cover the Pot with a double strong brown Paper tyed close about the mouth of it set it to Bake with Houshold bread or in an Oven as a Venison Pasty for eight or ten hours then take it out the pot and thence the meat and Pour away all the Liquor which let settle then take all the congealed Butter and clarifie it well put your meat again into the pot and put upon it your clarified butter and as much more as is necessary and I believe the putting of Clarret wine to it is better now and to omit it before Bake it again but a less while pour out all the Liquor when it is baked and clarifie the Butter again and pour it upon the meat and so let it cool The Butter must be at least two or three fingers breadth over the meat To Stew a Breast of Veal Take a Breast of Veal half Roasted and put it
the Liver of a Calf and the Lungs of a Fox the herb Lungwort Liverwort Sage Rue Hysop of each one handful Elecampane the Root of Flag of each half an ounce Aniseeds Carrawayseeds sweet Fennel-seeds of each half an ounce flowers of Borage of Bugloss of each two drams Cut them all very small then infuse them for twenty four good hours in two quarts of good old Mallago and Scabious and Garduus-water of each four ounces Hysop-water two ounces then distil it and sweeten it with Sugarcandy drink a little Glassful thereof two or three times a day This Water is much recommended against a Consumption It comforts and strengthens the Lungs and Liver facilitates Expectoration attenuates the tough and thick Phlegm expells wind out of the Stomach and Bowels and opens the obstruction of the Lungs and Liver Another Pectoral Water distilled TAke Scabious Paulsbittany of each two handfuls Maidenhair Sage Hysop Horhound Liverwort of each one handful Flowers of Borage and Bugloss of each one handful Elecampane Florence Orris Roots of Parslee of each half an ounce Aniseeds sweet Fennelseed Nettleseed Cinamon Safron of each half a dram Cut the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and put them all into a fit Vessel and pour upon them three quarts of good old Wine stop the Vessel close and let it stand to infuse for a week then distil it to the water distill'd add Sugar-candy Spanish Juice of Liquorice one ounce Salt of Tartar six drams drink thereof two or three times a day one ounce at a time This is recommended as the greatest and best Pectoral It not only opens all obstructions of Lungs helps Colds Coughs Asthma's spitting of Bloud and Matter but also gives ease in all pains of the Stone Dr. Scroderus his Asthmatick Water against Phthisick shortness of Breath It comforts a weak and cold Stomach and expells Wind and helps fainting Fits TAke Coltsfoot Sage Marjoram Hysop white Horhound of each half a handful Roots of Elecampane of Jentian of each three drams Cloves Ginger Cardamoms of each two drams and half Florence Orris Polipod of the Oak Liquorice Jujubes Sebenstens Currants sweet Almonds of each three drams Squils dry'd half a dram of seeds of Nettles Fennel and Basil of each three drams four soft Figs cut small bruise all the Roots and Seeds and shred the herbs put them all into a Vessel and pour thereon two quarts of Sack three Pints of Nants Brandy one ounce of Honey stop the Vessel close and let them stand to digest for ten days then distil it sweeten the distilled Water with the best refined Sugar to your taste and drink thereof one ounce at a time two or three times a day Dr. Salmon his Pectoral Wine TAke Rhenish Wine two quarts Salt of Tartar Aniseeds Corianderseeds Carraways of each one ounce bruise them all and digest them into the Wine for ten days then strain it To the strained liquor add Spanish Juice of Liquorice four ounces dissolve it in the Wine by the warmth of a Balneum or put it into a Coffy-pot and close it well and set it in warm water and being well-setled pour off the clear Liquor and keep it for use Salmon recommends this as an admirable Pectoral curing most Diseases of the Breast and Lungs as the inveterate Cough Asthma Phthisick Inflamation or Impostume of the Lungs with a shortness of Breath pains of the Side and Stomach and obstructions of both Liver and Spleen A most Excellent Pectoral Syrup against Asthma Consumption of a famous Physician TAke French Barly two ounces Roots of Fennel of Elecampane of Liquorice of Smallage of Butterburr Raisins of the Sun stoned of each one ounce and half twelve Dates Jujubes and Sebestens of each thirty Leaves of Coltsfoot of Lungwort the tops of Hysop of white Horhound Maidenhair of each one handful Aniseeds Cottonseed of each half an ounce flowers of Coltsfoot of Butcher-Broom of each half a handful The way of making this Syrup is thus boyl the Barly in nine quarts of water for half an hour then put in the Roots of Butterburr of Smallage of Elecampane and Fennel all well cleaned and cut small let them boyl also for half an hour then put in the Dates Jujubes Sebenstens and Raisins all cut small then let them boyl with the Eest for a quarter of an hour then put in the herbs cut small which boyl also for a quarter of an hour longer then put in the Liquorice and the Seeds bruised and the Maiden-hair and the Flowers and having boyled only five or six wallops take the Decoction off from the fire and when it is half cold strain it then put in five pound of double refined Sugar and having clarified it with the white of an Egg boyl it to the consistence of a Syrup with a very slow fire then being cold you may aromatise it with six drops of Oyl of Aniseeds and two drops of Oyl of Cinamon mixt with about an ounce and half of fine Sugar in fine powder This Syrop is good to cut and expectorate the cold and tough Phlegm of the Lungs and of all those parts which serve for respiration It giveth chiefly great ease and relief to those that are troubled with Asthma's Phthisick and shortness of Breath with old and inveterate Coughs for it opens the Pipes and brings away the Phlegm which stopped them One may call it the Palsom of the Lungs and chiefly of those of aged Persons one may take a spoonful of it at any time in the night and in the day-time some distance before and after meals and so continue the use thereof or begin again according as you see it needful Another Excellent Syrup for those that spit Bloud experienced by Squire Boil TAke Comfry Roots six ounces leaves of Plantine 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 boyl 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 If you will use this Syrup presently you may only use equal parts of the Juice and Sugar but if you would keep it all the year long you must take two parts of Sugar to one of Juice Another Remedy for spitting of Bloud TAke Leaves of Coltsfoot 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 well together eat it in the morning fasting continue this for some time A Broth with Chinaroot for a Consumption used by a great Lady TAke Chinaroots thin sliced two ounces white and red Sanders of each three drams put them into a large Pipkin and pour upon it four quarts of fair water cover it close and let it stand to infuse in a warm place or in hot water for twenty four hours then put to it a good Pullet or two Chickens let it boyl and
scum it well then put into it two handfuls of five-leaved-grass Maidenhair and Hartstongue of each half a handful twenty Dates cut small a little Mace with the under-crust of a Manchet let all these boyl together until two quarts be consumed then take out the Pullets or Chickens and stamp them in a clean stone Mortar then put it in the Broth again and let it boyl for half an hour longer then strain it and press out all the Broth from the Pullet If you please you may sweeten it with Sugarcandy Drink of this Broth warm early in the Morning and sleep after it if you can and another draught at four in the Afternoon and when you go to rest Another Broth for a Consumption TAke Conserves of Roses one ounce Conserves of Borage and Buglos-flowers of each half an ounce Pine Apple-kernels and Pistacios of each half an ounce yellow Amber in powder two drams beat and mix them very well in a stone Mortar then take a Pullet and put all these Ingredients in the Belly of it then sow it up cloâ—e and boyl it in three quarts of water when it hath boyled one hour put into it Egrimony Endive Succory sparrowgrass-Sparrowgrass-roots Fennel-roots Caper-roots and Raisins of the Sun stoned of each one handful let it not boyl until the Pullet be pretty tender then take it out and beat it in a stone Mortar then put it into the liquor again and let it only boyl five or six wallops then strain it and press out all the substance of the Pullet then put to the Broth a little red Rosewater and half a pint of white Wine Drink of this Broth warm in the Morning in your Bed and sleep after it if you can drink another draught of it in the Afternoon and at Night going to Bed Another restoring Broth against a Consumption TAke two or three Marrowbones of on Ox break them and boyl them in four quarts of water until two quarts be consumed then strain the liquor and let it cool then put it in a Pipkin with a young Cock and a Knuckle of Veal with the under-crust of a Manchet two ounces of Raisins stoned six Dates cut small and a little mace let all boyl togerher with a gentle fire until half be consumed then strain it make an Emulsion with a few Pistacios with some of this Broth then put this Emulscion to the rest of the Broth and drink thereof warm three times a day and so continue for some time Another restoring Broth for sick and convalescent Persons by Sir K. Digby TAke two spoonfuls of Frenchbarly scall'd it in two waters throw away the waters put the Barly into a Pipkin with a Crag-end of a Neck of Mutton and a Knuckle of Veal pour thereon a sufficient quantity of fair water and let it boyl scumming it well when it hath boyled one hour put into it a Pullet and let it boyl an hour longer then put in a large quantity of Sorrel Lettuce Purslain Borage and Buglos and boyl an hour more three hours in all Before you put in the Herbs season the Broth with Salt a little Pepper and Cloves then strain out the Broth and drink it warm Another restorative Broth for weak and consuming Bodies TAke of the best Chinaroot thin-sliced half an ounce infuse it twenty four hours in a Pottel of Springwater in a Vessel close stopp'd and set in hot water then put therein a small Chicken or a little piece of a Neck of Veal boyl it gently and put into it a Succory-root scrapt and pitthed leaves of Agrimony Buglos Ceterach and Endive of each one handful Hartshorn two drams with a Crust white Bread boyl it to the consumption of half the liquor then strain it and being sweetened to your taste with fine Sugar or Sugarcandy drink off warm early in the Morning and about four in the Afternoon about a third part of a pint continue it for the space of three weeks taking it every day A Cordial Broth against a consuming heat in the Body TAke a piece of Veal or Mutton and a good Chicken half an ounce of Hartshorn and as much Ivory one handful of Currants Roots of Sparrowgrass Fennel and Parslee-roots a few of each sliced and bruised Borage and Bugloss-flowers of each one handful with a little bundle of sweet herbs namely sweet Marjoram Rosemary Thime Wintersavory a sliced Pippin or two and a Crust of white Bread put all these in when the meat is well scummed and hath boyled awhile you must take three quarts of Springwater and boyl it to the consumption of half strain it and drink thereof warm two or three times a day It strengthens nature and allies the consuming heat in the Body An other Excellent Broth for Cansumptive Persons TAke Parslee and Fennel-roots two of each Elecampane and Piony-roots of each half an ounce Maidenhair Coltsfoot and unset Hysop of each one handful Liquorice bruised one ounce ten Figs four Dates sliced Raisins stoned four ounces two flakes of Mace Aniseeds bruised two spoonfuls and a little Safron put all these into the belly of a good Cock about a year old or more sow up the vent and the skin of the Neck very close boyl it in a Gallon of Springwater scum it very clean and put into it a spoonful of good flowery Oatmeal and one pugil of Thime let it boyl gently with a moderate fire to the consumption of a quart then strain it and press it gently Drink of this morning and evening warm eight or ten spoonfuls at a time An Excellent Snail-Broth for a Consumption TAke an hundred of Snails with their shels wash them in water and salt then wash them three or four times more in fair water to wash away all the salt then bruise them with their shells then take a red Cock-chicken Borage Buglos Agrimony Cinquefoyl Violet-leaves of each one handful a Mallowroot a fennel-Fennel-root a Succoryroot and a Blade of Mace boyl all these in a sufficient quantity of water then strain it and drink thereof every morning and about four in the afternoon A comfortable restorative Broth for the Stomach TAke Sassafrase three ounces of China sliced one ounce infuse it all Night in Springwater the next morning put thereto a Cock well-dressed and three handfuls of Raisins of the Sun stoned or of Prunes or of both if you like it and a little bundle of Rosemary Thime and a Crust of Manchet-bread and at the latter end a little whole Mace let it boyl close covered until half is consumed then strain it and take thereof a draught every morning very warm and another to bedward An Excellent purging Broth to preserve Health TTake a Knuckle of Veal cut away all the flesh and fat then break and bruise all the Bones and boyl it in a Gallon of fair water scum it clean and then put thereto four ounces of Raisins stoned two ounces of Currants two Fennelroots and one Succoryroot and a small quantity of Endive of Violet
with a little starch flower When it is grown almost quite cold and ropy draw it out in Threds and twist them in what shape you please CHAP. II. Of Exquisite Remedies against the SCURVEY The Compound Horse-Radish Water against the Scurvey TAke of Garden and Sea-Scurvey-Grass of each three pound stamp them and press out the Juice of them which mix with Juice of Water-cresses and Brook-lime of each three quarters of a pint to this Mixture add two quarts of the best white Wine six Limons cut into small slices fresh Briony roots two pound Horse-radishes one pound Winters bark four ounces Nutmeg two ounces steep them all for three days then distil it The best way of distilling this water is in our Engine prefixed to the Book of Cookery if you have not an Alembick with a Refrigeratory or Bucked head or a Worm for if you distil it in an ordinary Still you will lose a great part of its volatile Spirit it being composed of all volatile things You may also distil it in a Tin Cucurbite with a Glass-Head in a Sand Furnace that is an Iron Pot set up in Brick-work as they do a Copper and instead of a Glass Cucurbite have one made of Tin which will last many years whereas a Glass one will be apt to break to which fit a Glass-head as is describ'd in the page of our Engin having put Sand in the bottom of the Iron Pot about an Inch thick set the Cucurbite upon that and having fitted the Head and Receiver to it and luted all the Junctures with Paste and Paper fill the Pot with Sand round about the Cucurbite and make a fire in the Furnace under the Pot. The Vertues of the aforesaid Water It is not only prevalent against the Scurvey but it is also very good against the Dropsie and the Stone and Gravel both in the Reins and Bladder Strangury of Urine c. for it is very diuretick it is good against the Green Sickness Stoppage of the Terms and cleanses the womb it opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and purifies the Blood The Dose is from one spoonful to two or three in Rhenish wine morning and evening you may also take it in a smart water which is very good for the Stone and Gravel To prepare an Excellent Antiscorbutick Wine of Dr. Mynsycht in Scroderus Dispensatory Take the Juyce of Scurvigrass of Water-cresses of Brooklime of Sorrel all depurated of each a quarter of a pint Rhenish wine two quarts roots of Horse-radish Enulacampana of Flower-de-luce cut into thin Slices of each an ounce and an half Seeds of Rocket bruised one ounce two Nutmegs bruised put all into a Stone Bottle stop it very close and keep it in a cold place for Use It universally evacuates all evil humors curing the Scurvey to a wonder It is recommended to be a perfect and infallible Experiment to purifie the Blood being taken morning and night a quarter of a pint at a time The manner of depurating Juyces is thus Let your Juyces settle for twelve hours then powr it off gently from the gross impurities setled at the bottom boyl it gently in a Pipkin and take off the Scum or Cords letting it boyl only a walm or two then strain it The Countess of Arundel's Scurvigrass-Ale Take Garden and Sea-Scurvigrass of each six handfuls Fumitory and Ground-Ivy or Ale hoof of each six handful of Brook-lime three handfuls of Watercresses six handfuls of Horse-radish half a pound wash them very clean and dry them in a Linnen Cloth then shred them and stamp them a little in a Stone-Mortar then take a bag of Boulter-cloth and put it into the Bung of your Barrel and put a Gad of Steel in the bottom of it to sink it down keep the upper end of the bag out of the bung and put into it your Ingredients then put into it three Gallons of new Ale and after three or four days drink of it a draught in the Morning fasting and another an hour before Dinner in the Afternoon with some moderate Exercise after it Also taking a gentle Purge before you use this Drink as some gentle Night-Pills or the like CHAP. III. Of Choice and Experimented Remedies against the DROPSIE A very Good and Approved Remedy against the Dropsie wherewith a Great Lady was cured TAke Smallage Thyme Hysop Water-cresses Penyroyal Nettle tops of each a handful Caraway Seeds Calamint Elecampane roots of each one ounce boil it in six quarts of running water until half be consumed then strain it then put to this Liquor a pottle of Canary Sack add Liquoras scraped and bruised two ounces sweet Fennel-seed one ounce Cummin seed and Alexander seeds of each two drams boyl all these together again for half an hour then strain it and keep 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 together Another very good Diet-Drink against the Dropsie Take Polipode of the Oak six ounces the Bark of Lignum vitae three ounces Sassafras four ounces Sena six ounces Aniseeds three ounces Epithymum Stechados of each half an ounce Raisins of the Sun stoned half a pound Hermodactyles three ounces Agarick Rhubarb China root of each half an ounce Liquoras four ounces put all these being well bruised into two Gallons of Ale and six quarts of white wine let them infuse all night then boil it in a Vessel close covered for two hours and a half then strain it being cold Let the Patient drink of this Liquor three times a day half a pint at a time viz. in the Morning early and another draught an hour or two before dinner and about four in the Afternoon Boil the remaining Ingredients in Ale as before and drink of this second Liquor at meals and at any other time drinking no other Liquor but these two Let your Diet be of Roast-meat of Mutton and Fowl but not Veal eating often Raisins of the Sun with Biskets instead of a Supper Another Approved Remedy against the Dropsie Take quick good midling Ale and put therein a sufficient quantity of the best Wormwood let it stand over night the next morning take three or four Cloves of Garlick peel them and then prick them with a Needle in three or four places then swallow them whole if you can if not you may cut them less then drink a good draught of the Wormwood-Ale after it and then do upon it as much Exercise as conveniently you can at Dinner eat what you will of good wholsom Diet but at night sup not or but very little and at going to bed take the Cloves of Garlick again and drink a good draught of the Wormwood-Ale after it a in the Morning Continue this till you are well which usually is in twenty or thirty days But during the Cure you must every morning and night use the following Bath or Fomentation Take three Gallons of Conduit-water
the Liver with Oyl of Nutmeg and Oyl of Roses Dr. Farrar gave this Receipt to Sir K. Digby who recommended him to the Lord and Sir K. made the Bargain between the Lord and the Doctor who was to have five hundred pound for his Cure and I heard Sir K. say that after twelve or thirteen days the Patient began to piss in great abundance and so very stinking noisom roping Matter that the Nurse which emptied the Pots was scarce able to endure the stench and noisomness of it And continuing the Remedy the Lord was perfectly cured The Silver Pills as we prepared them in Sir K. Digby's Elaboratory are also a specifick Remedy against the Dropsie the description thereof is in Sir Kenelm Digby's Collection of Chymical Secrets Printed for me in 1682. A very good Plaister to be applied to the Belly for the Dropsie Take Rue Camomil Melilot Calamint of each two ounces beat them small and boyl them in Wine and Oyl of Dill then add Gummi Caranae Gum of Wax of each as much as sufficeth to make a Plaister CHAP. IV. Of Choice and Experimented Remedies against the Stone and Gravel Dr. Mynsycht his Stone-breaking Wine TAke whole Barly red Cicers of each one ounce and half Roots of Rest-harrow of Eringo of Liquoras of each one ounce roots of Stone-Partly half an ounce Juniper-Berries bruised Winter-Cherries of each one dram Gromwel seeds Haws Seeds of Mallows and Marsh-Mallows of each one dram and half flowers of Broom and Violets of each one dram dried Figs and Sebestens of each twelve in number cut and bruise them all and put them to infuse in Rhenish wine and Rain-water of each three pints for four and twenty hours then boyl it until a third part be consumed then strain it being cold and to the strained Liquor add a quarter of a pound of refined Sugar and keep it for Use It is much recommended to be of great Use in Diseases of the Reins it provokes Urine and the Terms breaks dissolves and expels the Stone whether in the Reins or Bladder it opens and dissolves all slimy and Tartarous Matter obstructing those Passages Drink a good draught of it every morning fasting A most Precious Spirit to break and bring away Stone and Gravel Take roots of Elecampane Burnet Parsly stones of a Perces head Crabs Eyes Goats-blood of each one ounce seeds of water-Carrots white Saxifrage Fennel-seed Aniseed Gromwel-seed Roman Nettles Broom Juniper berries Winter-Cherries of each half an ounce Pepper white black and long of each two drams bruise all the Ingredients and mix them and digest them in Spirit of Wine for twenty days then distil it in Balneo Mariae then dissolve in the distilled Spirit Salt of Crystal two drams then take a hundred Monkey-pease or Hoglice those that rowl themselves round when they are touched bruise them and infuse them in the Spirit until the Tincture is extracted then filter it and keep it for Use This breaks the Stones in both Reins and Bladder and brings it away by Urine as also the Gravel Take it in Arsmart water the Dose is from one spoonful to three It is a great Specifick in this Case Another Stone-breaking Spirit Take the shells of an Estridge Egg pulverize it and digest it in Spirit of Salt until it be dissolved and the Egg-shells appear in bits then filtre and keep it for Use This Medicine was invented by the Emperor's Physicians and as Closseus says is second to none against the Stone and stoppage of Urine it opens strongly forces away the Stone and Gravel expels Water in Dropsies provokes the Terms and sometimes purges by Stool Dr. Bacon's Remedy against the Stone and Gravel which he gave to Sir Kenelm Digby 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 Boyl all these together till half be consumed then work it up with a little Yeast then Tunn it and put the Peel of a fresh Limon 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 The said Doctor hath had great Experience of this The L. of Denbigh his Remedy against the Stone unto which he attributes his Cure of the Stone as he told Sir K. Digby Take a good ounce of Melon-seeds and near a quart of small quick Beer and a little Rhenish wine brew the chief quantity of the Drink with the yolks of six new laid Eggs and draw the Milk out of the Almonds with another part of it add a little Spirit of Clary and as much Virgin-Honey as will sweeten it then mingle and brew all together and drink a large draught thereof This Drink is also very healing and very strengthning every way If you have not good Melon-seeds you may take a good quantity of blanched Almonds and you may put in Juice of Orange and what you please An Experienced Remedy for the Stone and Gravel and Stoppage of Vrine Take wild Carot-seeds one dram bruise them a little and powr upon them a draught of white wine stop the Bottle close and let it stand all night the next morning strain it through a linnen Cloth and drink it This cured a Gentleman in France who was much troubled with Stoppage of Urine and Viscosities which they called the Stone once taking this Remedy preserved him from all inconveniencies of Urine for half a year When the Disease grew again upon him he took again this Remedy Another for the same A Gentlewoman told me that she was much troubled with the Gravel Strangury and stoppage of Urine so that in ten days time she did not make a pint of water which was a great torment to her she was taught to take Oyl of Olive and Milk of each a quarter of a pint and a spoonful of honey mix all together and drink it blood-warm This opened the passage of Urine and caused her to make water in abundance with Gravel and she was perfectly cured Oyl of sweet Almonds would have been better than Sallet Oyl Sir K. Digby's Remedy for the Gravel and Strangury and Stoppage of Vrine which I prepared many times for him and by which he found great Relief Take the white of a new-laid 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 white wine and four spoonfuls of red-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 six or seven days Another very precious Remedy against the Stone Gravel Stoppage and Strangury of Vrin of Dr. Horstius Take Saxifrage roots one ounce Jews stone one ounce and a half asparagus and Scordium of each half a handful seeds of Parsly Bishops weed Ivy of the
water after it An Excellent Perfume to burn and perfume the House in time of Infection Take Talk and reduce it to Powder and mix it with Vinegar and burn it upon a Fire-shovel of Coals and your House will be preserved from any infectious Air. This hath been sufficiently experienced Another Perfume Take Roots of Angelica dried and pulverised mix this powder with Vinegar and let it steep therein three or four days then put of this mixture upon a hot Brick every Morning and Night In Germany and Holland in time of Infection they burn Juniper-berries on a Chaffin-dish of Coals or upon a fire-shovel of Coals and so go about the house with it and into every Rohm If the Juniper-berries be bruised and mixt with Vinegar and then burn'd it will be more effectual My Lady Allens Plague-Water Take Rue Egrimony Wormwood Salendino Sage Balm Mugwort Dragons Pimpernel Marigolds Fetherfew Burnet Sorrel Scabious Wood-bittany brown Mayweed Avens Turmantil Carduus Benedictus of each a handful Rosemary two handfuls Angellica Burdocks of each one handful shred all these together very small then steep them in the best white Wine as much as will cover the Herbs then slice in a half quarter of a pound of Elecampane-roots let all these lye in steep three Days and Nights stirring them once in twelve hours covering the Tub close when you still it lay it not above an Inch thick in the bottom save the first running by it self The london-plague-London-Plague-Water Take Roots of Angelica Masterwort Butterbur Piony-roots of each four ounces Vipers-grass Verginian Snake-roots of each one ounces leaves of Rue Rosemary Balm Carduus Benedictus Scordium Marigold with the flowers Dragon Gotsrue Mint of each two handfuls shred the Herbs and cut the Roots and stamp them a little and infuse them for two days in six quarts of Nants-brandy then put thereto six quarts of fair Water and distil it in a Limbec drawing from it two Gallons which put up in Bottles and hang two drams of Safron in it tyed up in a rag or make the Tincture of two drams of Safron with the first running and mix that with the rest of your water To every quart of this water put two ounces of fine Sugar This is an excellent thing against the Plague and all malignant Distempers as the small Pox Measles Malignant spotted and purple Fevers c. The Dose is from one ounce to two in Angelica or Sage-water sweetened with Syrup of Clove Gilly-flowers you may also make a Julep of it with Alexiteâ—i Milk-water as is directed in the Chap. for Fevers Dr. Burges his sovereign Antidote against the Plague Take Sage Rue of each one handful shred and stamp them and boyl them in three pints of Malmsy till a pint is consumed then strain it and set it over the fire again and put it a penny-worth of long Pepper Ginger half an ounce Nutmegs and Cloves of each two drams beat and mix them together and let it boyl a Walm or two then put into it one ounce of Methridate and half an ounce of Treacle and a quarter of a pint of hot Angelica-water Take of this a spoonful at a time every Morning during the Contagion and if already infected take two spoonfuls and sweat upon it Vnder God you may be confident of this sovereign Antidote for there hath never been Man Woman or Child yet heard of that made timely use of it that it hath not secured It is excellent also in the small Pox and Measles or any malignant Fever Another very sovereign Antidote Take choice Myrrh Cinamon Aloes Succotrina of each three drams Bolarmoniach Mastick Lignum-Aloes Cloves and Mace of each half a dram powder the Myrrh Aloes and Mastick together by themselves and the other Ingredient together by it self then mix them well together and keep it in a Glass close stopp'd Take every Morning early two penny-weights of this powder in a Glass of white Wine mingled with a little water and you may boldy venter without fear under God among the infected without danger Sir Walter Raleigh's Experiment to draw forth a rising or Plague-sore Take a Cock-Chicken pull the Rump bare and hold it close to the sore till the venom is drawn out for then the Chicken will die but you must apply fresh till the Chicken lives A sovereign Remedy against the Plague Take Elder-leaves Rue red Sage and red Bramble-leaves stamp and strain them severally with a quart of white Wine for all the several strainings then mix it all together and add some white Wine-vinegar and Syrup of Wormwood drink a spoonful of this Morning and Evening and God willing it will secure you for there is no Medicine more effectual than this If the Sore appears use the Rump of the Chicken above-mentioned In the Chapter of Cordial Waters you will find more Plague-waters An approved Remedy to cure the biting of a mad Dog whether Man or Beast Take a handful of Rue shred and stamp it one dram of Treacle and a spoonful of the shavings or filings of Tin put all these into a quart of Ale and boyl it till half be consumed then strain it and give the Patient thereof two spoonfuls twice a day Morning and at Night A most excellent Remedy against the biting of mad Dogs Vipers Serpents or Snakes experienced by a famous Chirurgion Take of the lesser Consolida or Larks-spur Chervil the white ends of Leeks the tops of Broom of each two handfuls a little new Cream of the Morning-Milk and a good handful of Salt stamp them all together in a stone-Mortar and with Juice rub the part grieved which will be hard in the Flesh and sometimes black then lay the mark upon the part poultiswise and tie it fast on with Rouls the swelling will asswage in a short time and the evil will be cured Sir Kenelm Dâ— relates that the said Chirurgion had cured some with this Remedy whom other Chirurgions would have cut off the Arms or Legs bitten by venomous Beasts and that among the rest he cured a man in Sir Ks. presence whose Arm was as black as Ink being bitten by a Serpent Against Venom or Poyson Take Seeds of Sage bruise them and boyl them in Goats Milk what quantity you please till it is wasted to a third part Drink thereof three days It is a very sovereign and effectual Remedy For biting of a mad Dog Take rusty Bacon stamp it well with Bittony Agrimony of each equal parts apply it to the Wound For biting of a Serpent or any venomous Creature Drink the Juice of Plantine and stamp Celendine and Plantine together of each a like quantity temper them with Urine the staler the better and apply it to the sore it will asswage the swelling and draw out the venom Also anoint the place with the Oyl of shell-Snails being prickt with a Needle and lay thereto a Snail unprickt CHAP. VIII Select Remedies against the FALLING-SICKNESS A very Efficacious Remedy against the Falling-Sickness wherewith
your flesh within the Nose put a rowl into each Nostril It will cause sneesing and will make much water run down at the Nose and comfort the Brain Dr. Scroderus his Cephallick Wine for the Head and Brain c. Take Roots of Avens two ounces and half of Succory one ounce and a half of Elecampane one ounce Cetarach Paulsbittony Carduus Liverwort Centory of each one handful dryed Orange-peels half an ounce and two drams cut the Herbs and bruise the Roots and Barks and infuse them in a Gallon of Rhenish Wine for three or four days shaking it often then strain it and drink a Glass-ful thereof every Morning fasting and another at Night going to Bed It rectifies all Distempers of the Head and Spleen it is also excellent for the Breast and Lungs and is excellent in cuting of Catarachs A most Excellent Powder for pain in the Head and Stomach Take Aron-Roots cut them small and steep them in white Wine twelve hours then powr of the Wine and powr fresh Wine upon it and let it steep as long then dry them and reduce them to powder Take of this powder two ounces Acorus Burnet of each one ounce Crabs-eyes half an ounce Cinamon three drams Salt of Wormwood and Juniper of each half an ounce Sugar of Roses one ounce pulverise and mix them together and keep it in a Glass stopp'd This powder is a good Cephalick and stomatick is excellent against the Megrim Vertigo Melancholly Coldness and Weakness of the Stomach Wind Stone Quartan Agues and all Tartarous Obstructions Dose from one Dram to two in a little Canary The Lady Lusons Receit to make one sleep in Frensie and madness Take the Gall of a Hare boyl it in white Wine and let the Patient drink thereof and it will cause him to sleep until you give him Vinegar CHAP. XI Mrs. Rutherges Cordial Electuary against MELANCHOLY Against Melancholly TAke Conserves of Roses of Borage-flowers of Cowslip-flowers of Clove Gilly-flowers of each one ounce of preserv'd Citrons two ounces of Alkermess half an ounce preserv'd Nutmegs preserv'd Mirobolaus of each half an ounce Bezoar fifteen grains Tincture of Safron half a dram mix them together and make it up in an Electuary with Syrup of Clove Gilly-flowers adding two or three drops of Oyl of Cinamon Another against Melancholly Use to drink before Meal a Glass of Clarret with a spoonful or two of Syrup of Clove Gilly-flowers after meals eat some Marmalade of Quinces or preserv'd Citrons A Drink very good for the Head and Eye-sight Take Bittony Eyebright Agrimony and Plantane of each two handfuls Ground-Ivy three handfuls shred them and stamp them then boyl them In six Gallons of strong Wort fot three quarters of an hour then strain it through a Seive and let it cool and throw the herbs away when it is fit put Yest to it and put it up into a Runlet and when it hath done working close it up and after seaven days broach it and drink of it at all times when you are thirsty When it is half spent make more and use it for two months together in the Spring or in the Summer To purge the Head Take the Root of Pellitory of Spain and chew it to and fro between your Teeth a good while it will purge the Head and fasten the Teeth Against Hypocondriack Melancholy Set Horse-fleeches to the Fundament and at Spring and Fall purge with Mechoacan Ale or some other easie purging Ale for a Fortnight together then take Conserve of Roses two ounces Conserves of Bugloss and Marygolds of each one ounce Cinamon in powder one dram mix them unto an Electuary with the Syrup of Poppies Take therof the quantity of a Nutmeg three times in a week when you go to Bed For the Head and to strengthen the Memory Anoint the Temples of the Head once a month with the Gall of a Partridg also rub the Soles of your Feet with mustard made with Vinegar Another Excellent Electuary against Melancholy by Mr. Cranish Take Conserves of Borage and Bugloss-flowers of each half an ounce Confection of Alkerns one ounce Diambra a penny-weight Conserve of Rosemary-flowers half an ounce Orange-flowers candid half an ounce of the yellow Rind of Citron in powder a penny-weight Aromaticum Rosatum two penny-weights two leaves of Gold incorporate these well together and make thereof an Electuary and take of it every Morning fasting and at any time when you are afflicted with pensiveness and Melancholy A Cordial and Stomatick Electuary by Sir B. B. Take Ginger Cloves Mace Nutmegs and Galingal of each one ounce Cubebs Coral and Amber prepared of each two drams Fennel-seeds Dilseeds and Caraway-seeds Liquorice and Aniseeds of each two ounces reduce all into a very subtil powder and make them into an Electuary with Conserve of Roses and a sufficient quantity of some Cordial or Pectoral Syrup It comforts strengthens and warms the Stomach and the Heart expells Wind and gives ease in the Collick and Iliack Passion and is a good Pectoral take the quantity of a large Nutmeg of it three times a day An Electuary for a Cold or Cough Liverwort Hartstongue Maidenhair Hysop Coltsfoot Germander Horhound and Agrimony of each one handful shred them small and boyl them in two gallons of Spring or Conduit-water until it is consumed to a quart then strain it and put into the water a quart of Honey and two ounces of the choicest Elecampane root dried and reduced to fine Powder boil these together to the consistence of an Electuary stirring it continually to prevent burning to then put it up and keep it for Use Take the quantity of a Nutmeg in the Morning and at Night and in the Afternoon and in the Night or at any time whensoever the Cough troubleth you An Electuary for Shortness of Breath and Phthisicks Take Manna two ounces Sugar penides three ounces Fox Lungs reduced to Powder two ounces Oyl of Almonds an ounce Cassia new drawn half an ounce make an Electuary with Syrup of Hysop or Ground-Ivy Take half an ounce of it in the morning fasting and two hours before Dinner and in the Afternoon and at Midnight It is excellent for Asthma and Phthisick and when the Lungs are stopt with Phlegm so that the Patient cannot but with difficulty draw his Breath Another Pectoral Electuary for stopping in the Breast and Pipes Take Elecampane Hysop Liquoras Ginger Aniseeds Cinamon and Galingal all reduced into fine Powder of each a dram boil them in six ounces of clarified Honey add two ounces of brown Sugar-candy while it is hot stir them all together Take the quantity of a Nutmeg of it Morning and Evening in the Night and in the Day-time let it go down leisurely and drink not soon after it This hath cured many of Stoppage in the Breast and Pipes Dr. Franck his Electuary for a Cough or Cold. Take Elecampane root dried and made into fine Powder half an ounce Liquoras and Sugar candy both in fine Powder
of each three spoonfuls make an Electuary with clarified Honey Take the bigness of a Nutmeg of it in the morning and when you go to bed let it go down leisurely and if the Cough troubles you in the night time take also of it This hath holpen extream great Colds or Coughs These Pectoral Electuaries were left out in the first Chapter An Electuary to comfort the Brain and Stomack and sweeten the Breath Take Sage two handful Rosemary flowers an ounce and a half Cloves five drams Cinamon a dram Nutmegs a Scruple all in fine Powder make it into an Electuary with Clarified Honey Take of it half a spoonful in the Morning and presently drink after it a Cup of burnt Claret Another Electuary to comfort the Spleen and Stomach Take Sarsaparilla one ounce the rind of the Root of Tamarisk three drams of the Root of Zedoary two scruples Purslane-seeds one dram reduce all into a fine Powder and with Syrup of Citrons and Syrup of the Juice of Borage a sufficient quantity make an Electuary An Electuary to comfort the Stomach and prevent engendring gross Humors in the Brain Take Cinamon one dram Lignum Aloes and Mace of each half a dram Cloves one scruple and fine Sugar or Sugar-candy half an ounce reduce them all into very fine Powder and with Wormwood water make it into an Electuary and take thereof two or three drams in the Morning fasting three hours before Dinner or make it into Lozenges of two or three drams a piece and eat them in like manner A most Excellent Electuary to strengthen the Stomack and Liver which is also very good against the Scurvey Take green Ginger preserved it is sold by the Confectioners and Conserve of Roman-Wormwood two ounces Conserve of Wood-sorrel two or three or four ounces more or ess as you conceive your Liver shall require beat and work them together into a Pulp Take thereof the quantity of a large Nutmeg two or three times a day You may make the Conserves by beating the herbs raw with two or three parts of fine Sugar to one of Herbs A Cordial Drink for weakness of the Stomack and want of Digestion Take three pints of good Claret Wine and half a pint of Mint-water of Cinamon and Nutmeg of each half a dram of fine Sugar four ounces reduce the Ingredients to Powder and put all into a Coffee-pot and cover it close stopping the Pipe of the Coffee-pot and let it stand in hot water for twenty four hours but let not the Water boil Then take it out and strain it through a Hypocras-bag Drink of this warm a Sack Glass-ful at a time If you have not a Coffee-pot you may use a stone Jugg or Bottle stopping it close but let it not be full A very Excellent Plaister for the Stomack that hath done notable Cures Take Mithridate spread it pretty thick upon Leather then strew upon it all over some grated Nutmeg laid also pretty thick on and cover this with another Leather like the former sewing them together round about the edges lay this to the pit of the Stomack The bigness of the Plaister is to be a hands-breadth round It is excellent for all Indigestions Weakness and Pain in the Stomack which causes Loosness Another Cordial Drink for a weak Stomack and want of Digestion devised by Dr. Mynsight Take Cinamon Mint half an ounce Mastick Galingal Cloves of each two drams Calamus Aromaticus Cardamom Ginger of each half a dram Lignum Aloes Roots of Burnet and Zedoary of each half a dram reduce them all to Powder and digest them in a quart of Canary Wine in a warm place or in Sand or B. Mariae until the Tincture is extracted then strain it and take thereof a small Draught Morning and Evening with a few drops of Spirit of Vitriol It warms and comforts the Stomack and is excellent against trembling fainting and swooning Fits and Vomiting Another by Dr. Mily Take Cinamon half an ounce Cloves Mace and Nutmegs of each half an ounce seeds of Anise Coriander and Ginger of each two drams bruise them and digest them in five dints of Rhenish Wine then strain it and sweeten it with fine Sugar to your Taste Drink thereof a quarter of a pint at a time It comforts and warms a weak and cold Stomack causes a good Appetite and Digestion and rectifies most Distempers of the Head and Brain My Lord Chesterfield's excellent digestive Powder to comfort the Stomack after Meat or otherwise Take sweet Fennel-seed half an ounce Coriander seeds one ounce shavings of Harts-horn and Ivory of each half a dram Cinamon and Pear or Crabs-eyes of each half a dram Sugar of Roses two ounces white Sugar-candy three ounces reduce all these severally into a subtil Powder and then mingle them together and so take thereof keep it in a warm place Dose so much as will lie upon the point of a Knife Dr. Riverius his infallible Remedy to stay a Vomit Take the true Salt of Wormwood half a dram mix it with the Juice of half a Limon and give it the Patient to drink you may mix it with a little mint-Mint-water It is a Sovereign Remedy which I have often approved with great success it hath never failed To chear the Heart and comfort the vital Spirits and prevent Melancholy Take of Harts-horn one handful of the Roots of Celandine Flowers of Borage and of Langue de Beuf of each a handful shred the Herbs small or stamp them a little and steep them in a Gallon of Brandy for a night then distil it the distilled water sweeten with Sugar and hang two drams of Saffron in it tied up in a Sarcenet Bag. Drink a little of it in the Morning fasting Another Cordial to chear and comfort the Heart prevent Melancholy and make the Body lightsom Take a pint of Rhenish Wine half an ounce of Cinamon-water Water of Baum Bugloss and Borage of each half an ounce Juice of Limons one ounce half a pound of Sugar-candy seeth them together in a little strong glass-Bottle setting it in boyling water drink thereof a quarter of a pint in the Morning fasting in-the Summer Season In the Winter season take a pint of Malmsie or Muscadine Cinamon Cloves and Ginger of each two drams Grains of Paradise one dram Sugar two drams Musk one grain bruise the Spices and boil all together in a Bottle of Water then strain it and take a quarter of a pint thereof fasting CHAP. XII Select Remedies for all Diseases of the MOUTH This Chapter contains Choice Remedies for the Teeth and Gums Scurvey in the Mouth c. For a Canker in the Mouth TAke the Leaves of Woodbine of Bramble of Columbine of each one handful a little Rosemary shred them and boil them in fair water to the consumption of half then strain it and put into the Liquor two or three spoonfuls of Honey and a piece of Roch Allum in Powder and three or four spoonfuls of Vinegar Gargle the
thinks begets Courage causes fruitfulness and procures Conception A rare Water against Hectich-Fever Take Hysop Ground-Ivy Rosa solis Centory Maidenhair Sorrel Cinkfoyl Scabious Succory Burnet Dandikeon Yarrow Agrimony Hauls bittony Watercresses of each half a handful of the four greater cold Seeds of each half a dram flowers of Borage of Bugloss Roses Poppies two pugils Roots of Elecampane Succory Burnet of each thirty six Crayfish-shells Snails bruised of each twenty in number of a Calves Lung half a pound water of Liverwort one pint or instead thereof water of Dandy Leon being all prepared powr upon them so much of Goats Milk as will soak them well let them stand to infuse for five or six hours then distill it in an ordinary Still This water is very powerful against Hectick Fevers and most Diseases of the Lungs as Phthisick shortness of breath Asthma it destroies Accidities It nourishes and restores in Consumption being taken Morning Noon and at Night before Supper the Dose is about two ounces The Lady Elizabeth Gilfords Cordial Water Take four quarts of Nants-Brandy put therein Borage-water and Poppy-water of each a pint Sugarcandy two pound Figs shred and Raisins stoned of each one pound red Roses clipt and dryed two handfuls red Mint one handful Rosemary-flowers half a handful and as much Hysop a few Cloves bruised put all these in a large double Glass with a narrow mouth such as Apoticaries have in their Shops stop it close and set in the Sun for two or three months It is an excellent Cordial and Pectoral Water good for the Head and Stomach Breast Lungs The Lady Bagnals Cordial Water much Approved Take Angelica leaves two handful Carduus six handful Baum and Sage of each five handful Angelica seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each five ounces Liquoras bruised two ounces shred three Herbs and bruise the Seeds and put them to steep in two Gallons of the best Canary with the Cordial powder of Aromaticum Rosatum Diamuscus dulcis of each one ounce let them stand four and twenty hours then distil it with a gentle Fire then put to the distilled Water Sugar dissolved in Rose-water Dr. Stephens's great Cordial Water for Women Take Cinamon Cloves Galingal Ginger Nutmegs Grains of Paradise Aniseeds sweet Fennel-seeds and Caraway seeds of each one dram Thyme Mother of Thyme Mint Sage Penniroyal Pelitory of the wall Rosemary red Roses dried Flowers of Camomil Origany of Lavender of each a handful shred the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and Spices and infuse them for twelve hours in a Gallon of French wine then distil it and save the first second and third Running by themselves It is Cordial strengthens the Heart comforts and revives the Spirits being given to a Woman in Labour it facilitates the Birth and causes a good Delivery and after Delivery it brings away the After birth cleanses the Womb of Impurity and restores Strength it comforts the Stomach and is good against Swooning and fainting Fits and Fits of the Mother It is good against the Stone and Gravel and preserveth Youth Dr. Mountford's Cordial Water Take Angelica leaves half a pound Angelica seeds and Carduus Benedictus of each six ounces Leaves of Baum and Sage dried of each four ounces sweet Fennel-Seeds nine ounces Liquoras half a pound Species of Aromaticum Rosatum dulce and Diamocum dulce of each one ounce infuse them in thirty two quarts of Sack for five or six days then distil it in an Alembick and draw off ten quarts of the strong to which add white Sugar candy half a pound and half a pint of Rose-water tie it up close and keep it for Use Aqua Mirabilis Sir Kenelm Digby 's Way Take Cubebs Galingale Cardamoms Melilot flowers Cloves Mace Ginger Cinamon of each half a dram Juice of Celandine one pint Juice of Speremint and Juice of Baum of each half a pint Flowers of Cowslips Rosemary of Borage Bugloss and Marigold of each two drams bruise the Spices and infuse all with the Juices in three pints of Sack one pint of strong Angelica water and half a pint of red-Rose water let it infuse twelve hours then distil it in a Glass Still and first lay Harts-tonge leaves in the bottom of the Still Keep the first second and third Runnings by themselves This is a great Cordial it comforts the Heart Stomach and Vital Spirits it strengthens the Head and Memory preserveth Youth and procureth a good Colour It is Cephalick and Pectoral it expels Wind and is of great force against the Cholick pains in the Side and Stomack it comforts and warms a cold Stomack and strengthens it it is good against Coughs Shortness of Breath and Asthma's as also for most Diseases of the Head and Brain It revives the Spirits and helpeth swooning Fits It is a counter-poyson and Antidote against the Plague and all malignant Fevers and pestilential Distempers and preserves from the Apoplexy The Dose is one ounce in Rosemary Water Sack or any other Cordial Water Dr. Augustine's Excellent rosemary-Rosemary-Water Take the Tops and Flowers of Rosemary in the midst of May gathered before Sun-rising of each one handful four or five good Elecampane Roots of Red Sage two handfuls stamp them in a stone-Mortar then take Cloves Mace and Cubebs of each three ounces Aniseeds half a pound bruise them all severally then mix all together with the Herbs and put all into a large stone Bottle or Jugg and powr upon them six Gallons of good white wine stop it very close and set it in the ground fifteen days then distil with a gentle Fire and sweeten it with fine Sugar This is a most precious Cordial Water it rectifies all Distempers of the Head and Stomack comforts the Heart revives the Spirits and is excellent against the Palsie and Apoplexy all fainting and swooning Fits and Fits of the Mother Falling Sickness Convulsions Megrim Vertigo Lethargy and other Diseases of the Head Vse it both outwardly and inwardly An Excellent Approved Water against all Infections all cold Diseases of the Head and Stomack for the Dropsie Palsie preserving Health expelling all Tumors Devised by the King's Physician Take what quantity you please of Bawm-water and to every pint thereof take Aniseeds Liquoras of each two ounces bruise them and infuse them in the water four and twenty hours then put into the Still Treacle four ounces Sage and Celandine of each a good quantity powr the rest upon them then sprinkle over them one ounce of Bole-armenick in fine Powder distil it with a moderate Fire Dr. Butler's Admirable Cordial treacle-Treacle-Water Take one ounce of raspt Hartshorn boil it in three pints of spring-Spring-water to a quart then take Roots of Gentian Elecampane Cypress and Tormentil of each one ounce of the Flowers of Borage Bugloss Rosemary and Marigolds of each two ounces Citron-peels one ounce then take one pound of the best Venice-Treacle and dissolve it six quarts of good strong white wine and three pints of red-Rose water infuse all
together in a Vessel close stopped stirring it sometimes for two days then distil it in a Glass Alembick or in a Copper Alembick with its Refrigeratory or Bucked Head Keep every Running by it self and mix them as you best like and spend the weakest first sweetning it with Sugar It is an Excellent Cordial it comforts the Heart revives the Spirits prevents swouning and fainting-fits is very good against Agues and Fevers Worms and small Pox to drive the Venom from the Heart It is excellent against the Plague and Infection all Epidemical and Pestilential Diseases Dose two spoonful of the strongest for aged People and of the small for Children Dr. Bnessius a Physitian at Paris his Cordial Water of green Walnuts as he makes it every year He gave the Receipt to Sir Kenelm Digby Take a good quantity of the Flower or Bloomings of the Walnut-Trees it is a long green Excrescence and is the first thing that buddeth out stamp them in a stone Mortar and press out all the Juice from them in an Apothecaries Press distil this Juice in a Glass-Still in Balneo Mariae or in Sand and keep the Water save also the Mark that you pâ—essed the Juice out of Then when the Nuts are as big as Hazle Nuts take also a quantity of them and stamp them and press out the Juice which distil there remains in the bottom a thick Substance like an Extract whick keep as also the Water Then when the Nuts are growing big and have but a Jelly in them instead of a Kernel and are fit to preserve take a quantity of them and stamp them and press out the Juice which distil as before to a like Consistence as the other Mingle your three Waters together and this is his Water of Walnuts which is a great Cordial and is Diaphoretick It is much recommended for the Cure of Agues and intermitting Fevers and all malignant Fevers It fortifies the Stomack Head and Brain is good against the suffocation of the Mother it is good against the Colick caused by Wind and Flegmatick Matters The Dose is from three or four ounces to seven or eight I saw a Letter from a Person of Quality at Paris to Sir K. Digby wherein he related to Sir K. that he had cured himself of a Quartan Ague by taking a Glass full of the said water which he had made taking it assoon as he found the least Symptom of the approaching Fit he went to bed and covered himself very warm and fell asleep and had no Fit at all that time nor never after The thick Consistences which remain after the distillation of the Juices the said Doctor putteth together and when he hath evaporated them to a fit height for making of Plaisters if they were not so already by their distilling he putteth to them removed from the Fire a little Venice-Turpentine about an eighth or tenth part or a little more and a little Powder of Cinamon and Cloves and a little wheat-flower to thicken it also a little Salt and kept it in a Pot all the year of this he makes Plaisters for the Stomach from the Sternum to the Navil and six or eight fingers breadth which let remain on as long as it will stick taking it off sometimes to wipe away the Water This comfrots and strengthens the stomack wonderfully when it digesteth not well You should so proportion your Substances or Nuts as to have about a like quantity of juice of each For Crudities and indigestions of the stomach when a loosness followeth which usually commeth from eating more than one can digest he prescribeth two or three days very slender diet and to eat one Morning three or four candid or preserv'd green Walnuts and to drink a little burnt Claret after them or raw Wine eating a mouthful of bread this settleth the Stomach very right The way how to candite and preserve green Walnuts will be set down in the Chapter of preserving and candying A rare Cordial Water called the Royal Aqua Vitae Take Lignum Aloes Roots of Zedoary Angelica Carline Thistle and Valerian of each one ounce Cinamon Mace and Citon-rind of each six drams Cloves lesser Cardamoms and sweet Fennel-seed of each half an ounce flowers of Rosemary Sage and Marjoram of each two small handfuls which is to be bruised and put them into a stone Jugg or Bottle with Spirit of Wine and Malmsey Wine of each four pints stop the Vessel close and them macerate in a warm Bath for three days then distil them in a sand Bath or in Balneo Mariae dissolving in the distilled water fine Sugar then put it up for use And if you would have it perfumed you may dissolve in it Ambergreece and Musk of each half a dram This Water is much esteemed and used by all the Nobles in France The perfection of it is that although there be not many Ingredients yet they are of great vertue It fortifieth the Brain Head and Stomach strengthens the Memory comforts the Heart reviveth the Spirits when enfeebled by the distillation of the Spirits or overpressed by the abundance of ill qualities or bad humors It is to be taken fasting from one spoonful to three in some proper liquor A Cordial Water or Spirit of Cinamon Take chosen Cinamon bruised one pound Aqua Vitae three pints the best Rose-waeter two pints let them digest a day or two close stopped then distil it in dn Alembick with a Refrigeratory or in a Glass Cucurbite or a Tin Cucurbite with a Glass-head such as described in our Engine The first pint will be pretty good and the last milky and sweet of the Cinamon but strong of the Spirits You may distil this till you perceive it commeth no more strong of Cinamon Keep every one of these three Waters in a Vessel apart close stopped The spirituous Water of Cinamon is good speedily to comfort and fortifie all the noble parts and principally the Heart for which reason it is given with great success in swooning and faming Fits It comforts and strengthens the Stomach excites natural heat thereof helpeth Digestion stays Loosness expels Wind and eases Chollicks which are caused thereby It is much recommended to strengthen Women in Labour to facilitate the Birth and case their pains It is also very good to provoke the Terms and to exhail the vapors that rise in the Matrix It is given alone of the first runnings mixt together from half a spoonful to a spoonful when there is any necessity but when you take it often it is better to keep to the lesser Dose Sir Kenelm Digby says that Lignum Cassia maketh a much finer Spirit than Cinamon he made it thus as I make it now Take four ounces of the quilled sort which is the finest and best bruise it well and put it into a gallon of Mallago-Sack Digest them together three or four days in Balneo then distil it with a very gentle heat If you will rest there severe the first second and third
scorching and itching Humor that waters and itches which cured a Gentlewomans Arm which did abound with very ill disposed waterish Humors Take Fumitory four handfuls Langue de beif and Scurvey grass of each one handful Madder two ounces Harts-tongue one ounce Rhubarb sliced and Sena of each half an ounce sweet Fennel-seed bruised one ounce Roots of Elecampane and red Dock both bruised and Currans wash'd and bruised of each half a pound boil them all in two Gallons of Ale to a Gallon then strain it and drink a pint thereof in two draughts every Morning fasting at two hours distance taking the last draught three hours before Dinner Note That it is much better to boil it in clarified Whey An Ointment which she used with the Drink Take Sheeps Suet well tried one pound boil it in a pint of Plantane water and a pint of the Juice of Housleek over a gentle fire till a pint is consumed or more and out a pint remaining let it stand till it is cold then take off the Fat that is upon it and with the Liquor bath the Parts with a Spunge and having well bathed it anoint it with the Fat you took off and continue it till you are well as also the Drink A most Excellent Drink for prevention of the Stone and Gravel whether in the Reins or Bladder and for many other Diseases much Experienced by a famous Physitian in France who using it three times a year viz. just before Easter in the heat of Summer and at Michaelmass preserved himself by it to the Age of 122 years in perfect health Take two quarts of Oats the clearest and soundest you can get wash them well in several waters and rub them between your hands then drain them and boil them in five quarts of fountain-Fountain-water with a good handful of dandelion-Dandelion-roots well wash'd and stamp'd in a stone Mortar let them boil an hour then strain it and put into the Liquor four ounces of Honey and half an ounce of Sal prunella let it boil a quarter of an hour then pour it into an Earthen Vessel and let it cool then put it into Bottles Take of this two Beer-glasses full in the Morning fasting taking the last Glass two hours before Dinner and another in the Afternoon and continue it for a fortnight without observing any Diet or keeping House It is much recommended to be very wholsom it cleanses the Reins is good against the Stone and Gravel purifieth and strengthens the Lungs cures all Fevers and Agues even Tertian and Quartains opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen helps all sorts of Colicks and pain in the side the Scurvey Dropsie Heaviness and Weariness of the Body revives the Senses clears the Sight sharpens the Appetite and causes rest in the Night strengthens Nature and preserves Health It may be taken at any time without danger A Diet-Drink against Melancholy Take Sena two ounces Fumitory Hops and Borage of each a pound boil them in two Gallons of Spring-water to one gallon then strain it and sweeten it with Sugarcandy or Honey and after a weeks time drink a draught of it in the Morning fasting and another about four in the Afternoon Another for the same Take a pint of Aqua vitae and a quart of Rose water four ounces of Liquoras bruised three ounces of Aniseed bruised boil all together with a gentle fire to a pint then strain it and take frequently thereof in the Morning fasting My Lord Brunkard's Diet-Drink for the Scurvey and Dropsie Take of Lignum vitae and Sarsaparilla of each eight ounces Sassafras one ounce Rosemary Marjoram Ground-Ivy Thyme Bark of the Roots of Capers Sea and Garden-Wormwood of each a handful an Orange Peel stuck with Cloves and of quartered Nutmegs put them all in a Bag and hang them in half a Barrel of six shilling Beer drink thereof when you are thirsty the staler it is the better A Rare and Excellent Drink of great Virtues for the Cure of several Distempers learnt of a Gentleman who at his Death confessed he had done many wonderful Cures with it Take half a pound of quick Lime new from the Kiln powr upon it a Gallon of fair water let it stand eight hours then pour off the Clear and strain it through a Sieve with a grey Paper in it put into this Liquor one pound of blew Currans beaten Liquoras bruised Aniseeds bruised Sassafras of each four ounces Mace two drams let these infuse in the Water twelve hours then strain it again and put it in Bottles for Use This Drinks Cures all manner of Obstructions inward and outward Vlcers strengthens Nature purifieth the Blood and is good for the Scurvey and Dropsie it cures Consumption and shortness of Breath it is excellent against the Stone and Gravel Strangury and retention of Vrine it creates an Appetite and causes a good Digestion it kills Worms and is an admirable Remedy against the cold Palsie Drink of it three times a day half a pint at a time with a little Syrup of Ground-Ivy CHAP. XIV Select Syrups A very good Syrup against cold Diseases of the Head Brain and Sinews as the Palsie Apoplexy Falling Sickness Cramp and Water distilling out of the Head lying in Bed TAke of the Flowers of Stechados four ounces Thyme Calamint Organum Sage Flowers of Betony and Rosemary of each an ounce and half Seeds of Rue Piony and Fennel of each three ounces boil them in five quarts of running water till half is consumed then strain it and boil it up to a Syrup with Sugar and Honey of each two pound then take Ginger Cinamon Calamus Aromaticus and Nutmeg of each two ounces bruise them and tie them up in a course thin Cloth of loose and open Threds and hang it in the Syrup A very good Syrup against the Scurvey and to sweeten and attemper the Blood Take of the Juices of Scurvigrass Brook-lime Fumitory Water-cresses of Bugloss and of Pippins or Permains of each half an ounce of the Bark of Roots of Capers and Polipode of the Oak of each half an ounce Epithymum Bawm Agrimony Maidenhair Broom-flowers and Borage-flowers of each half an ounce shred the Herbs small and bruise the Roots and boil them all to a pint and half then strain it and boil it to a Syrup with a sufficient quantity of Sugar Use it with White or Rhenish Wine An Excellent Syrup to clear and open the Breast and Lungs often Approved Take Liquoras small sliced ten ounces Maidenhair five ounces Hysop two ounces put all these into a Pottle-pot and powr thereon a quart of Spring-water set the Pot into a Kettle or Pot of hot water on the Fire and keep it almost boiling hot for fourteen hours and as the Water consumes in the Kettle fill it up again with hot water then strain it and put the Liquor in a clean Posnet and put to it clear Honey Sugar and Sugarcandy of each ten ounces put into it the White of an Egg beaten
and when that is melted put in the Frankinsence and as soon as it beginneth to rise take it from the Fire for fear it should enflame then put into it the other Gums stir them well together and when they are well incorporated strain it through a Canvas-Cloth when it is cold anoint your hands with Butter and make it up in Rowls Or you may spread it upon Leather while it is warm and so apply it using with it the Drink afore-mentioned A most sovereign Ointment for the Gout Take the eldest Gander you can get make him â—eady and draw him but let no water touch him take Sheeps Tallow fresh Hogs-grease Pitch Honey and black Soap new Wax two ounces a quantity of Salt Frankinsence in powder three ounces the flesh of an old fat Cat Meal or Flower of Beans and the Soot of a Chimney of each one handful mix them well together and put all into the Ganders Belly and sow him up close and rost him so long till he will drip no more then put up your Ointment and anoint the part grieved therewith A good Purge for the Sciatica or any kind of Gout Take Aloes Hermodactils and Scammony of each half a dram reduce them to subtil powder and make Pills thereof with Juice of Roses or with Syrup of Roses and for a Fortnight together take every third day one dram in the Morning Vse also the following Plaister Take two ounces of Pitch one ounce of Tar two drams of Treakle one ounce and half of Rosin one ounce of Honey boil and stir them till all is melted and well incorporated and united together then spread it on Sheeps-leather prickt full of holes and apply it as hot as can be endured Another for the Sciatica by Dr. Frank. Take a quart of Sack the bigness of an Egg of Salt-Peter boil them together till a fourth part is consumed then take new Cotton-Cloaths and dip them in it and wring them a little and foment the pained place spreading them upon it one after another many times until the pain cease Another Remedy for the Sciatica and Rheumatism Take Storax liquid yellow wax new Pitch and Honey of each four ounces Cinamon Pepper of each one ounce put all these in powder together into a new pot and let it boil but one walm stirring it carefully all the while then take it from the Fire and put into it four ounces of Aloes and one ounce of Oil of Lillies stir them well together to make them incorporate then put the Pot again upon hot Ashes and stir it until it be of the Consistence of an Ointment which spread warm upon Leather and apply it but if your Disease be in a whole Thigh then you may spread it upon a whole Lambs Skin You may leave it on seven or eight days if it require If the Disease come again put the Plaister on again This Medicine will keep a long time Another Bath for the Gout by Dr. Ruland Take Juniper-berry-wood cut small three pound Mint Camomil Linseeds of each half an handful bruise the Seeds and shred the Herbs and boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to make a Bath by the use of which the pain went away and the Party was perfectly cured A Drink for the Gout Dr. Scroderus Take Germander Groundpine tops of Sage of each one pound and a half Primrose Rosemary of each half a pound Misleto of the Oak half a pound China-Root sliced three drams digest them all in fifteen quarts of Rhenish Wine for ten days then strain it Drink thereof two or three times a day It is also good against the Sciatica and Rheumatism Another Drink for the Gout Take Hermodactils Sena of each one ounce Turbâ—th Mechoacan Ana one ounce and a half Leaves of Ground Ivy Vervain of each two drams Seeds of Fennel Aniseeds of each one dram and a half Cardamoms Cinamon Mace Safron of each one dram Flowers of Mullion Rosemary Flower de luce of each half a dram bruise and prepare them all and infuse them in eighteen quarts of Rhenish Wine in Balneo Marie for two days then strain it and sweeten it with fine Sugar and drink thereof three ounces a time with one dram of Cream of Tartar in the Morning fasting for some days It is prevalent against the Gout and several affects of the Stomach Liver and Spleen It draws thick Phlegm from the Joynts and remote parts An Approved Remedy for the Sciatica in the Hip or any kind of Gout Take two ounces of Burgundy Pitch Oxicrocium and Gum Caranna of each an ounce melt and mix them well together spread it on Leather and apply it to the part for nine days It hath cured many When you use the aforesaid Plaister use the following Infusion Take Sena half an ounce Epithimum Raisins stoned Fennel-seeds and Ginger of each half a dram put them in half a pint of Whey then make them warm and let it infuse twelve hours then warm it again and strain it and drink it all off in the Morning fasting Vse also the following Drink to give every day two or three Stools Make a strong Decoction of Lignum Vitae put into it Sena Hermodactils of each four ounces Epithimum two ounces Turbith one ounce Coloqâ—inrida half an ounce let them infuse in warm Sand or in a Kettle of warm Water in a Vessel close stopped for twenty four hours then strain it and drink thereof every Morning fasting and at Night take of the distilled Water of Lignum Vitae one ounce with half an ounce of Syrup of Cowslips and use to eat the quantity of a Nutmeg of an Electuary made of Conserve of Cowslips four ounces Conserve of Sage-flowers and Rosemary-flowers of each two ounces Conserve of Roses one ounce make them into an Electuary For a Prick that doth foster rankle and burn a present Remedy Take Burnet stamp it to mash then spread it on a Cloth and apply it to the place it will speedily help it CHAP. XVII Select Remedies for Bruises and Swellings A Pultice to open an Impostume and to ripen a Bile TAke one handful of Sorel twelve Figs sliced half a pint of the Juice of Sorel boil this together until it be very tender and put to it some wheat Flower and Hogs Grease and lay it warm to the place changing it twice a day continue this till it be drawn out Another for the same much Approved Take the Whites of two Leeks and wrap them up in a wet Linnen Cloth and bake them under hot Embers so that they be only soft and no more then pound them in a Stone-Mortar with a piece of Hogs-Grease spread this pretty thick and apply it changing it once in seven hours and in three times changing it the Matter will be all drawn out With this Cataplasm you may also Cure Deafness and Noise in the Head and Ears Mr. Stockdeal's Approved Remedy for a Bruise and Swelling Take a pint of fair Water and boil in it a handful
Walnut Tree powdered or three drams of Radish-seeds powdered taking them in fat Broth unsalted or in Posset Another which I have known used by Sir Kenelm Digby Take a Pint of Lukewarm water put into it six or eight spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and drink it off Lukewarm The Antimonial Cup made of well purified Regulus of Antimony cast in Moulds is a very useful thing in a Family when you have a mind to use it fill it with white Wine and put a Clove or two in it and a little Mace and let it stand all Night the next Morning drink the Wine and it will taste of nothing but Wine and will work safely first by a Vomit and then by stools also when it works drink Posset with a spoonful of Oyl of sweet Almonds in every Draught or sweet Sallet Oyl to facilitate the Vomiting If it be taken in the beginning of an Ague when they have had but a Fit or two it commonly carrieth it off being taken half an hour before the Fit The Virtue of this Cup will never diminish for it will have the same Operation an hundred year hence that it had when it was newly made And according as you would have it work either gentle or strong you may put the Wine in sooner or later at Night CHAP. XXIX Select GLISTERS A Glister for the Colick and Griping of the Guts TAke Roots of Mallows and Marsh-Mallows with the whole Plant of each an ounce and a half French Barly an ounce Flowers of Camomil and Elder flowers of each half an ounce boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water then strain it and add to a Pint of the Liquor three ounces of Linseed Oyl and an ounce of Cassia extracted Aloes half an ounce Nitre an ounce and a half mix them and give it duly warm It powerfully expels Wind loosens the Bowels and eases the Colick and Gripings Dr. Scroderus his Emollient Glister Take of the Emollient Herbs which are Leaves of Mallows Violet Leaves Beets Herb Mercury of each a handful Roots of Althaea an ounce Camomil flowers half an ounce five Figs sliced boil them in a sufficient quantity of fair water to a pint then strain it and put to it Cassia four drams Benedicta laxitiva one ounce Sal Gem a scruple Oyl of Olive or Oyl of Roses three ounces brown Sugar an ounce mix it and give it It loosens and mollifies the Bowels evacuates their Slime and Filth and cleanses them from Wind and Water and is good in Fevers A very good Common Glister Take of the Emollient Herbs of each a handful Camomil flowers half a handful sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce Linseeds two drams cut the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and boil them in Water to a Pint then strain it CHAP. XXX Select Remedies relating to WOMEN-KIND Containing Excellent and Approved Remedies for such Distempers as are particularly incident to Woman-kind Concerning the Retention or Stoppage of the Monthly Purgations THe Retention of them cometh of Opilation in the Matrix abundance of gross Blood or after great Evacuation or Fatness of the Womb They are Cause of many Evils as swollen Legs weak Backs Pains in the lower Parts of the Belly Drowsiness Retention of Urine a weak Stomack Loss of Appetite and want of Digestion Vomiting Shortness of Breath Loss of Complexion Vapors and Fits of the Mother and Spleen c. If the Retention come of thickness of the Blood it is good for the Patient to use the Bath afterwards set down If the Retention come of cold and Phlegmatick Humors then it is good for her to take twice a day four ounces of the Decoction of Alexanders Smallage roots Cinamon and a little Safron and fast four hours after it forbearing of eating Meats that breed gross and moist Humors and gross Blood as Beef Pork Veal Fish and the like Let your Diet be Fowls Birds Partridges Rabbits and the like or Mutton and drink white or Rhenish Wine or Mead or Metheglin using in your Broth the following Ingredients viz. Aniseeds sweet Fennel-seeds Commin-seeds Caraway-seeds Smallage-roots wild Thyme Rosemary Parsly-roots Spinage Madder Cinquefoil Harts-tongue Lupins Organs Valerian Savory Sothernwood Garlick is an excellent thing if you like it Balm Carduus Horehound Cinamon and such like using a few of either sorts of them they thin and subtilize the Blood and open the Passages that descend to the Matrix A Bath to provoke the Terms Take Mugwort Motherwort Mother of Thyme Bawm Fumitory Camomil Lavender Organy of each a handful Juniper Berries bruised an ounce and an half Madder roots Parsly roots Polipode and Valerian of each three ounces let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Water to make a Bath and let her sit in it as hot as can be endured and when she comes out of the Bath going to Bed let her take a Decoction of Bugloss and Borage or the Decoction of Madder in fair water with a little Syrup of Fumitory If you cannot have all these Herbs you may take only some Camomil-flowers and Peniroyal for the hot water alone will be effectual in this Case bathing in it A Physical Course for provoking the Terms Take of the Powder of Hiera Picra simple of the Pills de tribus Fernelii of Agarick Trochiscated of each a scruple of Castor half a scruple of the Chymical Oyl of Thyme four drops make these up into Pills with Syrup of Mugwort let her take them immediately after her first sleep and sleep again upon them The next day following let her take the following Decoction Take Ale and white Wine of each a Pint and half unset Hysop Peniroyal Mugwort Germander of each a handful Madder Smallage Parsly and Fennel roots of each an ounce Juniper Berries and Cinamon bruised of each half an ounce boil them well and having strained the Decoction sweeten it with four ounces of Syrup of Mugwort Drink thereof twice a day in the Morning and at four in the Afternoon and four days before their accustomed time of flowing open the Vein in the Foot and bleed about three or four ounces to invite them downwards An Excellent Medicinal Wine to provoke the Terms by Dr. Mynsicht Take Tartar vitriolate Roots of Scorzonera of each an ounce and a half Filings of Steel from the Needle-makers an ounce Galingal the less Lignum Cassiae of each a dram Safron a scruple bruise them and put them in three pints of white Wine let it stand two or three or four days often shaking it then strain it This Wine opens all Obstructious of the Liver Spleen and Womb it provokes the Terms cures the green Sickness expels Wind discusses Swellings and Hydropical Humors cures the evil disposition in Virgins weakness of the Stomack and want of Appetite and ill Digestion Young People should take it five or six days before the New Moon but elder women as many days before the Full Moon The Dose is from four Spoonfuls to six or seven in the Morning fasting and to continue the
all Pain and Inflammation as you see in Sir Kenelm's Relation of Mr. Howard To stanch the Blood either of a Wound or Bleeding at the Nose take only some of the Blood upon a Rag and put some Powder upon it or take a Bason with fresh water and put some of the Powder into it and bath the Nostrils with it CHAP. XLI Containing the choicest and rarest Cosmeticks to beautifie smoothen soften and whiten the Face and Skin and to preserve the Beauty and Complexion of Ladies devised by several Learned Physicians and used by Queens Princesses and other great Ladies in France Italy Germany and England The Word Cosmetick signifies Adorning or Beautifying A rare Cosmetick Water of Dr. Scroderus TAke the Whites of fifteen Eggs the Juice of one Limon three ounces of Snails white Lead a pound Camphir and Borax of each a dram and a half Myrrhe two drams Frankincense and Mastick of each half an ounce bruise them all and infuse them twenty four hours in water of Bean-Flowers and water of Elder-Flowers of each a pint and half then distil it in a Cucurbite in Balneo Mariae and keep the Water for Use It softneth whiteneth and smootheth the Skin Another more precious Cosmetick or beautifying Water by Sir Kenelm Digby Take white Lillies six drams Florence Orrice Roots Beans Cicers Lupins of each half an ounce fresh Bean-flowers a handful Gum Tragant white Lead fine Sugar of each half an ounce Crums of white Bread steeped in Milk an ounce Frankincense and Gum Arabick of each three drams Borax and feather'd Allom of each two drams the White of an Egg Camphire a dram and a half infuse them four and twenty hours in a sufficient quantity of Rose and Bean-flower water equal parts then distil it in B. M. This Water smoots whitens beautifies and preserves the Complexion of Ladies They may wash their Faces with it at any time but especially Morning and Evening Another Cosmetick water Take two young Pigeons gut them and cut them into pieces Crums of white Bread half a pound peach-kernels and the four greater cold Seeds cleansed and bruised of each four ounces the whites of twelve Eggs and the Juice of four Limons infuse them twelve hours in two quarts of Milk then distil them in B. M. To the distilled water add Borax Camphire Sugarcandy and burnt Allom of each three drams set them three days in the Sun then let them stand fifteen days in a Wine-Cellar then filtre it through gray Paper and keep it for Use This is an Excellent Cosmetick-water and hath all the Vertues of the former and is to be used in the same manner Another Cosmetick-Water Take fine Sugar one pound Roch-Allom three ounces white Poppy-seeds bruised Flower of Beans of Water-Lillies and of the greater Housleek of each a handful the Juice of four Limons the Crum of two white penny-Loaves bruise what is to be bruised and put them all into a Glass Alembick and powr upon it Goats Milk or Black Cows Milk and white Wine of each a quart distil it in Balneo Mariae and keep the Water for Use This Water is good to smooth whiten and preserve the Complexion of Ladies washing their Faces therewith Some Receipts of Cosmeticks which I took out of the Countess of D' Hospital her Book which she sent me at Paris A Cosmetick water used by the Queen Take the whites of two new layd eggs beat the shels of them to powder and put them in a quart bottle with the whites and let them be beaten together for three hours then put into it four ounces of burnt Allum in fine powder beat it two hours longer then put into it three ounces of white Sugar candy in powder and beat it also for two hours then put in it four ounces of Borax also in powder and beat it also then take a pynte of water that runs from under the wheel of a mill and put into it four ounces of white Poppy seeds well beaten mix them well together so that it be like milk then pour that into the quart bottle with the other things at four several times beating it every time the space of two hours then strain it through a fine white linnen cloath and having put it into the bottle again let it be beaten for two or three hours longer And to know when it is well made and well beaten is when it froths the breadth of three fingers above it It will keep a twelve month It is a very good Cosmetick it whitens smooths and softens the skin use it only three times a week To wash and prepare night gloves to keep the hands white smooth and soft Take pure white wax four pound Spermacetis two ounces oyl of the greater cold seeds cleansed and drawn without fire and Magistery of Bismuth or Tinglass prepared as shall be set down afterwards of each three drams Borax and burnt Allum finely powdered of each half a dram put them all into a Pipkin which set in a Kettle of hot boyling water and when they are melted stir them well together to incorporate them Then having washt first your gloves in several waters and steept them twelve hours in cream dip them in this composition whil'st it is hot The said Composition is good also to dip cloaths in and spread them for to line womens masks it preserves the Complection of Ladies The Ladies in France use it for both It is also a good Cosmetick anointing the face with it at night going to bed washing it oft in the morning with some Cosmetick water I have two choice Receipts more for the face which I Coppied out of the said Countess's Book which Maria de medicis the Queen of France used her self The said Countess's mother gave fifty pistols in gold for them to him who always prepar'd them for the Queen as was subscrib'd at the bottom of the Receipts forbear to publish them her but I shall be very willing without any Interest to communicate them to any Lady that shall desire them of me The Preparation or Magistery of Bistmuth or Tinglass Though this be a Chymical preparation yet that Ladies may be sure to have it true and well prepar'd I will set down here directions how any Lady may prepare it with ease and pleasure Let a Chymist prepare you an Aqua fortis with equal parts of Niter and Allum but be sure he do not sell you a common one made with Niter and Vitriol Then take four ounces of Bistmuth let it be beaten to a fine powder then wash it so often till the water come from it very clear then dry it and put it into a small glass cucurbit set it upon a round under a chimney and pour upon it by little and little twelve ounces of your Aqua fortis pour in but about the quantity of a spoonfull the first time it will presently begin to work upon the Bistmuth and a thick black smoak will ascend which being almost past pour in a
Lavender of Fennel of Aniseeds all drawn by distillation of each a like quantity or more or less as you like the Odour and would have it strongest incorporate with these half a dram of Ambergrease make all these into a Paste which keep in a Box when you have fill'd your Pipe of Tobacco put upon it about the bigness of a Pins Head of this Composition It will make the Smoak most pleasantly odoriferous both to the Takers and to them that come into the Room and ones Breath will be sweet all day after It also comforts the Head and Brains Approved by Sir Kenelm Digby CHAP. XLII Select PERFUMES An Excellent Odoriferous Perfume for Chambers and Rooms of Entertainment much used in France TAke the powder of Willow coals three ounces Labdanum two ounces Storax and Benjamin of each half an ounce Mastick sweet Taccamahacca and yellow Amber of each two drams Lignum Rhodium a dram and half reduce them all into a subtil Powder and make them up into small Candles with Gum Tragant steep'd in Rosewater then dry them in the shadow kindle the narrow end of them and set them in a Candlestick or heat the Pin of a Save-all and then thrust it into the bigger end and so set it upon a Candle-stick A Famous Odoriferous sweet Water call'd the Angel's Water Take Roots of Florence Orrice and Benjamin of each an ounce and half select Storax six drams Lignum Rhodium half an ounce Aromatick Reed and Labdanum of each two scruples Flowers of Benjamin a scruple pulverize them all and put them into a Mattress or in a strong Bottle and pour upon it a pint of Rose-water and half a pint of Orange-flower-water Stop the Bottle or Mattress very close and set it in lukewarm water for twenty four hours then distil in a Cucurbite in Balneo Mariae and keep the water for Use If you please you may mix it with Musk and Ambergrease or you may put in it a few drops of the Essence of Amber afterwards set down This Water is call'd The Angels-Water because of its sweet and pleasing Odour you may after you have infused the Ingredients in the Waters strain the Infusion and having dissolv'd in it the Musk and Ambergrease keep the Liquor for Use without distilling it Of the Sediments you may make sweet Bags to put among Cloaths and Linnen The Countess of Dorset her sweet Water Take Rose-Leaves Bay-Leaves Lavender sweet Marjoram Eglantine and Pinks of each two handful Cloves and Cinamon of each an ounce bruise all these and pour upon them two quarts of strong Ale that is near the Grounds let them infuse twenty four hours then distil it and draw it till the Ingredients remain almost dry The Essence of Musk and Ambergrease drawn with Spirit of Wine Take a dram of Ambergrease and half a dram of Musk powder them and put them in a small Mattress with a long Neck and powr upon them four ounces of Spirit of Wine then stop it very close and cut the Cork even with the Neck of the Mattress after you have thrust it in as far as you can then close it all over with Spanish Wax then put the Mattress in a little earthen pan with Sand at the bottom and set it in the Sun in the hottest time of the year putting behind the Glass a Tin Leaf to receive the Sun-beams and reverberate them upon the Glass shake it sometimes and the Amber and Musk will dissolve in the Spirit of Wine and will tinge it of a red colour like a Ruby which powr out into a Glass Vial which stop well and tie a Bladder about it In all things where the Ambergrease is used two or three Drops of this Essence will go further in the Aromatizing of it than a whole dram of Ambergrease in substance One Drop of it Perfumes for ever whatsoever it touches that can imbibe it The End of the Medicinal Part. EXCELLENT DIRECTIONS FOR COOKERY TOGETHER WITH The Description of an Useful ENGIN serving for the same and likewise for Distilling the Choicest and Best Cordial Waters AS ALSO SELECT RECEIPTS FOR PRESERVING CONSERVING and CANDYING c. WITH A COLLECTION Of the Choicest Receipts for making of METHEGLIN SIDER CHERRY-WINE c. The SECOND PART LONDON Printed by T. B. for G. Hartman Chymist 1682. 6. It is very convenient for a small Family or For Lodgers especially in the Summer time for dressing their meat in it without making a fire which would heat the Room 7. The Door of the ENGINE being shut the Lamp where the Spirit burns is not seen so that if any body comes into the Room he will not know what it is unless you shew it him Of the several sorts of Meats which may with great conveniency be dressed in this ENGINE both the English and the French way with Excellent Direction how to do them 1. An Excellent and Savoury Fricasie after the French way either of Pigeons Chickens Veal Lamb Mutton Rabbits Lamb-stones or Sweet-breads 2. A Leg of Lamb boiled 3. Stewed Veal the French Way 4. Stew'd Broth the English way 5. Stew'd Rabbits the English way 6. A Hare stewed after the French way which they call Lieore en Civette which is exceeding Savoury Meat 7. A Hutch-pot the Dutch way which is excellent Meat 8. Pottage both English and French 9. Beans and green Pease 10. Milk-Pottage and Rice Milk Cawdles and Water-Gruel c. 11. A Carp in short Broth the French way ordinary way You must order the quantity of Eggs according to the quantity of your meat either more or less To stew a Rump of Beef Mrs. Herbert's way Take a Rump of Beef and Season it with pepper Salt and Nutmegs grated and mingled together Season and rub it on the bonyside and lay it in your Engine or in a Pipkin with the fat side downward Pour upon it three pintes of Vinegar and as much water and three great onions and a bunch of Rosemary tied up Stew them three or four hours together with a soft fire being close covered Then dish it up upon Sippets with some of the Gravy blowing off the Fat from it Elder Vinegar is better than ordinary Vinegar To make Red-Deer that will keep a quarter of a year and is Excellent Meat Take a piece of the buttock of Bief the leanest of it and beat it with a Rowling-pin the space of an hour till you think you have broken the grain of it and have made it very open both to receive the saucing drink and also to make it tender Then let it lie two days and two nights in Vinegar and Clarret-wine of each one pinte with two Nutmegs beaten Then take it out and Lard it with Lards as big as your biggest finger Rowl'd in pepper and salt Then take Pepper Cloves Mace and Nutmeg or Jamaica Pepper Beat and mix them all together and season it very well all over and so Bake it in Pye-paste and let it stand five or six hours in
Gelly Put at first but half the Sugar to the Liquor for so it will be the paler Boyl the Apples by themselves in fair water with a very little Sugar to make them tender then put them into the Liquor and the rest the other half of the Sugar with them Boil them with a quick fire till they be enough and the Liquor do gelly and that you see the Apples look very clear and as though they were transparent You must put the juice of two Limons and half an Orange to this in the due time Every Pippin should be lapped over in a broad Pill of Orange which you must prepare thus Pare the Orange broad and very thin and all hanging together rub it with salt PricK it and boyl it in several waters to take away the bitterness and make it tender Then the Orange Peels must be Preserved in ordinary manner and it imports not though they be done many days before the Apples be ready and kept in syrrup Preserve it by it self with sufficient quantity of Sugar when it is throughly done and very tender which you must cast to do before hand to be ready when the Apples are ready to be put up take them out of their Syrup and lap every Pippin in an Orange-Peel and put them into a Pot or glass and pour the Liquor upon them which will be Gelly over and about the Apples when all is cold This Proportion of Liquor Apples and Orange-Peels will take up about three quarters of a pound of Sugar in all If you would keep them any time you must put in weight for weight of Sugar Sir Kenelms Observation I conceive Apple Johns instead of Pippins will do better both for the Gelly and substance and especially at the latter hand of the year and I like them thin sliced rather than whole and the Orange-Peels scattered among them in little pieces or Chips My Lady Barclays's Sweet-meat of Apples My Lady Barclay makes her fine Apple-gelly with slices of John-Apples sometimes She mingles a few Pippins with the Johns to make the Gelly but She likes best the Johns single and the cooler is paler First fill the Glass with slices cut round-wise and then pour the Gelly into it to fill up the vacuities The Gelly must be boiled to a good stiffness then when it is ready to take from the fire put in some juice of Limon and of Oranges if you like it but these must not boyl yet it must stand a while upon the fire slewing in good heat to have the juices incorporate and penetrate well Amber-grease doth well in this Sweet-meat Gelly and slices of Golden-Pippins made as of John Apples and Pippins are exceeding good Mrs. Marbury the Queens Preserving-Woman makes her Apples in Gelly thus Cut your Apples into quarters either pared or unpared boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water till it be very strong of the Apples Take the clear Liquor and put to it sufficient Sugar to make Gelly and the slices of Apple so boyl them all together till the slices be enough and the Liquor Gelly or you may boil the slices in Apple-liquor without Sugar and make Gelly of other Liquor and put the slices into it when it is Gelly and they be sufficiently boiled Either way you must at the last put some juice of Limon to it and Amber ana Musk if you will You may do it with halfs or quartered Apples in deep glasses with store of Gelly about them To have these clear take the pieces out of the Gelly they are boiled in with a slice so as you may have all the Rags run from them and then put neat clean pieces into clear Gelly The other Gelly is as good to eat and will serve as well for glasses in which you stand not so much upon the outward beauty Dr. Bacon his Syrup of Apples You may make an Excellent Syrup of Apples thus Slice a douzen or twenty Pippins into thin slices and lay them in a deep Dish S. S. S. with pure double Refined Sugar in powder Put two or three spoonfuls of water to them and cover them close with another dish cutting their joyning that nothing may expire Then set them into an Oven and when you take out the Dish you will have an Excellent Syrup and the remaining substance of the Apples will be insipid You may proceed with Damsons in the same manner or other Plumbs and you will have excellent stewed Damsons as fair as Preserved ones swimming in a very fine Syrup To make Excellent Marmelade of Pippins Take the quickest Pippins when they are newly gathered and are sharp pare and coar and cut them into half quarters put to them their weight of the finest Sugar in powder Put them into the Preserving-Pan and pour upon them as much Fountain Water as will even cover them Boyl them with a quick fire till by trying a little upon a plate you find it gellieth when it is cold then take it from the fire and put into it a little of the Rinde of Limons rasped very small and a little of the yellow Rinde of Oranges boiled tender casting away the first water to correct their bitterness and cut into narrow slices as in the Gelly of Pippins and break the Apples with the back of the Preserving-Spoon whil'st it cooleth If you like them sharper you may put in a little Juice of Limons a little before you take the Fan from the fire When it is cold put it into Pots this will keep a year or two This is the juice of Apples strained out of Rasped Apples in such sort as you make Marmelade of Quinces with the juice of Quinces would not be better than fair water to boil your Apples and Sugar in Gelly of Quinces as it was made by Sr. Kenelms Direction and the Receipt set down by himself The Quinces being very ripe and having been long gathered I took twelve Quinces in quarters and the juice of sixteen others which made two pound of juice and I made a strong Decoction of about twenty four others adding to these twenty four to make the Decoction the stronger and more slimy the Coars and Parings of the twelve in quarters and the Coars and Parings of the twenty four and the Quinces sliced All these boyled about an hour and half in ten pintes of water then I strained and pressed out the Decoction and had between four and five pounds of strong Decoction To the Decoction and Syrup I put three pound of fine Sugar which being dissolved and scummed I put in the quarters often turning them and in near three quarters of an hour it was enough When it was cold it was store of firm clear red Gelly and the quarters very tender and well penetrated with the Sugar I found by this making that the juice of Quinces is not so good to make Jelly it maketh it somewhat running like Syrup Preserved Quinces made by Sr. Kenelm's Directions and set down by himself When I
made Quinces with Gelly I used the first time these proportions of the Decoctions of Quinces three pound of Sugar one pound three quarters flesh of Quinces two pound and half The second time these of Decoction two pounds and half Sugar two pounds and a quarter of flesh two pounds three quarters I made the Decoction by Boyling gently each time fourteen Quinces in a pottle of water an hour and half or two hours so that the Decoction was very strong of the Quinces I boyled the parings with all the Substance of the Quinces in thick slices and part of the Coar excepting all the kernels and then let it run through a loose Napkin pressing gently with two plates that all the Decoction might come out but be clear without any flesh or mash The first making I intended should be Red and therefore both the Decoction and the whole were boyled covered and it proved a fine clear Red. This boiled above an hour when all was in The other boiled not above half an hour always uncovered as also in making his Decoction and the Gelly was of a fine pale yellow I first put in the sugar upon the fire with the Decoction and assoon as it was dissolved I put in the flesh in quarters and halfs and turned the pieces of them in the Pan else the bottom of such as lay long unturned would be of a deeper colour than the upper part The flesh was very tender and good I put some of the pieces into Jarr-glasses carefully not breaking them and then poured Gelly upon them then more pieces then more Gelly c. all having stood a while to cool a little Mrs. Marbury the Queens Preserving-Woman Her fine white Gelly of Quinces Take Quinces newly from the Tree wipe them clean and boyl them whole in a large quantity of water the more the better till the Quinces crack and are soft then press out their Juice hard but so that onely the Liquor run out but none of the Pap Take three pound of this strained Liquor being settled and one pound of fine sugar and boyl them up to a Jelly with a moderate fire they may require near an hours boyling to come to a Jelly The Tryal of that is to take a tin Plate and wet it with fair water and drop a little of it upon the wet Plate if it stick to the Plate it is not enough but if it fall off when you slope the Plate without sticking at all to it then is it enough Then put it into flat shallow Tin forms first melted with cold water and let it stand in them four or five hours then reverse the plates that it may shale and fall out and so put the parcels up in Boxes White Marmelade of Quinces the Queens way Take a pound and a half of flesh of Quinces sliced one pound of sugar and one pound of a Decoction made very strong of Quinces boiled in fair water boyl these with a pretty quick fire till they be enough and that you find it Gellieth then proceed as in Sr. Kenelms way The Lady Baths's way of making White Marmelade of Quinces Take six pound of the flesh of Quinces and two pound of sugar moistened well with the juice of Quinces Boil these together first gently till the Liquor be swelled out of the Quinces and have dissolved all the Sugar then very quick and fast proceed as in Sr. Kenelms way bruising the Quinces with a Spoon c. till it be enough This will be very fine and quick in Taste Paste of Quinces with very little Sugar as they were done for Sr. Kenelm Digby To one pound of the flesh or solid substance of Quinces when they are pared coared and quartered take but a quarter of a pound of double-Refined purest Sugar Do thus Scald your flesh of Quinces in a little of the juice of other Quinces that they may become tender as if they were Codled then beat them in a Mortar to subtil uniform smooth Pulp which you may pass through a Searse In the mean time let your Sugar be dissolved and boyling upon the fire When it is of a Candy height put the Pulp of Quince to it and let it remain a little while upon the fire till it boyl up one little puff or bubling and that it is uniformly mixed with the Sugar You must stir it well all the while then take it off and drop it into little Cakes or put it thin into shallow glasses which you may afterwards cut into slices Dry the Cakes and Slices gently and by degrees in a Stove turning them often these will keep all the year and are very quick of taste To make Excellent Marmalade of red Currans by Mrs. Marbury Take the Juice of red Currans and put into it a convenient proportion of entire Currans cleansed from the Stalks and Buttons at the other end let these boil a little together have also ready some fine Sugar boiled to a Candy-height put to this of Currans at discretion and boil them together till they be enough and bruise them with the back of your Spoon that they may be in consistence of Marmalade which put in Pots when it is cold You need not stone the Currans when you put in the Juice unless you please Excellent Jelly of red Currans Set them over the Fire that their Juice may sweat out pressing them all the while with the back of your preserving Spoon to squeeze out of them all that is good when you see all is out strain the Liquor from them and let them stand to settle for five hours that the gross Matter may sink to the bottom then take the pure Clear and to every Pint of it put three quarters of a pound or fine Sugar and boil them up with a quick Fire till they come to a Jelly-height which will be in less than a quarter of an hour which you may try with a drop upon a Plate then take it off and when it is cold enough put it into a Glass You must be careful to scum it well in due time the thick Setling will serve to add to the Marmelade of Cherries or the like To make Jelly of Currans with the Fruit whole in it Boil four pound of Sugar to a Candy-height and clarifie it with Whites of Eggs then put it into five pound or at discretion of pure red Currans boil them together a little while till it be enough to become Jelly then put into it a good handful or two of whole Currans cleansed from the Stalks and black Ends and boil them a little till they be enough you need not boil the Juice before you put it to the Sugar but let it be very clear and well-strained and scum it well whilst it boileth with the Sugar To make Marmalade of Cherries Take a pound of fine Sugar to four pound of the best Kentish Cherries stone them and put them over a gentle Fire that they may not boil but resolve much in Liquor take
put it over the Fire before it boils there will arise a scum which must be scummed off very clean as it rises Put to every gallon two Nutmegs sliced and when it hath boiled enough take it off and set it a cooling in clean Wort-Vessels and when it is as cold as Wort put in a little Barm and work it like Beer and when it hath done working stop it up and let it stand two months My Lady Gerrard's Mead. My Lady Gerrard makes her Mead with a little Rosemary and sweet Marjoram but a large quantity of Bryar-Leaves and a reasonable proportion of Ginger Boil these in the Liquor when it is scummed and work it in due time with a little Barm then Tun it in a Vessel and draw it into Bottles after it is sufficiently setled Whites of Eggs with the shells beaten together do clarifie Mead best and leave a benignity in it as my Lady Fortescue Wintour conceiveth If you will have your Mead cooling use Violet and Strawberry Leaves Agrimony Eglantine and the like adding Borage and Bugloss and a little Rosemary and sweet Marjoram to give it Vigor Tartar makes it work well To make Metheglin my Lady Willoughby's way Take four gallons of running water and boil it a quarter of an hour and put it in an earthen Vessel and let it stand all Night then next day only take the water and leave the Setling at the bottom so put the Honey in a thin bag and work it in the water till all the Honey is dissolved take to four gallons of water one gallon of Honey then put in an Egg if the Honey be good that it be strong enough the Egg will part of it appear on the top of the Liquor if it do not put more Honey in it till it do then take out the Egg and let the Liquor stand till next morning then take two ounces of Ginger and slice it and pare it some Rosemary washed and stripped from the stalk dry it very well the next day put the Rosemary and Ginger into the Drink and so set it on the fire when it is almost ready to boil take the Whites well beaten of three Eggs with the shells and put all into the Liquor and stir it about and scum it well till it be clear be sure you scum not off the Rosemary and the Ginger then take it off the fire and scum it let it run through a hair sieve and when you have strained it pick the Rosemary and the Ginger out of the Strainer and put it into the Drink and throw away the Egg-shells and so let it stand all night the next day Tun it up in a Barrel be sure the Barrel be not too big then take a little Flower and a little Bran and the white of an Egg and beat them well together and put them into a Barrel on the top of the Metheglin after it is Tunn'd up and so let it stand till it has done working then hoop and stop it up as close as is possible and so let it stand six or seven weeks then draw it out and bottle it you must tie down the Corks and set the Bottles in Sand five or six weeks and then drink it To make Meath or Mead the Lady Say's way Take to every gallon of water a quart of Honey and set it over a clear fire and when it is ready to boil scum it very clear then take two handfuls of sweet Marjoram as much Rosemary and as much Bawm and two handfuls of fennel-Fennel-roots as much Parsley-roots and as many Asparagus roots slice them in the middle and take out the Pith wash and scrape them very clean and put them with your Herbs into your Liquor then take two ounces of Ginger one of Nutmegs and half an ounce of Mace bruise them and put them in and let it boil until it is so strong that it will bear an Egg then let it cool and being cold put in three or four spoonfuls of Ale-yeast and so scum it well and put it into a Rundlet and it will work like Ale and having done working stop it up close as you do new Beer and lay Salt upon it Mrs. Conquests Receipt to make Metheglin In every three gallons of water boyl Rosemary Liverwort Baum of each half a handful and Cowslips two handfuls when the water hath sufficiently drawn out the vertue of the herbs pour all into a Tub and let it stand all night then strain it and to every three gallons of the clear liquor or two and a half if you will have your drink stronger put one gallon of Honey and boyl it til it bear an Egg Scumming it til no more scum will rise which to make rise the better put in now and then a pottinger full of cold water then pour it into a Tub and let it stand to cool til it be bloud-warm and then put by degrees a pint of Ale-yeast to it to make it work so let it stand three days very close covered Then Scum of the yeast and put it into a seasoned Barrel but stop it not up close til it have done hissing Then either stop it very close if you will keep it in the Barrel or draw it into Bottles Put into this proportion Ginger sliced Nutmegs broken of each one ounce Cinamon bruised half an ounce in a bag which hang in the Bung with a Stone in it to make it sink Sometimes She addeth two handfuls of sweet bryar leaves and one of Bettony to this proportion of water or one gallon more To make Sr. William Pastons's Meade Take ten gallons of Spring-water and put therein ten pintes of the best honey let this boyl half an hour and scum it very well then put in one handful of Rosemary and as much Bay-leaves with a little Limon-peel Boyl this half an hour longer then take it off the fire and put it into a clean Tub and when it is cool Work it up with yeast as you do Beer When it is wrought put it into your Vessel and stop it very close within three days you may Bottle it and in ten days after it will be fit to drink White Mead as it was made for Kenelm Digby by his Direction Boyl what quantity of Spring water you please three or four walms and then let it settle twenty four hours and pour the clear from the setling Take sixteen gallons of the clear and boyl in it ten handful of Eglantine Leaves five of Liver-wort five of Scabious four of Baum four of Rosemary two of Bay-Leaves one of Thyme and one of Sweet Marjoram and five Eringo Roots splitted if you can get them when the water hath drawn out the vertue of the herbs which it will do in half an hours boyling let it run through a strainer or sieve and let it settle so that you may pour the Clear from the Dregs To every three gallons of the clear take one of pure Honey and with clean Arms stripped up layd it
for two or three hours to dissolve the honey in the water lade it twice or thrice that day The next day boyl it very gently to make the scum rise and scum it all the while and now and then pour to it a Ladle full of cold water which will make the scum rise more when it is very clear from scum you may boyl it the more strongly til it bear an egg very high that the breadth of a groat be out of the water and that it boyl high with great walmes in the middle of the Kettle which boyling with great Bubbles in the middle is a sign it is boyled to its height Then let it cool til it be Luke-warm at which time put some Ale-yeast into it to make it Work as you would do Ale and then put it up into a fit Barrel first seasoned with some good sweet White wine as Canary Sack and keep the Bung open til it have done Working filling it up with some such honey-drink warmed as you find it sunk down by working over When it hath almost done working put into it a bagg of thin stuff such as Bakers use to Bolt in fastned by a Cord at the Bung containing two parts of Ginger sliced and one a piece of Cinamon Cloves and Nutmegs with a pebble stone in it to make it sink and stop it up close for six months or a year and then you may draw it into Bottles if you like Cardamum seeds you may add some of them to the Spices Some do like Mint exceedingly to be added to the other herbs If you will have it stronger put but two gallons and a half of water to one of honey You may use what Herbs or Roots you please either for their taste or vertue after the manner here set down If you make it work with yeast you must have great care to draw it into Bottles soon after it hath done working as after a fortnight or three weeks for that will make it soon grow stale and it will thence grow sowr and dead before you are aware But if it work singly of it self and by help of the Sun without admixtion of other Leaven or yeast it may be kept long in the Barrel so it be filled up to the top and kept very close stopt I conceive it will be exceeding good thus When you have a strong honey Liquor of three parts of water to one of honey well boyled and scummed put into it as soon as you take it from the fire some Clove-gilliflowers first wiped and all the whites clipped off one good handful or two to every gallon of Liquor Let these infuse thirty or forty hours then strain it from the flowers and either work it with yeast or set it in the Sun to Work when it hath almost done working put into it a bag of like Gilliflowers and if they be duly dryed I think they are the better hanging in it at the Bung. I conceive that bitter and strong herbs as Rosemary Bays Sweet marjorum Thyme and the like do conserve Mead the better and longer being as it were instead of Hops But neither must they no more then Clove-gilliflowers be too much boyled for the volatile pure Spirit flies away very quickly therefore rather infuse them Beware of Infusing Gilliflowers in any Vessel of Metal excepting silver for all metals will spoyl and dead their colour Glazed earth is best My Lady Dormers Receipt to make Metheglin Take four Gallons of water and one of Honey boyl it and skim it then put into it Liver wort Harts-tongue Wild-carrot and Yarrow a little Rosemary and Bays one parsly-Parsly-root and a Fennel-Root let them boyl an hour altogether you may hang a little bag of Spice in it if you please when it is cold put a little Barm to it and let it work like Beer The Roots must be scraped and the Pith taken out My Lady Morrices Receipt for Mead. My Lady Morrice makes her Mead thus Boyl first your water with your herbs Those She likes best are Angelica Baum Borage and a little Rosemary Spirit of Myrrh if the taste here be good not half so much as of any of the rest a handfull of all together to two or three gallons of water After about half an hours Boyling let the water run through a strainer to sever the herbs from it into wooden or earthen Vessels and let it cool and settle To three parts of the clear put one or more of Honey and boyl it til it bear an Egg leaving as broad as a shilling out of the water skimming it very well Then pour it out into Vessels as before and next day when it is almost quite cold pour it into a Sack-Cask wherein you have first put a little fresh Ale-yeast about two spoonfuls to ten gallons hang in it a bag with a little sliced Ginger but almost a pottinger full of Cloves cover the bung lightly til it have done working then stop it up close You may keep and draw it a year or two after It is excellent good Her Sister makes Hers thus Dissolve your Honey in the water til it beareth an Egg higher or lower according to the strength you will have it of then put into it some Sea-wormwood and a little Rosemary and a little Sage about two good handfuls of all together to ten gallons when it hath boyled enough to take the vertue of the herbs skim them out and strew a handful or two of fine wheat flower upon the boyling Liquor This will draw all the Dregs to it and swim at the top so that you may skim all off together and this She holdeth the best way of clarifying the Liquor and making it look pale Then pour it into Vessels as above to cool let it stand three days then Tun it up into a Sack Cask without yeast or Spice and keep it stopped til it work then let it be open til it have done working filling it up still with other honey drink Then stop it up close for a year or two you may at first stop it so that the strong working may throw out the stopple and yet keep it close til it work strongly She saith that such a small proportion of Wormwood giveth it a fine quick taste and a pale colour with an eye of green The Wormwood must not be so much as to discern any the least bitterness in the taste but that the composition of it with the honey may give a quickness The Rosemary and the Sage must be a great deal less than the Wormwood sometimes She stops it up as close as soon as she hath Tunned it and lets it remain so for three months Then pierce it and draw it into Bottles which stop well and tye down the stoppels this will keep so a long time She useth this way most It makes the Mead drink exceeding quick and pleasant when you pierce the Cask it will fly out with exceeding force and be ready to throw out the stopper and
Use of it till they appear Another Approved Remedy for the same I was assured by a Gentlewoman of Credit that a Daughter of hers at twenty years of Age having never had her Purgations was cured by the following Remedy Take a pound of the smallest new Nails put them in a quart of white Wine let it stand four and twenty hours then drink thereof warm a quarter of a pint in the Morning fasting when you have taken three Doses of it put into it a pint of Wine more and let it stand for some time upon the Nails then take of it till you have taken it all this hath been approved upon many others you may put in with the Wine a few Orange Peels and Cloves An Experimented Remedy for the immoderate Flux of the Terms Take a dram of the Scrapings or Filings of the Skull of a man put it into a glass of white Wine let it infuse all Night in and in the Morning take it fasting In two or three times taking it every Morning it will cure it It is an Approved Remedy A Physical Course to prouoke the Terms prescribed by a Learned Physician to a Lady of great Quality Take the Roots of white Ditany Madder and round Birthwort of each half an ounce Orrice and Asaribecca Roots and sweet Flag Roots of each three drams Orange peels and Cinamon of each two drams Juniper Berries six drams Fennel and Commin seed of each one dram Tops of Wormwood Mugwort Horse-mint and Germander of each half a handful Flowers of Elder Savin and Rue of each a handful Saffron half a dram Filings of Steel an ounce tie the Steel up in a Rag and shred and bruise all the Ingredients infuse them in four pints of strong white Wine for twelve hours then strain it and drink thereof three times a day and after five or six days taking of it use the following Purge Take Sena a dram a half Cassia two drams Rhubarb half a dram sweet Fennel seeds and Cinamon of each a dram and a half Savin one pugil This is for two Potions to be taken for two Mornings together After Purging take the following Electuary Take Conserves of Wormwood and Mint of each half an ounce Conserve of Rue an ounce Candied Elecampane Root half an ounce Cinamon finely Powdered and Crocus Martis aperitive of each a dram of Oyl of Mace and Cinamon each six drops mix it and make an Electuary whereof take the quantity of a large Nutmeg three times a day An approved Remedy to stop the Abundance of the Terms Take a handful of red Dock Roots the yelllowest and best slit them and boil them in a Gallon of Conduit-water scum it and put in it Raisins of the Sun stoned two handful Liquoras bruised two ounces boil it until a third part be consumed then strain it and make Almond Milk thereof with Blanched Almonds A good Remedy for the Whites much Approved If the Woman wanteth her Monthly Terms when she hath the Whites they must by no means be stopp'd till the Terms are brought down for it is very dangerous Let all the Means then be used to provoke and bring them down first and then to stop the Whites take the following after some fit Purgation once or twice before Take the Ceruse of Antimony that is diaphoretick Antimony about fifteen grains for a Dose in a little white Wine in the Morning fasting two or three times a day Another for the same Take Garden-Tansie a handful great Dock Roots that are young and without Buds two ounces shred the Herb and bruise the Roots and boil them in a quart of Milk drink a Draught thereof warm sweetned with Sugar of Roses and Nutmeg grated in it You may also take the following Pills and drink a Draught of the said Milk after them Take Venice-Turpentine an ounce Dragons-Blood Nutmegs grated and Bolearmenick of each a dram mix them and make a Mass for Pills Take thereof a dram for a Dose The following Electuary is also very good the Body being Purged first Take Conserve of red Roses four ounces Conserve of Succory two ounces red Coral in subtil Powder Snakeweed Tormentil Roots and Shavings of Ivory of each two drams with Syrup of Mirtles make an Electuary and take thereof the quantity of a large Nutmeg every Morning Another Approved Remedy for the Whites and so the Heat in the Back and Kidneys Take four good sound Nutmegs put them in the middle of a Houshold Loaf of Bread then let the Loaf be baked and take out the Nutmegs then beat the white of a new laid Egg to an Oyl let it settle and take off the Froth and mix the White with four spoonfuls of Rose-water and as much Plantane-water then sweeten it with fine Sugar and grate into it half of one of the Nutmegs and drink it in the Morning fasting for seven days together This cured a Woman that had taken many Remedies in vain for the said Distempers It strengthens and cools the Reins and is good against the Stone and Gravel An Approved Remedy for the Fits of the Mother and for the Vapors Take Roots of round and long Birth-wort Piony and lesser Valerian of each two ounces Castor one ounce Tops of dried Wormwood Mugwort Fetherfew Tansie Elder and Camomil Flowers of each a handful having bruised and cut them all together infuse them in two quarts of rectified Spirit of Wine then distill them according to Art and keep the Spirit for Use This Spirit is very effectual to open the Obstructions of the Matrix and to suppress the Vapors and Fits that arise from it you may take of it from one to two or three drams at a time in some distilled Waters it may also be put into the Nostrils applied to the Temples or upon the Navil I have an incomparable Essence or Spirit of a Chymical preparation which is so effectual beyond all compare for the Vapors and Fits of the Mother c that several Women which could have no Children live by reason of their Vapors and Fits till they took of it had their Children live afterwards and were perfectly Cured of that Distemper A Remedy for a Bloody Vrine whether in Man or Woman also for a Bloody Flux or Spitting of Blood Take Shepherds Purse and Plantane shred them and boil them in fair water then strain it and sweeten it with fine Sugar drink thereof Morning and Evening Another for the same Take the Earth of Swallows Nest steep it in hot Water then strain it and let the Patient drink thereof two or three times a day A Remedy for one that cannot retain Vrin Take a Mouse newly kill'd burn it to Ashes with the Skin and Hair give a pretty quantity of it in Ale or dry the Mouse in an Oven so that you may reduce it to Powder which give to drink in the same manner Another for one that cannot keep his Water Take Conserve of Hips three ounces of red Roses an ounce Crabs Eyes a