and Claret-wine also some strong Broth sliced Nutmeg and Ginger Salt and Pepper with an Onion and a Shalot or two let it stew about two hours and so with the Materials it is stewed in serve it up on carved Sippets and it will be an excellent Dish worth all your cost and trouble Bur of the Meadow This Herb or Plant grows in wet places most commonly by Rivers and Ditch-sides in Meadows Marshy-grounds flowering very early so that they decay in February or March before the Leaves appear which put not out till April The Sun claims an extraordinary Influence over this and therefore as all other Herbs under the Solar Government it is a great strengthener of the Heart cheating the Vital Spirits The Roots are good against the Plague and Pestilential Fevers by provoking Sweat if they be powder'd and taken in a glass of Whitewine They likewise greatly resist Poyson being taken with the Powders of Angelica and Zedoary they prevent the Rising of the Mother The Roots boiled in Wine are good for those that are troubled with Shortness of Breath Burnet This Herb infused in Wine chears the Heart and renders it very pleasant by imparting a curious Smell and Taste to it it preserves against the Plague and the Bitings of Mad Dogs and also resists Poysons burnet-Burnet-Water Take the Tops of Wormwood Rosemary and Burner Mugwort Sun-dew and Dragons Scabious Agrimony Carduus Bettony Baum and the Lesser Centaury of each a handful Roots of Angelica Peony Zedoary Tormentile Liquorice and Elecampane of each half an ounce bruise shred and infuse them with Sage Rue Celandine Marrigold-leaves and flowers of each a handful three or four days in four quarts of the finest White-wine Then distill it carefully and let the Dose be three or four spoonfuls at a time Burns For any Burns or Scalds mingle Lime-water with Linseed-oil by beating them together with a Spoon and with a Feather dipt in it dress the place grieved till you find the fire is gone Do this as often as you have Occasion Burns Take a couple of hard Onions mash them in a Mortar with half a handful of Bay-salt so apply them If for Scalding Take the inner Rind of an Elder-tree and fresh Sheep's-dung of each half an handful with Fresh-butter or Oil make thereof an Ointment and with it anoint often the scalded place and the heat will be extracted Burn in the Eye Take a new-lay'd Egg boil it hard and apply one of the Whites at a time pretty warm but not too hot and keep it on some hours then take two or three rotten Apples beat them to mash and lay them over the Eye as a Poultis Burn an Ointment Take Saccharum Saturni half a dram and of the sharpest Vinegar four ounces make a Solution of the former in the latter then put Oil of Elder so much as will serve to make it into an Unguent or Ointment and so apply it to the Part affected Burn or Scald Take Oil of Olives three ounces White Wax two ounces Sheeps-suet one ounce and an half Minium and Castle-soap of each half an ounce Dragons Blood drams mingle and make 'em into an Ointment according to Art This is a most approv'd Remedy for Burn or Scald Dr. Butler's Ale See Ale-Purging Butter call'd May-Butter To preserve this Take the freshest and newest Butter made about the middle or end of May put it into a large glazed Earth-pot and place it so hot in the Sun that it may run and melt then press it through a fine Cloth and expose it to the Sun again till it is well clarify'd Take the purer fart from the Setlings and it will keep all the Year It supples and asswages hard Swellings allaying the Heat and Inflammation of them cures breakings-out and Heat being mixed and made into an Ointment with the Juice of Wormwood and Vinegar and is thus prepared to mix with divers toppling and mollifying Ointments CAchexies To make a Pill for the Cure of them Take half an ounce of Trochiscs of Alhandale Myrrh choice Aloes and Galpanum of each three drams Scammony Jallop and white Agarick of each one dram and a half Oyl of Nutmeg one dram Amber Cinamon and Cloves of each six drops Extract of Juniper as much as is sufficient to make them up into Pills when they are very well mixed These are very much recommended for the Curing of the Quartan Ague Jaundice Dropsie and the Retention of the Menstruums The weight of these Pills must be but two grains a piece and two or three may be taken at a time but be careful to keep your Body warm in good order three or four hours after Calves-Foot-Pye Take Calves-feet boil them very tender then take out the Bones and mince them small do the like by two pound of Beef-suet then add a quarter of an ounce of beaten Cloves and Mace Lemon-peel small shred a quarter of an ounce of beaten Cinamon and Nutmeg and strew over all a little Pepper and Salt finely beaten together And to any of these Pyes you may if you think it convenient put in this following Caudle when they are baked viz. A quarter of a pint of White-wine half as much Verjuyce a blade of whole Mace the Yolks of three Eggs a quarter of a pound of Sugar and as much Butter beat them up well and strain out the thinnest part and so put it into the Pye as it is just going to be served up at the Table and it gives a curious flavour and relish you may likewise scrape fine sifted Sugar over the Lid and so serve it up Calves-Head-Pye Boil your Calf's-Head till the Meat will come from the Bones then cut it into thin slices then take half an ounce of Nutmeg as much Cloves and Mace half an ounce of Cinamon half a pound of Dates sliced thin a pound of Raisins a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace the Marrow of four bones the Yolks of six Eggs hard boiled cut them in halves and then take half a pound of candied Lemon-peel and Citron a handful of pickled Barberries and Lemons sliced thin a pound of Butter and so bake it pretty well Calves-Head-Pye with Dysters Order the Head as the former season it with a quarter of an ounce of Pepper two large Nutmegs and a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace put in six Cloves of Shalots small minced two quarts of Oysters and on the top and bottom lay two pound of Butter lay on four Anchovies mixed or in small streaks and over these pour half a pint of Whitewine Cammock The Root of this Powder drank in White-wine with the Juice of Lemons is excellent in the Stone or Gravel in the Reins or Bladder especially when the Conduits thorough which the Urine should pass are obstructed And according to the Testimony of Matthiolus a certain Man having used the Powder of this Root for many Months cured himself of a Rupture The Decoction also of this Root and Water which hath been
Head cover'd close with a Cap. This is excellent against the Head-ach Pains in the Eyes and likewise Swimming of the Head Head to Purge Take Agarick and Mastick of each three drams the Roots of Flower-de-luce and Hare-hound of each one dram Turbith five drams in Powder Hiera Picra half an ounce Pulp of Coloquintida and Sarcocoll of each two drams Myrrh one dram Sapa as much as shall suffice to make them into a mass These purge very strongly from all parts of the Body both Choler and Phlegmatick Humours but especially from the Head and Breast and are good against old Colds and Catarrhs The Dose is half a dram Head Scald Take Olive-oil put it into a Dish-full of fair Water beat them well together then add some fine Powder of Brimstone and May-Butter make an Ointment thereof and anoint the Head therewith Head Scald another Take Olive-oil two ounces put it into half a pint of Spring-water stir and beat them well together then add half an ounce of Flower of Brimstone and three ounces of May-Butter and over a gentle fire make it into an Ointment and anoint the Head therewith as hot as may be endured bath it about seven or eight hours afterwards with Oil of Roses and Camomel melted or mixt together over a gentle fire and by often so doing you have the Remedy Head Scald another Take half a peck of Oyster-shells out of which the Oysters have newly been unshell'd calcine them in a clear fire so that they may be reduced to Powder sift it as fine as Flower and mix it with White Ointment so that it may be something stiff and anoint the Head with it daily and you will soon find the Effects answer your desire Head to Strengthen Take Ointment of Mastick and anoint the Temples and Forehead therewith You may make it in this manner Take of the Oils of Mastick Wormwood and Nard of each one ounce Mastick Mint Coral Red Roses Cloves Cinamon and Wood of Aloes of each a dram and of Yellow Wax a sufficient quantity to make it into an Ointment This not only strengthneth the Head but the Nerves and Stomach and is Astringent Hearing For Thickness of Hearing Take Garden Daisie-roots and beat then till a Juice may be pressed from them then laying your Head on a Bolster your Body lying at length drop three or four drops into the Ear you hear best withal and so continue to do for three of four days together stopping the Ear with Cotton-wool or Lint to keep the Air out Hearing to Recover Take the Juices of Celandine and Daisie roots and drop into the Ears stopping them afterward with Black Wool or Cotton lying on your Back with your Head very low for the space of half an hour after it and in twice or thrice so doing you will find great advantage by it Heart-Burning Take Red Coral finely poudered about a dram take it in White-wine or Ale for want of this scrape some Chalk that has been well burnt in the fire and drink it in the abovesaid Liquors Heart to Cheer Take Carduus Bean Borrage and Bugloss-waters equal quantities and in all but one ounce put into them three grains of Bezoar-stone finely beaten to Powder and having infused it for the space of an hour drink it off and keep your self warm an hour afterward and then drink a glass of Muskadel and in so doing often it will remove Heart-sickness Pains and Tremblings as also Melancholy c. Heart to Chear and Comfort Take of the Leaves of Celandine the Greater with the Roots three handfuls of Rue a handful of Scordium two handfuls Dittany of Creet and Carduus Benedictus of each a handful and an half the Roots of Angelica and Zedoary of each three drams the outward Peels of Citron and Lemon of each five drams of July-Flowers one ounce and an half Red Roses and of the Flowers of the Lesser Centaury of each two drams shred what is to be shred and infuse them three days in three pints of Malaga-Wine or the Spirit of Wine The Vinegar of July-Flowers and the Juice of Lemons of each a pint distill them in a Bath in a Glass Vessel and to the distilled Liquor add of Cinamon three drams Cloves two drams and an half Mithridate an ounce Venice-Treacle three ounces Troches of Vipers half an ounce Camphire two scruples Wood of Aloes a dram Mace two drams Yellow Saunders one dram and an half of the Seeds of Carduus Benedictus one ounce of the Seeds of Citron three drams let these be infused two days then with a gentle fire distill them twice or thrice and draw off half thereof This Water is excellent to Cheer and Enliven the Heart and for expelling Melancholy Heart-Passion Boil Pimpernel the Garden sort Herb Flower and Roots in Ale till the Ale be very strong of them drink it up hot sweetned with a little Syrup of Roses or Violets this twice or thrice done removes Heartsickness or the Infection of the Plague and made into Posset-drink with Milk is good in Pestilential Fevers Heart-sickness to Remove Take Ale and make a Posset-drink thereof then clarifie it and seeth Pimpernel in it till it becomes strong of the Herb sweeten it a little and drink it often Heat in the Eyes Beat the White of an Egg and dissolve in it a pretty quantity of fine Loaf-Sugar beat them till they become thin then drop it into the Eye Heat in the Face Dip a Cloth in the Juice of Lemons and Salt and Atom heated in White-wine and in often applying it the Heat or Redness of the Face will be removed and the Skin become clear smooth and of its proper Colour Heats or Inflammations of the Eyes Take the Powder of Tutty-stone Aloes and Sugar of each an ounce infuse them in a quart of Red Rose-water and White-wine being put into a double Glass and placed in Balneo Mariae five or six days with often shaking wash the Eyes Forehead Temples and indeed the whole Head with this often so you will find a speedy Remedy Heat of the Liver Take Liverwort Garden and Wild and Endive of each a handful Maidenhair half an handful boil them in Water with a little Sugar and being clarified put into the Decoction a little of the Wine of Pomgranates and drink it alone and in your usual Drink for a Week together or as you see occasion The Dose is a quarter of a pint at a time Hellebore to Prepare Infuse the Roots of Black Hellebore in the Juice of Quinces three days in a moderate Heat then dry them and keep 'em for use Hemlock This by reason of its Coldness is supposed to be poisonous yet it is frequently used and not without success for Tumors and Inflammations of the Spleen A Cataplasm or Plaister of it with Ammoniacum powerfully discuss all Tumors or hard Swellings Twenty grains of the Root in Powder is an admirable Diaphoretick in any Malignant Fevers Hemlock Plaister Take of the Juice of the
slices of Lemon Currans and Dates and so close them up and being baked liquor them with Butter and White-wine or Sack and Sugar Land-Fowl Boiled the French way Take Green-Pease and put them into boiling Mutton-broth with some thin slices of interlarded Bacon and being near boiled put in some Parsley and bruised Aniseeds strain some of the Pease and thicken the Broth then add Pepper grated Cheese Pease or Flower and sometimes Saffron or Mint as your Relish best suits lay a few Sippits in the Dish and pour this Broth on the Fowls garnish the Dish with Flowers sliced Lemon and Spices and serve it up And thus you may order Sea-Fowl with Green-Pease or Lambs and Kids-Heads only dridging them over with the Yolks of hardboiled Eggs. Land-fowl to Carbonade The Fowl being roasted cut them up and sprinkle them with Salt then scotch and broil them and make a Sauce with Vinegar Butter and the Juice of Oranges garnish'd with slices of Orange or Lemon Languishing of the Parts Take half a pound of Licorice bruise two ounces White Sugar-candy four ounces Jelly of Calves-feet two pound Mace Cinamon and Nutmeg of each a quarter of an ounce White-wine a quart boil them up to the thickness of a Jelly and strain them thorough a Jelly-bag and eat of it both morning and evening at least five or six spoonfuls at a time Lapis Bedicamentalis Take Hungarian Vitriol one pound Salt of Nitre half a pound Ceruss Alom Bolearmenian Salt of Glass of each four ounces Sal Ammoniack two ounces beat them all very carefully and mix them with White-wine-Vinegar then bake them in an earthen Pot over a gentle fire till they become as hard as a Stone and then preserve it for use Larks to Boil Truss them and cut off their Legs and Heads boil them having put a little Parsley and Sage finely shred into their Bellies in Mutton-Broth or in VVater season'd with a little Salt that has been boil'd and often scumm'd before you put 'em in then boil up when the Broth or VVater is half consumed large Mace Dates Marrow Currans Pepper and Salt and being well stewed together lay them on fine carved Sippits and thicken the Broth with Almonds beaten and strained add a little Rose-water and Sugar and garnish with Lemons sliced Barberries pickled Sugar and grated Bread strewed about the Dish and for Leer strain grated Bread and hard Eggs beaten in Verjuice and some of the Broth. And thus you may boil and dish up all manner of small Birds well â—…uced as Quails Rails Thrush Black-birds Snites VVheat-ears Sparrows Feldefers Martins Ruffs Brews God wits Knots Dotterels Pewits Strenits Ollines Gravelens Red-Shanks c. But as for the latter ten this way is best approved by some Cooks viz. Let 'em be half roasted and stick on one side a few Cloves as they roast save the Gravy and put them into a Pipkin with it and a little Claret and strong Broth so much as will cover them some boiled Houshold-bread strained also Mace Cloves Pepper Ginger fryed Onions and Salt stew them well and serve them up on fine carved Sippets and sometimes for change you may garnish with Lemons and Sweet-Herbs shred pretty small Lark-Pye Take a dozen of Larks fresh and good two Penny Manchets one pound of Currans a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon one Nutmeg grated a quarter of an ounce of Mace finely beaten a quarter of a pint of Rose-water three Eggs and a little Salt work all these together till they are very well mixed and make the Mixture into Balls as big as Walnuts put them into the Bellies of the Larks then having plac'd them in order put a pound of Butter and a Lemon sliced over them half a pint of pickled Barberries and half a pound of Citron and Lemon candied a quarter of a pound of Eryngo-roots and a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace and when it is baked put in Butter on the top of it and serve it up Lark-Spurs The Juice of the Flowers clear the Sight and strengthen it it is successfully used in Vulnerary Potions the Decoction of the Flower in Wine and drank with a dram of Saffron infus'd into it removes Obstructions Lasks Take a dram of Rhubarb Baum Mint old Penny-royal of ' each a pugil or little handful boil them in Claret or Red Wine and drink of the Decoction two ounces at a time in the morning fasting Lawn Faded to Recover Take the Decoction of Vervain a quart the Water that distills from the Vine when cut in the Spring-time as the Sap is riling half a pint the Roots of Primroses and Rosemary-flowers a handful of each steeped a day in a quart of new Milk mix all these together and steep the Lawns in the liquid part being well strained from the grosser a night when they are next washed they will thicken and become fresh And by this rule Muslings Lace and Tiffany are recovered Laxation of Parts You must spread Emplastrum Divinum upon soft Leather and apply it to strengthen the Part weakened by the Sublaxation Lead-wort This is good bruised and applied to old Sores also to kill Worms in the Flesh by washing the Parts with the Juice of it Legs Inflamed or Vlcerated To cure this Take a quart of Spring-water four ounces of White-Bread add to it two ounces of Sheeps-suet cut very small and having boil'd it a little add an ounce of Rosin finely powder'd and a quarter of an ounce of searc'd Brimstone and spread them well mixed and temper'd on Cloth or Leather and lay it to the Part grieved and it will give sudden Ease and in time work a Cure Leg of Mutton to dress after the best manner either Roast or Boil'd in that way they call Forc'd Mince the Meat with Beef-suet or Bacon Sweet-Herbs Pepper Salt Cloves Garlick raw Eggs Chesnuts then with all these together fill the Skin of the Leg out of which the Meat was taken in order to be minced prick it up and either boil or roast it according to your Discretion make Sauce with the remainder of the Meat and other Ingredients that will not go into the Skin and with Gravy serve it up garnish the Dish with pickled Grapes or Barberries Leg of Veal To dress this with Rice or a Knuckle put it into your Cauldron or Pot the Water being pretty hot put some Salt to it and then put in some Mace and Rice finely pick'd wash some Raisins of the Sun and when it is tender boil'd put in about a dram of Saffron and to serve it up on fine carved Sippits with Rice all over it pour on Broth and run it over with beaten Butter otherwise cover it with Paste cut like small Lard boil'd in thin Broth and Saffron or in white Broth with Fruit Spinage Sweet-Herbs and Gooseberries Leg of Veal another way Stuff the Veal with Beef-suet Nutmeg and Salt so boil it and keep it scumming put in some Salt Parsley and Fenel-roots in a bundle
and is used for Colds Coughs and shortness of Breath The Juyce drunk in Wine is advantagious in Bruises The green Herb when bruised applied to the Fundament for two or three hours easeth the pains of the Piles but the Juice being made into an Ointment is the more effectual to that purpose The Scabs or breaking out of the Head are taken away being washed with its Decoction in fair Water and has the same Effect upon the breakings out of any other Parts tending to the like nature Nerves afflicted Take the Roots of Male-Peony new taken out of the ground one ounce of the Seeds of that Plant two drams and with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Peony beat them up into an Electuary of which take the quantity of a large Hazel-Nut or more if need require it twice a day Nerves their Diseases to cure Take of the Powder of Castor half an ounce Spirit of Castor half a pint digest them in the Cold ten days then strain out the Spirit and when it is well settled take ten drops inwardly in any proper Liquor This not only strengthens the Nerves and is good for the Diseases of the Head and Fits of the Mother but provoke the Courses and remedies Deafness Nerves prickt Take Peruvian Balsom and warm it a little then bathe it in where the grief is and in a little time it takes off the acrimony of the Sanies from whence proceeds the Pain and Convulsion when we are wounded or bit by venomous Creatures It iâ— excellent in staunching blood insomuch that it is affirmed that the Beads in Peru and New Spain from whence it comes finding themselves so hurt by an Instinct of Nature rub themselves against the Tree from whence it issues It is of a dark colour fragrant Smell and brought to us in little earthen Jars Nerves Vncover'd To Remedy this Take the Oil which is thus prepared Powder grosly three or four ounces of the best Camphire and having put it into a Mattress pour on of Spirit of Nitre twice as much stop the Vessel close and let it over a Pot half full of Water pretty well heated frequently stirring it to help forward the Dissolution which will be done in two or three hours and by this means you will find the Camphire turned into a clear Oil which will swim above the Spirit then separate it in a Viol for use This is not only used to touch the Nerves that lye uncovered but for the caries of Bones yet this Oil is nothing but a Dissolution of the Camphire in the Spirit of Nitre for if you cast Water upon it to kill the Force of the Spirit it will turn into Camphire as before Nerves Wounded Take Horsetail distill it and if the Nerves be much hurt or wounded Take three spoonfulls of it in a morning fasting apply it likewise outwardly this stays bleeding cures Ulcers in the Reins and Kidneys and if the Lungs be ulcerated drink three ounces of the Decoction of it or two ounces of the Juyce morning and evening a dram of Powder made of this Herb and taken in three ounces of plantane-Plantane-water morning and evening is held very good for a Consumption Nettle Iuice This is good to stop bleeding and ease the Pains in the Head being drunk it provokes Urine and is helpfull in the Dropsie the Leaves of Nettles made into a Poultis and applied to Inflammations and Tumours allay them mixed with Hogs Lard and Flax-seed Nipplewort Out of this comes a bitter Milk or whitish Juyce which being mixed with Woman's Milk and a little Oil of Roses and mingled well over the fire in a Saucer is greatly available to allay the Heat and Anger of sore Nipples and recover them so that the Infant may suck without giving the Woman any pain Niter This is held an excellent Medicine for the Colick or any Pains prepared after the following manner viz. Take of the best Nitre an ounce rub it sufficiently in a clean Mortar of Glass or Stone then grind it with half a Scruple of Saffron and of this Mixture take about half a dram at a time infused in about three or four ounces of Spring-water Nodes These are a kind of Knots occasioned many times by Scorbutick Humours Take two drams of Rhubarb boil it in half a pint of Ale till it consume to a quarter of a pint drink it in a morning fasting and anoint the place where these Knots are with Oil of Camomil mixed with the Spirit of Wine three or four times intermitting the first for a day Noise in the Ears Take the Oil of Ben-Nut drop it into the ear and it not only cures the Noises but in a great manner helps Deafness It cleanses the Skin from Spots or Morphew and the longer it is kept the better it is This Ben-Nut likewise mixed with Honey dissolves hard Swellings and the Kings-Evil made up to a Poultis with Barly-Meal it is good in the cold Afflictions of the Nerves Mixed with Meal of Lupins it takes off the Obstructions afflicting the Liver and Spleen it subverts the Stomach occasions Nauseousness and moves the Belly It purges gross and clammy Flegm by Vomit and Stool wherefore it is good for a flegmatick Colick Noise a singing Noise in the Ear This is usually the Forerunner of Deafness and few that have it to any purpose escape the losing their Hearing especially for a time therefore the best way is timely to prevent it to do which Take the Pills de Hiera or Hiera cum Agarico with which the Apothecary or Druggist will furnish you Take of them a dram at a time going to Bed and settle your self as well as may be to rest and the next morning take the following Decoction viz. Take the Tops of Mint Marjoram and the Flowers of Wood-Roses Bettony Sage and Camomil of each half a handfull boil them in a convenient quantity of Water 'till half be consumed then taking them from the fire let the Fume or hot Vapour ascend into the Ears by laying first one and then the other side of the head over it or you may drop three or four drops of the Oil of Amber palliated with Oil of Roses into the Ears and stop them close from the Air when you go to Bed Nose Bleeding To stay this speedily and effectually Take the long things that grow on Hazle-Trees before they Leave by some called the Nut-Blossoms burn them so that they may be reduced to a Powder but not to Ashes and when the Blood issues from the Nose blow up some of it with a quill into the Nostrils and let the Party drink the Juice of Plantane or Plantane-water and Milk and the Bleeding will stay This also will stay inward Bleeding till better Remedies can be obtained though many times of it self it is effectual and there needs no other unless some large Vein be broke or some extraordinary Flux of Blood otherways happens Noses to Dress This is meant of an Ox Steer Cow
c. Boil them tenderly and then fry them in sweet Butter and when fried drain the Butter from them and put to them the Powder of Nutmeg and Anchoves dissolved in fair Water and Whitewine with a little Salt and Mutton-Gravy give all these a warm over the Fire and serve them up in a Dish then run it over with Butter beaten up with the Juice of Oranges Marrow Sage-leaves fried Parsly and the Yolks of Eggs. Nurses Milk to Encrease Take of Earth-worms an ounce wash them well and dry them so that they may keep sweet and yet be reduced to a Powder then take half a dram or two scruples for a Dose in a Glass of Canary Nutmegs are somewhat Astringent and Stomachick Cephalick and Uterine help Concoction discuss Wind take away the offensive Fumes of a strong Breath are good in the Palpitations of the Heart and prevent Faintings lessen the Spleen and stop Looseness and Vomiting provoke Urin and quicken the sight are of great use in Fluxes especially the Bloody-flux having all the Virtues necessary for a Medicin fit for these Diseases The Oil cleanses and defends the Bowels from sharp offensive Humours and eases the Pains that frequently afflict them The aromatick quality consisting in the airy spirit penetrates the noble Part and administer Comfort whilst the gross and earthy part dries up Ulcers and cicatrises them Candied Nutmegs or as they come over with their green Husks about them are good in all cold Diseases of the Head as Palsie and other Diseases of the Nerves and Womb and are very Cordial And notwithstanding all these Virtues in this one small Simple yet if it be taken immoderately that is in too great a quantity it proves very hurtful occasioning sleepy Diseases seeing they are very Narcotick insomuch that Tavernier relates That when these Nuts ripen in the Molucoa-Islands where they chiefly grow the Birds of Paradise come flocking to feed upon them which they have no sooner done to any purpose but a Giddiness seizing them they fall on the Ground in a profound Sleep or Doziness and lye so long before they recover that swarms of huge Ants that frequent those spicey Woods frequently eat off their Legs or intolerably sting and kill them in earnest Nutmeg to Candy Take a pound of fine Sugar a quarter of a pint of Rose-water and Gum Arabick three penny weight boil them up to near a Candy height then having soaked your Nutmegs in Water put them into it in an earthen Vessel cover it close that the Air may not come in no more than through the porous Part and keep them in a warm Place twenty Days and they will be of a Rock-Candy c. Nut-Oil Take small Nuts break them in a Mill or otherways take out the Kernels lay them in warm Water rill the Skins or Husks come off them then steep them in warm Sallad Oil and when they swell take them out and press them and a curious Oil will issue from them put them into a glass Vessel and let it settle and digest twelve Days in a warm place then use it as occasion requires It is good for cold and moist Swellings or Pains in the Joints or Burns Scalds and Tumours especially mixed with the Ointment of Marsh-mallows and likewise that of Tobacco OAk-Tree This Tree in every part is astringent but especially the Bark the Decoction of which is good for the Bloody-flux or Spitting of Blood The Acorns are Diuretick and the distilled Water of a young Oak is good for Womens Diseases Those that are cut for the Stone use a Bath of it made of the Bark to heal the Wound or Incision The Galls that grow upon outlandish Oaks not only make Ink but are of many singular Virtues as being powdered and drank in White-wine to dissolve the Stone or Gravel ease Pains in the Bladder or Reins and cleanse the Stomach causing a good Digestion Take of the Water of Oak-Buds and Plantain of each three ounces Cinamon-water Hordeated and Sprup of dried Roses of each an ounce Spirit of Vitriol two or three drops to make it pleasant and sharp and take it Morning and Evening it 's excellent to stay immoderate Courses and to prevent them Oates They are Physically moderately drying resolving and restringent they are cool and therefore boiled in Posset-drink in Fevers they are good being heated and put into a Bag and laid 〈◊〉 the Side they ease Painâ—… as likewise by such application the Head-ach The Ale made of them cools and purifies the Blood and eases the Heat and Pains in Urin A strong Decoction of them eases the Flux in the Belly and boiled with Figs Licorice and a little Honey in Ale they ease the violence of the Cough or Cold and in a little time the liquid part drank often as hot as may be removes the Cause and the Effects consequently cease odoriferous-Odoriferous-Water Take the Roots of Florence Orris and Benjamine of each one ounce and half the best Storax six drams Lignum Rhodium half an ounce Aromatick Reed and Labdanum of each two scruples Flowers of Benjamine on scruple beat them into Powder and put them into a Matras and let them macerate twenty four Hours in Balneo Mariae luke-warm in a pint of Rose-water the Matrix being stopped and then distil them in the same Bath a little hotter and mxing with this Water-Musk and Ambergrease six drams keep it as a Water of a curious wholsom and odoriferous scent to scent or perfume Rooms Gloves or what else requires it This for its admirable pleasant Scent is called Angels-Water It likewise contributes much to the lustre of the Face and Hands being washed in it mixed with a little of the Water of Fumitory The Sediment dried and mixed among Cloaths gives 'em a fine Perfume and drives away Moths Worms c. Oesepius Prepared Take of the uncleansed Wool from the Neck Buttocks and Shoulders of a tired Sheep and infuse it in hot Water frequently till the Fat swims upon the Water then squeeze the Wool pour the Water out by way of brewing frequently from one Vessel to another till the Froth arises then let it stand till the Froth sinks and take off the Fat that swims on the surface of the Water and froth the Water again by pouring it from one Vessel to another and so continue to do till no more Fat appears then wash all the Fat 's with Froth in fair Water keeping it continually stirring and changing the Water often till what is superfluous be washed away and until upon the Tast it makes no biting on the Tongue then put it into a well glazed earthen Vessel and keep it for use This is good to anoint old Sores also for Scabs Itch Botches or Boils Excoriations or Gallings c. Oil Anti-Epileptich Take the Shavings of a dead Man's Skull that died a violent Death four ounces Amber pulverized two ounces mix them together and put them into a glass Retort fitted with a Recipient and distil them
the Juice strengthens the Stomach Head Heart and Liver also the Bowels and gives ease to Wounds It is very famous in the Epilepsie Blague and all sorts of malignant and pestilential Diseases Held in the Mouth it cures the Tooth-ach and drank in a Glass of Wine it provokes the Terms and expels the Birth The Herb is held to cure Quartan-Agues if applied six Hours to the Pulse and the Party bathed with the Water or Decoction of it and often repeated The distilled Water drawn in a glass Still is of a glittering yellow Colour like Gold Rosa Solis the Court way Take of Aqua-vitae two quarts Sugar finely powdered a pound and a half common Water a pint and a half boil them up to a little thickness but not to the consistence of a Syrup then put to it half an ounce of Cinnamon powdered and when it is boiled up strain it through a Cloath with two grains of Musk and half an ounce of Sugar-candy Rose-Lozenges Take Provence or Damask-Roses when they are in their prime of flowring beat them very fine and small yet lose as little of the Juice and Scent as may be then sprinkle over them Citron or Lemon-Juice cover them close and add as much fair Water or White-wine as will boil them up a little till they become tender then having fine Sugar boiled up to a Candy height put them into it boiling exempted from the Water and Juices and keep them well stirring about a considerable time then take cut the Sugar and Roses so mixed with a Spoon and lay it on Pye-plates make it thin as is convenient and cut it out into what form you please rosemary-Rosemary-Water Take the Flowers and Leaves of Rosemary when they are at their best half a pound of the Root of Elicampane four ounces Red Sage a handful Cloves three ounces and a like quantity of Mace Ani-seeds twelve ounces beat the Spices separately and the Herbs together put to them four gallons of Whitewine and having infused them for the space of seven Days distil them This Water greatly comforteth the Heart removeth Pains of the Stomach creates a good colour and gently purgeth the Blood by breathing Sweats Rose-Water Take Roses when just blown before they open too much and lose their fragrancy in the Air gather them when the Sun has dried off the Dew or Moisture and having picked the Leaves from the Stalks without suffering any Seeds to scatter among them spread them on a clean Carpet free from Dust till they are altogether free from any moisture then put them into a pewter Still and make a Fire under them gently by degrees and fasten your Bottle or Receiver to the Nose of the Still tying Paper or Linnen about it to keep in the scent and so corking them up when full of the Water within an inch of the Cork set them in the Sun two or three Days and then in a warm Place especially lest the Frost take them and either break the Bottles or spoil the Scent of the Water Roses an Oil Compound Take fresh Red Roses bruised one pound Juice of Red Roses four ounces common Oil four pound put them into a glazed earthen Pot with a narrow Neck and stop it well set it in the Sun to macerate and having boiled it in Balneo Mariae strain and press out the Liquor and return it into the same Vessel again do the like two or three times then purifie the Oil and keep it for use If there be any moisture in it it will be easie to separate it because it falls to the bottom This Oil dulcifies and dissipates Fluxions that fall upon the external Parts It extinguishes Inflammations and hinders the descent of the Humours and appeases Pains it tempers the heat of the Stomach and the heat in the Reins it asswageth the Pains in the Head as also Deliriums and provokes Sleep dulcifying the sharp Humours that interrupt by their Acrimony It must be warmed before you anoint the Part with it It may be also internally given against the Worms and Dysenteries from half an ounce to an ounce It is good to anoint the Parts upon Fractures and Dislocations of Bones It is mixed with equal Parts of Vinegar of Roses to anoint the Head when shaved for the abating the Vapours that ascend in burning Fevers which too frequently cause want of Sleep and Deliriums This Oil also mixed in Pain-easing and dissolving Liniments and Cataplasms and softening Plaisters to give them the consistence of Searcloath is of singular use The same way that this is prepared you may prepare the Oils of Myrtle Melilot Elder-Water Lilies or Nimphaea Chamomil Violets Lilies c. Roses-Red Dry There is a Syrup however to be made of these upon necessity and to do it Take two quarts of Water make it pretty warm and infuse in it for the space of twenty four Hours four or five handfuls of dried Roses and when the Scent of them is gone mostly into the Water put fresh ones and squeeze them at the taking out and into this Water dissolve two pound of white Sugar and so dissolve it into a Syrup This mitigates the hot Diseases of the Brain asswages Thirst strengthens the Stomach causes Sleep stays the Flux of the Belly and agglutinates and mundifies Ulcers Roses a Simple Oil Take fresh Red Roses bruised two pound the Juice of them half a pound and common Oil five pints put them all together in an earthen glazed Pot covered and let them if possible macerate thirty or forty Days in the Sun then boil them in Balneo Mariae and press out the Oil very hard and keep it for use It is cooling asswages Heat mollifies Swellings and is good in Burns or Scalds Roses-White Infused To infuse Roses and bring them to a Syrup Take of White Roses half a Peck clean pickt from the Stalks infuse them over a gentle Fire in a gallon of Spring-water strain out the Water and squeeze the remaining Juice out of the Roses into it Take of this Water five pints to which the Gallon ought to be consumed in infusion clarified Sugar four pound boil them over a gentle Fire to the thickness of a Syrup This Syrup extracts thin offensive Choler from the Intrails and waterish Humours from the Stomach and is very good to be given to Children old People and such as are weakned by Sickness and the like Rosin its Virtues The Rosin of the Larch or Turpentine-Tree is hot emollient cleansing healing vulnerary and pectoral c. it heals Ulcers in the Lungs helps and stops the Gonorrhoea It gently provokes Urin and opens the Obstruction of the Reins Uriters and Bladder The Dose in Powder is from one dram to two drams Outwardly it is used in Balsams Ointments and Emplaisters It softens Tumours and ripens them if made up with Beef or Mutton-suet It ripens and heals Felons and Whitlows and cures them when they break cleanses Ulcers and heals green Wounds is much available in the Pains of
take away pricking Pains and Heats or Flushings in the Face or Body provokes Urin and evaporates noxious Humours by sweat Sena The best of it is that which is brought from Alexandria in Egypt It purgeth Choler Flegm and Melancholy it cleanseth the Heart Liver and Brain also the Spleen and Lungs and all Parts of the Body it is profitable for all Accidents of them It openeth the Internals and delayeth the Injuries of growing old Age causing exhilaration or Joy in the Mind The Leaves decocted with Camomil are exceeding good to wash the Head for the fortifying the Brain and Sinews and Sight and Hearing as also in all such Diseases as proceed from melancholy Humours likewise for Ulcers or Palsie Head-ach and Falling-evil It fortifieth the Heart especially when mixed with some Violets and Cloves concocted in Whitewine and being mixed with infusion of Roses or laxative Syrup of Roses it is an excellent Purge for all evil Humours There is a Syrup made of Sena Senses to Refresh To enliven the Senses and restore the Memory Take a handful of Baum bruise it and steep it in Whitewine in an earthen Vessel well glazed and covered then put it into an Alembick and of the distilled Water take every Morning fasting a spoonful and fast an Hour after it Sharpness of Vrin Take the dried stuff that divides the Lobes of the Kernels of Wallnuts beat them to a Powder and take about a dram at a time in a draught of Whitewine or Posset-drink or in any other convenient Liquor Shoulder of Mutton with Disters Take a Shoulder of Mutton roast it with Oisters stuffed in the most convenient Places of it then make Sauce with some Gravy Claret-Wine Pepper grated Nutmeg sliced Lemon and Broom-buds giving it a warm or two then dish the Mutton the Oisters being taken out put the Sauce to it and they in it and garnish with sliced Lemon and Barberries Sickness-Falling Take half a dram of the best Amber beat it into fine Powder and take it once a Day when the Stomach is most empty in a quarter of a pint of Whitewine Sight-Weak Take Eyebright sweet Fennel-seeds and fine Sugar of each an ounce reduce them to Powder and mix these together and take the Composition from a dram to two or more as occasion requires Sinews Hurt If these are any ways bruised pained or swelled Take Lavender the Stalk Leaves and Flower cut them small put them into Whitewine and distil them through an Alembick washing the Parts grieved with the said Water and drink abut two ounces of it Morning and Evening and wash the Forehead and Temples with it in case of any Pains there by reason of any Afflictions of the Brain from which the Sinews and Nerves originally proceed Skin Infected Take the Roots of Vines boil them in Water with the Seeds of Vetches commonly called Tares and Fenugreek of each a handfull and therewith wash the Places where ill Humours are apt to settle Skin to keep open If an Issue in the Skin is not easily kept open but too apt to dry up Take Lapis Infernalis an ounce Crown Soap an ounce and half Chalf-finely powdered six drams mix them altogether carefully and keep them close stopt and when you use them mix them well together and lay over it Plaisterwise Sleep to Procure Take Water-Lillies half a handfull Opium one dram steep these the Lillies being bruised in three pints of Malmsey twenty four hours then put in an ounce of Salt finely beaten Poppy-seed a dram Lettice-seed three drams distill them in Balneo Mariae The Dose is from half a dram to a dram when the Party is going to Bed There is likewise an Ointment to cause Sleep viz. Take about half an ounce of Oil of Violets Henbane-seed and Mandragora-roots of each half a dram Saffron and Cassia-wood of each a Scruple Oil of Olives six ounces Oil of Mallows as much bruise and mix these till they may be reduced to an Ointment over a gentle Fire by pressing out the unctuous Matter and with it anoint the Breasts Forehead and Temples when you would go to rest Smack Elixir Take the distilled Oils of Cinamon Cloves and Wormwood Citron and Orange-Peel of each six drops refined Sugar finely beaten Spirit of Wine rectified and Mint and Orange-flower-water of each six ounces mix them well and make an Elixir This Elixir is exceeding good in all cold Infirmities of the Stomach as also to fortifie the Nobler Parts The Dose is from two drams to half an ounce in Wine Ale or the like Small-Pox the Scars thereof To prevent these Make a Liniment of Rose-water four ounces Hogs-lard two ounces Oil of Rosemary halt an ounce Tuttia one dram These being made into a Liniment anoint the Face Hands and Neck just as the Disease is in its declining and the Scabs begin to dry Sores Take a solution of Sublimate and having made with Quick-lime a strong Lime-water that will bear an Egg drop it gradually on the Sublimate till it will precipitate on more redish stuff at all and when you perceive the Liquors act on longer visibly upon one anther pour the Mixture into a filter of Cap-paper which retaining the Orange colour precipitated will transmit an indifferently clear Liquor which must be kept close stopped in a glass Viol viz. to wash the Part grieved This is exceeding good in old Sores Ulcers Breaking-out and other such-like Diseases Sores of the Mouth to Heal Take the Leaves of Marshmallows and boil them in Wine wherein Honey has been dissolved add some Roch-alom in powder then press out the liquid part very hard so suffer it to stand and cool and with this Decoction wash and gargle your Mouth and Throat if it be sore Sore Nose This often happens through the Effects of the French Disease not perfectly cured and many times in the Mouth as well as the Nose For Remedy then Take the Juice of common Hounds-tongue and that of Plantane of each three ounces boil these Juices to a thickness over a gentle Fire adding to them Oxymel Scilliticum and anoint the sore Part often or dipping a linnen Rag in it thrust it up the Nostril if the grief be mostly there Sores Old Take Aristolochia Longa Aloes Epatica of each an ounce make them into a Powder and with Honey of Roses work it into a Past and having cleansed the Sore with Oil of Tartar or the Decoction of Myrrh spread some of the Past on a Leather or pliant Cloath and lay it to the Place grieved and in twice or thrice renewing it you will find wonderful success in the Cure Sores Putrefied Take Milfoil and Sanicola of each half a handful boil them in Water and strain the liquid part through a linnen Cloth and with the Decoction mix the Meal of Fenugreek the Fat of a Goat and as much Olive-oil as will thicken them and make them into an Ointment over a gentle Fire with which often anoint the Sores and it will heal them
and the Saffron often dipt in it tyed up in a Rag and so squeezed out This Syrup is held to be a very gentle Purge for melancholy People and very safe and easie but proves more effectual in its Operation and Strength if Two Ounces of it be taken in Three Ounces of the Decoction of Dodder apoplectick-Apoplectick-Water Take of the Lilies of the Valley Rosemary Lavender Sage Primroses of each three handfuls let them macerate eight Days in the Sun or in a Stove in rectified Spirits of Wine and Orange-Flower Water of each three pints then distill them in a Sand-Bath and preserve this excellent Water for your use It fortifies the Brain and noble Parts being taken from half to a whole spoonful It is successful as well to prevent as to cure the Apoplexy and all other violent Diseases of the Brain apoplectick-Apoplectick-Water another Bruise four pound of Black-Cherries Roots of Valerian and Shavings of Harts-Horn of each three ounces grated White-Bread one pound Cloves and Mace beaten fine and sifted of each half an ounce Saffron two drams Flowers of Lilies of the Valley and Lavender of each three handfuls mix them well together by bruising and shredding and macerate them twenty four Hours in a warm Water-Bath then encrease the heat and put them in Balneo Mariae This Water eases Apoplectick Pains Palsie and other Distempers in the Head and Brain arising from Cold being taken at seasonable times from half an ounce an ounce Apoplexy To cure this violent and dangerous Distemper Take two quarts of the Spirit of Wine infuse in it a pound of Imperatory Castor and Sarsaparilla of each half an ounce being bruised a little add to them two handfuls of ordinary Lavender and Sage-Flowers steep them in an earthen Pot well glazed stop it very close and set it in a Chimney-corner or other warm place four or five Days often setting it on warm Embers and as often shaking it then take nine Drams of Camphire dissolved in half a pint of Sack and put it in setting it in a cool place and then philter it two or three times and when the Distemper approaches which is known by a shooting Pain in the Head a swimming dizziness of the Eyes c. rub the Forehead and Temples with it till it drys in and it gives speedy ease Apricocks Apricocks are a delicious Fruit to the Tast and much more wholsom than the Peach but above all from the Kernels of them an excellent Oil is extracted for Hemorrhoids Pains in the Ears Swellings and Inflammations The Kernels much avail in the Heart-burn Apricock-Cakes To make this Take the largest and smoothest Fruit parboil them in Spring-Water till they become very tender then pressing out the Pulp put to it an equal weight of Sugar set them over a gentle sire and keep them continually stirring and when you can see the bottom of the Skillet or Pan they are enough then put the Pulp and Sugar into Cards sewed round and dust them over with sifted Sugar and letting them stand two or three Days turn them and then if they be candied take them out of the Cards and dust them with Sugar again and so often turning them let 'em dry for your use in a gentle heat Apricocks to Candy Take the Apricocks pare them very thin and strew fine Sugar lightly on them then lay them on a broad pewter Dish and so put them into an Oven as hot as usually heated for Manchet and as the Liquor comes from them pour it forth and turn them strew more Sugar and sprinkle them with Rose-Water turn and sugar them till near dry then lay them on a Lettice-Wyre till they are dried which you may do in an Oven after the drawing and by this means they will keep all the Year Apricocks to dry In the first place Take out the Stones then weigh the remainder and take the weight of them in double refined Sugar and make a Syrup with so much Water as will wet them and boil it up so high that if a drop be drop'd on a clean Plate it slip off being cold put in your Apricocks pared when the Syrup is heated stir them about and turn them out and tye them one by one in Tiffanies then put them in again and set the Syrup over a quick fire making it to boil as fast as it can and scum it well and when they look clear take them from the fire then lay them on a Sieve to drain and being well drained take them out of the Tiffanies and dry them in a Stove or the Sun in Glasses to keep off the dust Apricock-Iambals Take Apricocks scald them to a tenderness and dry the pulp in a pewter or earthen Dish over a Chafing-dish of Coals then for a Day or two set it on a Stone and beat it afterward in a Stone Mortar adding as much fine Sugar as will make it a stiff Past then colour it with Saunders Cochineel or Indico rowl them long tye them into Knots and so dry them for use Apricock-Past To make this Pare your Fruit and stone them set them between two Dishes on a Chafing-dish of Coals till they are boiled very tender let them cool and lay them out on white Paper take their weight of Sugar and boil it to a Candy heighth with as much fair Water and Rose-Water as will dissolve the Sugar then put the Pulp into it and let it boil till it be as thick as Marmalade still keeping it stirring then on a Pye-Plate fashion it into the shape of whole Apricocks and so being dried it will be very transparent and eat more luscious and pleasant than Apricocks newly gathered from the Trees Apricocks to preserve Take them when they are pretty well buttoned yet so tender that you may run a Needle through the Stones and all without any difficulty then put them into luke-warm Water to break them and let them stand close covered in that Water till a thin Skin will come off with scraping and all this while they will look yellow then put them into another Preserving-Pan or Skillet of hot Water and let them stand covered till they recover a curious green colour then having equally weigh'd them with a like weight of Sugar clarifie the Sugar with the White of an Egg or some Water and so preserve them for use If you would preserve them when ripe you must take out the Stones you need not at all boil them in Water but with the Juice of some of them dissolve the Sugar and stew them in it then having a Syrup of Sugar boiled to a height put them in it till they look clear and so set them up close covered for your use Aqua Coelestis To make this Take of Cinnamon one dram Ginger half a dram the three sorts of Saunders of each of them a quarter of an Ounce Cubebs and Mace of each of them a Dram Cardamum the bigger and lesser of each three drams Setwell-Roots half an ounce Fennel-seeds Anni-seeds and
Basil-seeds of each two drams Angelica-roots Gilliflowers Thyme Calamint Liquorish Calamus Masterwort Peniroyal Mint Mother of Thyme and Marjoram of each two drams Red-Rose-seeds and Flower Bettony and Sage of each a dram and half Cloves Nutmegs and Gallingall of each two Drams the Flower of Stechadoes Rosemary Borrage and Bugloss of each a Dram and half Rind of Citron three Drams Bruise these well together and put to them Cordial-Powders the Spices made with Pearl of each three drams Infuse them in twelve pints of Aquavitae in a close stopt Glass fifteen Days with often shaking then distil them in an Alembick and hang in the Spirit a Cloath two drams of Musk half a dram of Ambergrease and ten or twelve grains of Gold This excellent Cordial fortifies the Heart against the Plague and all pestilential Diseases expels Poison and heals Aches and Pains Aqua Epidemica This is the London plague-Plague-Water To make it Take the Roots of Tormentile Angelica the greater Piony Liquorice Elecampane of each half an ounce the Leaves of Sage the greater Celandine Rue the tops of Rosemary and Mugwort Burnet Dragons Scabeous Bawm Carduus Benedictus Bettony the lesser Centaury the Leaves and Flowers of Marigolds of each a handful shred bruise and steep them four Days in a glass Alembick and take from a quarter of an ounce to half an ounce at a time and it mainly resists the Plague pestilential Fevers and all infectious Diseases reviving and cheering the Heart and Brain and rarefying and sweetening the whole Mass of Blood Aqua Lactis alexiteria Take Carduus Benedictus the Leaves of Meadow-sweet and Goats-Rue of each six handfuls Mint and common Wormwood of each five handfuls Angelica two handfuls Rue three handfuls bruise them very well and put to them three Gallons of the best new Milk and suffering them to infuse for twelve Hours distill them in a cold Still This Water though it be frequently used as a simple Water in making up Medicines is nevertheless of singular use it self being a very gentle Alexipharmick and may be given to expel Malignity and prevent the Infection with other things It comforts the Heart and Stomach and sweetens the Blood taken singly and so inoffensive it is that you may take four five or six ounces at a time Aqua Mirabilis To make this according to Dr. Willoughby's Receipt Take Galingales Mace Cloves Cubebs Ginger Cardamoms Nutmeg Mellilot and Saffron of each an equal quantity in all four ounces beat and bruise them well and add Agrimony-Water a dram or two Take of the Juice of Celandine half a pint mingle them together with a quart of Aqua-vitae and three pints of White-wine put them in a glass Still and let them infuse twelve Hours then distill off the Water with a gentle fire under a Sand-Bath This Water dissolves the Swellings and removes the Oppressions incident to the Lungs helps and comforts them being Wounded not suffering the Blood to putrefie and those that use it often will have little cause to be blooded at any time unless in cases of sudden or violent Bruises or internal Bleedings c. Aqua Mirabilis To make this Take Cubebs Cardamoms Galingal Mace Cloves Ginger Mellilot-Flowers of each one dram bruise them then take a pint of the Juice of Celandine the Juices of Bawm and Spearmint of each half a pint Sugar a pound Flowers of Cowslips Borrage Rosemary Marigolds and Bugloss of each two drams Canary three pints strong Angelica-water one pint bruise the Spices and Flowers well and steep them in the Sack and Juices the space of twelve Hours and distil them the next Morning in a glass Still laying Hearts-Tongue Leaves in the bottom of it This Water is an excellent Preserver of the Lungs purifying the Blood and removing the Defects of the Spleen it helps Digestion preserves a youthful Complexion and contiues a good colour in the Face Aqua Mirabilis Take Cinamon the best sort an ounce Nutmegs and Citron-Peel of each six drams Cloves Galangal Cubebs Mace Cardamoms Ginger of each two drams bruise them all together and let them infuse in White-wine and Spirit of Wine of each a pint distil them in a moderate Sand-Bath This is an excellent Cordial taken from half an ounce to an ounce at a time It fortifies the noble Parts and resists Poison c. Aquavitae Regia Take Lignum Aloes Roots of Zedoary Carline-Thistle and Valerian of each an ounce choice Citron-Rind Mace and Cinnamon of each six drams Cloves the lesser Cardamoms and Fennel-seeds of each half an ounce Flowers of Oranges Rosemary Sage and Marjoram in the flower of each two handfuls bruise what requires it and put them into a Matras with the Spirit of Wine and Malmsey of each two quarts stop the Vessel close and let them infuse over a gentle fire for the space of three days then distil them and dissolve into the distilled Bath Musk and Ambergrease of each a dram and a half and keep it for use in a close Vessel or rather in glass Bottles This Water fortifies the Brain Head and Stomach and all the noble Parts when enfeebled by the dissipation of the Spirits or over-pressed by the ill Qualities or abundance of bad Humours It is to be taken fasting in a Morning from one dram to half an Ounce mixed with proper Liquors as bawm-Bawm-water and mint-Mint-water Aquine's diuretick-Diuretick-Water Take the Roots of Parsley Eringoes Rest-Harrow Juniper-Berries and Alkekengi of each two ounces Pimpernel Water-cresses and Elder-flowers of each two handfuls bruise and macerate them twentyfour Hours in White-wine add a quart of the Juice of Radishes with one ounce of Narbone-Honey Venice-Turpentine half a pound distil them in a moderate Sand-Bath adding to every part of the distilled Water dulcified Spirit of Salt This is an exceeding prevalent Water to strengthen the Heart but is chiefly designed for opening Obstructions in the Ureters and Bladder and causing a free Passage for the Urine You may safely take it from one to three or four ounces Arcanum Carolinum Put red Precipitate into an earthen Vessel well glazed pour on it Spirit of Wine well rectified so set fire to it and when the Spirit is consumed add more do this six times This is excellent for Purging and sometimes procures Vomiting opening Obstructions and dissolving scirrhous tumours and mainly contributes to the Cure of the French Disease The Dose is from three to five or six grains Arsmart The common sort of this is hot and dry chiefly used in outward Wounds or Swellings A Decoction of it is good to wash old Sores The Water helps the Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder the Root or Seed put into an hollow Tooth cures the Tooth-ach Artery-Hurt Take Olibanum two ounces Aloes Hepatica one ounce the Wool of a Hairs Scut a little the Juice of Ash-Leaves half an ounce mix with these the Whites of Eggs beaten to Water and dipping a Rag into the liquid Compound lay it to the Artery either cut bruised or otherways
afflicted renewing it as it dries and then bath or anoint the Place with Oil of Roses Artichoaks to bake Boil them first in fair Water and so soon as you can separate the bottoms from the Leaves without breaking lay them in a Dish and season them with Nutmeg Pepper and Cinamon very lightly having layed a Sheet of Past under them with some bits of Butter then lay on Potatoes sliced round the Dish also some Eringo-Roots and Dates Beef-Marrow large Mace sliced Lemon and more Butter close it up with another Sheet of Past and being baked liquor it with Grape-juice or Verjuice Butter and Sugar beat up together ice it with Sugar and Rose-water and so serve it up Artichoaks to dress The best way is to boil them in a Beef-pot and when they are tender sodden take off the tops only leaving the bottoms with some round about them then put them into a Dish putting some fair Water to them and two or three spoonfuls of Sack and a spoonful of Sugar stew them on a Chafing-dish of Coals take the Liquor then from them and make ready some Cream with the Yelks of two Eggs two ounces of Marrow and as much sweet Butter as will serve 'em up Artichoaks stewed Having first boiled the Artichoaks take off the Leaves and the Choak cut the bottoms into quarters split them in the middle put them into a flat Stewing-pan put under them Toasts of Bread and the Marrow of two Bones five or six Blades of large Mace half a pound of preserved Plumbs with two ounces of Sugar and suffer them to stew together the space of two Hours then put them into a Dish with Sippits garnished with Barberrie and so serve them up and they will make a delicate and much approved Dish Ash or Ash-Trèe The Seed of the Ash-Keys dryed powdered and drank in White-wine provokes Urine The Juice of the Leaves drank constantly in drink prevents Fatness and reduces those that are so The Bark and Wood dry and attenuate and are supposed to soften the hardness of the Spleen by a specifick Quality The Juice of Ash-Leaves drank and the beaten Leaves outwardly applied avail much against the biting of any venemous Creature and stench blood The Juice with Honey is good for internal Bruises The Leaves and tender Twigs boiled in your usual drink is good against the Dropsie though the Seeds powdered and taken in Wine in the Opinion of others are more powerful The Salt of Ash provokes Urine Asparagus or Sperage The prickly sort of this which in many Places grows wild being boiled in White-wine provokes Urine is good against the Strangury or difficulty in making Water expels Gravel in the Kidneys or Bladder eases Pains in the Reins and boiled in Wine-Vinegar closes the Arteries and eases the Pains of the Hip-Gout or Sciatica The Decoction of the Root boiled to clear the sight and being held in the Mouth eases he Pains in the Teeth Asthma Take the distilled Water of Nettles and Coltsfoot-water of each one pint Anniseeds and Licorice-Powder of each two spoonfuls Raisins of the Sun and Figs sliced of each a handful boil them till half a pint of the Liquor be consumed strain the remainder and with a pound of white Sugar-candy finely pondered make it into a Syrup take a quarter of an ounce at a time and the Stomach will be helped to a good Digestion It removes also Obstructions of the Lungs Astringent-Powder Take Bole-Armoniack and Terrasigillata of each two ounces Pomgranat-Flowers Red-Roses and Dragons-seeds of Sumach and Whortle-Berries Frankincense and Mastick of each two ounces make all these into a fine Powder This Powder taken in Wine or some Decoction from a scruple to a dram in losses of Blood weakness of the Stomach and Intestines is singular good It may likewise be applied outwardly incorporated with Whites of Eggs Vinegar or some astringent-Astringent-Water or Decoction like a Cataplasm to stop defluxions and loss of Blood and to strengthen or close the Parts Astringent Saffron of Mars Take of the filings of Steel and Sulphur powdered an equal quantity mix them well and make them into a Past with Water put the Past into an earthen Vessel and suffer it to ferment there four or five Hours after which set the Vessel over a quick fire and with an iron Instrument fit for that purpose stir the Matter about and it will flame suffer the Sulphur to burn out and it will appear very black yet continue it over a brisk fire and stir it about for two Hours after and then you will perceive it of a red Colour then wash it five or six times in strong Vinegar leaving it to steep an Hour at a time and then calcine it in a Pot or on a Tile in a great fire five or six Hours after suffer it to cool and stop it up close Avens This Herb is Astringent in some degrees it strengthens and discusses being cephalick and cordial and resists Poisons though it is mostly appropriated to the Cure of Catarrhs and for quickening the Blood when thick or coagulated Wine wherein the Roots have been steeped have a fine pleasant tast and smell It cheers the Heart and opens Obstructions The Root infused in Beer is excellent in strengthning the Joints and Bowels Two ounces of the Root or a handful of the Herb boiled in Water or Posset-drink to the quantity of a Quart and consumed to a fourth part has been used successfully in the Cure of Agues more particularly the Tertians by taking it two Hours or thereabout before the Fit comes BAck the Crick in it To remove this Pain Take the Marrow of the Bone of a Horse and a little of the Juice of Elder-Leaves mix them together over a gentle Fire and when become an Ointment chafe it into the Place grieved Back heated To remedy this Take Rose-water infuse therein for twelve Hours Red and Yellow-Saunders the Leaves of Red-Roses then bath your Back with the liquid part blood-warm and it will asswage the Pain and in a little time utterly remove it Back wasting Take Plantain and Ribwort distill them in a common Rose-Still and when you are to use the Water take Pippins roast them and take away the Skin and Core then put them into Water making thereof a Lambs-wool as thick as you please and this being sweetned with Loaf-Sugar take thereof half a pint when you go to Bed and so do nine Nights together It is also good for the Strangury and many Pains incident to those Parts Back weak To strengthen the Back if it be over-strained or troubled with Pains or Aches take the Yolk of a new-lay'd Egg put to it a quarter of a pint of Muscadel or Alicant and being well warmed grate in some Nutmeg and drink it hot twice a Day Back weak Take of the Pith or Marrow of a Black Ox's Back-Bone three ounces Dates stoned and sliced two ounces boil them well together in a pint or more of Muscadin and take two or
Birch-Tree-Leaves These are hot and dry cleansing and resolving opening and bitter for which Cause they are much available in Dropsies in the Cure of the Itch and taking away Scurf and Deformities from the Skin and the decoction of them in Water or White-wine is very good to wash old Sores or Breakings-out in any Part of the Body Birds-foot This is of a drying quality and therefore used successfully in Drinks or Potions to be given for Wounds as also to be applied outwardly It also helpeth the Rupture being taken inwardly Bisket To make Bisket the best way Take half a peck of Flower four Eggs half a pint of Yest an ounce and a half of Anniseeds make these into a Loaf with sweet Cream and cold Water fashion it somewhat long and when it is baked and a Day or two old cut it into thin slices like Toasts and strew them over with powdered Sugar dry it in a warm Stove or Oven and sugar it again when dry and so do three or four times and so put them up for use Bistort the greater This is cooling and drying the Root is harsh and astringent being mostly used to stay Vomitings and to prevent Abortion c. The Powder of the Root mixed with Conserve of Roses prevents spitting of Blood as also the Bloody-Flux It stops the immoderate Courses and the Powder sprinkled on fresh Wounds stays Bleeding Take of the Roots of Bistort and Tormentil of each an ounce of the Leaves of Burnet Wood-sorrel and Meadowsweet of each a handful burnt Harts-horn two drams Ivory the like quantity boil them in three pints of spring-Spring-water to the Consumption of a third part then add three ounces of red Roses strain the liquid part and take six Spoonfuls a Day if you see convenient bistort-Bistort-Water It is excellent in making the white Potion for a Gonorrhea and the Whites in Women The fresh Root made into a Cataplasm eases the Pain in the Gout The Herb is cold dry and astringent stays Fluxes in the Bowels also Vomiting and brings a disordered Body into a good Temper and Habit. Biting by a Snake Adder or Mad Dog Take a handful or more of Hazle-Nuts Rue about a quarter of a handful a Clove of Garlick stamp these with a quarter of a handful of Ash-leaves or Ash-keys squeeze out the Juice and put a little Venice-Treacle to it and drink it very warm in Beer Ale or Wine Black-Pudding To make this the best and far exceeding the common way Boil the Umbles of a Hog tender take some of the Lights with the Heart and all the Flesh about them taking out the Sinews and mincing the rest very small do the like by the Liver add grated Nutmeg four or five Yolks of Eggs a pint of sweet Cream a quarter of a pint of Canary Sugar Cloves Mace and Cinamon finely powdered a few Carraway-seeds and a little Rose-water a pretty quantity of Hogs-fat and some Salt roul it up about two Hours before you put it into the Guts and then put it into them after you have rinsed them in Rose-water Blamanger to make Take a Capon either boiled or roasted and mince it small then blanch a pound of Almonds and beat them finely till they become a Past beat the minced Capon among it with some Rose-water mingle it with Cream and ten Whites of Eggs and grated Manchet then strain all the foresaid things with Salt Sugar and a little Musk boil them in a clean Pan or broad Skillet to the thickness of Pap stir it continually in the boiling and being boiled strain it again and serve it according to what form or fashion you please To make your Past into quaint devices Take a quart of fine Flower a quarter of a pound of Butter and the Yolks of four Eggs boil your Butter in fair Water and put the Yolks of eight Eggs on one side of your Dish and make up your Past quick and stiff but not too dry Blamanger another way Take half a pound of fine searsed Rice-flower put to it a quart of Morning-Milk set a broad Skillet and strain them into it set it on a gentle Fire and stir it with a slice and when it is a little thick take it from the Fire and put in a quarter of a pint of Rose-water set it to the Fire again and stir it well and in stirring beat it to the sides of the Skillet and when it becomes as thick as Pap take it off and put it into a fair Dish and when it is cold lay three slices in a Dish and scrape on Sugar Blisters to draw To do this without the help of Cantharides Take Crows-foot a handful put to it about a spoonful of Mustard beat them very well together to the consistence of a Poultis put this to the thickness of a Man's little Finger in a Box-cover cut shallow and about the breadth of the Palm of ones Hand and cut a hole of the wideness of the Box in a Plaister of Diapalma or the like to make it stick and this apply to the Part and let it lye on twelve or fourteen Hours because it works as well more slowly than Cantharides as more safely and innocently Blisters Another Take Cantharides reduced to Powder and upon half an ounce of this put two or three ounces of Spirit of Wine let them continue together four or five Days that the Spirit may gain a good Tincture then filter it and dip into it a Linnen Rag six or seven times double and of the figure and largeness that you desire This Cloath being thoroughly wet and covered with a Melilot-Plaister or a Plaister of Diachylum to keep it sticking on apply it to the Part and at the end of five or six Hours you may take it off Blites This Herb eaten as a boiled Sallad loosens the Belly cools Heats of the Stomach and Bowels The Juice which may be taken to four ounces provokes gentle Vomits A Syrup made of the Juice is very cooling and allays the Heat of the Blood also of the Liver and Spleen abates the Heat of violent burning Fevers and a Saline or salt Tincture of it opens Obstructions cools the Reins and Bladder provoking Urine Blood extravasated Grate or rasp the Roots of well grown Burdocks into a fine Powder spread it on a Linnen-Cloath bind it quite round the affected Part and renew it twice a Day Blood-spitting Take Comfry-Roots six ounces Leaves of Plantain two handfuls beat them well together in a stone Mortar then press out the Juice which strain through a Linnen-Cloth let it settle then boil it up to a Syrup and clarifie it with the White of an Egg. Take a spoonful of this Syrup several times a Day and at any time in the Night Blood-spitting Another Take Leaves of Colts-foot half a Handful shred it very small then fry it with a little Bacon then put to it the Yolk of an Egg and stir it in the Morning fasting Continue this for some time Blood to stanch Take
also of single Daisies greatly tempers cholerick Heats refreshes the Liver and other inward parts A Decoction of them much availeth in the cure of Wounds in the hollowness of the Breast or Stomach as also for Ulcers and Pustles in the Mouth Tongue or Privy-Parts The Leaves bruised and applied to the Testicles or any other hot and swelled part dissolves the Swelling and temperates the Heat being boiled with Wall-wort and Agrimony they greatly help in the Palsie Gout or Sciatica dispelling Knobs or Kernels in any fleshy part They help Bruises and Ails occasion'd by Falls or Contusions by Blows They are successfully used in case of Ruptures the Ointment of them cools and expedites the cure of inflamed Wounds especially when they happen in or near the Joynts the Juice may be dropt into rheumatick sore Eyes Damascens to Preserve Gather your Damascens in dry Weather suffering them to be very ripe or they will be but of an indifferent colour to every pound of them put a spoonful of Rose-water and a pound of Sugar finely beaten then put the Fruit in a large bottom'd Pan one by one and set them on a Chafing-dish of five Coals but not at first too hot then put in as much Sugar and Rose-water as will melt it and when the Pan is warm cast on half your Sugar and let it be no hotter than you can endure your hand upon it forbearing to turn them till there be as much Syrup as will bear them up then turn them and cast on the rest of the Sugar not suffering them to seeth when you turn them lest they break on both sides when they are enough take off the Skins gently and when they are cold put them up in a Glass and put into them four or five Cloves and as many little bits of Cinamon and so you may Preserve any Plums Rut to any sort of White Plums put neither Cloves nor Cinamon Dandelyon or Denti de Leon or Lyons Tooth Its Quality is Cleansing and Opening by which means it is effectual in removing the Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Gall and such Diseases as arise from them as Hypochondriacal Passions and the Jaundice c. opening the Passage of Urine in Men and Women of all Ages cleansing Aposthumes and the inward urinary Passages and then by a temperate and drying quality heals them In this case you may boil the Leaves in White-wine or shred small put them into Broth. It is good likewise in a Consumption boiled in Broth or the Juice of the Root drank in Canary or in the bad Disposition of the body call'd Cachexia it procures Rest and Sleep when the Body is disorder'd by Agues The distilled Water is good in Pestilential Fevers and to wash old Sores Dates Of these there are divers kinds and as to their Physical Virtues some of them are dry and binding as those of Egypt others are soft moist and sweet as those growing in Syria Palestine and Jericho the rest are a mean between those two kinds and all of them are hard in Digestion and not very good for the Head because they many times cause the Head-ach but the Powder of them is successfully taken by such as spit Blood or are troubled with the Bloody-flux Deafness Take Betony and Horehound and stamp them in a Mortar strain out the Juice and when the Party is in bed and lying on one side drop in three or four drops into the Ear and it will in a few days time restore the Hearing if the Party was not born Deaf or some Violence has hot been offer'd to the Organs of Hearing Decoction to Open the Body Take twelve Prunes Licorice Aniseeds Currans and Fenel-seeds of each half an ounce Flowers of Borrage and Bugloss of each a dram and an half boil them bruised and shred in a quart of fair Water till the third part be wasted then strain it and drink it at three several times very hot and walk about upon it It loosens the Belly Decoction for Clysters Take the Leaves of Violets Mallows Pellitory Mercury the Herb so called of each a handful the Flowers of Camomil two pugils Sweet Fenel-seeds half an ounce Linseed two drams boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water or Milk to a pint These are the Herbs commonly used in Clysters to cool and empty the Bowels in Stoppages or hot Diseases but to make them work well you must add brown Sugar Decoction Pectoral Take Raisins of the Sun stoned an ounce Jubebs and Sebestenes of each fifteen six Dates and eight fat Figs Barley cleansed an ounce Licorice half an ounce the Leaves of Maidenhair Hyssop Scabious and Coltsfoot of each one handful boil them in three pints of spring-Spring-water to the consumption of a third part A quarter of a pint taken of it every Morning is excellent good for Heats Pains Swelling or any Distemper or Diseases of the Breast and to help Expectorations Decoction of Senna Take two ounces of the Leaves of Senna of the Roots of Polypody of the Oak of each half an ounce Raisins of the Sun stoned two ounces Ginger one dram Sebestens and Damask-prunes of each a dozen of the Flowers of Borrage Red Roses Violets and Rosemary of each two drams boil them in two quarts of Spring-water till half be consumed This is an excellent Purging Potion The Dose is four ounces If it be given to a strong Body that it may work the better put to three ounces of it an ounce of the Syrup of Buckthorn or Roses solutive This may be safely taken as often as any occasion of Ilness or Indisposition requires it or for prevention Decoction of Woods Take Sarsaparilla-roots split and cut small four Ounces Guaiacum three ounces the Bark of the Wood two ounces Sassafras one ounce and an half the Roots of Burdocks and Butterbur of each two ounces and an half Rhodium-wood and Yellow Saunders of each an ounce Carduus-seeds and Juniper-berries of each six drams of the outer Bark of dried Citrons two drams infuse them all night in six quarts of fair Water and then boil them to the consumption of half the Liquid This drank as a Diet-drink is exceeding good for those that are troubled with the French Disease King 's Evil Rheums or Coughs It may be taken four times a day for twenty or thirty days together Decoctum Amarum This bitter Decoction or Draught is made in the following manner Take the Flowers of Camomil the Tops of the Lesser Centaury of each a pugil or very small handful Gentian-root half a scruple the Leaves of Senna cleansed and Carduus-Benedictus-seeds of each one dram boil them in a sufficient quantity of clear Spring-water to four ounces This strengthens the Stomach restores lost Appetite and causes a good Digestion You may take four ounces of it for a Dose fasting five or six Mornings together Defluxion on the Eyes Take red Sage and Rue of each a handful fine Wheat-Flower a spoonful the White of a new-lay'd Egg beaten to
Kidneys or Bladder Dock It is a great cleanser of the Blood and strengthener of the Liver when they are afflicted with Choler Some hold that the yellow Dock-roots work most effectually when they are so afflicted All Docks have in them a kind of a cooling drying quality but not all alike The Sorrel being most cold and the Blood-wort most drying the Seed of them stays the Lasks and Fluxes of divers kinds The Roots boiled in Vingear cure and take off the Itch or Scabs the place being washed with the Concoction and the Breakin gs out of the Skin The distilled Water of the Herb and Roots have the same virtue and more-especially cleanse the Skin from Morphew Spots Freckles or other discolourings Any of the several Docks being boiled with Meat make it boil sooner Bloodwort especially is a very wholsom Pot-herb though some ignorant of its virtues refuse it because it makes the Pottage blackish but those are more nice than wise Doctor Stephen's Water Take a gallon of Claret-Wine or Canary Cinnamon Ginger Grains of Paradise Gallingal Nutmegs Aniseed and Fenelseed of each three drams Sage Mint red Roses Pellitory of the Wall wild Marjoram Rosemary wild Thyme Camomil and Lavenden of each a handful bruise the Spices small cut and bruise the Herbs and put all into the Wine in an Alembick and after it has stood twenty four Hours distil it Dodder a Decoction Take of Mirobolans half an ounce Arabian Stoechas Raisins of the Sun stoned Dodder of Thyme and Senna of each an ounce Fumitory half an ounce Hemp and Agrimony five drams of the Roots of Polypody of the Oak six drams Turbith half an ounce Whey two quarts boil them all but the Dodder till the Liquid be consumed to a quart then put in the Dodder and make it afterward just ready to boil and so take it from the Fire adding a dram and a half of the Roots of black Hellebore of Agarick half a dram Sal Gemma a dram and a half When these have been infused about ten hours press out the Liquor and take four ounces of it at a time as an excellent Purge for Madness or Melancholy Dodder of Thyme It is effectual in Melancholy and purges black or burnt Choler it takes away the Trembling of the Heart swoonings or Faintings all Diseases and Griefs of the Spleen and Melancholy arising from the windiness of the Hypochondria It purges the Reins and Kidneys it opens the Obstructions of the Gall and is hereby helpful in case of the Jaundice It purges the Reins of phlegmatick and cholerick Humours and mixed with a little Wormseed is good in Agues in Children Dog-Biting If you are bitten by a mad Dog or any other Take the Roots of Gentian one dram Myrrh two drams the Eyes or black Claws of Crabs burnt and powdered two drams put them into White-wine boil them and straining out the Decoction drink a quarter of a pint at a time fasting if you can and very warm then wash the Wound with your own Urin wherein Rue and Carduus have been boiled and so continue to do three or four Days successively having first laid some of the Powder dry on it to draw out the putrefied Blood and cleanse it Dogs-Grass It is gentle in its operation being boiled in Whitewine or Ale it openeth Obstructions of the Liver and Gall it removes the Stoppage of Urin eases Gripings and Pains of the Belly and Inflammations The Seeds work powerfully in expelling Urin and the Decoction of them stays Lasks and Vomiting The Roots boiled in Whitewine are a general Remedy against all Diseases occasion'd by Stoppages Dogs-tooth This is a kind of Grass so called and has in it many excellent Vertues in Physick viz. The Decoction of it healeth the Pains of the Belly helps difficulty in making Water breaketh the Stone and brings away Gravel The Root bruised and applied searcheth Wounds and keepeth them from Inflammation If the Decoction be put into a little Wine or Honey and the third part of so much Myrrh Pepper and Frankincense and be made to boil in some Copper Vessel it is a singular Remedy for the Tooth-ach and Rheums falling into the Eyes It is good for the Head-ach being stamped and applied to the Forehead It likewise stenches Bleeding at the Nose And the Seed thereof greatly provoketh Urine and bindeth the Belly and stayeth Vomiting c. Darnel The Meal of it is good to be applied to Gangreens or any the like fretting and consuming Cancers or corrupted Sores It is excellent to cleanse a Leprous Skin or that which is affected with Ringworms or Morphew It dissolves Knots and Kernels being used in quick Brimstone and Vinegar breaking those that will not easily dissolve Being boil'd with Pigeons-Dung and Linseed in White-wine it gives ease to the Sciatica The Meal of it applied Poultis-wise draws Splinters or Thorns out of the Flesh as also Splinters of broken Bones so that they may be easily taken out The Red Darnel concocted in Red Wine is excellent to stay Lasks Fluxes and bloody Issues and retains Urine that would otherwise pass away too suddenly Doves-foot Is a present Ease for the Wind-colick it expels the Stone and Gravel in the Kidneys and boiled in White-wine is good for Bruises Hurts or Wounds stays Bleeding dissolves and expels congealed Blood cleanseth old Sores and Ulcers being washed therewith and also Fistula's The green Herb bruised and applied to green Wounds asswageth the Pain and allays the Inflammation The Decoction of it in Red Wine eases the Pains of the Gout and Aches in the Joints or Sinews the Powder or Decoction of it taken for some time together is experienc'd to be very helpful in the Rupture or Burstenness of Old or Young This Herb by some is called Cranes-Bill Down by some called Cotton-Thistle The Leaves and Roots help if the Juice or Decoction of them be drank Cricks and Pains in the Neck Galen affirms That the Roots and Leaves are of a Healing Quality and help against Convulsions of the Nerves whereby any Part of the Body is drawn up by some Spasm as the Rickets in Children and the Shrinking of the Sinews in Old People Dragons The Water of this distilled scoureth and cleanseth the Body being apply'd outwardly it takes away Freckles Morphew and Sun-burn especially if mixed with strong Vinegar an Ointment of it is good in Wounds it consumes the offensive Flesh growing in the Nostrils call'd Polypus and Cancers If dropt into the Eye it takes off Films It is likewise good against the Pestilence Drink in Fevers This is most excellent in hot and continued Fevers viz. boil a handful of the Leaves of Rue in fair Water till it taste very strong of it strain it and add an ounce of beaten Licorice and two ounces of Sugar to half a pint of this add ten drops of Spirit not Oil of Vitriol and use it for an ordinary Drink and it will allay and drive out the Heat that occasions the Fever Drink
another Take half a pint of Small-beer half an ounce of burnt Harts-horn powder it and boil it a little in the Liquor and it will fortifie the Heart and expell the Heat Drink for Malignant Fevers Take Spring-water a quart give it a walm or two put into it an ounce of burnt Harts-horn the Mixture being cold put in three ounces of Syrup made of the Juice of Lemons make them well together and take a quarter of a pint both Morning and Evening Drink for Head-Pains Take of the Leaves of Senna one ounce Cinamon Aniseeds Fenel-seeds and Currans of each a dram Licorice two drams Rosemary and Sweet Marjoram a handful shred and bruise these and slice in three or four new Figs boil them in three pints of Water with an ounce of Sugar till a third part be consumed then strain it The Dose to the weak is about two ounces but for stronger Bodies from two to four ounces It removes Pains if the Body be open or soluble that the Vapours arise not too hastily to afflict the Brain ☞ Note If the Heâ—d be pained and the Body bound endeavour the first thing you do to open and render it soluble otherwise the ascending of Vapours to the Brain will so disturb the Head and distemper it with Heat and Pain that Lightness of the Head Phrensies or raging Madness may happen to ensue if not timely prevented Drink correcting sharp Humours Take an ounce of choice Barley wash it very clean then boil it in a quart or more of Spring-water till the Grains begin to burst then strain the Decoction through a Cloth and drink it for your ordinary Drink at Meals Drink for the Scurvy Take two handfuls of Water-trefoyl and suffer it to work in about eight gallons of Wort use it for all or the greatest part of your ordinary Drink and it will purge out by gentle breathing Sweats the noxious Humours that occasion the Distemper Drink for Wheezing Take five pints of fair Water half a pint of Honey six Figs an ounce of Blue Currants two drams of Licorice boil them to the consumption of a pint and drink a quarter of a pint of it both Morning and Evening pretty hot This brings away tough Phlegm cures the phlegmatick and slimy Cough and remedies Shortness of Breath Dropsie Take Smallage Thyme Hyssop Watercresses Pennyroyal Nettle-tops of each a handful Caraway-seeds Calamint Elecampane-roots of each one ounce boil them in six Quarts of running Water until one half be consumed then strain it put to this Liquor two quarts of Canary add Licorice scraped and bruised two ounces Sweet-Fenel-seeds one ounce Cumin-seeds and Alexander-seeds of each two drams boil all these together again for half an hour then strain it for use Take nine spoonfuls of this Liquor in the Morning fasting and as much about three or four in the Afternoon and continue it for some time Dropsie Take the Root of Gors it groweth upon Hills and Heaths and is full of Prickles and yellow Flowers pare off the outward Bark which throw away then scrape off the inner Rinde and fill a pint Bottle with it lightly then fill it up with Rhenish or White-wine let it stand to infuse all night the next morning drink a glass-ful of it and continue it till you are cured Dropsie Take Rue Camomil Melilot Calamint of each two ounces beat them small and boil them in Wine and Oil of Dill then add of Gummi Carana as much as sufficeth to make a Plaister Dropwort-Root its Vertue A Decoction of it provokes Urin and expels Gravel cures the Heat of Urin and removes the difficulty in making it The Juice of the Root and the Powder are held to be successful in the Falling-sickness The Dose is a dram of the Powder or Juice of the Root in Wine It 's excellent in stopping Fluxes It heals the Ruptures of the Belly and cures the Bloody-flux Ducks-Meat It swims on the Tops of Ponds mostly in Summer-time it helps Inflammations and St. Anthony's-Fire as also the Gout when applied Poultis-wise with Barley-meal The distilled Water of it is good against Inflammations inwardly and Pestilential Fevers It removes the Redness of Sore-eyes and the Swellings of the Breasts of Women if apply'd before they be grown too large The Herb fresh easeth the Pains of the Head if caused by Hear or hot Inflammations Dullness of Hearing Take the Juice of Red Onions and drop it into the Ears stopping them with Cotton-wool or the Juice of Briony-root but not too often nor too much at a time and the Obstructions by this means being opened and removed the Hearing will be recovered and removed the Hearing will be recovered and restored Dysentery for this Disease which many times proves very dangerous Take the Dung of a Pig dry it very well and burn it till it becomes grey in Ashes put about half a dram of it into a spoonful of Vinegar and drink it both Morning and Evening and it will remove this Distemper Dysentery To remove this and other sharp Fluxes Take the Herbs and Leaves of Fleabane dry it by degrees till it be reduceable to a Powder take about a dram of it twice or thrice a day in White-wine or you may take it rolled up in Conserve of Roses EArs Imposthumated If you perceive any Imposthume breeding in the Ears To ripen it Take fine Wheat-flower an ounce and an half Fenegreek-seed Eels-grease Litharge of Gold Ceruse and Frankincense of each one dram mix them together and make a Plaister of them lay it all over the Ear having first dropt in some Oil of Myrrh when 't is ready to break take Sarcocolla Aloes Dragons-blood Myrrh and Frankincense the Dross of Iron and Verdegrease of each half a dram mix them with Vinegar to a thinness dip a Taint therein and put it into the Ear. Earth-worms Prepared To do this that they may be kept for any use you must only slit them down the middle wash them well in White-wine or Whitewine-Vinegar then dry them in the Sun and put them up into dry Boxes to make Powders or for other Uses upon occasion Ebony The Decoction of it when rasp'd or made thin in Shavings is approv'd in Convulsions if it be drank sweetned with Honey Eels to Collar Take a large silver Eel take out the Back-Bone dry and season it after its having been washed with beaten Nutmeg and Salt then cut off the Head and roul in the Tail being seasoned in the sides bind it up close and straight in a fine white Cloth then put it into a fit Pipkin with as much fair Water and Whitewine as will cover it upward of two inches of each a like quantity then season it with some Salt and the Eel being put into the boiling Liquor when it is boiled pretty tender take it up and when the Liquor is almost cool put to it a little Vinegar and make a souce of it adding some Blades of Mace and a few Bay-Leaves and Tops of Rosemary and when
those that are troubled with Inflammations It Chears Strengthens and Preserves the Sight Falling-sickness Take half a dram of choice Amber powder it very fine and take it fasting once a day in a quarter or a pint of Whitewine for seven or eight days successively Falling-sickness Take Misleto of the Oak the Leaves and Berries and all the tender Branches dry them in a gentle Oven or Stove so that they may be beat to Powder sift it very fine and give as much as will lie on a Shilling for one of riper years for middle age a lesser quantity and so to a Child by lessening the Dose Let it be taken both Morning and Evening in Couslip-water three Days before and three Days after the Full of the Moon repeat the Dose for a considerable time at least two Months if necessity requires it Falling-sickness another Take Senna two ounces Turbith Mechoacan of each half an ounce Raspings of Elks-hoof Powder of a dead Man's Skull and Nutmeg of each two drams Roots and Seeds of Peony Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Cardamom Cassia Lignea and Cloves of each a dram Flowers of Male Peony of Lilly of the Valleys of Lavender of the Tyle-tree of each half a dram Rhenish-wine one quart and half a pint digest these in a warm place for two Days then strain out the liquid part and sweeten in with three ounces of double-refined Sugar This is also good against Vapours Falling-sickness another Take white Incense called Olibanum Mastick and Spicknard of each three ounces Galbanum and Opopanax of each half an ounce Viscus Quercinus an ounce Amber half a scruple Peony-seeds half a dram Labdanum two drams the Seeds of wild Rue one dram Nutmeg and Cubebs of each half an ounce Castor and Copperas of each half a dram having beaten those that are to be beaten very well and dissolved the Gums in Oil of Rue incorporate them with your Hands or some convenient Instrument with the Viscus which being done and the Amber put in last in Powder the Head of the Party being shaven spread a Plaister of the Composition and lay upon it and renew it once in three or four Days And in so doing the afflicted Party will find great ease and in a little time the Cause of this troublesome and dangerous Distemper removed Fat 's to Prepare To do this that they may be in readiness on sundry emergent Occasions Take the freshest of any of them take out the little Veins and Fibers and separate the Fat from the Skin then wash it in clear Water till it is freed from Blood then mince it very small or bruise it and put it into a double Vessel to melt then strain it into clean Water and having remained there till it becomes cold drain the Water from it and keep it in an earthen glazed Pot in a cool place though not too moist and it will keep good for use a Twelvemonth Fevers continual Make a Decoction of the Leaves of Rue in spring-Spring-water or other clear Water till the Liquor be pretty strong of the Plant which being strained make it somewhat a pallatable Liquor with a sufficient quantity of Licorice Sugar or an aromatick Body and to half a pint of it add ten drops of the Spirit not Oil of Vitriol and take it Morning Afternoon and at Night Fevers another Remedy Take in half a pint of some convenient cooling Liquor half an ounce of Harts-Horn burnt to a great whiteness and powdered being first bruised a little in the Liquid and this may be taken as occasion requires Fevers another Remedy Apply to the Soles of the Feet a mixture or thin Cataplasm made of the Leaves of Tobacco cut and beaten into a moisture with new Currans Feverfew This is excellent in the Diseases of the Womb the Decoction of it forces the Courses and expels the After-birth and do's all a bitter Herb is capable of doing It is successful in Fevers by being applied to the Soles of the Feet Take of it a handful warm it between two Tiles and apply it twice or thrice and it cures a Hemicrania and the crude Herb applied to the Crown of the Head cures the Head-ach A Decoction of it with the Flowers of Camomel cures the hysterical Symptoms and forces Child-Bed purgations c. Fig-Tree The Fruit of the Fig-Tree applied outwardly Ripens Mollifies and Attracts being beaten with Salt and Leaven they break pestilential Buboes or other Tumours in few Days The Juice of the Fig-Tree is very biting and may be numbred among Causticks and may be used for the Cure of Warts and such-like excrescencies of the Skin Take Raisins of the Sun stoned one ounce Jubebs and Sebestens of each fifteen eight fat Figgs and six Dates half an ounce of Licorice and an ounce of French Barly of the Leaves of Maiden-hair Hysop Scabious and Colts-foot of each a handful boil them in three pints of fountain-Fountain-water till a third part be consumed press out the Decoction and take eight spoonfuls three times a Day This is a very good Pectoral Figwort its Virtues The Powder of the dryed Root applied to Piles drys them up it is also useful in Cancers and eating Ulcers a dram of the Powder taken inwardly expels Worms the Water distilled from the Roots steeped in Water and Vinegar cures the redness of the Face and of this Herb an excellent Ointment is made for killing the Itch and bringing away the Scurf of it The Decoction of it taken inwardly and the Herb bruised and Poultiswise applied dissolves and brings away congealed and clotted Blood The distilled Water takes away Freckles Morphew c. There is a Plaister of it made for the King's-Evil as follows Take the Leaves of Figwort Houndstongue and the Flowers of white Archangel and Foxglove cut them very small then melt a pound of Lard and it being very hot put them into it boil them till they are crisp then strain them out and put in others till the Ointment look very thick of the green then having strained them out put into the Hogs-Lard two ounces of Turpentine and an ounce of Verdigrease and as much Rosin refined and Bees-wax as will make it into a Salve spread a Plaister and apply it to the grieved Part renewing it often It asswages the Swellings disperses the Humours not only of the King's-Evil but of any other Knots Kernels Bunches or Wens Filbert This Garden-Nut is very pleasant and used mostly for serving up at Tables among other Fruits an Oil is extracted from them that supples hard Swellings and is successfully used in old Sores but the much eating of these breeds the Head-ach and much Windiness in the Stomach Films This is when a thin Skin grows over the Eye and clouds the Sight To take it off Make some Lime-water by pouring a gallon of boiling Water on a pound of Lime unslack'd stirring the Lime in it and after some Hours decant warily that which is clear and to a pound of this
Water put an ounce of choice Verdigrease in powder and in a very moderate Heat extract a Tincture of a fine but somewhat dilute saphirine colour but not too deep decant this very warily and let a drop of this as often as necessity requires fall into the Eye the Party winking hard and it will shrivel off the Film Fir-Tree Has its Virtues mostly consisting in its Rosins and Turpentines which in their proper Alphabets you may see The Branches and Tops of this Tree are infused in Diet-Drinks and given for the Scurvy with good Success Fits-Apoplectick Fix a Cupping-glass without scarification to the Nape of the Neck and one to each Shoulder and let them take fast hold till they begin to loosen and they will draw down the afflicting Humour or Vapour from the Brain Fits of the Mother To remedy this Dip Sea-Salt in Vinegar and into it dip a soft Linnen-Rag fold it three or four times double lay it warm to the Soles of the Feet and keep it on till the Fit be over Flag the sweet one This grows in divers Parts of England and is distinguished from others by its curious Scent It is chiefly used in Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Courses also in the Colick it provokes Urin And the Roots of it candied are of a pleasant Tast nourishing and grateful to the Stomach and keeps out evil Airs and Infections and for this cause the Turks frequently chew it and the Tartars boil it in their Water or infuse the Roots of it in cold Water before they drink it Flax There is an Oil made of the Seed of this Plant that is very excellent in sundry Medians as also alone It is taken inwardly in the Colick Quinsie Pleurisie and Consumption outwardly it mollifies hard Swellings eases Pains and is used much in Paintings c. Flax or Wild Dwarf-Flax This Herb infused in Whitewine after it has been bruised for a whole Night over hot Embers purges watry Humours very strongly Take of this purging Flax an handful of sweet Fenelseeds two drams boil them in a sufficient quantity of Spring-water adding to every six ounces two ounces of White-wine and it makes a gentle purging potion being taken two or three spoonfuls at a time Flix of the Liver Take Agrimony one handful Squinant two handfuls Spiknard and Liquorice of each half a handful Mace and Mastick of each half an ounce Lignum Aloes three drams Bole-Armoniack Lapis Hematitis and Terra sigillata of each six drams Corianderseeds prepared one ounce and half Spodium two drams dryed Roses one ounce Barry-Meal two ounces the Filings of Iron prepared one dram the Compound of the three kinds of Saunders made with Camphire half an ounce Oil of Myrtle and Mastick of each two drams powder the Herbs then mix with them the other things made into Powders then add the Oils and being set over a gentle Fire in a close Vessel till dissolved stir them well to the thickness of a Plaister and apply it very large on the right side of the Body so that it may reach from the Breast unto the Stomach Flixweed A dram of the Seed of this taken in red Wine or Syrup of Sloes stays Loosnesses and both the Seed and the Herb help in the Flux of the Belly and the Bloody-Flux It is used in Plaisters for Wounds and sordid Ulcers and some hold that the Seed boiled in Vinegar and drank warm expels Gravel Florentine of Carps Take a quarter of a peck of fine Flower sweet Butter three quarters of a pound and six Yolks of Eggs work these up in the Butter and Flower and dry them then put to it as much fair Water as will make it up into a Past then take the Carp scale it alive and scrape off the slime draw it and take away the Guts and Gall and scotch it season it lightly with Nutmeg Pepper and Salt and lay it into the Past made up into a Pye in the fashion aâ— near as may be of the Fish put the Milt into the Belly lay on sliced Dates in halves Orange or Lemon sliced Barberries Raisins and Butter close it up and bake it and being almost baked close it up and liquor it with Butter Sugar Verjuice Claret and White-wine and ice it over and so serve it up when it is hot and it will prove a very acceptable Banquet Florentine of Eggs To do this Boil about eighteen Eggs hard then mince them with two pound of Beef-Suet clean taken from the Skins and Fibers till it be very small then take a quarter of an ounce of Cloves and Mace one large Nutmeg let these be finely beaten or grated with a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon then add half a pound of fine Sugar and a pound and half of Currans a quarter of a pound of Dates minced very small then mince or bruise very small some choice Lemon-peel and lastly having mixed all the foregoing things well together put about a quarter of a pint of Rose-water and a little Salt in it When you have so ordered the Materials put them into the Oven let it moderately bake and then have in readiness this Leer to put to it when it comes out viz. Heat a little fair Water and beat up half a pound of Butter with it to a thickness add a quarter of a pound of Sugar and the Juice of a Lemon and so serve them up upon it Florentine with Partridge Your Partridge being roasted and minced small with the weight of the Meat in Beef-Marrow put to it two ounces of Orange-peel with as much green Citron small minced season the Meat with beaten Cloves Nutmeg Mace and Salt and Sugar mixing all together put the Materials into a Puff-past and open it being baked and put in half a grain of Musk or Ambergrease dissolved in the Juice of an Orange and Rose-water stir them among the Meat then cover it and serve it up Florentine of Tongues Boil and Blanch a fresh Neats-Tongue and being cold cut it into little square bits as big as great Hazle-Nuts lard it with small Lard then having another Tongue raw take off the Skin mince it with Beef-suet then lay one half of it in a Dish on a Sheet of white Paper and lay on the Tongue being finely larded and seasoned with Nutmeg Pepper and Salt and with the other minced Tongue put grated Bread to it some sweet Herbs small minced and Yolks of raw Eggs and being made up into Balls as big as small Wash-balls lay them on the Tongue with some Barberries Marrow and interlarded Bacon and Butter close it up with a convenient Lid and bake it and being baked liquor it with Butter beaten up with Verjuice and the Yolks of three or four Eggs strained Flower of Rice and Cream To make a dainty Dish of this Take half a pound of Rice see it be well dusted and cleansed then wash it and dry it in a moderate Heat and when it is dry rub it and beat it in
to loosen the Belly and contributes much to the freeness of making Urin. Hydropsie Take half a dram of transparent yellow Amber twice or thrice a day in any convenient Liquor This has been proved with good success Hyoscyamus or Henbane A Cataplasm of the Roots applied in the Gout Tumour or Tooth-ach gives present ease The Leaves which have all the Virtues and Preparation of the Root wonderfuly mollifie and ease Pains being layed on as a Poultis A distilled Water of the Flowers and Seeds not ripe and an Oil compressed out of them cure the Pains in the Teeth and Gout and are held to help Deafness and Noise and Worms in the Ears if dropt into them though hot too much A Gataplasm of the Leaves boiled in Vinegar and Whitewine eases all Inflammations of the Eyes asswages Swelling of the Gods or in Women's Breasts Gives ease to the Sciatica and other Pains in the Joints proceeding from hot Causes Hyssop its Virtue The Qualities are piercing and attenuating opening and abstersive and therefore it hath power to heal and purifie Being concocted with Figs Honey and Rue of an equal quantity in fair Water is good for Inflammations of the Lungs old Coughs Difficulty of Breathing and Catarrhs It kills Worms in the Belly and being beaten with Salt and Cummin it remedies the poisonous Biting of Serpents if immediately applied to the Wound with a mixture of Honey It is profitable to those that are troubled with the Falling-sickness the Decoction of it being drunk in VVhitewine as also to cause the voiding of Phlegm especially when it chiefly oppresses the Stomach and Lungs as also the phlegmatick Maladies of the Brain and Sinews and not only purgeth but also fortifieth them It driveth away Ventosities and moveth Appetite provokes Urin and lessens the shaking of the Ague Fit sharpens the Sight and supporteth a good Colour It is good for the Spleen and Dropsie and is singularly good against the Quinsie in the Mouth and Throat being gargarized with the Decoction of it and Figs in fair Water The Oil made of the Leaves and Flowers helpeth refrigerated or benumbed Sinews and Nerves and strengthens them And in brief so admirable are the Virtues of this Plant that it has begot a Saying viz. He that eateth Hyssop shall live long c. Hysterick Affections Take an ounce or sufficient quantity of Volatil Salt of Harts-horn drop on it as much Spirit of Tartar as will satiate it when the Conflict is over digest and mix it for a while that it may acquire a redness in Colour and keep it carefully stopt The Dose is four or five drops in any convenient Syrup This is excellent good for the Genus Nervosum and other Distempers and Afflictions Hysterick-Balsom Take Galbanum Opopanax the Tears of Assa Foetida Sagapenum and Armoniack of each a dram distilled Oils of Rue Juniper-Berries and Amber of each a scruple melt the Gums in a brass Melter and mix the Oils and make a Balsom by remixing them over a gentle Fire This Balsam is very excellent to suppress the Vapours of the Matrix put up into the Nostrils and by anointing the Navel with it it provokes the Terms or by applying it to the lower part of the Belly Hysterick-Elixir Take the distilled Oil of Wormwood Pennyroyal Amber Featherfew and Rue of each six drops Tincture of Castor and Saffron of each three ounces refined Sugar Elder-flower-water and Mugwort of each six ounces make these into an Elixir and let it stand ten Days before you use it It is an excellent Elixir against all Diseases and Infirmities of the Matrix The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole one Hysterick-Liquor Take of Castoreum two drams Saffron and Camphire of each an ounce let them macerate fifteen days in a pint of Aqua-vitae not being set on any Fire and then filter the Liquid part This is an excellent Specifick to suppress Vapours especially in Women when arising from the Matrix it may be taken upon any occasion the Party who takes it being fasting that it may operate the better from half a spoonful to a whole one It also may be snuffed up the Nostrils or the Temples bathed with it to ease Pains in the Head and prevent the ascending of offensive Vapours to the Brain Hysterical-Vapours These are usually called Fits of the Mother To cure or avert them Take the Liver of a hunted Hare hang it up for a time in a dry place where it may not putrefie till it may be reduced to powder then take two or three scruples at a time in any convenient Liquor hysterick-Hysterick-Water Take the Roots of Briony and Piony and Orange-peels of each three ounces Flowers of Mugwort Baum Featherfew Pennyroyol Savin and Elder-flowers of each â— handful Myrrh and Castor of each an ounce Saffron two drams Let these macerate twenty four Hours in two quarts of Canary a pint of the Water of the Catkins of Filberds and the like quantity of Orange-flower-water and distill them all on a Sand-Bath This Water is very highly commended by most learned Physicians for the Cure of the Distempers and Grievances of the Matrix The Dose is an ounce and an half Or take this viz. Juice of Neppe Wormwood Mugwort Pennyroyal Elder-flowers and Hyssop of each half a handful distil them and preserve the Water for Use This is not so powerful as the other though very good and contributing much to the Ease of the aforesaid Grievances and Distempers IAcinth Confection Take Jacinth Stones red Coral Bole Armoniack and sealed Earth of each two ounces and two drams the Shavings of Harts-Horn the Seeds of Sorrel and Purslain of each five drams Leaves of Cretan Ditany Grains of Kermes Roots of Tormentile and Bithworth Seeds of Citron cleansed Aethiopian Myrrh Saffron red Roses the several sorts of Saunders the Shavings of Ivory and of the Bone in a Stag's Heart of each five drams Smaragds Oriential Pearl Topazes raw Silk and Leaves of Gold and Silver of each eight scruples Ambergrease and eastern Milk twenty grains Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers six pound and seven ounces This is an excellent Confection to strengthen the Heart remove Infections and is proper for killing of Worms in the Belly or Stomach It may be taken in a Bolus alone or mixed with other Powders or Opiates or else dissolved in Wine or Broth or in some Cordial Liquor The Dose is from a scruple to a dram and sometimes two It is likewise outwardly applied in Liquid and solid Epithems Iacobine-Dottage Take either a Capon or two Brace of Partridges roast them and take out the Bones and mince the Brawn very small then breaking the Bones boil them in strong Broth with a Faggot of sweet Herbs in an earthen Pot then strain out the Broth upon Sippits of Bread and lay on the Bread a layer of Flesh or grated Cheese then put over it some Broth of Almonds and make it boil then fill up your Dish by little and little till it be quite
hot Iron smooth it gently on the wrong side and set it out to Advantage Lace of Silver c. To cleanse this when it is tarnished first rub it over with burnt Whiting in Powder once or twice then by dusting it clear from the Whiting and having ready some Powder of burnt Alom run it over with that finely sifted two or three times and if the Silver upon the Lace be gilded it will restore its faded lustre and render it almost as fresh as at first and so you may recover the lustre of any tarnished Plate gilt or ungilt Ladies-Mantle is an excellent Wound-Herb being hot dry and astringent it stops Bleeding and Courses The Leaves the Tops and the Root are given in Potions for Wounds with success as also are the Powders the Plaisters and Ointments of it applied are very good on that account Rags dipped in the Decoction of it and applied to a Womans Breasts when they are lax makes 'em round and solid It agglutinates inward Wounds and Ruptures And the Decoction of it or the Powder of the dried Herb taken in the Decoction or in the distilled Water is excellent for curing Burstenness in Children Take of Ladies-Mantle Sanicle Golden-Rod Sengreen Bettony and Agrimony of each a handful Marsh-mallows Fern Flowers of Camomel St. John's-wort Mugwort the Buds of Briars Origanum and Tormentile Leaves and Roots of each a handful put them into three Bags and so boil them in the Faeces of Red-Wine and apply them one after another These are very astringent and successful in stopping the Flux Ladies-Smocks the Conserve Take this Herb and Brooklime of each two handfuls shred them small and bruise 'em and then boil them in a quart of fair VVater till the greatest part of the Liquid is consumed then wash them and put to them an equal quantity of Sugar and make them into a Conserve Take of it six ounces and the Species of the three sorts of Saunders and Diarrhodon Abbatis of each a dram and an half Ivory reduced to Powder one dram Salt of VVormwood and Tamaris of each a dram make of all these an Electuary with a convenient quantity of the Syrup of Coral and take to the quantity of a quarter of an ounce both morning and evening and it is an excellent Remedy for a hot Scurvy and for removing Scorbutick Humours c. Lamb This Metamorphosis may at first seem somewhat strange though we can assure you it has been much in esteem viz. to make Lamb of a Pig in this manner Take a fat Pig scald him and cut off the Head slit him and truss him up like a Lamb then being slit through the middle and flea'd boil him a little while then being draw'd with Parsley as you do Lamb roast it and dridge it and serve it up with Pepper Butter and Sugar and it will not be easily discern'd from Lamb. Lamb-stones Fry'd Having parboil'd the Stones put Butter into a Pan mince the Stones small and put them into it then strain them with some Cream Pepper and Cinamon made small grate in some Parmisan or Holland-Cheese or old Cheshire-Cheese and being strained put them into the Pan again and then being well fry'd serve them up with Sugar and Rose-water And in this manner without any variation you stones Lamb-stone-Pye Take six young Pidgeons as many Chickens truss them and bake them with six Ox-Palates well boil'd and blanched and cut into little pieces take six Lamb-stones and as many Sweetbreads of Veal cut in halves and parboil'd twenty Cocks-combs boiled and blanched the Boâ—toms of four Artichoaks boiled a quart of Stewing-Oysters parboil'd the Marrow of four Bones season'd with Nutmeg Pepper Mace and Salt fill the Pye with the Ingredients and mingle some Pistaches among them grate in the Yolks of Eggs hard boiled and covering all with a thin leaf of Butter close it up and put it into a little fair Water at the hole in the Lid being baked drain out the Butter and liquor it with Gravy and Butter beaten up with Lemon-pulp or you may bake it in a Dish cover'd with a Bisket-Lid Lamb to Souce Bone your Side of Lamb first soak it well in Water and Salt wipe it dry season it with Nutmeg Ginger and Sweet-Herbs shred small Coriander-seeds Lemon-peel and Salt lay broad slices of Lard over the Seasoning then roul it up into a Collar and bind it up in a linnen Cloth boil it in Salt and Water taking off the Scum put in sliced Ginger Nutmeg and Fennel with parsley-Parsley-roots and when it is almost boiled up put in a quart of White-wine and being boiled take it off and put in slices of Lemon the Peel of two Lemons and twelve Bay-leaves and keep it close in a convenient Vessel for your use In this manner you may souce a Breast of Veal Kid Fawn or Venison Lamb-like Venison To order this that few shall discover it Take Lamb bone it and dip it in the Blood of a Pig or any other wholsom Blood parboil it in Small-beer and Vinegar three parts of the first to one of the latter let it stand all night then put in some Turnsole and bake it with Claret Butter Pepper Cloves Mace and some sprigs of Rosemary and it will afford you an excellent Dish Lameness in the Limbs This is many times occasion'd by sudden Colds or Humours setling in particular Parts To cure or remove it Take of Oil of Spike and Earth-worms of each an ounce mix them well together and bath the afflicted part as hot as may be well endured Lampreys to Bake Draw and split your Lampreys take out the Strings in the Back flea them and truss them round then having parboil'd them let 'em be season'd with Pepper Nutmeg and Salt place a laying of Butter at the bottom of the Pye lay on the Lampreys with some sliced Onions a few whole Cloves and covering it with Butter close it up wash over the Lid with the Yolks of Eggs and Beer or Saffron-water and when it is baked fill up the Pye with clarify'd Butter beat up with a little Red Wine The Italians bake 'em in this manner viz. The Skin being taken off season it with Nutmeg Pepper Salt Cinamon and Ginger fill the Pye either with whole Lampreys or those that are cut in convenient pieces with the addition of Raisins Currans Prunes dried Cherries and Dates and covering it over with Butter close it up and being baked liquor it with strained Almonds Grapes Raisins Verjuice Sugar and Sweet-Herbs small chop'd and boiled all together then serve it up with Juice of Oranges White-wine Cinamon and the Blood of the Lampreys Ice it and serve it up pretty hot or you may keep it cold but not very long Lampreys in Patty-pans Baked Roast your Lampreys very tender basting it with Butter and being roasted or cold put it into the Pans with Plain or Puff-Paste being first butter'd underneath then season it with Pepper Nutmeg Ginger and Salt Sweet-Herbs shred Bisket-bread grated
Whitewine or Milk and eaten take away Hoarseness and being beaten with Sage-leaves make a singular Poultiss for Wounds Bruises or Inflammations They also are good against the Biting of any venomous Creature being applied Poultis-wise with Leeks and Onions stamped very small The Juice if dropt into the Ear appeaseth the Tingling Singing or Buzzing Noise in the Head The Herb and Root concocted till the Concoction seem somewhat clammy and sweetened viz. the Liquid part with a little Honey is successfully given to Women to restore Strength after a hard Labour in Child-bearing The Seed if powder'd and drank with Red Wine prevents excess in Vomiting Six ounces of the Juice of Mallows sweetened with a little Sugar extremely removes Melancholy and are of such virtue that they were call'd by the Antients Omnia Morbia that is to say Good against all Diseases Mallows Wild These are another sort which Physicians distinguish somewhat from the former though their Virtues are little less being sod in White-wine or Water and Honey they expedite the healing of Wounds by warning them with their Concoction and being applied Poultiswise they are good to allay the Swellings of the Kings-Evil draw Imposthumes to a Ripeness allay Inflammations of the Breast and help Ruptures of the Fundament Ventosities and Shrinking of the Sinews The Leaves bruised with a little Oil are applied for Bitings Burns or Scalds The Seed powder'd and drank in White-wine is good against the Dysentery and Flux of the Belly Master-wort its Virtues It cures the Bitings of venomous Creatures being stamped and applied to the Wound with Bay-salt It is given in malignant Diseases helps Expectoration sweetens an offensive Breath 'T is also accounted good for the Dropsie and a piece of it stopped in a hollow Tooth eases the Pain thereof May-weed This Herb though very common and of no pleasant scent is nevertheless of admirable Virtue for if boiled in Ale or Small-beer with Figs Licorice and Aniseeds of each an ounce and the Decoction drank hot it eases the Colick and all violent Pains in the Bowels If heated between two hot Tyles with Elder-leaves and applied it draws the violent Heat of the Fever from the Head The Decoction in Whitewine is successfully given for the Kings-Evil and other Diseases Mead-White Take Rosemary Thyme Sweet-Briar Agrimony-wood Betony Eye-bright Roman Wormwood and Scabious of each a like quantity which is the sixteenth part of a handful each cover them with Water in a wooden Vessel open at the top and let them steep a Night and a Day and then boil them very well in another Water till the colour be very high then in another quantity of Water boil them up till the colour looks green and so let it boil as long as any greeness continues then with the Herbs in it let it stand a Day and a Night and to every gallon of Water put two pound of clear Honey the Liquor first strained from the Herbs and when it will bear an Egg to Three-pence breadth above Water work it together until the Honey is quite dissolved then after a Night 's setling boil it again a quarter of an Hour with the Whites and Shells of six Eggs then strain it let it cool and put it up with Cloves Mace Nutmegs and Cinnamon bruised together being hung in the Cask in a Bag and if you require it to drink very speedily take the Whites of two or three Eggs a spoonful of Yeast and two spoonfuls of Wheaten-flower beat them together put them into the Cask and when it has worked stop it up with Clay and Bay-salt well tempered and so it will keep long Measles Take two or three grains of Saffron dry it well by the Fire and then put it into a Rag and tying it infuse it in Posset-Ale and then press it or it may be done in Mace Ale or White-wine till all the Virtue of the Saffron is exhausted in the Liquids and let the Party drink it keeping very warm And if in this Distemper or the Small-pox for it is good in either there is a soreness in the Throat do thus Take half a dram of dried Saffron tye it as the other in a Rag and boil it in half a pint of new Milk till the Milk becomes very yellow then boil in it a Stay of Linnen and put it wet and warm under the Throat where the Sore is and when that is cold and dry put on another so ordered and this will in six or eight Hours take away the Pain or Soreness Meat to Roast When a Capon Chicken or Fowl has been long enough before the Fire and thoroughly hot that they require basting do them once over very well with sweet Butter dridge them over with Flower and by so doing it will make a thin Crust that will keep in all the Juice so that they are best without any more basting till they are enough then bast them well with Butter as before which will make the Crust relent and fall away this being done and they grow brown on the outside sprinkle them over with a little ordinary white Salt in gross Grains then bast them over with Yolks of Eggs finely beaten continuing so to do till another Crust of the Eggs arise on them and they are sufficiently enough to dish sauce and serve up to the Table Medicine for the Stone Take a Male-Kid of nine Months old keep him up in a close Place and feed him with Smallage Parsley Fennel Pimpernel Ivy and Lovage and kill him in the Month of August when the Sun is going into the Sign Cancer and receive the Blood in a clean Vessel take off the thinnest part and Water and dry the rest in an Oven till it may be powdered Take a dram of it in Whitewine wherein Onions or lily-Lily-roots are infused Medlars to Preserve Scald the fairest of them when indifferently ripe till Skin may be easily taken off then stone them at the Head and add to each pound of them a pound of fine Sugar dissolved in the Liquor till it become ropey then take them from the Fire and put them up in a close Pot for your Use Megrim Take a large handful of ground Ivy commonly call'd Alehoof wash it clean and dry it well by swinging in a Cloath shread and bruise it a little in a Mortar boil it in a quart of strong Ale to the consumption of a pint and drink it hot in the Morning fasting This cures Pains and Inflammations Defluxions in the Eyes and is good against the Jaundice and Coughs of the Lungs Consumption Stone and Gravel Obstruction of the Liver and Spleen and according to the Learned and Judicious Sir Kenelem Digby being applied to a Fellon like a Cataplasm it cures it by ripening and kindly breaking it being admirable likewise for old Sores that want cleansing if a little Honey and Copperas be mixed among the Juice Megrim This dangerous Distemper in the Head is removed by taking an ounce of Honey Whitewine-Vinegar the White
your Coffin put in a spoonful or two of Canary and the like quantity of Rose-water into every Pye To make the Crust stand fine and eat short sprinkle the Flower as much as there is occasion with cold Water and work the Past with pieces of unmelted Butter and being brought into a form and thinness the Crust when baked will far out-doe that made with hot Water and melted Butter as the usual way is You may strew over the Tops a little ambered Sugar and grind two or three grains of Ambergrease and half a grain of Musk the which quantity will serve five or six Pyes But instead of Neats-tongues if you please Veal Beef or Calve's Chaldrons will do very well Minced-Pyes to Season To do this Take the Meat you design to make them on minced finely when parboiled let it lye pressed all Night then put two pound of Beef-suet minced small to every pound of Meat mix them very well together and take half art ounce of Cloves and Mace beaten half an ounce of Nutmegs the like weight of Cinnamon and a little Salt half an ounce of Carraway-seeds five Pippins minced small without the Core a Lemon-peel scraped and a quarter of a pint of Rose-water a pound of Dates half a pound of Sugar a pound of Raisins of the Sun two pound of Currans mix them well together and put them to every pound of Meat and Suet. Mineral-Crystal To make this pure Dissolve it when pretty well reduc'd to a smalness before in damask Rose-water evaporate it and then filter it warm through a brown Paper on which Rose-leaves are strewed moistned with a little Spirit of Sulphur with a few grains of Musk and Ambergrease and so let it crystalize and it will become a delicate mineral Crystal pleasant in colour and smell being endued with all the Virtues of exalted and pure Nitre If is a true Anodyn and an excellent allayer of Thirst extinguishing the preternatural Heat of all manner of Fevers It is a peculiar and special Antidote against the Plague and all manner of pestilential Infections It removes Stoppages of the urinary Parts and provokes Urin gives ease in the Quinsie in hot sharp and scalding Urin and Gonorrhoea and for these purposes it is best to take a dram of it in Wine sweetned with Sugar Mint This is meant of that sort of Garden Mint called Spear-Mint Its Virtues are very many viz. Beat it and lay it to the Stomach that is weak and wants digestion and it comforts and fortifies it It is a soveraign Herb to restore the Smelling and Feeling to those wherein they are much decayed for the first being often held to the Nose and for the other the Decoction of it very strong applied to the numbed part The Leaves dried and powdered given to young Children kill and bring away Worms The Juice drank with Vinegar stenches Blood and with the Juice of sower Pomegrante restraineth Vomiting Hicups and Colick-Passions This Mint with rose-Rose-water and grated Nutmeg laid on the Forehead asswageth the Head-ach and laid on the tender Dugs full of Milk it easeth the Pain of them Applied with Salt it is good for the Biting of Mad Dogs And the Juice of it mixed with Honey dissolved in Water being dropt into the Ears easeth the Pain of them The whole Herb distilled In a glass Alembick in a Bath of hot Water or otherways four ounces being drank stayeth Bleeding at the Nose Those that affect much Milk to prevent the curdling of it in their Stomachs would do well to chew Mint in their Mouths and swallow the Juice after it If Cheese be sprinkled with the Juice or Decoction of it it will keep from Corruption or Rottenness Mint-Syrup Take about a pint of the Juice of Quinces when they are almost ripe the Juice of Pomgranets half as much dried Mint six ounces red Roses two ounces steep them in the Juices twenty four Hours then boil it half away and strain out the rest and with fine Sugar make it into a Syrup and if it be too thick add a little Mint-water Mint-Water Take Baum Penyroyal and Mint of each a handful Canary-Lees a gallon and after the Infusion of twenty four Hours put them into a Still of Pewter and keep a quick Fire under it cover the Still with wet Cloaths and put into the receiver as much fine Sugar as will conveniently sweeten it and then distil it over again This is excellent in Fevers or any hot pestilential Diseases It comforts the Heart and strengthens the Memory and given with Syrup of Licorice is good for Obstructions of the Lungs and Difficulty of Breathing Mirabilis To make this Water so wonderfully commended by the Learned Sit Kenelm Digby Take Galingal Cardamums Cubebs Mellilot-flowers Mace Cloves Ginger and Cinnamon of each a dram bruise them small and infuse them in a pint of Celandine-Juice and as much Spear-mint-water half a pint of the Juice of Baum and one pound of the Flowers of Couslips Rosemary Borrage Bugloss and Marigolds of each two drams three pints of the best Canary a pint of strong Angelica-water red Rose-water half a pint bruise the Flowers and Spices and infuse them in the Waters Juices and Wine for twenty four Hours then distil them in a glass Still This Water is excellent against fainting Fits comforts the Heart is good in Consumptions the Spleen and Melancholy it keeps the Countenance fresh and young and very much helps the decay of the Memory Taken fasting it creates a good Appetite is excellent in internal Bruises and indeed a better Cordial for any pectoral Distempers or Defects cannot be founnd Miscarriage In this it is proper that young Women should not be ignorant of the Symptoms or Signs threatning or fore-running Miscarriage and some of them are these Sudden Pains in the Back or Belly the Breasts often filling and falling upon which let her apply this following Cerecloath to the Reins of the Back or Breast Take the Roots of Bistwort and Coriander-seed of each two drams unripened Galls Saunders and Hypocistides of each a dram Labdanum and Mastick of each half an ounce Frankincense and Bdellium of each two drams reduce those that can be so served into a Powder and with Oil of Mastick Turpentine and Bees-wax make two or three Cerecloaths and apply them sometimes to the Loins at other times to the Sides and the Region of the Womb under the Navel the Party for a considerable time altogether avoiding any violent motion both of Body and agitation of Mind as Excess of Joy Anger Melancholy c. relating to the latter also violent Sneezings Coughs Strainings or Affrights Miscarriage to Prevent Take Coriander-seed two drams the Root of Bistwort Shavings of Ivory and red Coral prepared of each a dram of white Amber and Crystal of each a scruple reduce all these to fine Powder make them up into Tablets Lozenge-wise with four ounces of Rose-water and half a scruple of the Confection of Alkermes their weight
Fire and put them into an earthen Vessel for four Days then set them on the Fire again till they be thorough hot let them drain and take fresh Sugar boil it to a Candy heighth and put your Oranges to the hot Sugar which being boiled up take out the Oranges and lay them on a Wyre or Sieve to dry in a Stove or Oven and within ten Days they will be dry and fit for use In this manner Lemons are candied Orange-Marmalade Take the fairest Rind Oranges cut them in halves and take out the Pulp boil the Peels tender in fair Water often shifting to take out the bitterness then take them up and squeeze all the Water from them beat them in a stone Mortar with the Pulp of three or four yellow Pippins then strain and boil it with stirring until it become thick take it from the Fire and lay it on White Paper and take as much refined Sugar as the Pulp weighs put it into a Pan with as much Rose-water as will melt it boil it to a Candy height and put the Pulp into the Sugar keeping stirring till it rises from the bottom of the Pan then put it into Boxes and so into a Stove uncovered and when it is tolerably dried cover it up for your use Oranges a Past Take Oranges well coloured and boil them in Water shift them six or seven times in the boiling and put into the first Water a handful of Salt then beat them in a wooden Bowl with a wooden Pestle strain out the Pulp and take the weight of Sugar equal to them boil it up to a Candy height dry it on Plates and fashion it as you please And in this manner you may make Past of Lemons or Citrons Oranges The Water of these besides the pleasantness of the Fruit and other Advantages that arise from them being distilled in an Alembick by paring the Oranges and putting the Peels into a convenient quantity of low Wines or Spirits is not only excellent in Scent and may be sprinkled as a Perfume to give a fragrancy to what you please to asperse it on but is very good in pestilential Fevers It strengthens the Heart and the Brain Three or four spoonfuls taken going to Bed causes likewise a gentle breathing Sweat The Juice of Oranges is cold and therefore resisteth Corruption and is given with a little Sugar successfully to cool and temperate the Blood in Fevers and hot Diseases Orpin This kind of Herb is vulnerary and astringent and is chiefly used for healing Ulcers of the Bowels occasioned by the Bloody-flux also for Ruptures and Burns 'T is held excellent in easing Pains both in fresh Wounds and old Ulcers The Herb roasted on Embers and mixed with Hogs-Lard cures a Fellon Ostiocolla This is a kind of a Stone found in Saxony Silesia c. and grows in the Sand like a Coral It is of a glutinous Quality and therefore of excellent use for binding and knitting broken Bones immediately breeding Matter for a Callus and thereby hastening the Conglutination The Dose in subtil Powder is from one to two drams in any convenient Liquor and outwardly to be applied to the Place in a Cataplasm or Emplaster Aldrovandus affirmeth That broken Bones being rightly placed and tied up it heals them being used outwardly with a mixture of the Oil of Cranes-Bill and inwardly with red Wine It dries and binds without Agrimony and is good against Poison and the Plague Ouzle its Dung Half an ounce of the Dung of this Ouzle or Black-bird mixed with two ounces of the Juice of Lemons and a dram of the Powder of Camphire and applied to the Face or Hands takes away Freckles Lentils and other Deformities of the Skin The Flesh of this Bird frequently eaten wonderfully restores Consumptive People and gives ease to the Colick Pains and is held to be prevalent against the Dysentery and Infection of the Plague especially the raw Flesh being applied to the Sore draws out the Poison Oxgall to Beautifie Of this an excellent Cosmetick is made in the following manner Take four pints of the Galls of an Ox digested twenty four Hours in Balneo Mariae Roach Alom Salt and of glass powdered of each one dram mix them well and put them into a Matras stop it carefully and expose it in May to the heat of the Sun shaking it four or five times a Day then filter the Materials and in the filtered Liquor put two ounces of Porcellane powdered very fine and dissolved in the Spirit of Vinegar Borax and Sperma-Ceti of each an ounce sweet Sublimate and Camphire of each three drams then expose them to the Sun again ten Days often shaking the Ingredients then filter the Liquor and keep it for its proper use Oxymel Simple Take of the best Honey four ounces of Spring-water a pound or pint boil them till half the Water be consumed then pour them into a pint of Whitewine-Vinegar and let them boil to the thickness of a Syrup and take about half an ounce at a time This extenuates gross Humours and carries away slimy Matter opens old Obstructions and Obstructions of the Lungs with Flegm and what Causes arise from shortness of Breath PAin of the Bladder Take of Pulegium and Spicknard of each a little quantity bruise them and putting them into a little Bag apply it warm as near as you can to the Place grieved at the same time drinking about a quarter of a pint of the Decoction of Horehound boiled in a like quantity of Wine and Water Pain in the Eyes Take Melilot-flowers the Flowers of Marigolds and Elder of each a handful Linseed Fenugreek Fleawort Cummin and Quince-kernels of each half a scruple French Barly half an ounce Damask Roses half an ounce Spring-water a pint and half mix and make a Decoction with which foment die Forehead Temples and Eye-brows being sufficiently warm and by Efficiently warm and by often using it the Pain will not only be abated but the Eyes will be very fresh and lively the sight more quick and penetrating than usual Pains in the Loins Take of Quick-sulphur half an ounce beat it into Powder mix it with an ounce of Hogs-lard powder the Seeds of wild Mint add a little Wheat-flower and make them into a Plaister or Ointment with a little Wine over a gentle Fire and apply it warm to the Place grieved often renewing it Pain of the Stomach Take a quantity of green Peach-leaves bruise them with Knot-grass boil them in Whitewine to the thickness of a Poultis and apply them warm to the Stomach or Take Rue Dill Cummin and Smallage of each half a handful boil them in a pint and a half of Whitewine the Leaves picked clean from the Stalks then add three pound of Olive oil boil them again and being taken from the Fire dip therein so much unwashed Wool as spread pretty thick may cover the Stomach lay this where the Grief is most apparent pretty hot and when the heat has dried up
the moisture anoint the Stomach with Oil of Nard and walk about with a quick motion This remedies that Disease of the Stomach likewise called Nausea Pannado to Make Take a quart of Spring-water and put it on the Fire in A Skillet then cut A Penny white-Loaf in slices about the bigness of a Sixpence and as thin as a Wafer and lay it on a Dish placed on a Chafing-dish of Coals then put it into the Water with a handful of clean pick'd Currans and a little large Mace and being boiled to a sufficient thickness season it with a little fine Sugar beat well and dissolved in rose-Rose-water Parsly It hath many Properties in Physick as well as for Kitchen uses viz. the Decoction of the Leaves or Roots thereof openeth the urinary Passages bringeth away Sand and Gravel easeth Colick and the Pains in the Reins being used in the nature of a Fomentation upon the grieved Parts And the Seed is of the greatest Virtue in those Matters it voideth Windiness in the Bowels and is good in the Biting of any venomous Creature The often eating of Parsly or drinking the Juice of it sweetens the Breath Being bruised with the Crumbs of fine White-bread and applied it healeth Tetters and Ring-worms and asswageth the Swelling of the Dugs It diminishes the Milk of Women in Child-bed Past of Apricocks Take the ripest Apricocks pare them very thin and set them in a Preserving-pan over a gentle Fire with as much Water as will keep the bottom of the Pan moist then break them and stir them about with a Skimmer suffering it to stand till the moisture consume and they come to something of a driness then with Sugar boil them to the thickness of a Conserve and so by continuing longer it will become stiff in order to a Past Past of Cherries Boil some of the ripest Cherries till they are reduced to a soft Pulp then strain them through a coarse Cloath or hair Bag and boil a fourth quantity of Pippins not over-ripe till they are very soft then take away the Core and Rind and mash them into Pulp add to these an ounce of fine Sugar to every pound spread it then on Plates and fashioning it as you please let it dry for your use Past to scowre the Hands Take the Husks of Bitter Almonds half a pound bruise them in a marble Mortar sprinkling on them a little Salt and Aquavits then add two Yolks of Eggs and Narbone Honey one ounce and half Orris-roots finely powdered one ounce mix and mould them well together and make them into a Past and use it as you see occasion This is excellent to cleanse the Hands and is easily prepared There is little occasion for wetting it in Water for it may be used as it is prepared if you let it not dry too much parsly-Parsly-Water This must be distilled from the Leaf Root and Stalks in Balneo Mariae being gathered in the beginning of the Spring It Attenuates Opens Cleanses and is Hepatick and Diuretick insomuch that many allow it to cure all Pains and Effects of the Stone where the Party frequently and freely drinks of the Water but this is certain that being exceeding Diuretick it nevertheless forces without Pain and makes the Urin come freely from those that have had Obstructions for many Years and in some it has brought away the Urin with ease after it had been totally obstructed for many Days It may be taken from six ounces sweetned with white Sugar-candy or alone to eight or you may add to it ten or twelve grains of Salt of Tartar or what other Diureticks you think convenient Pear-Pie Take Wardens or other hard Winter-Pears bake them with a little Water and a good quantity of Sugar in a Pot covered with a Lid of Dough. Let them not be fully baked e're you draw them then quarter them taking off the Rind and Core raise a Coffin of Past and between every laying scatter a few Cloves Cinnamon and candied Orange-peel cut small and putting in the Liquor that issued from them in the Pot let them bake to a fitness Pear-Pie another Bake your Pears first in an Oven either upon the Stone or in a Pot peel and core them put them in halves into your Coffin with some slices of Quinces between them and the shaving of Lemon-peel some whole Cloves Cinnamon and Sugar and when baked raise the Lid on one side and put into it some Cinnamon Powder beaten up with Sugar and Rosewater and so serve it to the Table either hot or cold as you please Pear-Pudding Take a cold Capon or one half roasted which is the best of the two then shred some Suet very small as also the Meat taken off the Bones with half as much grated Bread and two spoonfuls of Flower beaten Nutmegs Mace Cloves and Sugar as much as will season it half a pound of Currans the Yolks of two Eggs six Pears the Pulp of them and as much Cream as will make it up into a kind of a Past then make it up into the fashion of a Pear stick a piece of Cinnamon for the Stalk and for the Head a Clove Pearls to Whiten Take half an ounce of Bean-flower Lime and Eggs an ounce white Salt a pound Water of Confound Alcohol of Wine eleven ounces distil the Water and if you wash solid or clouded Pearls in it it will restore them to their native Lustre Pectoral Pills for the Lungs Take Tears of Storax two drams Juice of Spanish Licorice a dram and half Tincture of Saffron four scruples Labdanam Olibanum Myrrh and Extract of Opium of each a dram Ambergrease a scruple Syrup of Citron-peels as much as suffices to make a mass for Pills These Pills stop Defluxions on the Lungs and asswage Coughing The Dose to be taken is five or six grains at Night Pepper boil'd in White-wine is good against the Ague and in most cold Diseases but is more commonly used in seasoning Meats than in Physick and indeed is more proper in the general to that purpose by reason its driness qualifies the moisture that ever abounds in many Meats and causes it to digest kindly in the Stomach Perfumed-Cakes Take Benjamin four ounces Storax two ounces Laudanum a dram Cloves in number twelve Calamus Aromaticus a dram and a little Citron-peel Take a new glazed earthen Pot and boil the Benjamin and Storax in it in half a pint of Rosewater for an Hour if the moisture holds long without being evaporated then put in the rest of the Materials mention'd in a little Linnen Bag adding more Rose-water and when they have boiled a while take them off and strain them through a Linnen Cloath and so soon as cold there will be a curious perfumed Past Perfume for Confection Take of Myrrh a scruple Musk or Civet the like quantity Oil of Nutmegs as much infuse them in Rose-water and with it when well dissolved sprinkle your Confections or Sweet-meats and they will have a curious pleasant Scent
Stumps Spirit of Salt Dulcify'd and Sweet Mix equal Parts of Spirit of Salt and Spirit of Wine set them two or three Days in Digestion in a double Vessel in a gentle Sand-Bath This is taken more safely inwardly than the former because it is less Corrosive It may be given from four to twelve drops in some proper Liquid Spirit of Scurvrigrass Take the Bark of Ash Tree Roots of Fraxinel Tamarisk and Capers each one ounce and half Polypody of the Oak two ounces wild Radish three ounces Scurvigrass-Leaves four handfuls Water-cresses Brook-lime Sorrel and Spleen-wort of each three handfuls Bay-berries and Juniper-berries of each six drams the Tops of the lesser Centaury a handful Seeds of Citron Mustard Carduus-Benedictus of each halfan ounce Cloves Ginger Cinnamon and Nutmeg of each three drams these being cut and bruised digest them in a warm Sand-Bath in a gallon of White-wine and three pints of good Brandy for three Days then distil them in Sand by an Alembick Of this twenty drops is a sufficient Dose for the Scurvy and all the other Distempers attending it as Pains Prickings Shortness of Breath Foulness of the Lungs Yellowness of the Teeth decaying of the Gums and the like This is called the Golden Spirit of Scurvigrass easing the Pains of the Belly in Children and killing Worms But for the latter ten or twelve drops may serve Spirit Uterine Take the Roots of round and long Bithwort Piony and the lesser Valerian of each two ounces Castor one ounce dry Tops of Wormwood Mugwort Tansie Fetherfew Elder and Camomil-flowers of each a handful shred and bruise all together Let them macerate three Days in two quarts of the rectified Spirit of Wine then distil them according to Art and keep the Spirit for your use This is excellent and most effectual to suppress the Vapours that arise from the Matrix and to open Obstructions It is to he given from one to two or three drams at a time in Hysterick Waters or Decoctions It may likewise be put up the Nostrils or applied to the Temples or Navel with good Success Spirit of Wine to Distil Take the Wine and Lees of what sort you think convenient put it into an Alembick draw it off and rectifie it into what heighth you please It is excellent taken in cold Distempers or to mix with any Cordial Water to temper them with heat according to the degrees the Distempers require for which they are to be taken The Joints afflicted with cold Pains being bathed with it ease them It 's good in the Gout and Sciatica the afflicted Parts bathed with it and is used for Lacca to change Silver to a gold colour as also in Varnish and in making up sundry Medicins Baum Rue and the Leaves of Walnuts being beaten and made up into a Conserve with it resist the Plague and pestilential Fevers Spirit of Wine another This Spirit when made the best way is drawn from Branny chiefly and not of that which is usually called Wine Four gallons then of the best Brandy must be mixed with four quarts of ordinary Salt and put into an Alembick or Bay-salt dried and finely powdered Lute the Head and do it over a gentle Fire lest being too long a drawing it off it waft and consume too much that which is the highest or rectified part being fired will burn all away but the second Spirit will not do so This makes curious Tinctures in chymical Operations and being upon other occasions outwardly applied it discusses Tumours and cures Burns if taken in time It also eases the Pains of the Gout and cold Pains in the Joints Spitting Blood Take Ash-leaves and the Seeds of Nettles boil them when well bruised in Whitewine put to the Decoction a little Sanguis Draconis Spodium and Bole-armoniack then these being infused strain it again and drink half a quarter of a pint mixed with half an ounce of the Syrup of red Roses Spots or Stains If in Silk caused by Grease Take the Bone of a Sheep's-foot burn it to powder and beat a red-hot Tobbaccopipe into Powder also then sift these and mingle them together Take of this Powder and lay on the Spot then lay on it the back of a Spoon that has a red-hot Coal in the hollow of it and then the heat if the Grease be little will cause the Powder to suck it out Spots of Pitch and Rosin are taken out by applying Oil of Turpentine rubbing it in and letting it lye and it will crumble away so likewise Tar will rub out like a speck of Dirt. Spots in the Skin to take away Take Water of Talk and Lemon-juice infuse in them the Roots of Mandragora and let them stand five Days in the Sun or some warm place and then strain out the liquid part and with it bath the Spots and in often so doing they will disappear Or for want of these wash them with the Water of Radishes drawn by an Alembick and anoint the Skin with the Meal of Orobo mixed with Honey Spots in Stuff or Woolen Take Fullers-earth two ounces Castile-soap an ounce the fine siftings of coarse Bran half an ounce mix these with fair Water make them up into a kind of Paste and lay then some of it on the Spot and being then a little moist let it dry on before a gentle Fire Stains that come not by Grease are taken out by boiling Lemon-peel in Small-beer with a little Copperas till it be very strong of them then with a hard Brush rub up the place with it and take it out again after a while with fair Water wherein a little Castile-soap has been dissolved Stanching Blood Take round Mushrooms or Puff-balls in Autumn when they are full ripe break them warily and save carefully the Powder that will fly out and the rest that remains in their Cavities and strew this Powder all over the Part affected binding it on with a Liniment and the Bleeding will be immediately stayed Stephens's Water See Doctor Stephens's Water Stiffness of the Sinews to supple Take twelve Frogs Hogs lard one pound Oil of Bays two pound and Bay-berries dried and reduced to Powder two ounces boil them together sufficiently then press them through a linnen Cloath add then white Incense in powder one ounce and make the Liquid into an Ointment over a gentle Fire with which anoint the Parts often and it will comfort the Sinews and restore them to a limberness and make them very supple and always after anointing wash it with the following Decoction viz. Take the Roots and Leaves of Agrimony with the Roots of Mallows boil them in Water till they be tender strain out the liquid part and bath with it Stinging of Insects If you are stung with Wasps Hornets Bees or the like Take Juniper-berries when ripe and bruise them then distil them through an Alembick and not only wash the place stung but drink about a quarter of a pint of it with an ounce of the Juice of Rue
them without chewing Stump-Pye to Season Take Veal or Mutton mince it raw and make it up into Balls about the bigness of large Walnuts then put half an ounce of Pepper half an ounce of Nutmegs and half an ounce of Cloves and Mace Marjoram Thyme and Savory cut small then add a pound of Currans mix these well together and put them to two pound of the Meat then work them up into Balls of the aforesaid bigness with six Eggs and at the closing up put a pound of Butter dispersed among them in little Balls as big as Marbles Then make a Caudle with a quarter of a pint of Whitewine half a quartern of Verjuice the Yolks of three Eggs and a little whole Mace then putting in about a quarter of a pound of Butter when they are well beaten up and thickned over a gentle Fire put it into the Pye and so closing the Lid bake it in an indifferently well heated Oven Surfeit-Water Take what quantity of Brandy you please and steep a proportionable quantity of red Poppy-flowers in it the black Bottoms being taken off and when the colour is extracted press them out and put in fresh and so do till the Brandy is of a deep Tincture then slice in Nutmeg Ginger and Cinnamon of each two drams to a quart of the Brandy and add an ounce of fine Sugar likewise to every quart Then keep it close stopt and it is excellent good for Surfeits Wind or Illness of the Stomach Sweat to Provoke Take the Herb or Plant called Rape the Roots of Plantain the Lesser and Knot-grass of each a handful bruise them well and boil them in Vinegar strain out the liquid part and take about a quarter of a pint of it going to Bed and keep your self warm and it will purge out the ill Humours by a gentle breathing Sweat Swelling to Break Take of salt Butter half an ounce Leaven one ounce white Mustard-seed two drams Garlick one dram Oil of Camomil three quarters of an ounce bruise and mix these together and apply them hot Poultiswise spread on Colwort-leaf suffering it to lye on four or five Hours and then if the Matter be soft and the Skin not broke open it gently with a Lancet or potential Cautery of Cantharides and being opened for its speedier Cure use this Decoction Take round Aristolochia Agrimony Self-heal Parsly-roots and Gentian of each an ounce boil them in half a pint of Wine and as much Water and tenting it with proper Unguents lay on this consolidating Plaister Take the dried Leaves of round Aristolochia one ounce Frankincense Mastick and Myrrh of each two drams Aloes-succotrine one dram Litharge four scruples red Lead two scruples Meal of Lupins one dram make these into a very fine Powder then dissolve Deers-suet one ounce Oil of St. John's-wort six drams washed Turpentine half an ounce Bees-wax three ounces and being well incorporated over a gentle Fire put in the Powder and make all into a Plaister This is admirable in any Tumours or Swellings and more-particularly in Plague-Sores Swelling when the Gout ceases To Remedy this Take the Ashes of burnt Oister-shells or rather the Powder of them when they are calcined the Ashes of Spongel and Dodder of each an ounce boil them in a pint of sharp Vinegar and a quarter of a pint of Water and with the Decoction bath the liquid part as hot as may be endured Swelling of the Liver or Milt Take the Leaves and Berries of Ivy infuse them when bruised ten days in Whitewine then boil it till the Wine is nearly consumed strain out by hard pressing what liquid part remains and put to it a like quantity of Olive-oil and half the quantity of Bees-wax and therewith being warm'd over a gentle Fire anoint the Place nearest to the Internals so grieved as hot as it may be endured and in so often doing you will find great Advantage thereby Swelling of the Matrix This is frequently caused by Ventosities or Windiness after the Birth of Children To Remedy it Take Mustard-seed or Rape-seed and boil them in Water make a Fomentation and inject it but if it happen through inflammation or evil purgation attended with an Ague let the Party take a dram of the Powder of peony-Peony-roots in warm Broth fasting in which has been boiled the Flowers of Chamomil swallow-Swallow-Water Take twelve Swallows out of the Nest cast them whole into a glass Alembick add thereto the Shavings of a Man's Skull three ounces Castor one ounce and a half Powder of Misleto one ounce Juice of the Roots and Leaves of Male-Peony six ounces Water of the Flowers of Tillet Lavender and Lily of the Valley of each a pint and a half Vinegar of Squills half a pint macerate them over a gentle Fire the space of forty hours then distil them in a moderate Sand-bath and keep the Water for use It is an excellent corrected Anti-Epileptick-Water and has particular Virtues against that Distemper It is given about a spoonful in the Fit and may be continued every Day as occasion requires after the use of general Remedies Swelling of the Yard Take the Juice of the Herb called Cauda Equina mix it with the Juice of Endive and take four spoonfuls Morning and Evening or Take the Water of the Herb distilled through an Alembick to the like quantity anointing the grieved Part with a Mixture of the Oils of Mallows Roses and Earth-worms Syrup of Citron-Iuice Take three pints of Citron-Juice extreamly purify'd put it into a glass or glazed earthen Vessel then dissolve therein six pound of fine Sugar stir it till the Sugar be wholly incorporated with the Juice continue stirring as well when it is off as when upon the Fire and observe that you make use of no Vessels for the preparation of this or any other Syrup of acid Juices but such as are made of glass or glazed Earth for if they be of Metal the Acids will take their Tincture and spoil This is a great cooler and therefore given in Fevers and hot Diseases also to cut Flegm and gargarize sore Mouths Syrup of Coral Take four ounces of red Coral well chosen beat it into Powder on a porphyry Stone moisten it with Rose-water and being dry put it into a glass Cucurbit and pour on it three pints of the Juice of Barberries well clarified put the Cucurbit in a Bath of Ashes moderately hot forty hours stirring the Ingredients from time to time with a wooden Spatula then filter the Liquor through a brown Paper weigh it and return it into a glass Cucurbit set in Balneo Mariae dissolve in it the double weight of Sugar and it is excellent in pestilential Distempers Syrup of Elder Take ripe Elder-berries bruise them well press out the Juice and put to a gallon a pint of Canary or Muscadel boil it to the consumption of almost one half keeping it well scummed and when 't is hot off the Fire put in the Sugar and stir it about then set it
Salt surmounting the Acidity of the Cream of Tartar breaks the union of its parts and insinuating its pores makes it dissolvible in cold Water or cold Liquors whereas otherways it could not be dissolved but in those that are boiling hot For Soluble Emetick Cream of Tartar take this Rule Take Crocus Metallorum mixed with Salts and Cream of Tartar of each two ounces pulverize them very finely and let them macerate for fifteen Hours in three pints of cold Spring-water then digest them as long in a moderate Sand-bath and at length encrease the Fire and let them boil gently filter the Liquor and evaporate it till a thin Film cover it then set it in a cool place to crystalize The Parts of the Tartar-Cream being disunited by the fixed Salt remaining in the Saffron of Metals is easily dissolved in cold Water and fitted to purge upward and downward giving it from two to three four five or six grains in Broth or Wine or some other convenient Liquor Teal Boiled Take the largest sort of Teal draw them and pick them clean then take about a dozen stewing Oisters Thyme Sage Winter-savory and Parsly clean stript and cut small make them with a little Butter and Pepper into a Ball stiffned with Flower and the Fowl being trussed put this into the Belly tying the Neck and Vent very close then put the Fowl into the Water when it begins to boil being boiled tender dish them on Sippets with Gravy Anchovy-sauce and the Herbs laying the Oisters with some Lemon-peel and Parsly about the Dish for garnish Tears to Prevent If Tears or watry Humours are usually standing in the Eyes hindring the Sight and being much troubled Take of Aloes Epatick two drams infuse them in about half a pint of Whitewine and rose-Rose-water of each an equal quantity and wash the Eyes with the Liquid part Morning and Evening or else foment them with the Water of Stechado's Teasle its Decoction This is usually called Fullers-Thistle the Roots of it boiled in Wine help to cure Ulcers and Warts There is a Water that is received in the hollowness of the Leaves of this Plant as it grows after a shower of Rain which by long standing there becomes good for the Inflammations of the Eyes also to take away Spots from the Face and beautifie it The Herb boiled in Wine purges by Urin. Teeth to Fasten Take a pint of Red or Claret-wine and about two drams of Japan-earth dissolve it as much as may be then pour off the Clear and wash the Mouth with it often or Take Sage and Winter-savory boil them in Spring-water till the Water is strong of the Herbs then put into a pint an ounce of Honey and half an ounce of Alom boil it a litile till the latter are dissolved and then it being strained wash your Mouth with it at convenient times Teeth to keep Sound Let the Party if it can be agreeable frequently rub his Teeth with the Ashes that remain in a Pipe after it is smoaked washing it afterward with fair Water Or Take the Juice of Housleek and Scabious and wash your Mouth with it once or twice a Week in the Morning Teeth to make Firm Take the Ashes of Vine-sprigs and those of the Root of Burdock put them into Vinegar let them steep about six Hours and then first wash your Mouth with fair Water and afterward with Vinegar strained clear from the Ashes and it will fix and preserve the Teeth to a very great Age. Teeth Offensive If your Teeth by reason of their Rottennest or Humours settling under them cast an ill savour to remedy it Take four ounces of Cummin-seed seeth if in a quart of Whitewine with some Tops of Baum and Mint till a quarter of a pint be consumed and with this wash your Mouth Morning and Evening Tench-Pye To order this and season it well Take about six Tenches and having made the Coffin lay a laying of Butter and some Nutmeg Cinnamon and Mace lightly scatter'd over it then lay in the Tench put over them some more Butter and Spice with a few blue Currans clean washed and pour in about a quarter of a pint of Claret then bake it well when enough take it out and put in more Butter at the spout and serve it up with some fine Sugar dusted over it In this manner you may season a Carp-pye but three of them if any thing large are sufficient in one Pye Tender Eyes Take the Water of Plantane Eye bright Pimpernel and the Oil of Roses beat them up together and wash or anoint the Eyes with them and the Sight will be much strengthened Tenesmus Mix Balsam of Sulphur made with Oil of Turpentine with Linfeed or some other such-like convenient drying Oil till the Balsom be thereby so well allayed that it may be well endured then let the Party dip a Finger in it and use it as a suppository once or twice a Day Terms to Provoke Take for three Mornings together about the expected time of the Menses a dram or a dram and a half of the Galls and Livers of Eels dried and reduced to Powder in a Glass of Whitewine or Canary Tetter To cure this Take black Soap a quarter of an ounce Bole-armoniack two drams Oil of Turpentine three drams Bees-wax half an ounce and Bears-grease one ounce make these up into an Ointment or thin Plaister and apply it to the Place renewing it every Day and a speedy Cure will ensue This also breaks the Whitloe and is excellent against Scalds or Burns Tetters to Kill Take of burnt Alom Ginger and Flower of Brimstone of each a like quantity mix them well and incorporate them with fresh Butter so much as when melted will bring them into the consistence of an Unguent and with it anoint the Part afflicted as hot as can be well endured when you are going to Bed and let it continue on all Night and when you rise wash it off with Celandine-water but upon going to Bed take a little Gascoin-powder in a spoonful or two of Treacle-water to prevent the Humours being driven into the Mass of Blood which oftentimes happens when this is not on bathing the Place with Celandine-water Thorow-war The Decoction of this Herb in Wine of the Leaves powdered are applied successfully in Ruptures and Contusions Some hold it is a proper Remedy for the King's-Evil also Fractures and an Erisipela's Thoru-Apple An Ointment made of the Juice of the Leaves and Hogs lard is excellent for Burns and Scalds The Seed is to be avoided because taken for a time it occasions Madness Throat Sore Take Verjuice of Grapes an ounce best Honey half an ounce crude Alom about a dram and a half Rock or Spanish Salt half a dram make these into a thinness and with a fine Rag at the end of a small Stick or Wyre thrust it as far as is convenient into your Throat where the Sore is and bathe the Place grieved with it Do this often and between
let the Party keep close in a warm Bed in order to sweat and repeat this two or three times This was experienc'd by the famous Sir Kenelm Digby and by him ordered to be given to divers Persons which was rarely given without Success Treacle-Spirit To make this Take the Roots of Master-wort Angelica Athamantick Spignel and the bigger Valerian of each three ounces Juniper-berries and the Seeds of Bishop's-weed and Seseli of Marseiles of each an ounce approved Treacle four ounces The Roots and Seeds being bruised together macerate them eight Days in two pints of rectified Spirit of Wine then make your Distillation and preserve the Spirit This Spirit resists very powerfully all sorts of Poisons It may be taken in Spanish-Wine or any Cordial Liquor from one to four drams It may be also apply'd to the Nostrils Forehead Temples and Sutures of the Skull for Head-achs Fainting Fits or Drousiness of the Brain treacle-Treacle-VVater This is the most Excellent sort of all To make it Take the Roots of Gentian Angelica Master-wort Valerian and Contrayerva of each two ounces Citron-rinds and Orange-peels Cinnamon Cloves and Juniper-berries of each an ounce Tops of Water-Germander Rue and St. John's-wort of each one handful infuse them to three Days in Spirit of Wine and Waters of Nuts and Blessed Thistle of each a quart then add four ounces of approved Treacle distil the whole in a Sand-Bath and keep the Water close stopped for use This is an excellent Water to resist Poison and to fortifie all the noble Parts being taken from one dram to half an ounce Some make a Treacle-water by dissolving the Treacle in equal parts of Spirit of Wine and Vinegar using it without any Distillation but Reason and Experience tells us this is far more Excellent Tre-foil or Bucksbane The Decoction of it in White-wine is good against the Scurvy as also for Pains in the Limbs The Leaves boiled in Beer and taken hot ease Pains in the Bowels but being bitter it is best taken in any lenitive Syrup Trembling a Remedy If the Members tremble and shake that you cannot at certain times hold them still though no cause of Fear Danger or Defect is evident to cause it anoint the crown of the Head the Hair being shaven off and the other Parts especially where you find the Trepidation with Oil of Cinnamon and drink two drams of the Water that is made of Man or Swine's Blood brought to putrefaction with Aqua-vitae or Spirit of Wine and afterward distilled and this must be frequently repeated for a Month's space Troches Pectoral Take of white Sugar a pound white Sugar-candy and Penids of each four ounces of the Roots of Florentine-orris half an ounce white Starch an ounce and half Licorice six drams with a convenient quantity of the Mucilage of Tragacanth extracted in Rose-water make the Materials into Troches that they may be perfumed as occasion requires it with four grains of Ambergrease and three of Musk. These are Excellent for Coughs and Catarrhs in Winter and for the preventing taking Cold in such whose Occasions constrain them to Travel in damp and foggy Airs Troches of VVinter-Cherries Take of Winter-Cherries three drams Gum-Arabick Tragacanth Olibanum Pine-nuts bitter Almonds white Starch Juice of Lemons Bole-armoniack and the Seeds of white Poppies of each six drams Melons Cucumbers and Gourds of each three drams and a half Smallage white Henbane white Amber and Earth of Lemons and Opium of each two drams and with the Juice of fresh Winter-Cherries make Troches The Dose is two scruples to be taken at a time This is excellent for expelling Gravel from the Bladder or Kidneys and to provoke Urin. Trochiscs of Benjamine Take Benjamine and the Ashes of a Sallow-Tree of each an ounce Rosin and Storax prepared a like quantity sweet Tacamahacca and Lignum Aloes finely powdered of each half an ounce Ambergrease a dram Musk half a dram Zebit six grains distilled Oil of Lignum Rhodium Cinnamon and Cloves of each six drops make up these with Gum-Tragacanth extracted with Rose-water These are more excellent than any as casting a more fragrant and incomparable sweet Smell Trochiscs Odoriferous Take the Powder of green Willow-coals three ounces Labdanum two ounces Storax and Benjamine of each half an ounce Mastick sweet Tacamahacca and yellow Amber of each two drams Lignum Rhodium a dram and half make them up with the Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth extracted with Rose-water and dry them in the Shade This is an excellent Perfume for Chambers and Rooms of Entertainment as likewise to drive away ill Airs and bad Scents Trochiscs another Way Take the Coals and Ashes of Rosemary beat small and sifted finely four ounces Labdanum two ounces Storax and Renjamine of each an ounce Roots of Cyprus Aromatick red Mastick and Amber of each two drams Cloves one dram Musk Civet and Ambergrease ten grains the Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth extracted with Orange-flower-water as much as will make them up and suffer them to dry as the former These give an excellent Odour and are very wholsom to the Brain and drive away offensive Vermin and Insects being burnt on Coals Trotter-Pye This is done with Wardens Quinces Pears c. and you may either take them severally or altogether quartered or sliced raw it in quarters put some whole ones among them if sliced beaten Spices and a little Butter and Sugar taking to every twelve large Quinces a pound of Sugar and a quarter of a pound of Butter close it up and bake it and when it is well baked mash the Fruit then put in some Cream and Yolks of Eggs well beaten and stir them altogether then cut the Cover into five or six pieces Diamond fashion put in a little Rose-water and scrape Sugar over it Tumour in the Eye This is otherways called a Phlyctena or a little Tumour in the carneous Tunicle of it To remove it Take the Decoction of Mucilages and dress the Eye with if for some time to ripen the Tumour then with a steady Hand open it with a Lancet or Needle and press out the offensive Matter then cleanse and heal the Part with Honey dissolved in a little saga-Saga-water But when the Tumour is beginning and not great if you have not the Decoction of Mucilages you may dress the Eye with the Mixture of equal parts of the Water of Melilot Chamomil and Bettony Tumour of the Knee Take a green Colwort-leaf with red Veins or Streaks pare off the Ribs flat and almost level to the rest of the Leaf then with the haft of your Knife bruise it and apply it to the Part affected renewing it three or four times a Day This also allays any Heat or Pain by other means and draws gently mostly evacuating the Humour by Sweat Tumour to Ripen Take eight ounces of fat Figs two ounces of white Lily-roots two ounces of Bean-flower or Meal boil them the Figs and Roots being bruised in as much Water as will reduce them to the consistence of a
as much Oil of Tartar per deliquium as will cause a sensible but not considerable strong Tast and\ make it into an Ointment and with it often anoint the Warts as hot as you can well endure it and they will either sink or peel off Warts Bloody For these Cut off the Warts or Knobs of the black Elder and Mallows of each three ounces of the Syrup of Comfrey one ounce let the Party take four spoonfuls immediately and so continue to do four or five times a Day Warts to Remove Wash the Warts often with the hot Blood of a Pig suffering it to dry on them then wash it off with Lye of Wood-ashes and lay on a Plaister of Elder-bark mixed with Oil of Turpentine Wash If you would have your Skin of a sweet and fragrant Scent Supple and of a lively Colour Take Baum and Hyssop of each a handful the Boom of Peaches and Garden Musk a Herb so called infuse them with an ounce of Frankincense beaten to Powder and four drams of the Oil of Spicknard in two gallons of fair Water over a moderate Fire strain them and wash your self with it or make a Bath of it and it will not only render you amiable and charming but contribute to the settling a healthful Constitution Water for Bruises Take two handfuls of Scabious-flowers of Smallage Bay-leaves Pennyroyal and Chamomil of each a handful the Powder of Myrrh half an ounce Harts-horn two ounces bruise the Herbs and put them to infuse in two quarts of Mallaga then distil them and let the Party drink two ounces of it Morning and Evening It is excellent good for internal Bruises or Hurts also for Spitting of Blood and Inflammations Water for Cankers If you are troubled with a Canker in the Mouth c. Take Sage the Bark of Elder-Tree Comfrey Sorrel and Endive of each two handfuls stamp and strain them when infused twelve Hours in two quarts of Whitewine gargle your Mouth with it or anoint or wash the Place with it elsewhere and it will make it at a stay and in a little time heal it Water for the Head-ach Take Roses Bettony and Elder-flowers Sage Chamomil and Marjoram of each four handfuls Lavender and Wheat-bran of each two handfuls boil them in about two gallons of fair Water With this bath your Forehead and Temples and put your Feet info it as into a Bath as hot as may be and then repose your self after it keeping warm taking inwardly a quarter of a pint of Mint and Bettony-water And in so doing twice or thrice the Pain in the Head will cease and the Brain be much comforted Water for Heat For Hear or Pimples in the Face or hot Inflammations in the Eyes take this recommended Water Take white and red Rose-water of each a pint Tutty-stone in Powdâ—r Aloes Epatick fine Sugar and Rosemary flowers of each an ounce put them in a double Glass and place them in Balneo Mariae five or six Days yet frequently in the mean space move and shake them together then with the Water wash your Face Eyes and other Parts inflamed or breaking out with Heat and it will by a constant use remove it and make the Skin beautiful Water to cool the Liver Take Barberry-leaves and Wood-sorrel of each two handfuls plantane-Plantane-roots and Leaves a handful Mellon-seeds Borrage and Comfryflowers of each an ounce bruise them well and infuse them in a gallon of spring-Spring-water distil them in that Water and drink a quarter of a pint of it fasting with the Syrup of Limon Citron or Violets and walk about a while after the taking thereof Water for the Plague Take a pound of Celandine Rosemary Baum Mugwort Rue Pimpernel that is found amongst the Corn Dragons Mugwort Scabious Agrimony Bettony Angelica Pellitory of Spain Carduus Marigold-leaves and Flowers Borrage-leaves and Flowers Rosa-solis Fetherfew Pellitory of the Wall red Sage Setwell Mother of Thyme Devils-bit and Tormentil of each a good handful with a few Sprigs of Rue and Walnut-leaves or green Walnuts bruised bruise them well and let them infuse in a sufficient quantity of White-wine three Days and as many Nights keeping the Pot they are in very close yet often shaking it that the Ingredients may move in the Wine then distil the Wine Herbs and set the Water that is drawn off close stopped in glass Bottles where the Sun may come to them The best time of distilling this Water is in May if the Materials by reason of the forwardness of the Spring may be had so early Ten spoonfuls of it may be taken Blood-warm to prevent the Plague and this must be done when the first Symptoms of it appear And upon taking it walk about till you sweat again for the space of an Hour not eating or drinking after it for the space of two Hours or more and then go to Bed upon it If it chance to cause you to Vomit it is a sign it has taken the better Effect This is also good against Agues or any infectious Diseases of the Stomach being taken before the Fit or Infection too far seizes Water for the Stone Take Saxifrage Pellitory of the Wall Mother-Thyme green Sage radish-Radish-roots sliced of each of them a handful steep the Roots Herbs a Night in Milk and the next Morning distil them Two spoonfuls drank fasting with as much White-wine is good also to provoke Urin and prevent Stoppages Water for Vlcers To cleanse Ulcers use this Water as the most Excellent viz. Take red Rose-water and Plantane-water of each a pint the Juices of Housleek Night-shade and Pimpernel of each two ounces red Roses half a handful Myrtle and Cyprus-nuts of each half an ounce the Rind of a Pomegranet three drams St. John's-wort half a handful Flowers of Mulleyn a pugil Myrrh and Frankincense of each a scruple Honey of Roses four ounces distil them when beaten mixed and well infused and of this Water take a pint and dissolve it in six ounces of the Conserve of Roses and one ounce of the Syrup of dried Roses with twelve drops of the Oil of Sulphur when it has infused a while press out the Liquid part and wash and bath the grieved Place with it often and it will heal it Weakness after Delivery Take Syrup of Violets half an ounce and as much of Citron-syrup add to these two drams of the Powder of Rhubarb and an ounce of Treacle-water with as much Diascordium dissolved in it as will lye on a Groat and to these add half a pint of Hyssop-water let the Party take an ounce at a time and after it some Broth or warm Posset-drink the Woman likewise taking great care of her self after it for fear of catching cold by her too timely rising or stirring for then the Cold has opportunity to penetrate and settle in the open Parts of the Joints causing Numbness and Pains in the Limbs and sometimes by such violent Intrusions ferments the Blood to a Fever And if any such thing unfortunately
THE Family-Dictionary OR Houshold Companion Wherein are Alphabetically laid down Exact Rules and Choice Physical RECEIPTS FOR The Preservation of Health Prevention of Sickness and Curing the several Diseases Distempers and Grievances incident to Men Women and Children Also Directions for Making Oils Ointments Salves cordial-Cordial-Waters Powders Pills Bolus's Lozenges Chymical Preparations Physical-Wines Ales and other Liquors c. and Descriptions of the Virtues of Herbs Fruits Flowers Seeds Roots Barks Minerals and Parts of Living Creatures used in Medicinal Potions c. Likewise Directions for Cookêry in Dressing Flesh Fish Fowl Seasoning Garnishing Sauces and Serving-up in the Best and most acceptable Manner The Whole ART of Pastry Conserving Preserving Candying Confectioning c. Also The Way of Making all sorts of Perfumes Beautifying-Waters Pomatums Washes Sweet-Balls Sweet-Bags and Essences Taking Spots and Stains out of Garments Linnen c. and Preserving them from Moths c. Washing Point Sarsnets and Restoring Faded Linnen and Scowring or Brightning Tarnished Gold or Silver Lace Plate c. Together VVith the Art of Making all sorts of English VVines as Currants Cherries Gooseberries and Cyder Mead Metheglin c. And the ART of Fining and Recovering Foul or Faded Wines The MYSTERY of Pickling and keeping all Sorts of Pickles throughout the Year To which is Added as an APPENDIX The Explanation of Physical Terms Bills of Fare in all Seasons of the Year With the ART of CARVING And many other Useful Matters By J. H. London Printed for H. Rhodes at the Star the Corner of Bride-lane in Fleetstreet 1695. LICENSED February the 28th 1694 5. THE PREFACE Courteous Reader IN this elaborate Work thou wilt find such Satisfaction as perhaps the present or past Ages have not before afforded thee If Health is held valueable in your Eyes and you would avoid the Pains and tediousness of Sickness or Grievances incident to Human Bodies here you may repair to an Asylum and find the Arcana opened for your Good which have been hitherto locked up from the greater part of Mankind All Difficulties and Hard Terms or Words are removed which have puzled Ingenious Persons and the Path is made so smooth that any reasonable Capacity or Understanding may travel in it without the least fear of Stumbling or falling into Error if some particular Cautions that will herein occur are used as a Guide and Conductor For I confess in weighty Matters such as tend to the Preservation of Health the preciousest Jewel of Life things ought to be well weighed and considered that every thing may concur with the Ends for which it was design'd and made publick which is the Benefit of Mankind That it is called a FAMILY-DICTIONARY shows it is intended for the Publick Good containing such Things as cannot in one way or other miss of their designed Ends in being Useful and Advantagious to those that stand in need of Good Advice or Directions and will be so wise or kind to themselves as to consult their own Benefit in what is contained in this Book it being a Mixture of many Rarities that have when practised in Private given Contentment even to Admiration and answered the End beyond Expectation Here you will not only find Physical Receipts for the most reigning Distempers Diseases and Grievances incident to English Bodies but how to Prepare and Administer them in the best and properest Ways and Methods So that every one may be provided with Remedies when Necessity calls for them and a Physician or Surgeon are not to be had which may be done with little Cost and Labour The Rich being Charitably dispos'd may find an easie Means to exercise their Charity in helping the afflicted Poor and even Gardens and Fields may afford Relief without any Cost to ease the Pains and Miseries of those that labour under tedious and troublesome Distempers or Grievances when Friends may fail Here you are also taught how to make all sorts of Wines Cyders Metheglins c. and several sorts of Cordial-Waters Perfumes Washes Beautifying-Waters and other Rarities of the like Nature All sorts of Cookery are herein nicely displayed and the whole Mystery of Confection with many other Things too tedious to be recited in a Preface So that the Roses are twined with the Gessamine and many other Fragrant Branches bearing curious Flowers of Profit and Advantage to render it a Garland lovely and acceptable What shall I further say but that it is recommended to the World by Ingenious Persons who have perused it as a Curious Piece done in an easie Method to direct the Reader in what he is desirous to know or practise And will not only do Good to the present but future Ages Be a Helper at Need and treasur'd up as a Jewel by those who will undoubtedly find their Expectations answered in the Particulars they require to be satisfied about To conclude what is not done from the exactest Experience is taken with Care and Caution from the most approved Authors as well Ancient as Modern Take it then as you find it and let neither Fear small Charges or Neglect deter you from practising what is convenient or advantagious for your Health as occasion offers or requires it And may every thing succeed according to your Wishes and Desires VALE ACH or Swelling Take Sheeps-suet Oatmeal and Black Soap of each Four Ounces boil them in Two Quarts of Water till they come to the thickness of a Salve then spread a Plaister and laying it to the Place grieved it will remove the Pain Aches For Aches in any part of the Body take this following Ointment thus made Take the tender Tops of Wormwood Rosemary and Bay-Leaves of each a Handful Sage and Rue each a Pound the Kidney-suet of a Wether clean picked from the Skin half a Pound Oil of Olives Two Quarts bruise the Herbs and Suet being first shred small then put in the Oil and temper them well and so suffer them to stand in an Earthen Vessel close stopped for the space of Seven Days Then set it on a gentle Fire and let it heat by degrees and keep it stirring till the Herbs are shrivel'd with the Oils and Suet and then strain it and use it with Success not only for Aches but for Lameness in the Limbs Stitches Gout or Bruises Adders Tongue This Herb is used successfully in Wounds new or old either outwardly applied or taken inwardly And in case of Ruptures dry the Leaves and having made them into a Powder take about a Dram and a half according to the Age of the Party in Two Ounces of Oak-buds which you may for the more conveniency of taking sweeten with the Syrup of Quinces and so take it in a Morning fasting for Fifteen Days or thereabouts having the Rupture put up and trussed well before you begin to take it There is also an Oil made of it in this manner viz. Bruise a Handful of the Leaves in a stone Mortar boil them in a Pint of Olive-Oil till they have sucked
up the Oil then press them hard and keep the Oil that comes from them for your use It is used with Success in Wounds and Ulcers Aegyptiacum To make the Ointment so called observe to take of Verdigrease Five Ounces Honey Fourteen Drams Vinegar Seven Ounces put them together and let them thicken and incorporate over a gentle Fire and it will be of a purple Colour so make it up into an Ointment and use it in cleaning Ulcers that are it inveterate and Fistula's It consumes proud spongy and dead Flesh Aethiops Mineralis Take of Crude Mercury one part and of the Flowers of Sulphur twice as much mingle them well together in a Glass Mortar and fire the Composition till it becomes a Black Powder This is exceeding successful in the French Disease commonly called the Pox also for old Sores and in the Dropsie The Dose is properly half a Dram and no more and is best taken Night and Morning mixed with the Syrup of Clove-Gillyflowers or you may make it into a Bolus with Conserve of Red Roses and continue taking it for the space of Three or Four Weeks yet it may be convenient though there is no danger of its Fluxing to take a gentle Purge once a Week during the Course Agrimony its Vertues It cleanses the Blood removes Obstructions of the Liver and is consequently good in the Dropsie and Jaundice the Leaves of it being boiled in their ordinary Drink it may be used outwardly in Baths to strengthen weak Limbs Half a Dram the Powder of the Leaves in Conserve or Wine restrains involuntary Pissing Agrimony-common This strengthens and cleanses the Blood and opens the Obstructions of the Liver for which reason it is very available in Dropsies the Jaundice and ill Habits of the Body if you infuse it in Ale or Beer or your ordinary Drink Eight Handfuls in Four Gallons are sufficient It is used also outwardly in Baths and Lotion There is a Pouder likewise made of it which is done by drying the Leaves to prevent involuntary Urin half a Dram of it in the Conserve of Roses being to be taken going to Bed for Three Weeks successively Agues to Cure To make an excellent Water for the Cure of Agues Take the Roots and Leaves of Fennel the Leaves of Rue Sage Wormwood Mugwort Rosemary or Rosemary-Flowers the Tops of the lesser Centaury of each a Handful bruise them and let them stand Three Days in a Gallon of White-Wine and so distil them This Water is highly commended and approved in the Fits of the Ague especially the Quartan given at the beginning of the Fit from One to Four Ounces Ague-Tertian to remove Take of Rhubarb one Dram infuse it in Six Spoonfuls of Succory-Water over a gentle Fire for Three Hours then strain it and add half a Dram of the Syrup of Rhubarb three Spoonfuls of the Syrup of Roses and a Spoonful of Cinamon-Water take this fasting after the Fourth Fit But if the Distemper has not so much weakned the Body but that it will bear somewhat a stronger Purge add a Dram of the Leaves of Senna and Two Drams of Fennel-Seeds and it will in once or twice taking effect the Cure Ague falling into any part of the Body If the Ague take its station in any particular Place and affect not the whole Body at once to remove and expel it Take Parsley Smallage and Hemlock of each a small Handful bruise them and add Four Ounces of Barrows Grease then mix them by braying well together and boil them half an Hour stirring them continually until they become very green then putting them in a Canvas-Bag strain out the Oily and Liquid part and with it bathe the afflicted Place as hot as may be endured before a Fire And in so doing Two or Three times it will remove the cold Humour that occasions the Ague Ague in a Woman's Breast To remedy this Take the Leaves of Hemlock bruise them and then fry 'em with the best sweet Butter and being made into a Poultis apply it to the Breast as hot as it can be well endured clapping over it a Handful of white Cotton and it will in a short time cure the Ague Ague in the Breast To remedy this Take Grounsil the Leaves of single Daisies also the Roots and coarse Wheat-Flower and as much of the Parties own Water as when they are well beaten together will bring them to be spread Plaister or Poultis-wise on a Leather or thick Cloath and apply it to the Stomach or Parts where the Coldness or Trembling is most observed as hot as may be well endured and in so often doing it will prove a Remedy Ague to cure a Powder Take Antimony and Cinnabar an Ounce common Salt roasted Two Drams pouder them together and put them into a glass Cucurbit and pour on them Four Ounces of the Oil of Sulphur let them digest for Two Days over a moderate Heat in a Bath of Ashes then by encreasing the Heat evaporate the superfluous Moisture and having well washed the Mass that remains dry it and reduce it to a Powder and mix it with Four Ounces of the Flower of Sulphur and set it over live Coals in an earthen Platter stir it continually with an iron Spatula and when the Flowers are consumed pour in Spirit of Wine Three Fingers high and when it is consumed take the remaining Mass powder it and keep it for use This is a Powder extreamly commended for the Cure of all intermitting Agues being taken half an Hour before the Fit from 15 to 20 Grains in some Syrup or Cordial-Water and supping a little Broth about Two Hours after it and if the first and second Dose prevails not a Third may be taken for it works easily and mostly by Sweat Alder The Leaves of it bruised and applied Poultis-wise to Tumours easily discuss them and being put into the Shoes of Travellers some say prevent in a great measure Weariness Aleberry Boil Ale or Beer a Quart scum it well put in slices of fine Manchet and blades of large Mace boil it well and put in some Sugar with a sprig or two of Rosemary strain it and drink it hot It is not only Strengthening but very good against Colds and Rheums Ale-Purging To make this according to the true Receipt left by the famous Dr. Butler Take Two Ounces of Sarsaparilla Senna and Polypody of the Oak of each Four Ounces Anniseeds and Carraway-seeds of each half an Ounce Licorish Two Ounces Agrimony and Maiden-Hair of each a small Handful Scurvygrass Ten Handfuls beat and bruise these together grosly put them into a Bag made of Canvas and hang it in Five or Six Gallons of Ale and when it is Three Days old drink it This Liquor chiefly purges by gentle breathing Sweats and Urin being excellent to expel Scorbutick Humours and Dropsies c. Ale a Syrup of it Take of new Ale a Gallon it being the Wort of the first running put it into an iron Pot over a clear
Dish and when it is cold slice it into a Diamond-fashion and chequer it over and serve it on glass or other Plates strewing if you please Sugar mixed with the Powder of Cinnamon on them Almond-Milk To make it according to the best Method you must boil about Two Quarts of Water scumming it well and when it is taken off suffer it to settle pour out the clear part and setting it over the Fire again boil in it Violet-Leaves and Straw-berry-Leaves of the Roots of each a large Handful Sorrel-Roots half a Handful these being well washed put in with them a Crust of Bread and stoned Raisins of the Sun Two Ounces and so suffer them to boil over a gentle Fire till the liquid part be consumed to a Quart and then with Fifty Almonds blanched and Thirty Pompion-Kernels all well beaten draw an Almond-Milk sweeten it with fine Sugar and drink Morning and Evening about Three Quarters of a Pint. This excellently sweetens the Blood and causes a ruddy and fair Complexion being very good in Consumptions Almonds an Oil To make this Take sweet Almonds blanch them and bruise them then pour on them a little Rose-Water and put them into a Vessel that they may be kept warm as it were in hot Water then put them into a Bag that is very porous pressing them at first gently and so continue it by degrees till you perceive a clear Oil come out This by bathing mitigates Pains and Swellings comforteth the exasperated Parts especially the Lungs and Kidneys it mollifyeth dry and hard Swellings and is profifitable in Hectick Feavours to be given in any cooling Liquors and for the anointing the Forehead and Stomach it also supples the Face and Hands and keeps them plump and soft Almond-Pudding To make this Take Two French Rolls or other White-bread slice them and put them into a Quart of Cream put it then on a gentle Fire till both be hot beat it well together add Twelve Eggs and the Whites but of Four Beef-Suet or Marrow Four Ounces as much of Currants and Raisins and season it with grated Nutmegs Mace Salt and Sugar scattering into it a little Flower then make a piece of Puff-past as much as will cover your Dish set it in a quick Oven but not too hot bake it sufficiently and server it up Almond-Snow-Cream Take a Quart of Sweet Cream a quarter of a Pound of Almond-Past beat it well up with Rose-Water mix it with half a Pint of White-Wine and strain it put into it the scrapings of Orange-Peel and Nutmegs sliced Two or Three Sprigs of Rosemary and suffer it to steep Two or Three Hours then put some double refined Sugar to it strain it into a Bason and beat it till it froth and bubble and as the Froth rises take it off with a Spoon and put it into the Dish you serve it up in Almond-Tart Strain beaten Almonds with the Yelks of Eggs well beaten and new Cream Sugar Cinnamon and Ginger boil it thick and fill your Tart and when it is baked ice it over with gleer of Eggs Sugar and Rose-Water beat up well together Aloes-Rosatum Take of the finest Aloes-Succotrine Four Ounces make them into a Powder take the Juice of Damask-Roles clarified two pound put them together and let them stand in the Sun in a glass Vessel or in Balneo till all the moisture be exhaled do this four times and then make it into Pills which are excellent to purge the Stomach for Pains in the Bowels and a gentle Purge upon any Occasion Alom to burn Burn this in a new earthen Vessel keeping as much as may be the more subtil part from evaporating and when it ceases to bubble and no more froth or scum upon the sudden taking off the Cover arises it is sufficient Ambergrease-Cake To make this Take fine white Sugar beat it and sift it well then beat Six new-lay'd Eggs till the Froth rises and by degrees drop them on the Sugar mixing that and them together by stirring round very quick in a marble Mortar and being wrought till it may be drop'd thin on Plates then put in a grain of Civet and Two Grains of Ambergrease then butter your Pye-Plate and taking the stuff up by Spoonfuls drop it on the Plates in the nature of Cakes and put them into a gentle Oven when they begin to rise take them out and keep them for use in a dry Place These are good for the Stomach and Head Ambergrease-Cakes Take fine Flower a quarter of a Peck mix with it slices of Marmalade of Quinces a quarter of a Pound of Sugar and Rose-Water beaten up together of each 10 Spoonfuls Yest half a Pint Currants a Pound clean pick'd and wash'd Cinamon and Mace finely powdered each half an Ounce candy'd Orange-Peel cut very small then with Ten new-lay'd Eggs and a Quart of new Milk thicken it and mix it well then dissolve a Dram of Ambergrease in a quarter of a Pint of White-Wine and mix with the rest So make it up into a Cake and bake it in a gentle Oven and it will prove excellent if iced over with Sugar melted in Rose-Water and the White of an Egg. Ambergrease the Tincture To make this Put in half a Pint of Spirit of Wine into a strong Glass Ambergrease one Ounce Musk Two Drams let the Glass be stopped close with a Cork and tyed over with a Bladder and place it in warm Horse-Dung for the space of 12 Days then pour off the Spirit gently and put on as much new Spirit and place it as before pouring off the second rime clean and after all this the Ambergrease will serve for ordinary Uses And the Tincture drawn off as before one drop of it is an excellent Perfume and being drunk in Tea or Coffee is an excellent Cordial against Fevers and Pestilential Distempers Amber-Pills Take Venice-Turpentine washed one Ounce Powder of white Amber Six Grains mix them well and put them in a clean glazed Earthen Pot upon Embers moderately hot and to try whether it be enough take a drop and let it cool and when it is so stiff that it will not cleave to the Fingers it is enough then take of the Powder of Pearl white Amber and Coral of each a Dram of the inner Bark of an Oak Nutmeg and Cinamon of each a quarter of an Ounce add to these Three Ounces of Loaf-Sugar bruised and sifted then make them into a Powder and seeth them and put the Pills into them but before you take them it will be proper to take a gentle Purge after which wrap up Three of the Pills in as much of the Powder as will lye on a Shilling and take them swallowing after them the Yelk of an Egg a little warm And by so doing Two or Three times it will eradicate noxious Humours and fortifie the Body against violent Distempers Amber-Pudding Take to make this the Guts of a young Hog turn them and wash 'em very clean then take Two Pound
of the best Hogs-Lard a Pound and a half of the best Jordan-Almonds Almonds blanched beat one half of them very small and the other half reserve unbeaten take further a Pound and a half of Sugar Four Penny White-Loaves grate them over the former Composition and mingle them well put in half an Ounce of Ambergrease scraped very small half a quarter of an Ounce of Levant-Musk a quarter of a Pint of Orange-flower-Water mingle all these very well fill the Guts but not too tight boil them over a gentle Fire for fear of breaking and they will prove excellent fare Amber a volatil Salt Take of Amber Two Pound let it be finely bruised and reduced to Powder and put it into an earthen Cucurbit or Glass so that Three quarters of the Cucurbit may be empty then set it in Sand fitting the Head to it and a small Recipient and when the Junctures are well luted put a moderate Fire under it for the space of an Hour then the Cucurbit being hot encrease the Fire by degrees to a third degree hotter than at first and so you will find a Flegm and Spirit and after them a volatil Salt which in little Crystals will fasten to the Head and afterward an Oil will distil but from White changing to Red it will continue clear however and when you perceive no Vapours to rise extinguish the Fire and so suffering the Vessels to cool unlute them and with a Feather gather the volatil Salt into a convenient Vessel and although as yet it will remain unpure by reason of the small quantity of Oil that is found to be mixed with it you must have a Viol sufficiently large that a Fourth only may be filled with the volatil Salt and stopping it only with Paper place it in Sand and sublime it with a gentle Fire so that the pure Salt will appear in Crystal very fair at the top of the Viol and when you perceive the Oil begins to rise then raise the Glass from off the Fire and having suffer'd it to cool break it to separate the Salt and here finding at least half an Ounce keep it in a Viol well stopped for use and it will prove very excellent Its Vertues are rare in the Jaundice Scurvy Ulcers of the Bladder to force Urine and for Fits of the Mother It may be taken from Six to Eight Grains in some proper Liquid Anacardiums to prepare Having first powdered and then infused them in a convenient quantity of Vinegar when you have sufficiently imbibed it cause the Vinegar gently to evaporate and dry them Andolians Soak the Guts of a Poarker in Water and Salt turn them and scour them that they may be made very clean let them steep after that a Day and a Night in fair Water dry them well with a Linnen-Gloath turn the fat side outwardmost then shred Sage very small mix it with beaten and then sifted Pepper do the like by Cloves Mace and Coriander-seed mingle with them a little Salt and season the fat side of the Guts then turn that side inward again and draw one Gut over another to what thickness you please boil them in fair Water with a piece of interlarded Bacon some of the Spices before-mention'd and a seasoning of Salt tye them fast at both ends at what length you please and as it is more liking and savoury to your Pallate you may put into them Pennyroyal Savory Leeks Onions or Sweet-Marjoram chop'd or bruised very small or if you please further to gratifie your Appetite Rosemary Thyme Nutmegs Ginger or Pepper grosly bruised Angelica is hot and dry even the Herb but more especially the Root The Root preserves against the Infection of the Plague if infused in Vinegar you frequently chew it and hold it to your Nose Take a Dram of the Powder only of the Root and half a Dram mixed with as much Venice-Treacle and this being taken once in Six Hours will cause a curious breathing Sweat The candied Roots and Stalks sweeten the Breath and help against the Diseases of the Lungs you may make Lozenges of them which are excellent Preservatives being held in the Mouth in pestilential Times Thus Take the Extract of the Roots of Angelica and Contrayerva of each of them an Ounce Three Drams of the Extract of Liquorice of the Flower of Sulphur sublim'd with Myrrh Five Drams of Oil of Cinnamon about Eight Drops fine Sugar twice the weight of all of them with a mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth made in Scordium-Water and so make them up into Lozenges Angelica to Candy Take the Stalks boil them in fair Water till they become very tender then shift them in Three Boilings Six or Seven times that the bitterness may be so taken away then cover them with Sugar and let them boil a Minute then take them out and dry them in an Oven and being dryed boil the Sugar to a Candy heighth and so cast them into the hot Sugar and take them out again suddainly and use them as the former Angelica its Vertues The Powder of the Root of it resists the Plague and Pestilential Fevers being drank in Wine a Dram at a time or infused in Vinegar and held to your Nose It eases violent Pains in the Head The Powder taken with Venice-Treacle or Diascordium causes gentle breathing Sweats carrying off the sharp Humours that many times by settling occasion racking Pains in the Joints Angelot to make To do this Take a Gallon of Stroakings and a Pint of Cream put to them when mixed a little Rennet when you fil turn up the middle side of the Cheese-fat fill them a little at once and suffer it to stand all that Day and the next then turn them and so leave them till they will slip out of the Fat Salt them on both sides and when the Coats begin to come lay them a drying and it will have a very pleasant relish Angling To have the best Sport and Success in this part of Recreation Take Assa-Foetida Camphire Aqua-vitae and Olive-Oil bruise them in a Mortar till they become a pliable Ointment and by anointing your Bates therewith the Fish will presently take them Anodyne-Clyster Boil a Pint of Milk once up and mix with it the Yolk of an Egg well beaten so that in the putting in it curdle not then Four Spoonfuls of brown Sugar and a little of the Decoction of Camomil Flowers and being administred pretty hot it gives speedy and effectual Ease to the gripings and Pains in the Bowels Antiepileptick Water of Langius Take the Shavings of Man's Scull Misletoe of the Oak Peony and White Dittany of each two ounces fresh Flowers of Lillies of the Vallies two handfuls Cinamon six Drams Nutmeg half an Ounce Cloves Mace and Cubebs of each two Drams these being all bruised together put them into a Matras and stop them up as secure from Air as may be in eight pints of Malmsey and when they have macerated for a Week over a gentle Fire distill them
in a moderate Sand Bath This is properly called a Corrected Antiepileptick Water of Langius and has been long in request and by the preparing it as here directed it is excellent given in Epileptick-Fits The Dose is two Drams It may be also used for the prevention as well as the Cure of this Distemper and is very proper for all cold Diseases in the Brain Antimonial Claret-Water Take Glass of Antimony finely powdered two Drams Claret-Wine a pint and a half macerate them over a gentle Fire for a considerable time in a Matrass carefully stopt and often shaking it mix then with the whole four Ounces of fine Loaf-Sugar two drops of the Chymical Oil of Cinamon and keep it for use This Liquor must be kept in a double Glass-Bottle well corked and tyed down It is very pleasing and agreeable to the Taste purging gently upward and downward Two Drams being taken for a Dose Antimony its Cinabar Put into your Retort of Sublimate Corrosive and Antimony as much as half fills it powdered and well mingled together let the Retort be placed in Sand in a small Furnace fit to it a Receiver lute the Junctures and so make a Distillation and perceiving a red Vapour appear take away the Receiver and put another into its place not luted encreasing the Fire by degrees till the Retort is red hot and so let it continue three or four hours then suffering it to cool break it and you will perceive a sublimated Cinabar sticking to the Neck of it separate it and keep it It is a very much prized Remedy for the French Disease it likewise forces Sweat and remedies the Falling-Sickness it may be taken if the Party be carefull of him or her self from six to fourteen grains Antimony Diaphoretick To do this mix three parts of purified Salt-Peter with one part of Antimony and your Crucible being very hot cast in a Spoonfull of this mixture which will make a kind of a thundring and after that is past do the like by another Spoonfull and so do by all the rest and when it has been on the Fire about two hours throw the Matter which then will be white into an Earthen Vessel almost full of fair Water let it soke ten or twelve hours that the Salt-Peter which is fixed may dissolve in it then let the Liquor be separated by Inclination wash the White Powder you find remaining in the bottom Five or Six times with hot Water so dry it and you will have Diaphoretick Antimony It is Sudorifick causing Sweats and notably resists Poyson and is approv'd in Malignant Diseases and the Plague The Dose is from six Grains to thirty in some proper Liquid Antimony an Oil or Liquor Take six Ounces of fine white Sugar-Candy beat it to powder then do the like by eight Ounces of Hungarian Antimony and mix them well together and put them into a Glass Retort and distill them on a Sand-Bath with a gradual Fire This Liquor cures intermitting Agues given in White-wine three four five or six drops at the beginning of the Fit and so repeating it two or three times antinephritick-Antinephritick-Water Take of Narbone Honey half a pound Venice-Turpentine two Ounces Nephritick Wood and Roots of Rest-Harrow of each an Ounce and a half Lignum Aloes an Ounce Galingal Cloves Cinamon Mace Cubebs and Mastick of each half an Ounce bruise and macerate them for three days together in two Quarts of Rectified Spirits of Wine or for want of that in Aqua vitae and distill them over a moderate Fire This Water is highly recommended for removing of Gravel or Sand out of the Bladder or Kidneys as also for easing the Pains of the Colick given from one Dram to half an Ounce either alone or mixed with proper Liquors Antiscorbutick Elixir Propritetatis Take Myrrh of Alexandria Aloes Succotrina and Saffron beaten into Powder of each four Ounces digest them in a close stopped Vessel for eight days in a moderate Sand Bath with four pints of Antiscorbutick Spirit then for one hour encrease the heat of the Bath and filtre and keep it apart then pour on the remaining Mass a pint of fresh Spirit and reiterate digestion and filtration then draw off the Spirit in a Sand-Bath with a moderate Fire till there only remains a third part and when the Vessels are cool preserve the Elixir and when it is to be used mix it with a third or fourth part of the volatil Spirit of Harts-Horn This Elixir is now wonderfully in use and highly esteemed in all Diseases that proceed from Corruption of Humours but chiefly used in the Cure of the Scurvy for it purifies the Blood and quickens the Motion of its Circulation It may be taken in Wine or some other Liquors from Seven or Eight to Fifteen or Twenty Drops Appetite to restore Take Wood or Garden-sorrel a Handful boil it in a Pint of White-wine-Vinegar till it becomes very tender then strain it out sweeten it with Two Ounces of Sugar and boil it to a Syrup and take a quarter of an Ounce at any time when you find your Appetite fail you Apple-Cream Take Ten or Twelve Pippens when pretty ripe pare them take out the Cores and slice them thin cut them in quarters and put them into a Pipkin with Claret-Wine a few slices of Ginger Lemon-peel scraped as also some white Sugar let them boil up together till they are very soft then take then off the Fire and put them into a Dish and when they are pretty cool take a Quart of new Cream boil'd with a little Nutmeg and put in of the Apple stuff to make it of what thickness you please and so with a little sprinkling of Sugar and Rose-water serve it up as a most acceptable Banqueting Apple-Tansey To make this Pare your Apples thin cut them in round slices fry them in sweet Butter beat Ten Eggs in a Pint of Cream add Cinnamon Nutmeg and Ginger of each a Dram well beaten or grated Sugar Three Ounces Rose-water Two Ounces these being well beaten together pour on the Batter fry them moderately and dust them over with Sugar and a sprinkling of Rose-water and serve them up Apples a Purging Syrup Take of the Water and Juice of the best scented Pippins of each a Pint and a half Borrage and Bugloss-water and Juice of each Nine Ounces Eastern Senna half a Pound Fennel and Anniseeds of each Three Drams Cretan-Dodder Two Ounces White Agarick and the best Rhubarb half an Ounce Mace and Ginger of each Four Scruples Saffron half a Dram let the Rhubarb be infused with the Senna a part in White-wine and the Juice of Apples of each Two Ounces infuse except the Saffron all the rest in the afore-mention'd Water The following Day pour on the Juices and set them on the Fire let them simper gently take off the Scum then strain the liquid Parts and add Four Pounds of white Sugar boil it to a Syrup the infusion of Rhubarb being put into it
this Bath Take Sorrel and Fumitory of each two handfuls Nep one handful Barly Bran and Lupins of each half a handful and a like quantity of Violet and Mallow-Leaves white and black Ellebor of each an Ounce Honey two ounces let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Water till the third part be consumed and then bath the Legs with it very warm It is good for Sores Scabs Botches Boils and Aches and the Gout Bath for a Rupture Take of the Bark and Flowers of Pomgranets Cups of Acorns and Sumac of each an ounce Lark-Spurs and Comfrey of each a handful Hypocistis Galls and Alom of each two drams Roses Camomile and Anni-seeds of each two pugils boil them in an equal proportion of Red-Wine and Smiths-Water and with the Decoction bath the Part affected Bay-Tree The Decoction of the Leaves Bark and Berries of this Tree makes an excellent Bath for the Diseases of the Womb and Bladder The Oil of Barberries is very useful in cold Diseases of the Nerves and Joints The Electuary is frequently used in Clisters to expel Wind it also eases the Pains of the Colick and in like manner does the Concoction of the Berries in Ale or any dulcified Liquor Bdellium To make the Tincture of it Take Bdellium in Powder one ounce Spirit of Wine sixteen ounces mix digest and extract a Tincture which keep for use This as the Gum eases the Colick provokes Urine and the Terms expels the After-birth and is Traumatick and Vulnerary The Dose is from one dram to a dram and a half Beef to Collar Take the Flank and when you have taken out the Sinews the more skinny part and some of the Fat put it into as much Water and Salt as will cover it let it steep three Days then hang it to drain in the Air and dry it with a Linnen-Cloath Mince Tops of Sage Rosemary Marjoram Savory and Thime shred small get a quarter of an ounce of Mace half a quarter of an ounce of Cloves a slice or two of Ginger half an ounce of Pepper and some Salt rowl them up in it bind it up well and put it into an Oven and bake it Beef to Souce Take the Buttocks Cheeks and Briskets of Beef season any of them four Days with Pepper and Salt roul up them as even as you can boil them in a Cloath ty'd fast about in Water and Salt and when it is pretty tender put it into a Hoop-frame to fashion it round and upright dry it in some smoaky Place or in the Air and cutting it out in Slices serve it up with Sugar and Mustard observing before you dry it to souce it in Water Vinegar and a little White-wine and Salt Beet is hot and dry It loosens the Belly and the Juice snuffed up the Nostrils occasions sneezing and purges the Head The Leaves boiled and eaten with Vinegar create an Appetite They extinguish Thirst and suppress Choler in the Stomach The Juice of this Herb snuffed up into the Nostrils gives ease to an inveterate Head-ach Benjamin This is an odoriferous fragrant and well scented yellow Rosin or Gum very much used among the Perfumers it attenuates and is pectoral used chiefly inwardly against Catarrhs Coughs Colds Asthma's Obstructions of the Lungs It purges the Brain by sneezing and likewise fortifies the Heart and resists malignant Humours being taken in Wine c. Benjamin Spirit Put one Pound of Benjamin in a Cucurbit of glass and distil it in Balneo Mariae or a Sand-Furnace and there will first come over a clear Liquor which will have the odoriferous Scent of Benjamin Benjamin a Tincture Take of Benjamin three ounces Storax half an ounce let them be powdered grosly put them into a Matrass or Bottle so that either of them may be but half filled then pour on them Spirit of Wine stopping them close and covering the Vessel with warm Horse-Dung so let the Materials digest for fourteen Days then filter the liquid part and keep it close stopped in a glass Viol and you may if you please add five or six drops of Balsom of Peru to give it the better Scent This wonderfully whitens the Face and Hands and is an excellent Wash to take away Spots or any Deformities but you must not put above a dram of it into four ounces of Water which is sufficient to turn it to the whiteness of Milk and then it is called by the Beautifiers Lac Virginis Virgins Milk Bezoar is a very highly esteemed Powder and excellent against all sorts of Poisons and Venoms for it fortifies and defends the noble Parts and expels the Malignity by Sweat or by insensible Transpiration The Dose taken in Sack or some other Cordial-Wine or Water is from a scruple to a dram Bezoardick-Balsom Take distilled Oil of Rue the Rind of Citron the Peels of Oranges Lavender and Angelica of each half a scruple Oil of Amber rectified five drops Camphire four grains Oil of Nutmeg half an ounce make these into a Balsom by bruising and well incorporating over a gentle Fire It is good in pestilential Airs and apoplectick Fits or any disorder of the Brain Bezoar-Stone The use of this is excellent in all pestilential Distempers being a rare Cordial to fortifie and strengthen the Heart in any Plague or pestilential Fever Take the weight of three Barly-corns in a spoonful of Carduus Bugloss or borrage-Borrage-Waters and keep your self moderately warm Morning and Evening bezoardick-Bezoardick-Water Take the Roots of Carline-Thistle and Swallow-wort of each four Ounces Leaves of Water-Germander Rue Carduus-Benedictus Thyme Tops of St. John's-wort of each two handfuls bruise and shred these and suffer them to macerate or infuse in four pints of distilled Water of Nuts and one pint of Spirit of Wine distil them in a Sand-Bath with a moderate Fire burn the Sediment and extract a Salt out of it to be dissolved in Water when you use it Bifoyl or Twa-blade This small Herb growing up from a Root that has something of a sweet Savour in it like Garden-Musk is good being bruised or applied to green or old Wounds and also for Ruptures the Herb being applied Poultis-wise when the Parts are well trussed up Bilberries These made into a Syrup are cooling and astringent allay the Heat of the Stomach and quench Thirst Bile To cure this Grievance take a white Lily-root rost it in the Embers in a brown Paper then bruise Figs small and Fenugreek-seeds with Linseeds of each a quarter of an ounce beat these well together boil them in new Milk until it be thick stir it well and put to it a quarter of a pound of Barrows-grease and lay it on Poultiswise Birch-Bark It is bituminous and therefore mixed with Perfumes it renders a wholsom Air in such Places as it is burned The Fungus of it has an astringent quality so that it very strangely stops bleeding The Tree being pierced in the Spring before the Leaves come forth yields a very wholsome and nourishing Liquor against the Dropsie
take off the Skin and mingle the Pulp and Grease together then spread it thick on a Linnen-Cloath and apply it to the Place grieved very warm and cover it over with a piece of a Bladder or the Skin of Suet and by often renewing it the Party will find it a Remedy Breast cold for a Cold in the Breast Take half a Sheet of brown Paper of as even a mixture as can be had anoint it over as even as may be with the Tallow of Candles that have been made a long time do this before a Fire so that the Paper may be thoroughly penetrated then grate over it as much Nutmeg as will cover it clap it warm to the Pit of the Stomach that it may reach a good way above and below it Breast sore This comes many times though want of Milk and frequently after Child-birth To remedy this Take of Barrows-grease half a pound yellow Bees wax an ounce Burgundy-Pitch five ounces Venice-Turpentine one ounce put these into a Skillet with a quarter of a pint of fair Water and let them simper over a gentle Fire scuming off the bubling Froth and pour it into an earthen Pan to cool when it is cold take it out of the Pan and scrape off the Dregs or Dross at the bottom melt it again and refine it over the Fire and so making it into Plaisters or Cere-cloaths apply it to the Place grieved Breasts of Women Womens Breasts especially after their Lying-in contract a hardness and are sore occasioned by gross Humours fixing there To remedy this Take two Turnips boil them in Spring-water till they are very tender then press out the Water and mash them in a wooden Dish or Mortar scrape on them an ounce of Bole-Armoniack and make them into a Poultis with fresh Butter and being layed to the Breasts very warm on a hot Linnen-Cloath they will take away the Pain Breath shortness thereof to help Take a quarter of a pound of blue Figs an ounce of Licorice Caraways and Anniseeds of each half an ounce boil them in two quarts of Ale till a pint be consumed and then sweeten it with Sugar-Candy Drink half a pint Morning and Evening Breath to sweeten Take the dried Flowers and tops of Rosemary Sugar-Candy Cloves and Mace of each two drams Cinamon one dram dry these and beat them into fine Powder About a dram of this at a time in a new-lay'd Egg suckt up fasting Morning and Night clears the Lungs from offensive Matter and sweetens the Breath Brook-lime is excellent in the Scurvy it powerfully expels the Stone in the Bladder and Kidneys it provokes the Courses For the Scurvy Take the Juice of Brooklime Water-Cresses and Scurvy-grass of each half a pint the Juice of Oranges four ounces fine Sugar two pound make a Syrup of it and take a spoonful of it in your ordinary Drink Broken-Belly or Burstenness Take Cranes-Bill usually called Columbinum reduce the Roots and Leaves to a fine Powder take about half a spoonful of this Night and Morning forabout three Weeks together washing it down with a spoonful or two of Red Wine or Claret Broom The Root of this is an excellent Opener being one of the five opening Roots and is principally made use of for Obstructions of the Liver the Urine and the Courses The Syrup of the five opening Roots is thus Take the Roots of Fenel Butchers-Broom Asparagus Parsley and Smallage of each two ounces spring-Spring-water three quarts digest 'em hot and boil them in Balneo Broom-Rape The Herb or Roots of this are to be had Candied and are very good in the Diseases of the Spleen and Melancholy Broth very excellent Parboil two young Cocks the Legs and Wings being cut off scum the Water you boil them in very clean then take them out and wash them in cold Water and with a pint of Rhenish-Wine and two quarts of strong Broth put them into a Pipkin or convenient Vessel add two ounces of China-Root and an ounce and a half of Harts-horn with an ounce of Cloves Mace Pepper and Ginger mixed together season it with a little Salt and cover the Pipkin close and set it in a Pot of boiling Water so that the Water get not into it let it boil for six Hours then pour out the Broth squeeze into it the Juice of Lemons and serve it This is excellent to strengthen or restore decayed Bodies after Sickness and for such as are Consumptive Bruise To remedy the Pain of a Bruise or Swelling Take a pint of fair Water boil in it a handful of Salt and half a handful of Ash-leaves or Ash-bark bruise then the Bark or Leaves and straining out the Liquid part dip Linnen-Rags in it and apply them to the Place grieved Bruise in the Head Take Rosin and a little Red-Deer's Suet Camphire and White-wine set them over a moderate Fire till it boil then strain it and beat it till it comes to an Ointment over a somewhat gentler Fire and anoint the Place grieved with it as hot as you can and chafe it in Bruise with great Swelling Take Hemp Tow or Flax moisten it with Brandy and spread it over with Honey then sprinkle Brandy again upon the Honey and bathing the swelled Part withsome Brandy very warm lay on the other and it will not only sink the Swelling but give ease to the bruised Part by dispersing the gathering Humours Bucks-Horn This is a small Plant or Herb growing in barren and sandy Grounds and comes up with some of its Leaves jagged or sprouting out at the sides like the Horns of a Buck from which Allusion I suppose it takes its Name This is a kind of Plantane different from some others and has a quality of binding and drying The Decoction in Wine drank and the bruised Leaves outwardly applied ease the Pains and remedy the Bitings of most venemous Creatures and the Juice helpeth those that are troubled with the Stone or Gravel in the Kidneys Bladder or Reins and stops Bleeding Bugle its Virtues Either inward or outward it is a good vulnerary Herb it is used in the Yellow-Jaundice and Obstructions in the Liver Reins and Bladder Bugloss Take the Juice of Bugloss clarified three pound white Sugar two pound boil them up to a Syrup This Syrup chears the Heart prevents swooning Fits and expels Melancholy Bullock's-Cheek the Italian way Break the Bones so that the flesh be as little mangled with them as may be wash it very clean in shifted Waters and let it steep three or four hours then boil it in fair Water with some Bolonia-Sausage and a piece of interlarded Bacon and when they are tender boil'd dish them up and garnish them with Flowers and Greens and serve them up with Mustard and Sugar in Saucers Bullock's-Cheek to Stew Having cleaned well soaked and ordered them by taking out the Bones after you have half-roasted the Meat by an indifferent quick fire save the Gravy and put them into a Pipkin with some more Gravy
distilled from it provoke Urine and remove Obstructions in the Reins and Bladder Cammock to make the Distilled Water You must take four pounds of the Rinds of the green Roots cut them very small and infuse them in a gallon of Malmsey or Mallaga and then set them over a gentle heat Distill them in a glass Alembick in Balneo Mariae and you will have a pleasant Water fit for the abovesaid Uses Capon Boil'd the Italian way Take a young Capon draw it and truss it to boil then lay it in fair Water and parboil it a little then boil it in strong Broth until it be enough Then take a good quantity of Beet-leaves boil them in fair Water very tender press out the Water and take six Sweetbreads of Veal boil and mince them and the Herbs very small then add the Marrow of four or five Bones steep the Sweetbread Herbs that are minced small and boil the bigger pieces in Water by themselves and lay on the Capon on the top of the Dish Then take Raisins of the Sun stoned shred them small with half a pound of Dates a quarter of a pound of Pomcitron minced and a pound of Naples Bisket grated put them together in a large Dish or Charger with half a pound of Sweet-butter and work it with your hands into a piece of Paste season it with a little Nutmeg Ginger Cinamon and Salt well beaten and some Parmisan grated and mingled with fine Sugar then make a Paste of fine Flower six Yolks raw of Eggs a little Saffron beaten small and half a pound of Butter and a little Salt then drive out a long sheet with a Rowling-pin very thin and lay the Ingredients in small heaps round or long then cover them with the Paste and cut it asunder and lay about the Capon till you have filled the Dish then pour on Butter with little strong Broth garnish it with Lemons and serve it up Carbuncle Take Salt well beaten to Powder sift it and incorporate it with the Yolk of an Egg and applying it it will draw away the Venom and offensive Humours break any Boil or Plague-sore and contribute much towards the healing of it Carp to Roast Make a Pudding of Almond-paste and Cream grated Bread Nutmeg Currans and Salt and when the Carp is drawn without cutting open viz. through the Gills put in the Pudding that way till the Belly be full tie it to a Spit and when it is roasted make the Sauce with what drops from it and the Juice of Oranges Cinamon and Sugar beaten up with Sweet-butter Carp Stewed Having bled him save the Blood scrape off the Scales and take out the Intrails then put him into your Stew-pan with Made Ginger Cloves Nutmeg Sweet-herbs and a large Onion quartered with half a pound of Butter mix some of the Blood with Claret put it in and being enough garnish it with sliced Lemons and green Spinage and serve it up to the Table Cassia its Vertues It 's Loosening and a Purifier of the Blood it allays Heat and moderately loosens the Belly provokes Urine purges Choler and Phlegm and mollifies the Breast and Throat it resolveth Inflammations and cleanses the Reins from Sand and Gravel Caustick Liquor of Verdigrease Take Verdigrease four ounces Salt of Niter eight ounces mix them together fire them and let them burn in an Iron or Marble Mortar well heated then make them into a Powder and put them into a convenient Vessel Let them by dropping dissolve in a moist place and preserve the Liquor that falls in a thick Glass or glazed earthen Pot. This Liquor is highly approved for consuming proud and corrupted Flesh and likewise all sorts of Excrescencies more particularly such as accompany Venereal Distempers Caustick Powder or Specifick Corrosive of Paracelsus To make it Take Corrosive Mercury Sublimate three ounces Sal Armoniack two ounces powder them together put them into a Matras pour on them a pint of Aqua fortis which evaporate in a moderate heat till the Ingredients come to the consistence of a Paste dry the whole Mass in such a moderate heat as will reduce it to a fine Powder This Powder Cauterizes very speedily and violently any superfluous Flesh and such Excrescencies as are to be removed It is quick in Operation and the regard that is to be had to the Nature of the Corrosive Sublimate requires much Caution and Prudence in the Use of it insomuch that you must put on but a very little at a time and use it only upon strong Bodies and it is to be applied upon no other Parts than what are remote from the Emunctories of the Noble Parts Celandine the greater The Juice of this is very good to take out Spots Pins and Webs in the Eye but by reason of its sharpness you may allay it with a little Breast-milk Being put into hollow Teeth often it will loosen them and greatly facilitate their Drawing Warts frequently rub'd with the Juice of Celandine will dry up and peel off The Decoction of the Root being drank with Aniseeds and Whitewine is good for the Jaundice or to wash eating Ulcers withal The Root being chewed asswageth the Tooth-ach Celandine the less It breaketh the Skin where it is applied as a Poultis it cause bad Nails and Hair to fall off the Juice of it snuffed up the Nose greatly purges the Brain A Gargarism made of the Decoction of it with Honey has the same effect Centaury major The chief Vertues of this consists in the Root which is used for Ruptures Difficulty in Breathing old Coughs Pleurisies and Spitting of Blood It is successfully given in the Dropsie and Jaundice being either infused in Wine or beat to Powder and drank immediately Centaury minor Of this Lesser sort Galen has written a large Treatise It purgeth Choler and Phlegm for which cause the Decoction thereof is given in Tertian Agues It kills Worms in the Belly The Leaves of this Herb being applied fresh to Wounds search them and heal up Ulcers Cephalick Elixir Take Misleto that grows on the Oak Piony-roots the Bigger Valerian of each an ounce and an half Piony-seed Laurel and Juniper-berries of each one ounce Cinamon Mace and Cubebs of each three drams Flowers of Tillet Rosemary and Lavender of each a handful bruise what is to be bruised and macerate them together for twenty four hours in the Water of Lilies of the Valley Black-Cherry-water the rectified Spirit of Wine of each a pint and an half then distill them according to Art To the Liquor distilled add refined Sugar one pound Tincture of Ambergrease a dram put this Elixir in an Earthen-Pot well stop'd and glazed This Elixir is of wonderful Use in Epilepsies Apoplexies and other cold Diseases of the Brain being taken fasting from half a spoonful to two spoonfuls Cerate for Masks for Women Take white Bees-wax four pound Sperma Ceti two ounces Oil of the four greater cold Seeds cleansed extracted without fire and Bismuth precipitated of each
the Waters put the Barley 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 boil scumming it well when it hath boiled an hour put into it a Pullet and let it boil an hour longer then put in a large quantity of Sorrel Lettice Purslain Borrage and Bugloss and let it boil an hour more viz. three hours in all Before you put in the Herbs season the Broth with Salt and a little Pepper and Cloves then strain out the Broth and drink it pretty warm three or four times every day Consumption a Water Take the Liver of a Calf and the Lungs of a Fox the Herbs Lungwort Liverwort Sage Rue Hyssop of each one handful Elecampane the Root of Flag of each half an ounce Anniseeds Carraway-seeds Sweet Fennel-seeds of each half an ounce Flowers of Borrage of Bugloss of each two drams cut them all very small then infuse them for twenty-four hours in two quarts of Old Mallaga and Scabious and Carduus Water of each four ounces Hyssop-water two ounces then distill it and sweeten it with Sugar-candy Drink a little glass-full thereof two or three times a day This Water comforts and strengthens the Lungs and Liver attenuates thick Phlegm and expels Wind out of the Stomach and Bowels Contagion of the Plague to Expell Take Rue Wormwood and Black-berry-tops of each half a handful Celandine an handful and a half put them into a glazed earthen Pot when bruised together with a pint of strong Whitewine-vinegar stop the Pot close then let them seeth in Balneo Mariae till the third part be consumed and then strain it out and keep it close stopt Let the Party infected drink two or three ounces of it and sweat after it without sleeping a considerable time if it may possibly be prevented it fortifies the Heart assisting Nature against Poisons and infectious Airs Contrayerva-Stone Take Oriental Pearls the Root of Contrayerva Coral and White Amber prepared of each a dram prepared Crabs-eyes double the weight of the rest Take the Jelly of Vipers and with it make the rest up into Balls and dry them and keep them for your use This reduced by scraping into a Powder is highly commended against the Plague or Pestilence or such-like raging Diseases occasion'd by Infection It may be taken in Wine or Cordial-waters from ten to twenty or thirty grains Coral to Prepare Take such a quantity as you think convenient make it into a fine Powder in a Porphyry or Steel Mortar drop on it by degrees a little Rose-water and form it into Balls for use After this manner Crabs-eyes Pearl and Precious-stones are prepared to make up Cordials compounded of them and other suitable Materials for the strengthening the Heart in Fevers or such-like violent Diseases and to restore the Decays of Nature Cordial Excellent Take two ounces of dried Red Gilliflowers and put them into a Pottle of Canary add three ounces of fine Sugar in Powder and half a scruple of Ambergrease in the same manner put them into a Stone-bottle and stop it close often shaking it and when it has stood ten Days then pass it through a Jelly-bag or Strainer and putting it up for use take two or three spoonfuls of it at a time and it will greatly strengthen the Heart and restore Health again c. Cordial-Water Take a gallon of Strawberries clean pick'd put to them a pint of Aquavitae and let them stand four Days and then pour off what is liquid and strain the rest into it sweeten it with a little Sugar and infuse a grain of Musk or Ambergrease into it This strengthens the Heart and Stomach Half a quartern in a Morning is a good Preservative against ill Airs and Infections Cosmetick-Water Take fine White Sugar a pound Roach-allom three ounces White Poppy-seed Flower of Beans Water-lillies Violets and great Housleek of each one handful the Juice of four Lemons and the grated Crumbs of two White Penny Loaves Goats Milk and White-wine of each a quart Bruise what is to be bruised and mix them together putting them into a Glass Alembick Distill them in Balneo Mariae and it will be an excellent Beautifyng Water to preserve the Hands Face and other parts of the Body clear smooth and of a good Complexion Cough Boil in two quarts of Posset-drink a good handful of Moss that groweth upon Oaken Pales and drink a good draught in the Morning and take three spoonfuls of good Sallad-oil after it drink it afternoon and at night without Oil taking sometimes at Night one of Matthews's Pills with it Cough Take Raisins of the Sun stoned and Figs warned and sliced of each two ounces unset-Hyssop a handful Enula-campana 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 Saffron dried and powder'd half a dram boil them again gently till they be well incorporated Drink half a pint of this Liquor warn'd both Morning and Night This Proportion made twice hath cured Coughs of long continuance Coughs Take three spoonfuls of the best Sallad-oil three spoonfuls of Vinegar and Sugar-candy enough to sweeten it Take it in the Morning fasting and at Night when going to rest Cough or Cold Take a quart of Milk and make a Posset thereof with a pint of Ale then strain it and put two spoonfuls of beaten Aniseeds two Pippins sliced with the Pareings and a stick of Licorice bruised and a quarter of a pound of Raisins stoned let it boil gently for half an hour then strain it again and drink a draught thereof warm with a little piece of Fresh-butter in it Take it two or three times a day Cough or Cold Take Fennel and Parsley-roots four of each wash and scrape them and take the Pith out of them Maiden-hair Rosa-Solis-flower of each one handful Licorice Coriander and Aniseeds one ounce five Leaves of Harts-tongue Lungwort and Liverwort of each a handful Raisins stoned half a pound shred the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and put them all into a Pottle of Spring-water in a Pipkin close covered which set on hot Embers for a whole Day together till the Liquor be half consumed then strain it without pressing it and sweeten it with Brown Sugar-candy and drink thereof Morning and Evening Cough or Cold Take three ounces of Enula-campana scrape off the Rinde and cut it into thin slices then boil it in three pints of Water till it comes to a pint and an 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 of which take three spoonfuls both Morning and Evening Cough or Cold Take one pound of fine Sugar Licorice and Enula-campana finely powder'd of each four ounces put them into a little
earthen Pan and moisten them with two or three spoonfuls of unset Hyssop-water distilled when it is in its flower then sprinkle into it a little powder'd Pepper and cast them into a Pye-plate with Flower strewed on it and when it is cold make Lozenges of it Cough or Cold Take Germander Hyssop Horehound Maiden-hair Agrimony Bettony Liverwort Harts-tongue of each an handful boil them in nine pints of Water to the Consumption of six then let it cool and strain it To the Decoction put clarified Honey half a pound fine Powder of Licorice five ounces elecampane-Elecampane-roots in Powder three ounces boil them up to the thickness of an Electuary and take of it about the quantity of a Nutmeg at any time especially in the Morning fasting and at Night when you go to rest Court-Ielly Take three or four Calves-feet and lay them in Water all night then scald off the Hair slit them and take out the long Bones then take a young Cockerel and dress him after he has lain all night in Water boil him and the Feet together in four pints of White-wine and as much fair Water until they be enough then let it run thorough a Strainer into a Bason or other Vessel letting it stand till it is cold then with the point of a Knife or Spoon take of the clearest from the settlings and put it into a Pot with three quarters of a pound of fine Sugar and two ounces of Cinamon scraped an ounce of Ginger two sliced Nutmegs and ten Cloves boil them together and while they are boiling put in the Whites of six Eggs and a Branch of Rosemary strain it thorough a Jelly-bag and so serve it up This greatly fortifies Nature creates good and wholsom Blood and restores decayed and Consumptive Bodies Cramp To make an Amulet for the Stomach Take the Roots of Mechoacan reduce them to a Powder and fill with this Powder a little square Bag of Sarsnet or some such slight stuff Let it be about three inches square and hang it by a string about your Neck so low that it may reach the Pit of the Stomach Wear it next the Skin Cream-Cheese Take two quarts of Milk warm from the Cow Almonds blanched half a pound beat the Almonds small add a pint of Cream and of Rose-water four ounces half a pound of fine Sugar and a quarter of an ounce of beaten Cinamon and as much Ginger then put the Runnet to the Milk and Cream and when it is curdled press out the Whey and what remains beside serve up in Cream Cream of Eggs Take a quart of Cream heat it and beat up the Whites of five Eggs keep them stirring and when it boils add two or three spoon-fulls of Rose-water and when it begins to thicken take it off let it cool and put in a little Salt and fine Sugar and so serve it up Cream-Fool Take two quarts of Cream set them over a gentle fire in an earthen Vessel and when it simpers up add the Yolks of twelve Eggs well beaten up with three or four spoon-fuls of cold Cream put them to the hot Cream and keep it continually stirring to prevent burning-to When it is boiled well take it off and let it cool then put to it half a gill of Canary stir it about and pour it on Sippets cut very thin and strew'd over with the Powder of Cinamon and Sugar then pour over it some Syrup of Rasberries and serve it up Cream-Tart Take Manchet-bread pare off the Crust and grate the Crumb very fine mix it with sweet Cream and Butter beat up the Yolks of a dozen Eggs with Cream adding four ounces of Sugar boil them till they come to a thickness then make two leaves of fine Paste as thin as conveniently can be raised make them but shallow and put the Materials into them put on the Lid bake the Tart in a gently heated Oven and when it is bak'd strew fine Sugar over it and then serve it up Curd-Cakes Take a pound of Curds four Yolks of Eggs and two of the Whites a little Flower to bind them together Sugar grated Nutmeg mingle 'em well and bake them in Cakes Icing them over with Sugar dissolv'd in Rose-water or drop them into a Frying-pan in hot Suet as you like them best Currant-Cream Take Red Currants plump them up in warm Water then mash them and strain them thorough a Cloth with hard pressing put to them the Powder of Cinamon and Sugar and a quart of new Cream and serve them up Currants or Gooseberries a Ielly Take the Fruit indifferently ripe press out the Juice through a coarse Linnen-cloth clarifie it and add to each quart a pound of Sugar clarified and boiled up to a Candy height then boil them together till a third part be consumed put to them a pint of White-wine wherein an ounce of Cherry-tree or Plum-tree Gum has been dissolved and it will bring it into a curious Jelly Custards to Make The Paste being raised into what Form you please dry it a little in an Oven after it has been drawn that the Moisture that is to be put into them by reason of their thinness may not make them fall when put into a hot Oven then break eighteen Eggs into two quarts of Milk yet half the Whites must be omitted and if made of Cream no Whites at all only the Yolks then a pound of Sugar and a little Rose-water beat them together till they are very well mixed and when you fill your Pans or Pastes strain out the liquid part and leave the Curds and Crudities if there be any behind and bake them in an Oven about three-quarters heated Custards another way Boil a quart of Cream with Nutmegs Mace and Cloves bruised of each two drams the Yolks of ten Eggs and the Whites of five beaten up with a little cold Cream mix these together with a grain of Saffron wet in White-wine or Canary and strained thorough a Linnen-cloth with a hard pressure upon often wetting put these Ingredients into the Paste you have provided for them in what fashion or form you please and if you find it proves too thick make it thinner with a little Milk and Rose-water adding a little refined Sugar and powder'd Cinamon infus'd in White-wine then bake them in a gentle Oven and serve them up on Plates with Sweetmeats or Flowers made in Paste Cyprus the Bark of the Boots Prepared Infuse the Bark after you have cleansed it in sharp Vinegar for the space of three Days then dry it and keep it for use And in this manner you may Prepare the Leaves of Spurge Laurel Mezereon or such like DAistes This Herb is excellent for Wounds in the Breasts the Oil of it Plaister or Syrup are extraordinary good and requisite to be kept in all Families The great wild Daisie is a Wound-Herb to be had in great regard often to be used in Drinks or Salves either externally or internally The Juyce of these or the distilled Water as
Water mix them very well and spread them upon a very thin Leather or black Silk and apply it to the Temples it draws off the Rheum that afflicts the light Defluction another Take the Tops of Rosemary one dram beat them up with one or two ounces of rotten Pear-mains or Pippins spread them like a Cataplasm and lay them on the Eyes when you go to Bed It asswages the Heat and removes the Pain redness and Inflammation in the Eyes Devils-Bit This Herb and Root being boiled in White-wine makes a Decoction good against the Plague and pestilential Airs and Diseases occasioned thereby as Fevers c. It is an Antidote and much fortifies against Poisons and helps the Pain caused by the stinging or biting of venomous Beasts and also for inward Bruises Contusions by blows and dissolves congealed or clotted Blood The Root and Herb bruised and applied Poultiswise takes away the black and blue Marks in the Skin The Decoction of the Herb only mixed with Honey of Roses is with success applied to Tumours and Swellings in the Throat by often gargling the Mouth and down the Throat as conveniency will permit It helpeth to procure Womens Courses and easeth all Pains of the Mother expels Wind in the Bowels The Powder of the Root drunk in Wormwood-Water kills and drives out Worms The Juice of the distilled Water is good to wash green Wounds with or old Sores It cleanseth the Body being taken inwardly and the Seed decocted takes away the Itch cures old Sores removes Freckles Pimples and Morphew the Parts being bathed with it especially and the sooner when a little Vitriol is dissolved in it Diacodium To make it Take the heads of white Poppys neither the greatest nor ripest about twelve in number Aqua-Coelestis a quart boil them to the consumption of a third part and when it is strained put thereto of the best Sapa that is new Wine boiled to a third part five ounces of the best Honey two ounces boil them together and in the end of the Decoction put red Roses Leaves of Pomgranate Acacia Sumach of each two drams Seeds of Purslain white and red Coral of each a dram This Syrup stays the Flux in the Belly procures Sleep in over-watchful Persons helpeth Catarrhs and violent Colds Diarrhoea Mix fifteen Grains or if the Distemper be but light ten grains of the Powder of Rhubarb with half a dram of Diascordium and take it either going to Bed or early in the Morning after the first Sleep It stays Loosnesses and remedies Fluxes in the Belly Difficult Breathing Take Castoreum dryed to Powder two or three grains at the most but four mix this with ten or twelve grains of Gascoin Powder add a little Syrup or Conserve of Roses and being taken wash it down with a mixture of five drams of Penny royal-royal-Water and two drams at most of compound Water of Briony Difficulty in Hearing Take a chive out of a Root of Garlick put a fine piece of Thread or Silk thorough it at the end that it may easily be pluck'd out again crush it a little between your Fingers and anoint it over with the Oil of Bitter Almonds and so put it into the Cavity of the Ear at going to bed and draw it out the next morning stopping the Ear with Black Wool But if the first time succeed not you must use it oftener Digestives Take two ounces of Venice-Turpentine incorporate it well with the Yolk of an Egg add to it at discretion a little Spirit of Wine With this dress the Part Morning and Evening laying on thicker if the Part be near some Nerve and the less where it is most fleshy and it will soon bring it to a head or dispel the Tumour Humours or Pain contracted It is used instead of Basilicum Digestion to help Take fine Sugar powdered and sifted two ounces sprinkle on it the Spirit of Wormwood then take a quarter of an ounce of Gum-Tragacanth and steep it all Night in Rose-water then take some of this wet the Sugar with it and beat them together till it come to a Past like Dough you may add a little Musk and then make it up into Cakes the breadth of a Groat Lay them upon Plates and dry them gently in an Oven keeping them in a dry place Eat one or two of them in a Morning and they will help Digestion Dill This is a great strengthner of the Brain The Decoction of it is good in Pains and Swelling eases Pains in the Belly and is excellent for Women troubled with Pains and Windiness It stays the Hiccough if you hold your Nose over the steam if boiled in Wine The Seed is of greater virtue than the Leaves as being more powerful to digest vicious and raw Humours and very useful in Medicines appropriated to expel Wind It dries up moist Ulcers more particularly in the Secret Part Dill-oil resolves Humours and Imposthumes eases Pains and procures Rest The Herb or Seed in White-wine expels Winds and provokes the Terms Dill-Seed c. Its Virtues Four drops of the Oil extracted from it and half an ounce of the Oil of sweet Almonds mingled together and taken in warm Ale are excellent good for Hiccoughs when they proceed from cold Causes The Seed bruised and applied discusses and ripens Tumours disposes to Sleep being steeped in Wine They take off the excessive Heat and Desire in Venery stay Vomiting The tender Tops and Roots boiled with the Seeds in White-wine greatly provoke Urine and are helpful in dissolving or bringing away the Stone or Gravel Diseases from Obstructions Drink every Morning the first thing a moderate draught of your own Urin newly made whilst it is warm and forbear eating any thing after it the space of an Hour or two Distilled-Vinegar Put six quarts of strong White-wine Vinegar into an earthen Pan evaporate about a quart in a Bath till the phlegmatick Part is removed pour what remains into a glass or earthen Cucurbit distil it in a strong Sand-heat till nothing but substance like Honey remains at the bottom It is mixed likewise with Cordial Potions to resist putrefaction an outwardly applied it asswageth Inflammations half a ounce of it may be taken at a time in any proper Liquor Diureticks To make them Peel off the inner Rind or Skin of an Egg-shel beat the Shell to a very fine powder and take about a scruple of it at a time in a spoonful of convenient Liquor It eases Pains and Obstructions adding to it Powder of Crabs-Eyes it brings away the Stone or Gravel Diuretick-Tablets Take Stone-Parsly Roots of Rest-harrow Butchersbroom Fenel Eringoes of each half an ounce the Seeds of Burdock and Grounsil of each two drams boil these in two pints of the distilled Water of Radishes Boil the straining according to Art with half a pound of double refined Sugar into Tablets of two drams weight a-piece and take one or two of them in a Morning fasting for the Stone or Gravel or Ulcerations in the
strain out the Liquor to it and being well mixed boil it up into a Syrup adding two drams more of beaten Cinamon half a scruple of Powder of Nutmeg Ambergrise thirty two grains Musk three grains ten beaten Leaves of Gold and so make it up into an Electuary with four drops of the Spirit of Vitriol This is a singular good Drying Medicine and therefore to be taken in Rheumatisms or Moist Diseases and consequently in Defluxions of Rheums and the Dropsie A dram is sufficient for a Dose in some cordial-Cordial-water that is healing or chearing the Noble Parts Elixir for the Head Take Misleto that grows on the Oak piony-Piony-roots and the bigger Valerian of each an ounce and an half Laurel Juniper-berry and Piony-seeds of each an ounce Cinamon Mace and Cubebs of each three drams Flowers of Rosemary and Lavender of each a handful bruise what is to be so bruised and macerate them together twenty four hours in the Water of Black Cherries and Lily of the Valleys and Spirit of Wine rectified of each twenty four ounces then having distilled them dissolve in the Water a pound of the best white Sugar and a dram of the Tincture of Ambergrise keep it close stopped Elixir Proprietatis The new way to do this is to take Saffron Myrrh and Aloes of each half an ounce the rectified Spirit of Wine very near three quarters of a pint Spirit of Sulphur per campanam half an ounce draw in the first place a Tincture from the Saffron into the Spirit of Wine by infusing or digesting it six or seven Days then add grossly bruised Aloes and Myrrh and the Spirit of Sulphur digest them in a long Viol well stopp'd for the space of thirty Days but keep it frequently shaking then you will find a black Tincture on the faeces pour that off and let it stand still for twelve hours and so decant it till you find no faeces at the bottom The Dose is fifteen or twenty drops in a Morning in a glass of Wine or some other convenient Liquor This Elixir is Stomachick Anodyne Alexipharmick and Uterine It has great success in Tertian Agues and may be safely given to all Ages and Constitutions It Alters Evacuates and Strengthens Elixir Proprietatis Vid. Antiscorbutick Elixir Proprietatis Elixir Salutis Take of the Leaves of Senna four ounces Guajacum and the Roots of Elecampane dried of the Seeds of Anise Caraways and Coriander of each two ounces of Licorice two ounces Raisins of the Sun stoned half a pound infuse them cold in three quarts of Aqua-vitae or some other good Spirit of the like Nature not too strong for the space of four Days draw it off and bottle it up If it proves an excellent Cordial you may if you would have it somewhat more Purging put a few slices of Rhubarb into it It is good in the Colick or any Pains of the Belly also it cleanses the Stomach and dissolves the Stone in the Bladder or Kidneys It brings away the Gravel and Stone Two or three spoonfuls are a sufficient Dose for an ordinary Constitution and so more or less as it can be borne Elme The Leaves Branches and Bark of this Tree are Astringent The Leaves bruised with Vinegar stop Bleeding and applied to fresh Wounds facilitate their Cure as also boiled in Vinegar very strong they much avail in the Leprosie The Bark of the younger Sprigs boiled in Spring-water almost to the Consistence of a Syrup and a third part of Aqua-vitae mixed with it is an excellent Remedy for the Gout in the Hip if the Part affected with it be fomented before the Fire The Water in the Bladders on the Leaves clears the Skin and mends the Complexion Cloaths being wet in this VVater and applied helps Burstenness in Children the Bowels being at the same time kept up with a Truss Take of the Bark of Elme six drams Red Roses half a handful Raisins of the Sun stoned twenty boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to a pint and an half dissolve in it Honey of Roses and simple Oxymel of each two ounces It is an excellent Gargarisme for Inflammations and in hot Diseases that dry and parch the Mouth or Throat or in such as afflict them with too much Phlegm and slimy Matter Emplaster of Bettony Take green Bettony Burnet Sage Milfoil Agrimony Peneroyal and the lesser Centaury great Comfrey and Clary of each six ounces Mastick and Frankincense of each three drams Orris and round Bithwort of each six drams white Beeswax and clarified Turpentine of each eight ounces Rosin of the Pine six ounces Gum-Elemy and Oil of Firr of each two ounces Whitewine three pints beat the Herbs very well and set them seven or eight Days to infuse in Whitewine stir them well then boil them and strain out the VVine boil it with a gentle Fire to the consumption of a third part add the Oil of Firr next the VVax melted and so the Rosin and Gum and the Turpentine and having boiled them a little and removed them from the Fire cool them by degrees then put to all these well mixed the Powders of Orris and Bithwort and make 'em into an Emplaster This is exceeding strengthening and restoring It is apply'd with great success to fractured or broken Bones al so to strengthen weak Joints and heal Sprains or Bruises of the Sinews small Emplasters of it layed to the Temples and Nape of the Neck draw Rheums away from the Eyes and also ease Pains in the Head Emplastrum Caesaris This is called Caesar's Plaister for the strength it gives to those that are weakned with Sickness or Hurts To make it Take red Roses an ounce and a half the Roots of Bithwort Cyprus Nuts the several sorts of Saunders Mint Corianderseed Dragrons-Blood Hypocistis Acacia seal'd-Earth bole and red Coral powdered of each two drams Turpentine that has been infused in Plantain-water four ounces Oil of Roses three ounces white VVax twelve ounces Rosin of the Pine ten ounces Stone-pitch six ounces Plantane Orpin and Housleek-Juices of each an ounce To the Rosin VVax and Pitch melted together add the Turpentine and Oil then the Hypocistis and Acacia dissolved in the Juices and then the Powders and so over a gentle Fire make them into an Emplaster or Cerecloath It is very astringent and therefore strengthens the Back and all other Parts of the Body removes Pains and is a most excellent Remedy for the over-straining of the Sinews Endive-Water This is an excellent cooling VVater to mix with cooling Syrups and to give in Fevers and hot Diseases It allays Inflammations and the Heat of the Blood The Herb eaten in Sallads raw or boiled resists Choler It prevents Heat breaking out that deforms the Body with Pimples and Redness and frequent flushings of the Face Epilepsie Children it is observed are many times troubled with the Falling-Sickness either during the first Month after a Loosness in which case Diacodium to the quantity of a Pepper-Corn dissolved in
put the Apple-juice to the White of the Egg add Loaf-sugar finely scraped and having well mixed them together dip a Feather in them and drop a few drops into the Eyes winking hard to keep it in and by often so doing you will find the Pain Redness and Heat abated Or This especially if the Sight be weakned with the long continuance of the Inflammation or any other matter Pouder very small a whole Nutmeg so that being dried well it may be sifted thorough a fine Lawn do the like by the Leaves and Flowers of Eyebright the tender Tops and the Seeds of Fenel add a small quantity of burnt Alom and fine Sugar as finely powder'd mix these together and take the Composition from a dram to two ounces or more at a time doing it often and washing your Eyes both Morning and Evening with fair Water Eyes an Ointment in general Take new Hogs-lard two ounces Tutia prepared six drams Lapis Haematitis washed one scruple Aloes wash'd and pouder'd twelve grains Seed-pear finely powder'd three grains steep the Lard in Rose-water six hours and then wash it very well in Whitewine powder the Tutia very finely and so over a gentle fire make it into an Ointment with a little Fenel-water And in case of any grief in the Eyes you may use it with success by anointing the Eye-lids and Corners of the Eyes for present ease till you meet with a more particuâ—… Remedy Eyes Pained For the extraordinary Pain or Heaviness in the Eyes Take Flower of Melilot of Elder and of Marrigolds of each a small handful Linseeds Fenegreek Fleawort Cummin and Quinces of each half a scruple French Barley half an ounce Damask roses half an ounce Spring-water a pint and an half mix boil and strain these well and with the Decoction foment the Forehead and Temples considerably warm Eyes their Pains to asswage Take young Endive and stamp it with the Oil of Roses and Violets and anoint the Corners of the Eyes and the Eye-lids with it and so doing often the Pain will quickly be abated Eye-Salve Take Oil of Myrtle and Juice of Rue of each two ounces boil them and strain out the liquid part and set it again upon the fire and put to it Saphire prepared half a dram Jacinth one scruple and Antimony half a scruple burnt Copper one scruple Tutia prepared three drams let them seeth on a gentle fire and add two or three drams of Bees-wax and so anoint the Eye-lids or spread it on a thin piece of Silk and lay it on the Eyes This helps Watry Eyes the Pains in them and stays Defluxions of Rheums Eye-Salve another Take Starch three quarters of an ounce Tutia prepared in Rose-water half an ounce fresh Hogs-grease an ounce bruise and temper them well together anoint the Eye-lids Forehead and Temples with it It remedies Inflammations Pains Wounds and Bloodshot Eyes Eye-Lid Sore Take Tutia and white Sugar-candy of each half a dram Powder of red Roses a dram and an half the Crumbs of white-Bread half an ounce Coral prepared and Pearl of each half a dram Flowers of Saint John's-wort one dram make these into a Poultis and lay it to the Eye on a fine Cloth Eyes Spotted If any Spots appear growing on the Eye Take fine White-Paper let it flame away upon a clean Pewter Plate till so much Oil of the Paper sticks to the Plate as you have occasion for so blow off the Ashes of the Paper and with a little of your Spittle mingled with the Oil mix it with your Finger or some other convenient thing into an Ointment which with a Feather apply gently to your Eyes once or twice a day as need shall require or as you can bear it for it will make the Eyes smart but in a little time you will find the benefit of it Eyes Red Take three grains of Camphire and a large blanched Almond incorporate them well by grinding them and add by little and little two or three ounces of Red rose-Rose-water still grinding them till the whole be brought to a kind of Emulsion drop a little of this in the place affected and it will by often so doing ease the Pain and take away the Redness Eyes Red and Fiery Take Ground-Ivy single daisie-Daisie-roots and Housleek distill them or for want of that Convenience press out the Juice dissolve in two ounces of the Water or Juice about a quarter of a spoonful of clarify'd Honey and suffer them to depurate by residence then drop it into the Eyes two or three drops at a time and continue so doing four or five times a day But if there be no great Inflammation there must be more of the Daisie-root and Ground-Ivy than of the Housleek Eye-Water Take Gum-arabick Rose-leaves Saffron Spica of each a quarter of an ounce beat them small and make Cakes of them with Spring-water and when you are to use it take a dram thereof and steep it in the White of an Egg well beaten and wash the Eye with it and by often so doing it will not only repell the Matter and consume the Pain but produce a clearer Sight than usual Or Take Juice of Fennel well clarify'd an ounce Aloes two drams and a half Leaf of beaten Gold mix them well together then add seven grains of Frankincense and dissolve them in Whitewine mix them all together with Fenel and Rose-water and drop three or four drops of it into the Eye twice a Day Eye-Water another Take two or three ounces of the simple Water of Pimpernel distill it in Balneo and put it into a little Pot or Porringer of Rose-copper and then put into it the quantity of a hazle Nut of strong Quick-lime cover it and let the Ingredients lie till the Liquor hath acquired a bluish Colour very warily pour off the clear and add to it as much live-Honey as will give it a little Taste If you find it too strong weaken it with Water of Pimpernel or clear Spring-water and apply it to the Eyes by bathing them with a linnen Rag dipt in it This takes away Heat Pains sharp Rheums Prickles and Inflammations of the Eyes Eye-Water another Take Red Rose-water and Water of Plantain of each an ounce Tutia prepared half a scruple Lapis Lazuli prepared six grains Red Coral prepared five grains mix and make them into a Collyrium or Eye-Water This dropt into the Eye being first very well mixed by shaking wonderfully revives and clears the Sight provided there be no great foulness nor scrophulous disposition of the Body or temperament of the Party It takes away the Redness from the Eye-lids if a Sponge be dipt in it and often wetted with it it also takes off thin Skins very easily Eye-Water another Take the Flowers of Corn-flower Blue-bottles gathered with their Cups bruise and infuse them in Snow-water twenty-four hours at the least then distill them in a moderate Sand-bath This Water being very Cooling most effectually cures the Infirmities of the Eyes especially
Take a quart of Water that is ready to boil put into it half a handful of Scabious and half as much Sage let it boil pretty well and drink it in the nature of Tea with Sugar and the Juice of a Lemon squeezed into it Gravel to Remove Take a quart of White or Rhenish-Wine boil it well to the consumption of a third part then put in an ounce of the Juice of White Lily roots Juice of Housleek and Syrup of Citron mix them well together over a gentle fire and let the Party drink a quarter of a pint at a time blood-warm and so doing four or five times it will force the Gravel before it and cause it to void through the neck of the Bladder Gravel to Expell Kill a black Hen or Cock if it be to be had if not one of another Colour may serve take out the thick Membrane or Skin that lines the Gizard wipe it clean and dry it cautiously so as it may be beat to Powder with this Powder mix an equal part or half so much red Coral calcined and take thirty or forty grains of it at a time in White-wine or some other such kind of acid Wine Gravel another to Expell Take two large Red Onions and a White Lily-root bruise them in a Mortar squeeze the Juice of them into White-wine and drink it in the Morning fasting sweetned with a little Honey This gives Ease presently and continuing it it removes the Cause Green Ointment Take new Butter toiled and purified four Pound Burgundy-Pitch and Rosin of each a pound Yellow Bees-wax four ounces melt them and make an Ointment of them over a gentle fire adding an ounce of Verdigriese in Powder to make it of a deep green Colour and so keep it stirring till the Ointment be cold This is a wonderful Cleanser and Healer of all sorts of Wounds and Ulcers it gives Ease to Pains and allays Burnings and Heats in the Wounds or any Inflammations It 's greatly in request for Burns and Scalds especially if mixed with Oil of Roses and Snow-water and applied on a linnen Cloth to the place grieved Green-Sauce Take the Blades of Green Wheat Sorrel Parsley and Spinage stamp them in a wooden Mortar or Bowl with some Vinegar and fine White Sugar and serve it up in Saucers somewhat thinnish with a Leg of Veal boiled or a Calf's Head Green or Winter-Green This mainly conduces to the healing of green Wounds the green Leaves bruised or the Juice applied A Salve of the green Herb stamped or the Juice boiled with Bees-wax Hogs-lard Sallad-oil and Turpentine is highly preferred for the Cure of all manner of Wounds or Sores The Herb boiled in Wine or Water and given to such as are troubled with any inward Ulcers of the Kidneys or Neck of the Bladder mainly relieves them It stays the Fluxes It is good in Inflammations rising upon Pains of the Heart also in Cankers or Fistula's And the distilled Water may be carried along with you or kept by you for the above-said uses Gripes in Children Take the Oils of Nutmeg and of Wormwood of each a dram mingle them well with two drams of Camomel and anoint therewith the Party's Navel and Pit of the Stomach and by often so doing the Pain will cease Grounsil This indeed is very common which renders its Virtues less esteem'd though they are very rare for the Seeds cleanse the Reins help much to break and expel the Stone and provoke Urine two drams of it taken in a glass of White-wine in Powder three three or four times a day some say facilitate the Birth if it be taken by the travailing Woman in a little Breast-Milk Ground-Pine This is excellent to strengthen the Nerves and to open the Parts it also provokes the Courses expells the dead Child in the VVomb and the After-birth but not safe to be taken by VVomen during their going with Child because it works so powerfully that it endangers Miscarriage If it be boiled in White-wine or powder'd and made into small Pills with Hermodactyls and Venice-Turpentine it is given in Dropsies and outwardly applied it cures Ulcers by cleansing and filling them with good Flesh Take of this and VVormwood of each two handfuls Scurvygrass five times as much Sage of the Mountain six handfuls sliced Oranges six make a Paste of Barley-meal and Rye an equal quantity make it into the fashion of a Pye and equal these in it small shred then take them out and shred them with the Crust over again and so put all into a Bag hanging it in about five gallons of Ale not too strong nor too small about six days and then drink it twice or thrice a day about half a pint at a time This has been proved for the Scurvy and afflicting Pains of the Gout Guajacum This for its singular Virtues is called Holy-wood The Decoction of it well managed and taken in time is a certain Remedy for the French Disease It is good in Dropsies for Asthma's Falling-Sickness and Diseases of the Bladder and Reins Pains in the Joints proceeding from cold Tumours and Wind. It grows in the West-Indies and there the Spaniards learned the Use of it from the Natives The way to prepare the Decoction of this Wood is in this manner Take twelve ounces of the Wood cut small of the Bark of it beaten two ounces infuse it in six pints of Water in a large earthen Pot the space of twenty four Hours keeping the Pot close stopped and boil it with a gentle Fire to the Consumption of two quarts and when it is cold strain it then put to the same Wood a gallon of fresh Water boil it to a quart and keep these two Waters apart for use Gums Apostemated Take a handful of red Sage boil it in Whitewine add an ounce of the Powder of Burnt-Alom and wash your Mouth frequently with this Water It is also good against the Scurvy It likewise fastens the Teeth and keeps them from rotting it gives them a Whiteness and eases the Tooth-ach Gum of Cedar its Virtues An Oil extracted from this Gum is hot in the fourth degree wherefore it doth without pain rot soft and delicate Flesh but in hard Bodies it operateth with more time and difficulty It dryeth dead Bodies and preserveth them from Putrefaction by consuming the superfluous Humour without touching the sound Parts but in living Bodies the Heat in them augment the force of the Oil which causes it to burn the tender Flesh It is excellent to kill Nits Lice or any Insect crept into the Ear and good in cold Distempers to anoint the Joints and Limbs withal being much available in the Pains of the Gout if mollified with Oil of Camomil or such-like supling Oils Gum Plaister of Diachylon Take Bdellium Sagapenum Amoniacum of each two ounces dissolve 'em in Wine and strain 'em boil them to the consistence of Honey and Great Diachylon This being applied dissolves digests and ripens hard Swellings and is for those
Purposes very excellent if not the best of Plaisters Gums Scorbutick Take Bole Armoniack the best two drams choice Myrrh not Lucid one dram Roch-Alom crude half a dram Claret one pint boil them over a gentle Fire strain out the Liquid part and put a spoonful in your Mouth twice or thrice a Day Gums to Strengthen Take Japonian Earth and in a pint of Claret or Red Wine dissolve as much as you can of it then decant the Liquor warily from the subsiding Faeces and with it when well settled wash your Mouth Morning and Evening and it will not only fasten the Teeth but renew the Gums where they are decayed or wasted Gun-Powder to Remove If any spots of Gun-powder or Shot stick in the Face or other Parts of the Body you may remove either of them by taking fresh Cow-dung warming it and putting to it a little Hogs-Lard and applying it Poultiswise Guts-Griping Take about a quarter of a pint of Brandy and having made a Toast of Bread not too fine and white throw it very hot into the Brandy and as soon as 't is thorowly drenched take it out and eat it hot this being repeated two or three times the Pain will cease Or use this viz. Take a handful of wild Camomil wash it and seeth it in a quart of new Ale add an ounce of Licorice and half an ounce of Ani-seeds sweeten it with brown Sugar-candy and drink it very hot Guts-Griping or Colick Take half a pint of good old Hock and boil it and put therein a lump of Loaf-Sugar drink it hot going to Bed Guts-Griping or Colick another Take Sage and Mint boil them in a fit proportion of Claret-wine then strain it and sweeten it with a little Sugar and drink it warm HAberdine-Pye The Fish being boiled take it from the Skin and Bones and mince it with some Pippins cored season it with Nutmegs Ginger Cinnamon Pepper and Caraway-seeds Rose-water Raisins and Currans Sugar sliced Dates scraped Lemon-peel Butter beaten up with Verjuice and Whitewine and when these are so ordered fill up a Pye with them and being baked ice it with Sugar dissolved in rose-Rose-water Hair to Fasten If the Hair be subject to fall off Take half a pint of Ox-Urin newly made boil in it Sage and Rosemary-flowers of each a quarter of an ounce then strain out the Liquid part and anoint the Roots of your Hair with it and a pretty while after wash it over with Water wherein Bran and a little Alom have been boiled Hair to make Grow Take of the Leaves of Radishes boil them in Water with as much more of the Roots of Dog-Fennel and being well boiled strain and press them out and with the Decoction often wash the place where the Hair is fallen off and it will grow again Hair to make grow Thick Take of the best Honey three spoonful a handful of Vine-sprigs that twist like Wyre beat them well and strain their Juice into the Honey temper them a little over a gentle Fire and lay it on the Place where the Hair is come off Hair to make grow Thick another Take three ounces of Honey and a handful of the Tendrils of a Vine bruise the latter with the former and having heated them over a gentle Fire till the Honey is melted anoint the Place where the Hair is defective or grows thin and it will in often so ordering sprout up and become very thick and curling Hair to take away To do this Beat the Shells of a great many Eggs very small and put them into a Still with a quick Fire and there will come forth a curious Water with which anoint the Place where superfluity of Hair grows This being done take the hard Dung of a He-Cat dry it and powder it then make a Plaister with strong Vinegar and put it to the Place Hands to Beautifie Take of the Oil of Myrrh half an ounce the Marrow of Hogs or Calves-Feet two ounces of the Water of Tartar an ounce the Oil of Spiknard half an ounce mix and dissolve them well over a gentle Fire and allay their Heat with two ounces of the Oil of sweet Almonds then strain it put it into Boxes anoint the Hands and Face with it and it will not only take away Spots or other Deformity but create a lovely charming Complexion Hare Boiled the French way Take a large Piece of Beef that has a Marrow-Bone in it as also a piece of Bacon and your Hare season it with a little Salt and when the Hare is almost boiled take it up and bruise some Pease and set them a boiling in the Broth wherein the Hare was boiled then take all the Bones out of your Beef and put the Hare again into the Pease and the Pease being boiled enough take them up and strain them through a thin Cloath and put the Pulp a boiling in a Pot by themselves then dish up the Hare and smother it by covering â—t over with the Pulp of the Pease and it eats very excellently In this manner they order a Capon or Turkey Hare to Dress the French way Take a Hare cased and washed from the Blood as also some fresh Pork or Veal cut in handsom pieces of about three Fingers thickness put it into an earthen Pot or Pipkin with Onions fryed with Hog's-Lard then put to the Hare and Pork some Beef-Broth as much as will half cover it so set it a stewing on a gentle Fire renewing it by degrees then take Bread well toasted and the Livers of six Fowl parboiled put them to steep in some of the Broth then add Cinnamon Ginger Long-pepper Nutmegs Cloves and Salt finely bruised but not to Powder of each two drams then with a little Vinegar and Claret-wine strain it into the Pot where your Hare Pork or Veal is and let them stew together till they are enough then withdraw them and so dish them up at your pleasure Hare Hashed Case it draw it and cut it in moderate Pieces wash the Pieces in Claret and Water very clean strain the Liquor and parboil the Parts then take and slice them and put them into a Dish with the Legs Head Wings or Shoulders whole cut the Chine into many Parts then put in two or three sliced Onions and some of the Liquor wherein it was parboiled stew it between the Dishes over a gentle Fire covering it close till it be tender and put to it some beaten Pepper Mace and Nutmeg serve it on fine carved Sippets running it over with beaten Butter and Marrow garnishing with Lemons and Barberries Hare or Leveret-Pye Most are of Opinion that these are best baked with their Bones though some more nice than wise will bone them however being baked with the Bones let the Bones be broke and the Hare well larded season it with Salt Pepper Cloves Nutmegs and Bay-leaves put it into either white or brown Past at your discretion and with it a sufficient quantity of Lard beaten that it may as well
Water is good for Beautifying and sets a rare Complexion on the Face and Hands Head-ach Inveterate Take strong Vinegar dip a Rose-cake in it and sprinkle that over with scraped Nutmeg and Powder of Wormwood lay it to the Forehead and burn Feather few under your Nose on a Chafing-dish that the Smock may ascend up your Nostrils Head-ach or Megrim Take Unguentum desiccativum rubrum one dram the Power them well together and make them into a Plaister upon a piece of new Leather and lay to the Temples upon the pained side or if that by reason of an universal Pain cannot be distinguished lay it on both sides renewing it every other day and the desired Cure will be effected Head Bald To cover it with a comly Hair if Age has not proceeded too far and utterly denied it Take a handful of Southernwood dry it to Powder or reduce it to Ashes by Fire mix it with the Oil of Radishes and anoint the place and in a few times so doing you may perceive the Hair to sprout amain Head Breaking-out This mostly happens to Children caused by the super-abundance or hot Humours and is very afflicting and offensive to them To cure it boil some Olive-oil and Vinegar to the consumption of a third part of Hogs-lard an ounce anoint it with these when they come to the thickness of an Ointment both Morning and Evening putting on after the anointing a linnen Cap and give them to drink Whey wherein Scabious Agrimony and a few Tops of Wormwood have been boiled to clear and purifie the Blood Head Breaking-out another way to cure Take Butter and Salt and fry them till a Blackness appear Or Take fine Olive-oil and Vinegar beat them together and anoint the place afflicted both Morning and Evening If these have no effect Take a quart of Whey boil in it Agrimony Scabious and Wormwood of each an ounce and wash the Breaking out with the Liquid you must give two ounces of it to drink at the same time Head to Clear Snuff up in the Morning fasting a spoonful or somewhat less of the clarify'd Juice of Ground-Ivy or of Beets spitting out from time to time as much Liquor as comes into your Mouth Head disturb'd with Noises Take a green Ash-stick and whilst one end is burning receive the Water or Moisture that hisses out of the other dissolve in it a little Civet and being well dissolved drop a drop or two of it into the Ear when you go to rest and immediately stop it with Lint moisten'd in the same Liquid and lie still about half an hour with that Ear uppermost that it is dropt into in so often doing the Noise will cease and the Head be restored to its former Ease and Quiet Head Lightness If by reason of a violent Sickness as Fevers Small-pox c. there is a Lightness in the Brain that disorders the Understanding Take the distilled Waters of White single Primroses and Couslips of each an ounce put into them a dram of the Powder of Pearl and a grain of Bezoar-stones and let the Party take it and compose himself as much as the Disorder will permit to rest after it This has brought many to their Speech again Head Lightness another For the Lightness or Swimming of the Head especially in or after Sickness Take the Flowers of single White Primroses distill them and drink of the Water If this succeed not mingle with it the like quantity of rosemary-flower-Rosemary-flower-water and couslip-Couslip-water and this will soon restore your Speech Head and Nerves Take of the fresh Roots of both the Peonies gathered about the Full of the Moon of each an ounce and a half of Contrayerva half an ounce Elks-hoof an ounce of Rosemary before it is flower'd a handful or with the Flowers Bettony Hyssop Wild Marjoram Ground-Pine and Rue of each three drams of the Wood of Aloes Cloves and the Seeds of the Letter Cardamom of each two drams Ginger and Spikenard of each one dram Stechas and Nutmegs of each two drams and an half After a warm Digestion for one day in three quarts of the distilled Water of the Roots of Peony boâ—… them to two in a Bath then strain and with four pound of Sugar make it into a Syrup an a Bath This is good for most Diseases of the Head and Nerves The Dose is an ounce which may safely be taken at one time Head Noisie If there be a beating or singing in the Head and Ears Take a pretty large silver Eel newly caught tie it to a Spit and let it roast without any basting unless with a little Water rubb'd on with a cloth to keep it moist having before you lay it down put some Cummin-seeds into the Belly of the Eel then take what drops from it and putting it into a glazed earthen Vessel let it stand close covered with some fresh Cumimn-seed on warm Embers and then going to Bed drop three or four drops into your Ears or that only on which side of the Head the Noise is most Head-Pains a Cephalick Wine Take two ounces and a half of Succory the like quantity of the Roots of Avens Elecampane one once Ceterach Bettony Red-Sage Liverwort Carduus Centaury of each a handful dried Orange-peel half an ounce and two drams bruise the Barks and Roots and shred the Herbs small infuse them three or four days in a gallon of Rhenish-wine often shaking them and then strain it and drink about three ounces of it every Morning fasting and the like at Night when going to rest This helps the most violent Distempers of the Head and also those of the Spleen and is an excellent Pectoral for the Breast and Lungs as likewise for curing Catarrhs Head-Pains tending to Madness Take a quarter of a pint of the Juice of Ground-Ivy of the Juices of Burnet and Red Sage of each two ounces drink them fasting in the Morning and at Night when going to rest and do it for twelve or thirteen days but not successively intermitting a day between if the Distemper continue so long and after it you may take Red Rose-leaves dried mix them with Flower and Vinegar Oil of Roses and the Juice of Housleek boil them together until they be thick and spreading them as a Poultis or Plaister apply them to the Forehead and Temples The Conserve of Rue is also excellent for the Brain preserving it from the Fits of the Apoplexy Palsie and such like painful and dangerous Distempers Make it in this manner with one part of Rue mix two parts of fine Sugar mixing them well together so that they may be made into a Conserve of which eat both Morning and Evening to the bigness of a large Hazle Nut. Head Powder Take the Flowers and Leaves of Bettony Damask-Roses and the Flowers of Rosemary and Sage dry these well and add the Powder of Lignum-Aloes and some Seeds of Nigella Romana make them into a fine Powder to be used as an Hair-Powder when the Party goes to rest his
Water is given in Fevers Honey of Violets Take of the Flowers of Violets the Bottoms chipt off viz. Purple Violets two pound infuse them in two quarts of Water boil them up and add two pound of Honey and so boil them up to the thickness of an Honey and press the liquid part thorough a linnen Cloth This eases the Inflammation of the Liver cures sore Mouths and mixed with the Decoction of Wood-Sorrel and Barberries is Cooling and much allays the Heat of Fevers Thus you may make Honey of Roses Hordeum This is an Excrescence growing on the Eye-Lid To remove it Take Housleek dry it and bring it to a Powder then take of the Housleek-juice and make a Cataplasm of the Powder and cover as much as is needful of it viz. to the thickness of Half a Crown or a Crown-piece in the fold of a Rag fasten that part then upon the Eye and let the rest of the Cloth bind round the Head and so let it continue all night and repeat the Application two or three times if need require Horminum or Clary by some called Clear-eye There are two sorts of this Garden and Wild. The Herb and Flower is Cleansing Attenuating and Strengthening and is good to be eaten by those that have weak Backs or Pains in them The Seed of it concocted in Spring-water is wonderful good for clearing the Eye-sight the Eyes being washed therewith The Powder of the Leaves snuffed up the Nose purge the Head and Brain of Phlegm A dram taken inwardly provokes Venery The Essence of the Juice strengthens Weakness in the Reigns and much availeth in Barrenness comforting and strengthening the Womb. A mucilage of the Seed discusses Swellings The Leaves of Wild Clary are discussive strengthening and clear the Sight Hotch-pot of Beef Take a Brisket Rand of Beef any piece of Mutton and a piece of Veal put this into a sufficient quantity of boiling Water keeping it clear from the Scum then put in Sweet-Herbs minced Cabbage but not too small and Carrots sliced let them boil almost to a Jelly and so serve them up on Sippets Hotch-pot of Pigeons Put your Pigeons drawn and a few Sweet-Herbs finely shred and mixed with Butter into a Pot as many as you think convenient then put to them some strong Broth after you have layed between them some slices of interlarded Bacon beaten Nutmeg Ginger and a little Saffron that they may give them a colour then make 'em boil a-pace and when they are boiled enough put in some Verjuice of Grapes or Wine-Vinegar and so season them with a little Salt and Pepper and serve them upon Sippits And thus you may order a Hotchpot of Chickens only these you must cut into quarters and lard them with small square pieces of Bacon Lard and boil or stew them not too hastily you may add some sweet Herbs shred small and a piece of Butter and being enough garnish and serve them up as the Pidgeons This way you may draw any sort of small Fowl either Wild or Tame Humour in the Eye Take new Milk let it stand till a little Cream comes over it then lying on your Back dip your Finger into the Cream and shutting the Eye-lids besmear the Eyes with it keeping it out of the Eyes as much as may be Let this be done when you go to Bed and let it continue on till the Morning and to renew it often Humours fallen into the Eyes To remedy this Grievance Take of Whitewine six ounces red Rose-water the like quantity Tutty-stone in powder three scruples Eye-bright-water six ounces Aloes three Scruples Loaf-Sugar finely powdered four scruples put them into a Glass with a narrow Mouth stop it close and let them infuse in the Sun or some warm place about three Days then draw off the purest Water separated from the setling and wash the Eyes with it frequently and it will restore them to their strength and firmness of sight without any Trouble Humour in the Eyes a Water Take prepared Tutty half an ounce Pearl half a scruple Trochisci Alb-Ros five or six grains red Rose-water and Succory-water of each an ounce and a half mix them well and if you will have the Medicine stronger put three or four grains of Aloes into it dissolve these well by shaking as well as may be and with the liquid part wash the Place grieved Humours to Draw out of the Head and Face Take a couple of new-lay'd Eggs and by opening the Top take out part of the White and put in some Powder of Cummin-seed and also the Powder of Anniseed by degrees then having closed the Egg with Past till it is very hard cut it in the middle and lay it to the Nape of the Neck Humours Sharp to Correct Take the Roots of Marshmallows two ounces Meadow-grass Asparagus Raisins of the Sun Licorice Red Chich-Pease of each half an ounce Tops of Marshmallows Mallows Pellitory of the Wall Plantane Burnet Saxifrage white and black Maidenhair of each one handful of the four lesser and greater Cold-seeds of each three drams wash and cleanse the Roots from their Dirt Pitch and Strings and so cut them into slices and having boiled the grass Roots first a quarter of an hour in eight pints of Water put into the Decoction the Roots of Marshmallows and Asparagus let them boil well for half an hour with the rest after that add Licorice sliced and the Maidenhair cut and when they begin to boil put in the cold Seeds and keep them down in the Decoction then take the whole off the Fire and strain them about a quarter of an hour after and so clarifie the Liquor with the White of an Egg and four pound of Sugar and boil it on a moderate Fire to the Consistence of a Syrup This easeth Pains correcteth sharp Humours and has its principal Use for the remedying the Disease of the Bladder and Stone in the Kidneys An ounce at a time may be taken in any convenient Liquor Hurt in the Eye If the Hurt makes a solution of continuity in the Eye take two ounces of Cellendine-water put to it three or four drops of clarified Honey stir them well together and add four or five drops of Oil of Roses and dress the Eye with it The Mixture must be made fresh once in two or three Days or it will four Hydromel a short way To make this Take two Gallons of Spring-water boil it over a gentle Fire keeping it scumming till no more will arise then put in a pound of the best Honey adding a little Fenel and Eye-bright tyed up in a bundle and so let it seeth till the third part be consumed scum it very well strain it through a fine Cloath or Sieve and with a quarter of a pound of Sugar-Candy finely beaten put it up into a Vessel and keep it close stopped and it is an excellent cooling Liquor greatly comforting and reviving the Spirits in Fevers and other hot Diseases and is good in extream Costiveness
break and mix it together very well then run it thorough a Strainer and when it has stood all night scum off the top and season the rest with Sugar a stick of Cinamon broken very small a blade or two of Mace so boil it up again and strain it thorough a Jelly-bag for use It is exceeding nourishing and good for those that are in or enclining to a Consumption also to restore weak and decayed Bodies Ielly of Gooseberries the French way Take Gooseberries and press or bruise them and strain out the Pulp thorough a Straining-cloth measure the Juice and to every pint put three quarters of a pound of Sugar make it boil up well together and when it is so well boiled that some of it being laid on a Plate it will not stick but come clean of then strain it and keep it to put into Tarts with Pears Apples Quinces or the like to make them taste like Gooseberries when Gooseberries are out of season And so you may Jelly Raspberries Cherries Currants or any such like soft Fruit. Ielly of Harts-horn This has been a long time greatly in request To make it Take half a pound of Harts-horn boil it leisurely in Spring-water close covered and in a well-glazed Pipkin that will hold a gallon boil it well when 't is cold strain it thorough a fine Cloth and put it into another lesser Pipkin and with the Juice of eight or nine large Lemons a pound and a half of double-refined Sugar and so let it boil a little and put it into a Gally-pot or small Glass or cast it into a Mould or any fashion you fancy best This is by Physicians held to be a special Cordial and a great Strengthener a Restorer of Consumptive Bodies or those faln-away by long or violent Sicknesses Ielly to Make Take a large Leg of Veal cut away the Fat as clean as you can wash it well and let it lie a soaking a quarter of an hour or more having first broke the Bones then take four Calf's-feet and scald off the Hair in boiling Water slit them and put them to your Veal boil them over the fire in a brass Pot in two gallons or ten quarts of Water according to the Proportion of the Meat scum it very often and so continue it till it is boil'd away to three pints then strain it thorough a clean Strainer and let it stand till it be quite cold that it will easily be cut out pare the top and the bottom and then put it into a Skillet then take two ounces of Cinamon bruised and Nutmeg sliced a race of Ginger and a large Mace or two a little quantity of Salt and a spoonful or two of Wine-Vinegar and the Whites of Eggs well beaten put all to the Jelly and then set it on the fire and let it seeth two or three walms stirring it all the while then strain it thorough a Jelly-bag and eat it when you find Nature weakened or decayed and it greatly strengthens and fortifies it Ielly of Quinces the French way Make a Decoction of Quinces pared quartered and cored till they are very soft so that they may be mash'd and mingl'd with the Water they are boil'd in then strain them thorough a Straining-cloth and boil the liquid part up again with Sugar a pound to a quart till it comes to a reddish colour then scumming it lightly let it settle and take off the finest part when it is warm put it into glazed earthen Vessels and let it stand till it is cool and it will become a curious red Jelly and is a great Comforter of the Stomach exceeding good for the Lungs and Shortness of Breath Ielly of Verjuice Boil Verjuice in fair Water then strain it and in the Decoction boil Apples and a little Ising-glass and when the liquid part begins to consume it will be a perfect Jelly This is good to use in Sauces and for garnishing Dishes as likewise to prepare the Stomach for a good Appetite by being eaten with Sugar and rose-Rose-water Ielly White Take a pound of Almonds and steep them in cold Water till the Husks come off being blanched beat them with a quart of Rose-water then a Decoction of half a pound of Ising-glass boiled with a gallon of fair spring-Spring-water or else half Wine boil it till half be wasted then cool it and strain it and mingle it with your Almonds and strain with them a pound of double-refined Sugar the Juice of two Lemons and cast it into Egg-shells put Saffron to some of it and make some of it blue and some of what colours you please though naturally it will be as white as Snow Iemelloes to Make Take a pound of fine Sugar beaten and sifted four Yolks of new-lay'd Eggs a grain of Musk and two drams of Carraway-seeds finely beaten and sifted a little Gum-dragon dissolved in Rose-water and six spoonfuls of fine Flower beat all these together in as equal mixture as may be so beat them into a thin Paste a little softer than Butter then run it thorough rough a Butter-Squirt of two or three Ells long bigger than a Wheat-straw and let them dry upon Paper a quarter of an hour then tie them up in such Knots as you fancy most proper and being dry boil them in Rose water and Sugar and it proves very useful in setting out a rich Banquet Ill Hahit of Body to Remedy Take double-refined Sugar one pound the distilled Water of Citron-peels four ounces boil them over a gentle fire to the consistence of a solid Electuary then add a Nutmeg Sugar pouder'd and pass'd thorough a Sieve Pulp of Pistaches three drams choice Cinamon and Mace finely pouder'd of each two drams put in first the Nutmeg and the Pistaches after that the Peel and then the Powder and being all incorporated make them up into Tablets and dry them so that they may be well kept for use These Tablets are of a very pleating Scent and Odour grateful to the Stomach and removing the ill Habit of Body They encrease the Appetite and facilitate Concoction and Distribution of the Nourishment They also are very effectual to expell Wind and hinder the Putrefaction of the Humours You may take of them for a Dose two drams in the Morning fasting and immediately after Meals and may continue the use of them as you see occasion Incontinency of Vrine Take the Pizzle of a Wether dry it in an Oven so that it may be reduced to a Powder mix it with a little Powder of Coral and take as much as will lie on a Three-pence in a spoonful of Vinegar Inflammation Day For this Take Crumbs of Bread half an ounce Coral and Pearl prepared Tuttia and white Sugar-Candia of each half a dram Powder of red Roses a dram and a half Flowers of St. John's-wort one dram and with a sufficient quantity of Milk make a Cataplasm or Poultis and for a dry hot Inflammation lay it on the Eyes Inflammation Moist Take a Pippin and
having cut it in two halves take out the Core of each of them and fill up the cavity with the tender Tops of common Wormwood and so close them together by tying the halves and when it is well roasted take off the Skin bruise it into a kind of a Poultis and apply it warm to the Eye spread on a Cloth Internal Piles Take two parts of Flower of Sulphur and one of Sugar very finely poudered mix them exactly together and make them up with a sufficient quantity of Mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth into Lozenges of about a dram weight and take one at a time thrice a day or if need require four or five times a day St. Iohn's-wort This is a soveraign Herb for Wounds or internal Bruises boil it in White-wine and drink it very warm with a little Sugar For Wounds make it into an Ointment or Bath It opens Obstructions and dissolves Swellings It closes up the Lips of Wounds and strengtheneth the Parts that are weak and feeble The Seed especially if brought into a Powder and drank with the Juice of Knot-grass helpeth all manner of Spitting or Vomiting of Blood closes a Vein broken inwardly and helps those that are stung by any venomous Creature It is good for those that are troubled with the Stone or Gravel in the Kidneys or have difficulty in making Urine Two drams of the Powder of the Seed taken in a little Broth gently expels Choler or congealed Blood in the Stomach The Decoction of the Leaves and Seeds being drank somewhat warm before the Fit of an Ague whether Tertian or Quartan does alter the Fits and by often using takes 'em away The Seed is very much commended being drank for forty days together in helping the Sciatica Falling-sickness and Palsie Ioints Afflicted Take Bay-leaves two large handfuls and of the Berries half a pound Colewort-leaves a pugil Neats-feet-oil five pints Beef-suet two pound bruise what is to be bruised and mingle the rest boil them till the Berries and Leaves are crisp then strain out the Ointment and use it by suppling or bathing pretty hot in all cold Distempers that afflict the Nerves and Joints Ioint-stiffness c. Take of the Flowers and Tops of Rosemary Marjoram Rue Wild Thyme and the Roots of Wake-Robin and Wild Cucumers of each four ounces and an half and of the Leaves of Bays Sage Savin Briony-roots of each three ounces Fleabane Spurge Laurel of each nine ounces the Leaves of wild Cucumers and Calamint of each half a pound they must be gathered very fresh cleansed and bruised and infused seven days in five pints of the best Olive-oil and one of the Spirit of VVine boil them gently till the watery Humour be evaporated strain out the Oil and melt it in fifteen ounces of yellow Bees-wax Bears-grease and the Oil of Bays of each three ounces of Mascheleum half an ounce Petroleum an ounce Butter four ounces stir them and sprinkle in the following Powders viz. of Mastick and Olibanum of each six drams of Pellitory of Spain Pepper Ginger and Euphorbium of each an ounce make them into an Ointment over a gentle fire with well mixing and stirring and lastly straining out the liquid part keep it close stopt in an earthen Vessel for your use This is an excellent Ointment for all cold Diseases as Palsies Stiffness of the Joints Cramps Convulsions and the Colick and Pains of the Reins c. Italian Bisket Take a pound of fine Sugar beat it yet finer and sift it and to it put a pound of fine Wheat-flower and six Eggs beaten very thin then beat them all together in a stone Mortar for an hour's space not suffering it to stand still lest it prove heavy then put in half an ounce of Aniseeds rub Butter over your Plates and drop the Ingredients with a Spoon as fast as possible you can set them into an Oven and bake them but let them not be too much by any means Italian Chips Take Past of Flowers beat them till they are reduced to a fine Powder then sift them and take some Gum-dragon steep'd in Rose-water beat them in a wooden or stone Mortar to a perfect Paste then roul it very thin and lay one colour upon another in a long roul and being rouled very thin cut them overthwart and they will appear of divers curious and delicate Colours like Marbling Itch to Cure Take strong Lime-water one pound and put it into a gallon of Spring-water let them work together for some hours and then carefully pour off what is clear filter the rest and take two ounces of Quicksilver tied up in a linnen Bag let this hang in the Liquor and boil it half an hour or more then pour off the clear Liquor and with it wash the part afflicted and when it is well dried in anoint the same places with Ointment of Tabacco which you may have ready prepared Itch another way to Cure Take a handful of the Roots of Elecampane and as much of sharp-pointed Dock shred them small and boil them in two quarts of spring-Spring-water till a pint be consumed then strain out the Liquor and wash with it the place affliccted once or twice a day Itch a Durge Take Tamarinds half an ounce sharp-pointed dock-Dock-roots two drams Fumitory and Succory of each half a handful white Tartar half a dram Ginger a scruple let the Herbs be shred very small then stamp the Roots and boil all in a sufficient quantity of fair Water till it be consumed to about a quarter of a pint to which being strained add an ounce of the Syrup of Roses and two drams of Syrup of Buckthorn Berries Take it in the Morning fasting and it will purge and cleanse the Blood so that the Humours that occasion the offensive Disease will be expelled by gentle Swellings Iuice of Crabs This is commonly called Verjuice it cools drys binds and quenches the Thirst asswages the heat of burning Fevers stops Fluxes and causes Appetite In other Countries they imitate ours with the Juice of unripe Grapes It is used with Sauces in Food to sharpen the Appetite and made into Lohoch with Virgin-Honey it cools in hot Diseases and cuts tough Phlegm Iuice of Cucumbers Here is meant the wild ones It is Catharick it prevails against the Gout Scurvy and King's-Evil Obstructions of the Viscera and Jaundice also the Dropsie It is to be taken from two drams to three four or five To make a Syrup of it Take of the Juice two pound of choice Senna two ounces and a half mix and infuse them over a gentle Heat close covered sixteen or twenty four Hours then strain it out and boil it up with as much white Sugar as will make it into a Syrup The Dose is from two three four or five spoonfuls in any of the Distempers or Grievances before-mentioned It purges out watery Humours very strongly Iuices Depurated Let your Juices settle for twelve Hours then pour it off gently from the gross Impurities settled at the bottom
and Thirst and retaineth that Virtue many Days The Juice of it held when very thick in the Mouth and there suffer'd to melt hath the same Effect It is good for the Breast and Lungs and is therefore successfully given to those that are short-winded and breath with much difficulty or such as are in Consumptions or Pleurisies The Juice asswages prickings not only of the Arteries of the Lungs but the Bladder also and does excellently relieve Thirst as being tempered with moisture and colder than our Nature It is to be noted that the Root in which consist all these properties is much better being fresh taken out of the Ground than when it is dry and is exceeding more pleasant in the Tast when used in Medicins Lignum Columbrinum This is a great Expeller of Poison the Wood Bark and Root being beaten grosly and boiled in White-wine and drank hot about a quarter of a pint at a time Lignum Molucense This is brought from the Molucca Islands in the East-Indies This Wood is a great causer of Sleep Taken inwardly or outwardly it expels hot Poisons being rasped and decocted in Whitewine It likewise remedies the Biting of any venomous Creature Ten grains of the Powder of it being taken in Rose-water cures Wounds made by poisoned Arrows yet half a scruple of it is a Dose for the strongest Man When it is used for Purging the Party that takes it must abstain from much eating It purges Humours in general but more particularly gross clammy and melancholy Humours It is good for quotidian Agues and continual Fevers for the iliack Passion Wind-Colick Dropsie and Gravel for Difficulty of making Urin Pain of the Joints and Scirrhus and the King's-Evil It kills all sorts of Worms and restores lost Appetite Some use it against inveterate Head-aches and the noises in the Head The Indians keep it so choice that they will scarce let a Stranger see it though the greatest use they know of it is to catch Birds withal by boiling it with Rice and when the Birds have eaten of the Rice boiled with it they fall down in a Sleep and if they eat too much they dye And if in taking it it work too much let the Party take a little of the Decoction of Rice and it will qualifie it Lily of the Vallies The Flowers and Leaves of this are held exceeding good for the Apoplexy Falling-Sickness Palsie Giddiness and other cold Diseases of the Brain Take the Conserve of these Lilies six ounces of the Powder of Male-Peony half an ounce Man's Skull prepared in powder three drams the Seeds and Flowers of Male-Peony dried and powdered of each two drams Red Coral prepared Pearl and white Amber of each a dram the Salt of Coral four scruples the Syrup of the Flowers of Male-Peony a sufficient quantity to make into an Electuary Take of this two drams Morning and Evening against any of the before-mention'd Distempers but especially in Fits of the Apoplexy c. lily-Lily-Water This is distilled from white Garden-Lilies in a cold Still as you do Roses and other Simples It is given with success to Women that have hard Labours and to expel the After-birth The Root of these Lilies are admirable in Cataplasms to asswage Pains and ripen Tumours The Oil extracted from them has not only the same but a more powerful Virtue We find in several noted Authors that they have mainly contributed to the Cure of divers troubled with the Dropsie viz. The Juice mixed with Barly-Flower and made into Bread and eaten with their usual Diet Thirty or Forty Days together Limbs to Comfort Apply to the Part grieved a Plaister of Oxicrocium made in this manner Take two ounces and a half of Saffron Ship-pitch Colophony and yellow Wax of each four ounces Galbanum Turpentine and Ammoniacum Myrrh Olibanum and Mastick of each one ounce and three drams to the melted Wax add the Pitch cleansed from the Dross and Strained next to that the Colophony These being melted take them from the Fire and let them cool a little then add the Ammoniacum and Galbanum dissolved apart in Vinegar and strained and boiled to the consumption of the Vinegar and mixed with the Turpentine then sprinkle in Frankincense Myrrh and Mastick in very fine Powder a quart and in conclusion the Saffron finely powdered and well mixed and so make it into a Plaister This comforts and strengthens the Limbs and is an excellent Emollient for Aches and to discuss cold Tumours or any cold Humours setled in the Joints or afflicting the Nerves and Sinews and consequently a very good Gout-Plaister Limbs a strengthening Plaister Take Minion powdered one pound Cerusse prepared half a pound Soap ten ounces common Olive-Oil a quart Orange-flower-water nine ounces boil them according to Art till they become thick enough to spread on a Plaister This is very highly commended for strengthning the Ligaments and the Matrix being spread upon a round piece of Leather and applied it also strengthens the Backs of Women near Travel and eases the Pains that frequently afflict them on that score Lime-Tree The Leaves and Bark of this Tree repel dry and provoke Urin A Mucilage made of the Bark is good in Burns and Wounds The Leaves bruised and sprinkled with Water discuss Swellings in the Feet The Flowers are cephalick and of a very fragrant Scent The distilled Water is much in esteem for the Apoplexy Falling-Sickness and Giddiness the Dose being from an ounce to an ounce and a half It is likewise a great Beautifier of the Face and drank with Water of Camomil it cures the Gripes The Berries dryed till reduced to powder are much commended for the Bloody-flux and other Fluxes of the Belly Being mixed with Vinegar and put up the Nostrils the Bleeding at the Nose is stayed Lime-Water to Make Take a pound of clean quick Lime slack it in a gallon of warm Water and let it stand till all that will subside be setled to the bottom and separation being made the Water swim clear at top at which time it will often happen that a kind of thin and brittle substance almost like Ice will cover the surface of the Liquor As soon as the Water is thus impregnated delay not to pour it off warily and keep it well stopped This is useful on divers occasions as to wash Sores supple Pains and Aches cure the Tooth-ach the Mouth being washed with it and a little Honey If it be designed for Consumptions or Obstructions it must be made thus Take a gallon of Lime-water made as the former infuse in it cold Sassaffras Licorice and Anniseeds of each an ounce adding thereto half a pound of Currans or the like quantity of Raisins of the Sun stoned The Dose of this compound Lime-water is from four to five ounces and may be taken twice a Day Limonade To make this Scrape the Lemon-peel as much as you think fit into Water and Sugar and add a few drops of the Essence of Sulphur with some
is nothing better than the Water of enula-campana-Enula-campana-roots stamp the green Roots in a stone Mortar and mix with them half as much green Licorice then distill it in a glass Still Take of this Water half a spoonful at a time whensoever the Rising doth trouble you mix it with as much Old Malaga if you cannot take it alone Lungs stop with Flegm Take enula-campana-Enula-campana-root well dried Licorice and Aniseeds of each one ounce Flower of Sulphur half an ounce Sugar-candy six ounces make all into a fine Powder and take thereof half a spoonful three times a day Lungs Stuff'd Take the Syrup of Penny-Royal or Ground-Ivy moderately tart stamp in it Rose-leaves and Mugwort and make them with the Syrup and Sugar into a Conserve of which take a quarter of an ounce Morning and Evening Lung-wort its Virtues This is Astringent and Drying stops Bleeding and cures fresh Wounds stays the Flux of the Belly and the Courses the distilled Water Powder and Syrup are used with success for the Diseases of the Lungs as Short-breathings Coughs Consumptions c. That sort of it which grows on the Oak is excellent for curing the Jaundice by taking a handful of it and boiling it in a close stopt Vessel in a pint or somewhat more of Small-beer till half be consumed and of this take three of four ounces as hot as may be both Morning and Evening Lupins to Boil Take French Lupins and French Beans and take away the Tops of the Cods and the Strings and then having a Pan or Skillet of fair Water boiling on the Fire put them in with some Salt boil them up quick and being boiled serve them up with beaten Butter and a little Pepper Garnish the Dish with Barberries Lemon-peel and Endive and so serve them up having made a Division or Separation of the awo sorts MAcaroons to Make Blanch a convenient quantity of Sweet-Almonds by putting them into hot Water beat 'em to a mash in a Mortar and strew on them between beatings a little fine Sugar sifted and when they are well mix'd add the Whites of Eggs and Rose-water and when they are of a sufficient thickness draw over your Wafers a Feather dipt in melted Butter and take the Butter up in spoonfuls and lay it on them and bake them in a gentle Oven Iced over with Sugar dissolv'd in Rose-water Madness or Frensie Take the Gall of a Hare boil it in a quarter of a pint of Whitewine this being drank causes the Party to sleep and eases the Labour and Disturbance of his Brain until Vinegar be given him Maiden-Hair a Syrup Take two good handfuls of it shred these small and boil them in two quarts of fair Water till a third part be consumed then strain it and boil up the Decoction with Sugar to a convenient thickness and take hall an ounce at a time in any convenient Liquor This removes the tartarous and viscous Mucilage out of the Lungs and is good for those that have Coughs Shortness of Breath and Pains in their Sides or in the Bladder or Kidneys The Powder of this Herb being taken four days together provokes Urine expells the Stone and Gravel and is of great use for Children in Ruptures Or for any of these the speedier to facilitate the Remedy you may take the Syrup of Maiden-hair and Jubebs of each three ounces Linseed-oil newly drawn two ounces fine Sugar two drams mingle them and make a Lohoch and take about a quarter of an ounce every other Hour Maladies of the Skin Take Oil of Roses half a pint beat two ounces of Litharge of Gold to dust or powder with Vinegar add a little of the Oil as you bruise it in a Mortar with an iron Pestle till the Litharge and Oil has so overcome the Vinegar that it appears not and it becomes a kind of a whitish Ointment then put it up for your use keeping it close covered This takes away Spots Pimples Sun-burn Morphew and Yellowness of Complexion cures Itch Scabs Botches Breakings-out Tetters Ring-worms kills Worms in the Skin makes it smooth and forces out the watry Humours tending to Dropsies by anointing with it Marchpane like Bacon To make this Take March-pane-paste work it with Red-Saunders till it has colour'd it then roul a broad sheet of white Paste and a sheet of red Paste and so till there be three of the white and four of the red one on another in a mingled sort every red between then cut it overthwart and it will look so like Rashers of Bacon that it will deceive the Eye till you come to handle it and so having dried it you may keep it for your use on any occasion Marchpane to Gild and Garnish Blanch Almonds in hot Water beat them well in a Mortar put to them Sugar finely sifted beat them and mingle them till they become a Paste add a little Rose-water then cover it with a sheet of Paper make Impressions round it with a Spur-iron or Marking-iron used in Pastry Ice it over with Sugar Rose-water and the White of an Egg beat up together and being drawn garnish it with Comfies cut Leas-Gold or Silver in divers shapes and stick it on with Gum-water then strew grated Bisket and Carraways on it If it happens to be Oily in beating to remedy this put in as much Rose-water as will make it as thin as Ice Marchpane like Hung-Beef Work some of the Paste with Red Saunders spread it into a flatness and the other being White lay them one on another and when it is dried and cut fine it will at first sight appear like Interlarded Beef Marchpane Blanch two pound of Almonds beat them in a Mortar into a fine Paste add to them a pound of fine Sugar and by mixing them well together they will thereby become a good Paste Observe as you mix them to prevent their turning to Oil you must put in a few spoonfuls of Rose-water than cover the Marchpane in a sheet as big as a Charner and set an Edge about it as you do about a Tart and a Bottom of Wafers under it then bake it in an Oven or Baking-Pan and when you perceive it dry and hard take it out and Ice it with Rose-water and Sugar being made as thick as Batter for Fritters so with a Wing-feather of a Duck or Goose spread it on and again put it into the Oven and when it rises high take it out and garnish it with the Figured of Birds Beasts Leaves not the like made of the same stuff and sticking long Comfits upright in it serve it up Marrigold-Water its Virtues This is an excellent Water for Inflamed Eyes being dropt in them it takes away the Inflammation and Redness or a Rag dipped in it may be applied to the Eyes with the same success The Flowers are very Cordial and Hepatick they provoke Sweat and the Courses There is therefore an excellent Conserve made of them after this manner Take of Marrigold-flowers two ounces Confection of Kermes
Groundsil two ounces Bees-Wax two ounces Stone-pitch half an ounce make these over a gentle fire into a Salve and spreading it on Linnen or Leather apply it to the place grieved and in two or three times changing and anointing with Linseed Oil the danger will be past and the Cure effected Nail wort This is held exceeding successfull being applied to Imposthumes in the Joints and any Defects under the Nails especially for Whitloes Fellons and Nail-wheals Naples Bisket To make these so much in use Take a pound of fine Flower and the like Weight of Sugar eight Eggs and two spoonfulls of Rose-water an ounce of Carraway-seeds beaten small mix them well together and put them when made into a fit thinness with fair Water into Tin Coffins and bake them moderately in a gentle Oven glazing them over with Water in which Sugar has been dissolved Nature to restore Take an Artichoke and dress it with Milk that is first boil your Artichokes in Water till the Leaves will just draw off then put them in New Milk and boil them thoroughly then bruise the Pulp in the Milk and add a little Mace and grated Nutmeg sweeten it with Sugar and eat often of it with a Spoon It exceedingly restores decayed Vigour and strengthens not only the Spirits but the whole Frame of the Body The Germans and French usually eat the tender Stalks of this Plant boiled with Butter and Vinegar the Italians seldom boil the Heads but eat them raw with Salt Pepper Oil and Vinegar they are moreover held to provoke Venery and the Decoction of the Buds drank provoke Urine Navel pained If a pricking or shooting in the Navel happen which frequently by communication extends to the Fundament or Privy Parts by its twitchings and shootings Take Oil of Roses and Camomil of each an ounce and a half Comfry the Herb half a handfull bruise it and fry it in the Oils a little then apply it plaister-wise to the Navel as hot as can be endured it also takes away the Pains of the Belly and causes the Rumbling of the Bowels to cease Navel-wort Ointment This is moderately Astringent and therefore good for hot Distempers or Inflammations some use it for the Kings-Evil and for the curing Kibes Chilblains and the like Nauseousness When the Stomach or Appetite is offended in this manner and brought to a kind of Loathing Take the Powder of the Seed of Common Fennel in a Glass of White-wine sweetened with Sugar every morning fasting till the Offence be removed This likewise wonderfully clears the sight strengthens the Stomach and being mixed with pectoral Medicines it relieves those that are Asthmatick It also resists Poyson and the Leaves of Fennel boiled in Water wherein Barley has been boiled encreases Milk in Nurses and a Concoction of the Seeds and Leaves give ease to the Nephritick Pains forces Urine and expel Is Gravel the Roots provoke the Courses open the Obstructions of the Spleen and Liver and mainly help the Jaundice The whole Herb shred and boiled in Broth takes away Fat and keeps the Body in a good Proportion Many other Vertues are ascribed to it Neats-Foot Pye To do this boil the Neats Feet then take out the Bones and put as much Beef-suet as will answer their quantity mince them and then season them with Cloves and Mace finely beaten add then some grated Nutmeg and Sugar with a little Salt put them into the Coffin or Past with some Barberries Currans and Raisins of the Sun bake it well and serve it up hot Neats-Foot Pye another Take Neats-feet and boil them tender and when they are cold bone them and mince them very small seasoning them with Pepper Nutmeg Cinamon and Ginger a little Salt and a pound of Currans a quarter of a pound of Dates sliced and a quarter of a pound of fine Sugar with a little Rose-water and Verjuice stir them together in a Dish or Tray laying a little Butter in the bottom of the Pve and on the Meat the Marrow of Three Bones stick some Dates on the top of the Meat and close up the Pye and when it is half baked Liquor it with Butter and White-wine or Verjuice and Ice it and so set it in the Oven again 〈◊〉 it be baked and then put into it Rose-water and Sugar well beaten together Neats-Tongues to dry Take Bay-Salt beat it very fine so that it may be sifted through a fine Hair-Sieve and Salt-Peter of each a like quantity and having soaked your Tongues in warm Water rub it on very well in every part especially at the root then lay them in a place where they may be covered with the Salt and as that wasts put on more and when they become sufficiently hard and stiff then rowl them in Bran till they are dry put them into a Mold a while then dry them in a Kill with a soft Fire or for want of that necessary Implement you may hang them up in a Chimney where the Smoke comes but little at them and when they are sufficiently dryed press them out somewhat flattish and at length and so put them in dry Boxes and keep them for use Neats-Tongues to dry another Take Bay-salt bruised small and Salt-peter a like quantity rub the Tongues well with a Linnen-Cloth then put the Salt to them forcing it in especially at the Roots and as it wasts into Brine add more when they are hard and stiff then they have taken Salt enough Rowl them in Bran and dry them in a Mold over a Saw-dust Fire or for want of such a Material hang them up in a Chimney and when you boil them let it be in Spring-water and it will make them look the redder Neats-Tongues divers ways Take a Neats-Tongue being boiled tender blanch and slice it into thick slices about the bigness of a shilling fry it in sweet Butter and being enough put to them some strong Broth Gravy Nutmeg Salt and Saffron stew them together and then have some Yolks of Eggs beaten up with Grape Verjuice put them into a Pan and give them a toss or two and the Gravy and Eggs being pretty thick dish it on fine Sippets or make the same with Cinamon and Saffron sometimes you may slice them as aforesaid no bigger nor thicker than a Three pence and used in all points as before but only add some Onions fryed and stew it with Mushrooms Nutmeg and Mace and serve it up on Sippets first rubbing the Dish with a Shalot or you may stew it with Raisins Mace and blanched Almonds or Pistaches Marrow Claret-wine Butter Salt Verjuice Sugar Strong Broth and Gravy the Yolks of six Eggs with Vinegar or Grape-Juice and so serve it up on Sippits Neats-Tongue roasted the French way Boil and blanch it first and when it is cool Take out the Meat at the great end leaving the Skin whole and having minced it with Sweet Herbs and Apples as also the Yolks of Eggs boiled hard and Beef Suet beaten with Salt and
Ginger fill up the Skin again till it appear to be a perfect Tongue as before and having stopped the hole with some Mutton-Skin or Caul of Veal lard it with small Lardings of Bacon and tye it to a Spit and then being roasted make Sauce with Gravy Nutmeg Butter and the Juyce of Oranges and serve it up with Lemons sliced and pickled Barberries Neats-Tongue Fryed Boil it first and take it off then cut it into thin slices season it with Nutmeg Sugar and Cinamon dip the Slices into the Yolks of Eggs add the Juice of Lemon and mix them together then having your Pan pretty hot with sweet Butter in it take up the rest in Spoonfuls and put them in then being fryed enough serve them up with White-wine Sugar and Butter well beaten together Neats-Tongues the Italian Way When the Tongues are boil'd in an earthen Vessel till they may be blanched Take them out and put them into some strong Mutton or Beef Broth covering them very close and having boiled them a while put in two or three large Blades of Mace with a quarter of a pint of Canary or White-wine and some slices of interlarded Bacon scum the Liquor when it boils and put in more Mace with some Ginger Pepper and Nutmeg To these add a few Raisins Currans Prunes Sage-Leaves Saffron and Cherries then slice the Tongues and being well stewed serve it up on French Sippets Neats-Tongue Pye To do this Take a couple of large Neats-Tongues set them over the Fire in spring-Spring-water and parboil them pare off the Roots and the Skin mince the Meat with Beef-Suet and a littte Parsley sweet Marjoram Thyme and Pennyroyal season it with grated Ginger beaten Mace Cloves and Pepper finely sifted add to these grated Bread and fine Sugar and the Yolks of three or four Eggs make your Coffin into the fashion of a Tongue and put these in bake it and then make a Liquid of Butter and Verjuice with some Sugar and Rose-water and pour it in at a vacant place left for that purpose or raising the Lid on one side Neats-Tongue Pye another Take fresh Neats-Tongues boil blanch and mince the Meat with four pound of Beef-suet by it self mingle them together and season them with an ounce of Cloves and Mace finely beaten some Salt half a preserved Orange and a little Lemon-peel minced with a quarter of a pound of Sugar four pound of Currans and a little Verjuice and Rose-water and a quarter of a pint of Canary stir these all well together and fill up your Pyes in Coffins of what Figure you shall think fit or convenient Neats-Tongue Pye another way Take a Tongue and mince it raw the Skin as much as may be being pared off Then take another and boil it very tender cut it likewise into pieces the bigness of a Walnut mince with them some Beef-Suet or Lard and lay some of the minced Tongues in the bottom of the Pye and the Pieces on it and make Balls of the other minced Meat as big as the pieces of the Tongue with some grated Bread Cream and Yolks of Eggs the Bottoms of Artichoaks cut like small Dice Nutmeg Salt Pepper and a few sweet Herbs finely shred Marrow Grapes boiled Chesnuts sliced and slices of interlarded Bacon liquor it then with Gravy Verjuice and the Yolk of Eggs well beat together bake it and as the former eats best cold so this must be served up hot Neats-Tongues another way Make a hole in the root-end of the Tongue Take out the Meat mince it small with the Fat of Bacon or Beef-Suet season it with grated Nutmeg and Salt put to it then the raw Yolks of Eggs Marjoram Thyme and Pennyroyal minced small Pepper and Ginger and fill the Tongue with this Composition viz. the Skin from which the Meat was drawn out wrap it then in a Caul of Veal boil it till it will blanch then put it into a Pipkin or other convenient earthen Vessel with some Claret and Gravy Cloves Salt and Pepper grated Bread and sweet Herbs reduced small by chopping or shredding then add fried Onions Marrow concocted in strong Broth and laid over it and to compleat it with a garnish rake some scalded Grapes when very green Gooseberries the slices of Oranges or Lemons and so serve it on Sippets running it over with Butter well beaten with the Whites of Eggs and mixed with the Powder of Cinnamon Neats-Tongue otherways Boll a fresh Tongue very tender and blanch it and when it is cold slice it into thin slices season it lightly with Pepper and Nutmeg Cinamon and Ginger all finely beaten then put into the Pye half a pound of Currans lay the Meat on and stoned Dates in halves the Marrow of four Bones large Mace Grapes or Barberries and Butter close it up and bake it then liquor it with Claret Butter and Sugar and so ice it over Neats-Tongue to Roast Take a Neats-Tongue tender boiled and blanched and when it is cold cut a hole in the but-end take out the Meat and put in the Meat minced with sweet Herbs finely shread a Pippin and two or three hard Yolks of Eggs minced as also Beef-suet and Bacon made very small mix with all these Ingredients beaten Ginger and fine Salt fill the Tongue and stop the end with a Caul of Veal lard it and roast it and then make Sauce with Butter Gravy and the Juice of Oranges Neats-Tongue Stewed Boil them first very tender then slice them and put them into a Pan with fresh Butter fry them a little and so put them into a Pipkin or Stew-pan with some Gravy or Mutton-Broth large Mace and sliced Nutmeg Pepper Claret and a little Wine also a little Vinegar and Salt and when the Stewing at your discretion is almost compleated then put to the Meat two or three slices of Oranges Asparagus Skirts Chesnuts and serve them up on fine Sippits cover them with Butter slices of Lemon and Marrow Neats-Tongues another Let your Neats-Tongues be seasoned with Pepper Salt and Nutmeg then lard them with Bacon and let them steep in Claret all night and you may if you please add to it a little Vinegar put in then Nutmegs sliced and Ginger finely pared whole Cloves and beaten Pepper with a little Salt steep them in an earthen Vessel and cover them up close they being undelayed with Sippets of Whitebread some Cinamon and Nutmeg grated on the top Nep or Catmint This procures the Courses and being taken inwardly or outwardly alone or with convenient Herbs to bathe them or sit over the hot Fumes of it and by frequent use it removes Barrenness and the windy Pains of the Mother it is used likewise in pains of the Head proceeding from cold Causes as Rheums Catarrhs Swimming and Giddiness of the Head and is an excellent Remedy for Windyness in the Stomach and Belly It is profitable in Cramps and cold Aches to dissolve the cold and expell the Wind that afflicts the Parts where they happen
in a Sand-Bath with a gradual Fire distil the Oil mixed with Spirit Phlegm and volatil Salt This Oil is beyond compare for the Epilepsie A few drops of it taken in some cephalick Waters as that of Bettony Pellitory Camomel or Mint you may take from three or four to five drops Anoint with it in great Pains the insides of the Nostrils Temples and the sutures of the Scull and immediate ease ensues Oil of Bays Take the ripe Berries bruise and boil them a good space in Water then strain it out press the Berries hard and when the liquid part is cool skim gently the Salt that swims on the Decoction which is the Oil and is good to extenuate calefie and dissipate Wind in the Stomach it dissolves cold Diseases in the Head and eases the Pains of the Colick Oil of Bitter Almonds Take bitter Almonds dry and purge bruise and calefie them in boiling Water then strain it out and press out the Oil. This Oil does very much attenuate and dissipate Wind cures the Noise of the Head by â—…opping into the Ears monifies the Stubbornness of the Sinews and opens Obstructions of the Liver Oil of Bitter Almonds another Take bitter Almonds two ounces putting to them half an ounce of Sperma Ceti bruise them and extract an Oil and with it anoint the Face when the Small-pox is drying and by often doing it it will make them shell kindly without leaving any Marks Oil of Camomel Take the Flowers of Camomel the white Leaves taken away bruise them put them into a considerable quantity of Oil and let them infuse in the Sun or some convenient Heat covered with a single linnen Cloath a considerable time then press out the Oil and keep it for use This is Anodyne and gives ease in the Colick and Pleurisie by bathing the affected part It is also given in Clysters to the same effect with good Success Oil of Camomel another Take the Flowers bruise them and put them into Olive-oil let them stand twelve Days boil it a little take it off and press out the Oil and Juice put the Juice or Oil in a Glass and put in â—…esh Flowers This eases Pain in the Joints softens Swellings closes Chops or Cracks in the Skin and supples stiffness of any Member and in a great measure gives ease by being anointed with it very hot or a linnen Rag dipt in it fixed to the place grieved Oil of Cinamon Bruise four pound of Cinamon infuse it in six quarts of hot Water leave it to digest in an earthen Vessel close stopped for two Days then pour the Infusion into a copper Alembick fit the receiver to it and lute the Joints with a wet Bladder distill with a pretty good Fire three pints of the Liquor then unlute the Alembick and pour into it by inclination the distilled Water and at the bottom you 'll find a little Oil put it into a Viol and stop it close distil the Liquor as before and then return the Water into an Alembick Take the Oil found at the bottom of the Receiver and mix it with the first repeat this Cohobation till no more Oil arises This Oil strengthens the Stomach eases Womens Deliverances the Courses and much encreaseth Seed Oil for Deafness Take pressed Oil of Leeks bitter Almonds and Laurel of each two ounces Spicknard Castoreum and Coloquintida shred of each a dram Juice of Rue and Whitewine of each an ounce and a half put these into a Matras close stopped and let them digest twenty four Hours in a lukewarm Balneo Mariae then encrease by degrees the heat of the Bath and boil them to the consumption of the moisture then strain and press the Oil out for use mixing afterward with it six grains of Musk. This Oil put just warm into the Ears a drop or two at a time wonderfully helps Deafness in those that were not born so but such as were born deaf very rarely recover though some foolish pretenders to all manner of Cures will for the fake of your Money promise infallible Success Oil of Eggs Take the Whites of twelve Eggs beat them so that they become a kind of an oily substance extract that and put one spoonful of the Oil of Tartar to it mix them well together and set them in the Sun so that at the bottom a thick settlement will remain take then the Oil that swims a top off and put it into a Viol and let it stand in the Sun till it becomes as white as a Curd This is exceeding good for Pains Aches Bruizes or any hot Humours setling also for Burns or Scalds Oil of Eggs another Take Yolks of Eggs and put them in a Pot over the Fire let them stand till you perceive them to grow black then put them in a Press and an Oil will squeeze out of them which is excellent good in all manner of Burns and Scalds Blasts by Lightning or ill Airs Oil of Elder-flowers This is made with the Flowers infused in good Oil when well beaten and the Oil after a considerable standing pressed out This Oil Discusses Mollified and Resolves Oil of Exeter Take two handfuls of Sage Thyme and the green Sprigs of wild Vine a handful each Hyssop two handfuls St. John's-wort one handful Bay-leaves two handfuls Goose-grass one handful Rosemary two handfuls Peneroyal two handfuls Camomel white Lilies Lavender Dragon-leaves and Wormwood of each two handfuls Mint Sweet-Marjoram Pellitory of Spain Fetherfew and Angelica of each one handful stamp these very small put them into a Pot with as much fair Water as will cover them till the Water be in a manner consumed then put to it two quarts of Couslip-flowers steeped about a Month in the Oil of Olives with two quarts of Whitewine and as much Olive-oil boil them toâ—…her an hour or two till they are almost drained dry then press out the Oil very hard from the Herbs and put it up in a Glass This is excellent good for dressing old Wounds and Sores and gives ease in Aches and violent Pains of the Colick Oil of Fennel Take two handfuls of the tops of Fennel and put it between two iron Plates or clean Tiles when they have been well heated in the Fire and pressing them hard you will find an Oil come out or oily Liquid good to anoint the Stomach with in the Phthisick or any Inflammations Oil of Foxes Take a Fox of about a Year old flea disbone it and cut it to pieces put to it four ounces of common Salt Spring-water as much as will serve to boil it boil it in an earthen glazed Pot covered over a gentle Fire so long that the Bones start out then strain out the Broth and squeeze the Flesh till all the moisture comes from it then put to it Dill and the Tops of Thyme fresh gathered of each two handfuls Sage Rosemary and ground Pine of each one handful Sallad-oil four pound return the Broth into the Pot and having put in the Herbs and
Oil covâ—… 〈◊〉 very close and let it stand twenty four Hours in a warm Bath make it boil for two Hours and then strain it strongly pressing out the substance Then separate the Oil and keep it for your use This powerfully digests and discusses cold Humours that fall on the Nervous and Membranous Parts It is proper against all Infirmities of the Joints Rheumatisms Sciatica's and cold Gout and may be applied hot to the Parts alone or mixed with other proper Unguents Oil of Iuniper Take the Berries of Juniper gathered from the beginning of August to the end of September bruise them and infuse them in Spring-water three or four Days and the Water of the first Infusion will serve for the rest then take two Alembicks the one full of Berries and the other half full of the Infusion let them be made of earthen Ware put these into the Earth one on the top of the other or conveniently fastned upon the other after having strained it with a Cloth put it into a Furnace and when cold open it and gather the Oil on the top leaving the Water to run out and let it take as little Air as may be This is excellent good for Strains or Afflictions of the Sinews and Nerves and is used with Success in the Pains of the Gout Oil of Lilies Take of Costus Mastick Calamus Aromaticus Oil of Pellitory and Carpobalsom of each an ounce Cinnamon and Cloves of each half an ounce Saffron three drams when you have bruised them infuse them in Water twenty four Hours then boil them a little and having taken them from the Fire pour in Oil of Olives two pound the Leaves of Lilies eight ounces set them forty Days in the Sun then strain it and take off the purest Oil that swims on the top and take it as an excellent Remedy against the Pains of the Gout as also for the Head-ach and many other Use Oil of Lizards Take pressed Oil of Walnuts depurated three pound and three ounces of Whitewine put them into a glazed earthen Pot with a narrow Mouth set in Balneo Mariae boil it till it is exceeding hot then take green vigorous Lizards in number twelve fifteen or twenty as they are in bigness suffocate them in the scalding Oil and having well stopped the Pot boil them to the consumption of their moisture then strain and press them and reserve the pure Oil for use Oil of Lizards is commended for making the Hair grow on bald Heads c. It is a Specifick to cure Burstermess the Bowels being first put up and the Party anointed with it very warm then laying on the Panicle that incloses the Intestines of an Animal moistened with this Oil and strewed over with some astringent Powder binding on a good Pillow to keep the Bowels tight Oil of Mace Three or four drops of it fasting in a little Broth eases the Pains of the Colick and Strangury it comforts the Heart and Stomach and helps cold Diseases of various kinds Oil of Mint Take the Leaves of sown Mint bruise them let them macerate with the Juice in the Oil of Omphacine and change and boil it as you do Oil of Roses This greatly strengthens the Stomach a few drops being taken in Wine Beer or Ale and the Stomach anointed with it it also helps Concoction and does many other good Offices proper to an excellent pectoral Oil. Oil of Mustard-Seed Take two pound of the plumpest Mustard-seed four pound of Olive-oil grind them together and let them stand nine Days then press out the Oil and keen it for your use It is excâ—…t in case of the Palsie Gout Itch or any other such-like Maladies Oil of Nard Take of Spicknard out small and bruised three ounces strong Wine five ounces put them into a strait-mouthed glazed earthen Pot and let them infuse in a moderate hot place then add half a pint of Olive-oil stop up the Pot and keep it in a boiling Balneo Mariae till the Wine be almost consumed after that strain and press it strongly then separate the Oil from the faeces and keep it stopped very close for your use This Oil is proper to Heat Digest and Attenuate being a moderate Closer so that it is very useful against Cold and Windy Afflictions of the Brain Stomach Liver Kidney Spleen Bladder and Matrix it unstops and purges the Brain Cotton being dipped in it and put to the Nostrils asswages the Pains of them it is good against the Palfie and Shaking of the Nerves also Tumours Suffocations and Stranglings of the Matrix being used as a Pessary it is also used by way of Injection to asswage and allay Pains or heat of the Bladder Oil for the Nerves Boil Neats-feet and you will find an oily quality swimming on the top scum it off and purifie it and in case of any Afflictions of the Nerves anoint the Place grieved with it as hot as can be endured and it will extreamly strengthen them taking away Pains Aches or Weakness in the Back Reins Muscles Joints or Nervous parts when anointed with it Morning and Evening It likewise cures a wasting Consumption or Pining in any part of the Body being anointed often with it by reason it nourisheth the fleshy or musculous Parts adding strength to them but is more powerful in its operation if you take a pound of it with the Oils of Amber Lavender Rosemary Oranges of each an ounce Camphire half an ounce mix these well together and in case of Strains Coldness or Weakness of the Joints anoint them with it chafing or rubbing it in warm you will find wonderful ease and a cessation of Pain it makes likewise the Skin plump and smooth Oil of Orris Take the Roots of Florentine-Orris and of the purple Flower two pound also a sufficient quantity of the Water wherein the Roots of Orris are boiled of sweet Oil washed six pints boil them in a double Vessel put in fresh Roots and Flowers till the watry part is consumed then press out the Oil and keep it for use This Oil or Ointment digests crude Humours dissolves hard Swellings mollifies and discusses digests and eases Pains Oil of Osprey Take thirty Scorpions Oil of Bitter Almonds two pound put them into a narrow-necked Vessel and let them digest for thirty Days in the heat of Summer in the Sun then strain it out and keep it close stopped This is good against the Stone or Gravel m the Kidneys the Reins being anointed with it as also the Share and Perinaeum and injected into the urinal Passage it is also good against the Bite or Sting of any venomous Creature and the malignity of the Plague Some think it should be used only as an Ointment but others hold it may be given inwardly against the Pains of the Colick and Stone the Dose being from one to two drams in any Powder or Vehicle Oil of Roses to Make Gather the Buds of those Roses called Provence-Roses take the Flower off clean without
boil them over a gentle Fire to the consumption of the moisture stirring them often and then strain and press them strongly and keep the Ointment in a glazed Pot for your use and use it with success Ointment another Take sweet Butter two pound melt it over a moderate Fire put into it when taken off the Fire as much Snow then scum off the Butter that swims above the Snow-water and add to it an ounce of Venice Ceruss-powder Camphire a dram mixed with a little Spirit of Wine and make them up into an Ointment over a gentle Fire This Ointment among the Professors of Chirurgery has a great Esteem For it not only cures common Burns or Scalds but those with Gun-powder Lightning melted Sulphur or Lead if curable Ointment for the Small-pox If you would prevent Scars and pitting in the Face Hands or any part of the Body Take a piece of fat rusty Bacon with the Rind off and put it on a Spit set a pewter Platter under it with fair Water and let the Fat drop into and when it has dript away as much as is convenient beat the Dripping and the Water together about a quarter of an Hour and let them stand till they are cold then pour out the Water and pass the Fat with mixing through two or three Waters till all the saltness and offensive Scent is gone then wash it in Rose-water and put it up in a Gallypot and when you use it melt it and pâ—tle it on your Face with a Feather often so doing till the Scabs and Scurf come clear away and a delicate smooth Skin appears under them Ointment for Sores Old or New Take Honey of Roses and common Honey of each four ounces Oil of Turpentine an ounce and three quarters Barly-water half a pint the Yolks of two new-lay'd Eggs mingle them well and keep them stirring over a gentle Fire till the Water is near consumed and they become an Ointment then dip Rags and Pledgits in it and lay to the grieved Place often renewing them Ointment for the Spleen Take Whitewine-Vinegar four spoonfuls red Holly-hock Mallow and briony-Briony-roots the Pith taken out of each a pound sprinkle them with the Vinegar let it steep in and then boil them till the Roots be very soft then stamp them and strain out the Juice Take Boars-grease a pound and a half sour leavened Bread four ounces mingle them together in a Mortar and then sprinkle some more Vinegar on them and over a gentle Fire make the liquid part into an Ointment and in the Morning rub the place where the Spleen is with a warm coarse Cloath then lay on it a piece of blue woolen Cloath wet in the Water of a Man-Child as hot as can be layed on and when it waxes cold take it away and dry the Skin with a warm Cloath and bath in some of the Ointment warmed in a Sawcer rub it well in and lay upon it a quilt of black Wool and in so doing often you will find extraordinary ease Ointment for Vlcers Take six pound of Butter made the latter end of May or beginning of June boil it over a gentle Fire clarifie it and take away the dregs then add yellow Wax four pound Rosin two pound and Venice-Turpentine one pound make these into a proper Ointment over a gentle Fire This Ointment is very solid that it may continue on the Parts grieved and is not only proper for the Cure of Ulcers in the Legs but for Tetters Chilblains Chaps and Rifts of the Breasts and other Parts of the Body Oisters The Flesh of this Fish is nutritive Stomachick and restorative in Consumptions being either pickled stewed roasted or eaten raw they open Obstructions of the urinary Parts and encrease Seed eaten raw they cause a good Appetite and are easie of Digestion confirm a weak Stomach and create good Nourishment to decayed Members There are Waters Oils Spirits and volatil Salts drawn from Oisters in this manner Take five quarts of large Oisters when out of the Shells put them into a Cucurbit and in Balneo Mariae distil off the Water to dryness that it is Flegm with very little volatil Salt in it This may be used in all Cases where a Milk Water is requisite Then put the dried Oisters at the bottom into an earthen Retort or a glass one well coated fixing to it a large Receiver and upon the Fire though not too violent draw off the Spirit Oil and volatil Salt let the Fire at first be very gentle to bring forth the remaining Flegm then encrease it gradually that the Spirit may follow in white Clouds then continue the Fire encreasing it to the highest degree so will the volatil Salt and Oil ascend and come forth which rectified separate and keep for use The Salt restores in Consumptions It is good against all Diseases of the Head Brain and Nerves as the Apoplexy Epilepsie Vertigo Lethargy and Palsie as also Pleurisies and all Obstructions of the Lungs and Breast Stoppages of Urin Jaundice and the like You may take it from four grains to twelve The Spirit has the fame Virtue but is weaker and therefore may be taken from twenty four to forty fifty or sixty Drops The Oil smells very strong and therefore must be rectified The smelling to it is good against Vapours and Hysterical-Fits especially being anointed on the Nostrils Take of the Oil two ounces Spirit of Niter one ounce mix and digest them ten Days then add eight ounces of rectified Spirit of Wine and digest it a Month filter it and keep it close This opens Obstructions and prevails powerfully against the Obstructions of the Bowels The Dose is from twelve to thirty drops Oisters Broil'd the Dutch way Take two quarts of large Oisters open and parboil them in their own Liquor put them into a strainer and then into a Pipkin with some Mace Butter and slices of Onions then stew them and after that lay the Shells on a Grid-iron and put two or three of them into a Shell and there let them broil or Stew in their Liquor and so setting them on Plates fill them with beaten Butter and serve them up Oister Chewits Take three quarts of large Oisters ready opened and parboiled in their own Liquor then wash them in warm Water dry them and mince them very fine season them lightly with Salt Pepper Cloves Mace Cinnamon Carraway-seeds some minced Raisins of the Sun sliced Dates Currrans Sugar and half a pint of Whitewine mingle all together and put Butter in the bottom of the Pies so fill them up and bake them These must be very small Pyes and ten or twelve of them served upon a Plate together Oisters another way Take the largest wash them in warm Water then parboil them and save the Liquor and steep them in Whitwine-Venegar sliced Nutmeg large Mace whole Pepper Cloves a little Salt and having given them a warm on the Fire set them off and let them steep two or three Hours then
take them up and dry them and dip them in a Batter made of Flower and the Yolks of Eggs some Salt and Cream and so fry them and when they are fried keep them warm then take some of the Spices Liquor of the Oisters and some Butter beat them up thick with some slices of Orange or Yolks of Eggs and dish the fried Oisters over a Chafingdish of Coals run the Sauce over them with the Spices and garnish them with Barberries and grated Manchet and then serve them up Oister-Ielly Take ten Flounders two small Pikes or Place and four ounces of Isinglass finely cleansed boil them in an earthen Vessel in two quarts of Spring-water and as much Whitewine with some sliced Ginger and large Mace and being boiled to a Jelly strain it through a Strainer into a pretty deep Dish and when it is cold pare the top and bottom and put it into a Pipkin with the Juice of six or seven Lemons to each two quarts of Jelly also three pound of fine Sugar beaten with the Whites of twelve Eggs. Rub altogether with a Rolling-pin and put among the Jelly being melted but not too hot set the Pipkin on the Fire to stew put into it a grain of Musk and as much Ambergrease well rubbed and let it stew half an Hour on the Embers then stew the Oisters in Whitewine their own Liquor and the Juice of Oranges Mace sliced Nutmeg whole Pepper and some Salt and having dished them with some preserved Barberries large Mace or Pomegranatekernels run the Jelly over them and garnish them with preserved Lemons large Mace and preserved Barberries Oister-Pye Parboil your Oisters and season them with Pepper Salt and Nutmegs and the Yolk of hard Eggs and the Pye being made put a few Currans in the bottom and lay on the Oisters with some sliced Dates blades of and Barberries then put on Butter and close it up and bake it then liquor it with Butter Whitewine and Sugar beat up together Or this way Season them as before but boil them not put in two or three Onions cut in Quarters but leave out the Currans and Sugar slice a Nutmeg on them as also hard Eggs must be layed in halves with large Mace and Barberries liquor them as before only add to the Liquor Juice of Oranges Oister-Shells Take the inward part of the Shell that is of a shining White or Pearl colour and reduce it to powder by calcining It easeth Heart-burnings and the Pain of the Stomach and Colick as also other Pains of the Bowels proceeding from sharpness of Humour it chears the Heart and has almost the Virtue of Pearl Olives their Virtues Olives are gathered either that Oil may be extracted out of them or that they may be reserved for Banquets by pickling them in Salt and Water The Olive hath in it a very restringent Virtue for the Decoction of the Leaves in a Clyster stayeth the Flux of the Belly and the Juice with Whitewine or fair Water being often drank restraineth the Bloody-flux The Sap distilling out of the Olive-Tree or that out of as the Wood where it is burning cures the Itch Tettars and Ring-worms Leuk-Olives especially being eaten provoke Appetite and get a good Stomach The Oil extracted or rather flowing from them of its own accord is of singular Virtue being either applied outwardly or nwardly according to the indisposed Parts of the Body It looseth and mollifieth the Belly abateth the force of Poison taken inwardly and if any Venom Burn or Scald happen on the outward Parts bath it well with this Oil. It is so generally approved that few Oils Unguents or Salves are compounded without it Oleum Magistrale Take a quart of the best old White-wine Olive-oil three pounds Hypericon half a pound Carduus Benedictus Valerian the least and Sage of each four ounces steep them in the Wine and Oil twenty four Hours then boil them in a nealed Pot or copper Vessel keeping them stiring over a gentle Fire till the Wine is consumed strain it and melt in a pound and half of Venice-Turpentine then set it again on a soft Fire a quarter of an Hour add Olibanum five ounces Myrrh three Sanguis Draconis one ounce and make it into an Ointment It 's good against Sores Wounds Gun-shot Blasts by Gun-powder and Pains in the Joints Onion This is proper to such as are afflicted with cold vicious Humours because they procure Sleep and help Concoction prevent sower Belchings open Obstructions force Courses and the Urin promote insensible Transpiration but are not proper to be taken by those that are of colerick Constitutions because they disturb their Heads and cause troublesome Dreams and offend the Eyes an old Onion steeped in Water a Night's time and the Water with a little Honey given the next Morning kills the Worms in Children a large Onion filled with Venice-Turpentine and roasted softens hard Swellings laid Plaisterwise also opens them a raw Onion stamped with Salt draws the Fire out of Burns or Scalds and the inward Cloves under the several Coats of a raw Onion laid to the Gums ease the Pains of the Tooth-ach Opiate-Plaister to Make Take the great Diachylon four ounces Quick-silver two ounces Opium one ounce mingle them and make them into a Salve with a very gentle heat and apply Plaisters of it to any Part afflicted with Pains or Aches Opiate for the Tooth-ach Take Camphire two drams Castor half a dram Opium one dram bring these into a powder mix them with the Syrup of Gilliflowers and make an Opiate This asswageth the Pains of the Teeth very speedily and if any of them be rotten put a very little of it into the hollow Tooth and leaving it there it will ease it Opthalmick Ointment Take Oil of Roses two ounces Narbone-Honey half an ounce choice Aloes and Sarcocol of each two drams infuse them three Days in a Woman's Milk without stiring yet shift the Milk very gingerly powder of white Trochiscs of Rhases Bolearmoniack Tutty prepared of each four scruples white Vitriol and Sugar-candia of each one dram Powder of Saffron Myrrh and Olibanum of each two scruples Thebeian Opium fifteen grains make of these an Ointment according to Art This is excellent for Infirmities of the Eyes Put to this purpose a large drop of it into the Eye and sleep upon it and in the Morning when you rise wash it with white Rose or Plantane-water and so order it once or twice after the first time and you will find wonderful Benefit Oranges to Dry Rasp or scrape off their outward Rinds cut them into halves and take out their Pulp lay them in Water three or four Days then shift them into fresh Water and boil them tender shifting them likewise in boiling to take away their bitterness When they are tender take them out and wipe them with a clean Cloath and put to them as much clarified Sugar as will cover them and let them boil leisurely two Hours then take them off the
six spoonfuls of fine Sugar till it be candy proof then take it in a Ladle fashion it on Plates into Cakes and letting it cool dry them in a Stove or in a gentle Oven soon after the baking is over Quince-Cakes Transparent Take a pint of the Syrup of Quinces and a quarter of a pint of the Syrup of Barberries boil and clarifie them over a gentle Fire scumming them clean then add twenty ounces of fine Sugar stir them well together on the Fire and when it is taken off till it be almost cold spread the Pulp as before and make your Cakes into what fashion you think proper Quince-Cakes White Take a quart and half a pint of Water boil it up and add so much fine Sugar as will heighten it to a Candy then pare about a dozen large Quinces core them and when they begin to be soft in other Water wherein you may first set them over the Fire take them out and beat them into Pulp and so put that Pulp into the boiling Sugar and Water before mention'd and let them continue there a long while then make them into Cakes on a Plate If you would have them very white clarifie your Sugar with Whites of Eggs that you first sweeten your Water withal Quince-Cream Roast four or five ripe Quinces quarter them take out the Core and cut them in thin slices then boil them up gently in a pint of sweet Cream with a whole Race of Ginger and when it comes to a thickness strain it out adding so much Sugar and Rose-water as will sweeten and scent it Quinces a Ielly Take some of the Decoction and Inside of the Rind of the Quince or other Fruit that has boiled long in a considerable quantity of Water The Decoction being made let it wast in the Sun or before the Fire and so boil it up to a Jelly with a quart of Isinglass Quinces to Pickle To do this that you may keep them green all the Year Take them when they are not quite ripe wash them in Salt and Water and rub off the Scurf if any be on and let them lye in that water twenty four hours boil up a Pickle of Wine-Vinegar put into it a handfull of Bay-salt a few blades of Mace and some Cloves with six or seven Bay-Leaves put the Quinces into it scalding hot and parboil them then put them with the Pickle into an earthen Pot and so they will keep and be of use for Tarts or what other use you please to put them to Quince-Pye Take preserved Quinces separated from the paring and the Core then make a Syrup of Spring-water with fine Sugar boiled up in it and take as much as the Quinces weigh to every pound add a pint of the Syrup make the Syrup in a Preserving-pan and being scummed and boiled put the Quinces into it boil them till they be well coloured and then put them into the Pies in halves or quarters make them in fashion round either in Pies Tarts or Patty-pans with a cut cover but before you bake them put in more fine Sugar and leave the Syrup to put in after and then Ice it Thus you may do by Wardens Pippins hard Pears or green Codlings Quinces to Preserve Take of Apple Quinces when moderately ripe lay them a while after they are gathered on fresh Straw or new Hay for three or four days covered so that they may sweat a little and evaporate the superfluous Moisture then pare them very thin and boil them in Spring-water till they are very soft then cut them in Quarters take out the Cores and mingle the Pulp with the Water ten Quinces and two spoonfulls of Sugar being sufficient to boil up a Pottle of Water and when it is boiled to a thickness put in the Quinces you intend to preserve and let them boil till they contract a greener Colour than natural then put to them some more Sugar the scumm being taken off put them up in an earthen glazed Pot and stop them close Quinces Raw To keep these all the year Take some of the worst Quinces and cut them into small pieces boil them in Water putting to each Gallon three spoonfulls of Salt and as much Honey and so let them boil till the Water becomes very strong of the Quinces and when it is cold put in a quart of Whitewine Vinegar and then put the best Quinces into the Liquor close them up in an earthen pot and they will keep fresh all the year so that you may use them for Marmalades or other Matters at any time Quince-Seed an Oil Take the Seeds or Kernels of Quinces bruise them and put them into a Frying-pan with a little Wine Let them be well stirred together till they are so hot you cannot endure your Finger on them then put them into a Canvase Bag and press out the Oil with a considerable strength and having both Oil and Water you must separate them This Oil is very good against all Pains in the Stomach helps Digestion and is good against windiness in the Stomach and Bowels bringing it away It inciteth to Venery and is good against the Hemorrhoids and Pustles the Parts afflicted being anointed with it Quinces the Syrup Take three quarts of the Juyce of Quinces settle it well and clarifie it from the Dregs and boil it over a gentle fire till half be consumed then add three pints of Claret or a deeper Red Wine four pound of White Sugar Cinamon a dram and a half Cloves and Ginger two scruples and boil them up to a Syrup Let it cool by Degrees and keep it close stopped in Glass-Viols for your use this mixed with Water of Endive is very cooling and excellent in Fevers and other hot Diseases two or three spoonfuls being taken at a time Quince Tart Pare and slice your Quinces very thin season them with Candied Citron and beaten Cinamon and andied Orange scraped small or raw Orange or Lemon-peel or Carraway or Anniseeds put ten Pippins to six Quinces and according to the bigness or littleness of your Tart half the weight of the Fruit in Sugar then close it up and bake it and Ice it over with Sugar dissolved in Rose-water and make your Tarts into what Forms you please and serve them up Scrape over them Sugar and Powder of Cinamon Quince Tart Take Quinces newly gathered or kept very dry in straw pare them thin and take out the Cores and being cut in four quarters slice them thin then take Pippins or any hard Winter Fruit gathered before they are ripe and using them in the same manner lay a Laying of each scrape an Orange-Peel and scatter it among the Layings then add Syrup of Quinces and on the top of all strew fine Sugar mixed with a little Powder of Cinamon and close up the Coffin in what Fashion you please baking it well in an Oven not heated with too quick a fire Quinsies to Cure Bruise thirty two ounces of purified Salt-Petre put it
in a crucible which must be put in a very hot Fire in a Furnace and when the Salt-Petre is melted put to it an ounce of Flower of Sulphur by a spoonful at a time so that the matter will presently fall into a flame and the more volatil Spirit of the Salt-Petre will evaporate and when the flame is over the matter will remain in a very clear Fusion Then with a pair of Tongs Take out the Crucible and turn it upside down into a very clean Bason a little warmed This beaten into Powder is taken with good Success in the dangerous Distemper called the Quinsie It also cools and works by Urine in burning Fevers and other Diseases that proceed from Heat and Obstructions and the Running of the Reins The Dose is from half a dram to a dram and may be taken in any proper or convenient cooling Liquor Quinsies Description c. This Grievance do's most frequently happen between the Spring and Summer the first Assault of the Fever is seconded by the Pain of the Inflammation of the Jaws which together with the Swelling of the Uvula Tonsils and Larynx renders the afflicted Person unable to swallow and scarcely to breathe In this case let blood in the Arm and take away as much as the Constitution of the Party will conveniently bear then anoint the inflamed part with Honey of Roses impregnated to a very high degree of Acidity with Spirit not Oil of Vitriol or Sulphur and presently after take the following not after the usual manner but only hold it in the Mouth till it is hot and then spitting it out renew it with that which is cool viz. Plantane-water Rose-water and Frog spawn-water of each four ounces the Whites of three Eggs beat and reduced to Water Sugar-candy three drams mix them well and make a Gargarism of them Quinsey Take Milk warm from the Cow and Album Graecum a pint of the one and half an ounce of the other Honey of Roses two spoonfuls Verdegrease half a dram boil them a little then strain it out and Gargarize the mouth and throat often with the Liquid part putting to thin it more a little Borrage Water This is likewise excellent for any sore Throat Tumours or Pains of the Mouth and Jaws Quintessence of Honey This is the curious Extract of Honey and is very useful in divers Diseases and Grievances viz. It helpeth the Cough or Catarrh Palsie Falling-sickness and pains of the Milt and divers other Diseases and it s said that if two or three drams be given to a Party strugling for Life or gasping for Breath it will for a while bring them to themselves again Quinque Nervia This Herb is astringent and vulnerary the Juyce is good against spitting and pissing of blood The Essence of the Juyce taken with Spirit of Wine do's the same The distilled Water of it is good against spitting of blood and the Phthisick The Infipissate Juyce stays the Courses heals all inward Griefs of the Body and Inflammation and is more effectual than any other sort of Plantane This being one of the narrow-leaved sorts call'd by some Ribwort Quinque Folium or Cinque-Foil The root of this is dry and binding and is to he taken from one to two drams in Powder It stays all manner of Fluxes of the Bowels and Fluxes of the blood in any part Catarrhs and Defluxions on the Lungs and allays the sharpness of Choler eases the Pains of the Gout and Gonorrhea's the Juyce of it is good in Fevers and hot Diseases an Infusion of it opens Obstructions RAbbits a Fricasie Take your Rabbit and cut it in pieces put it into the Frying-Pan put in half a pound Of fresh Butter and let it boil then put in your Rabbit and let it be half enough then take it out and clean your Pan and put in some Water and let it boil then put in one slice of Onion stuck with Cloves and a little whole Pepper a Bunch of Thyme and a little Limon-Peel and let them boil together a while then take out your Onion and Thyme and put in your Rabbit then shred some Marjoram Thyme Parsley Limon-peel and Nutmeg and strow on your Rabbit in the Pan then take three Yolks of Eggs and beat them well and a Piece of fresh Butter and a quarter of a pint of White-wine or a spoonfull of White-wine-Vinegar and beat with your Eggs then put them into the Pan and let the Pan be kept shaking and stirring with a spoon till they be thick then pour them into your Dish and serve it up to the Table Rabbits Fricassed Take young Rabbits and cut them into small Pieces mince a handful of Thyme and Parsley clean pick'd season them then with Nutmeg Pepper and Salt take two Eggs and a half a quartern of Verjuice beat them together throw them into the Pan and having sliced it when enough dish it up in Sippets with Butter and Verjuice Rabbits to Hash Wash them take the Flesh from the bones and mince it small then put to them a little strong Broth made of Mutton or Veal some Vinegar and a Shalot or two with a little grated Nutmeg Let it stew and then shred a handful of Parsley then half a pound or as much as will serve of Butter Toast Bread for Sippets serve it up garnished with Limons Rabbits to Stew Take a couple of Rabbits of about three months old half roast them and so take them off the Spit cut them into handsome pieces and put them into a Dish with the Fat and Gravy that fell from them and as much Water with half a pint of White-wine after boiling and scumming as will cover them then put in a piece of fresh Butter and Ginger finely grated with Pepper and Salt and two or three Pippins minced Let these stew about an hour over a gentle fire and dish them up with Sippers Radish or Horse-Radish This is in some places found wild but most usually planted in Gardens encreasing much in most shadowy places it flowers in July The Juyce of it given in drink is held to be very effectual for the Scurvy It kills Worms in Children the Juyce being drunk in convenient Liquors or the Root laid bruised Poultis-wise to the Belly by the latter means it takes away the Pain of the Sciatica Joynt-Ach or the hard Swelling of the Liver and Spleen The distilled Water of the Root and Herb is better taken with a little Sugar That called the Garden-Radish is vulgarly known and though it be but of bad Digestion yet it has some good Qualities with it for though it is held when eaten raw in Sallads or the like to breed ill Humours and corrupt blood yet it wonderfully helpeth those that are afflicted with the Stone and Gravel and the stoppage of Urine and the Juyce of these Roots made into a Syrup is exceeding good to purge Urine Radish a Syrup Take of the Roots of Garden and Wild Radishes before they begin to run to Seed
of each a handfull cut off the Tops and wash the Roots very clean three ounces of the roots of Saxifrage Kneeholm Butchers-Broom Sea-Holly Petty-whin or Cammock or Ground-Furz Parsley Fennel of each alike in all about a handful Leaves of Bettony Pimpernel Thyme the tender Tops of Nettles Cresses Samphire and Maiden-hair a handful in all and of each alike The Fruit of sleepy Night-shade and Jubebs of each Ten ounces the Seeds of Parsley of Macedonia Carraways Seseli yellow Carrots Grummel Bark of Bay-tree-root of each two drams Raisins stoned and Liquorice of each four drams boil them in five Quarts of Water till two be consumed then strain it and dissolve in it two pound of purified Honey and Four pound of white Sugar-Candy so make it into a clear Syrup seasoning it with an ounce of Cinnamon and as much Nutmeg as sufficeth the making of this is worth the Cost and Labour for it excelleth all other in expelling the Gravel and Stone scowers the Kidneys and Bladder and easeth pains in the back opening Obstructions in the Uriters and mixed with Lenitives causes Urine when at any time restrained Ragwort This has several Names as Stammerwort Seggrum St. Jame's-wort It flowers in June or the beginning of July the Seed of it being ripe in August The Decoction of the Herb is good to wash the Mouth that is sore or has Ulcers also for Hardness Swelling or Impostumations it being very cleansing and healing in such Matters as also helpful in the Quinsie and King's-Evil It stays Catarrhs thin Rheums and Defluxions into the Eyes Nose or Lungs proceeding from the Head The Juice is singular good to heal green Wounds to cleanse and heal old Ulcers in the Privities and other Parts of the Body as also inward Ulcers or Wounds and puts a stop to the malignity of running Cankers and hollow Fistula's hindring their spreadings and is much commended for Aches or Pains in the Nerves fleshly Parts or Sinews also the Sciatica or Pain in the Hip or Huckle-Bone to bathe the Place with the Decoction of it or anoint it with the Ointment of the Herb bruised and boiled in Hogs-Lard with a little Olibanum and Mastick in Powder Rails to Boil Cut off their Heads and Leggs truss and put them into a Pipkin of strong Broth add to them Currans Dates some Blades of Mace half a pint of Whitewine Pepper Salt and a piece of Butter and when they are all together stewed enough place them orderly in a Dish upon Sippets thicken the Broth with grated Manchet melt a little Sugar in rose-Rose-water put the Broth to them and serve them up garnished with Lemons or Oranges sliced as a dainty Dish Raphanus or Radish Though no great notice is taken of this Root but the eating them with Sallads and Provisions yet there are many excellent Virtues in it The Root of the Garden Radish cleanses attenuates and opens and in the Stone is of great Virtue for expelling it and provoking Urin if cleanseth the Stomach of slimy tartarous Humours and opens the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Reins and Womb and distributes the Chyle The Seed which has all the Virtues of the Root is hot in the third Degree and dry in the second wherefore two drams of it is successfully given in a spoonful of wormwood-Wormwood-water for killing the Worms in Children and removing the Gravel and Sand from the Kidneys and Bladder A distilled Water of the Roots and Leaves beautifies the Face and Hands by taking off the Spots Scurf and making the Skin smooth and fair if often washed with it A Syrup of the Juice is excellent against the Stone to make which find the Receipt in this Work It is a singular Remedy against the Scurvy helps all Obstructions and the Asthma's old Coughs and shortness of Breath Rasberries These are very Cordial and good in Tast The Syrup much availeth in Fevers To make which take these Directions Of the Juice clarified and Sugar take an equal quantity boil them to a Syrup and stop or cover the Vessel close It is very cooling and pleasant and is to be given in hot Diseases Again Take the Syrup of Rasberries and Clove-Gilliflowers each two ounces of the Juice of Kerms one ounce make a white Mixture and take a spoonful every Morning and it is an excellent Cordial for Women before Delivery Raspis a Ielly of Take of the Fruit pretty ripe set them over the Fire in a Posnet and extract the thin Juice cooling the bottom of the Skillet as you find occasion with fair Water then strain them with a fine Strainer and when as much is taken as can be add the like weight of Sugar and boil them up into a Jelly Raspis a Syrup Take nine quarts of Raspis or Rasberries gathered dry and clean pickt put them into four quarts of Canary in an earthen Pot and paste or lute it up very close keep it in a cool Place ten Days then distil them in a Glass or Rose-Still adding a fourth part of the former quantity and fresh Berries and Wine and when all the colour is taken out of the Berries strain out the remaining Liquid part and put as much Sugar as will boil it up into a Syrup keeping it scumming during the boiling Rattle-Grass Of these there are two kinds viz. Red and Yellow The first of these is used to heal up Fistula's hollow Ulcers and to stay the Flux of Humours and Fluxes of Blood being boiled in Claret or other red Wine and drank hot about a quarter of a pint at a time The Yellow sort is by some called Cocks-Comb and is held to be good for those that are afflicted with Coughs Catarrhs and the like or Dimness of the Sight if the Herb boiled with Beans and a little Honey added to it be drank or dropt into the Eyes The whole Seed being put into the Eyes draweth out any Skin Film or Dimness from the Sight without any trouble or pain Rawleigh Sir Walter his Cordial-Water Take a gallon of Strawberries put to them a pint of Aqua-vitae and so let them stand four Days then strain them out and sweeten the Liquid part with fine Sugar and add if you please a grain of Musk. This greatly revives the Heart and is good a spoonful or two taken at a time in violent Fevers Red drying Ointment Take Olive-oil two pound and white Bees-wax half a pound melt them together over a gentle Fire then take them off and stir them together with a wooden Spatula till they begin to thicken and when they are cold add the following Powders viz. Calaminaris-stone and Bole-Armoniack of each four ounces Litharge of Gold and Cerusse of Venice of each three ounces Campbire one dram grind the Calaminaris and Bole-Armoniack upon a Stone and fierce it through a fine hair Sieve and powder the Litharge very fine and so put all the Powders into the Ointment stirring it till it becomes cold then add a drop or two of the Spirit of Wine
the Gout and all other Aches and Pains proceeding from a cold Cause Helps Strains and Hurts of the Nerves and Muscles and strengthens weak Limbs Of this Spirits Oil and Balsam are extracted by distillation in a large Retort in Sand distilling first with a very gentle Heat till all the Flegm and Spirit in which is contained the volatil Salt is come over and then gradually encreasing the Fire to force over the Oil and Balsam which are to be rectified from Colcothar or Bonet Ashes This Spirit is very Excellent For it takes off the tartarous Mucilage in the Lungs Reins Breast and Stomach Uriters and Bladder It hinders the generation of the Stone and Gout The Dose is from one to three drams The Oil dissolves Tumours of the Gout strengthens the Nerves cures the Palsie Tumours Wounds and Ulcers and all manner of Convulsions Cramps Aches Pains Strains and Bruises proceeding from a cold Cause or Violence the Part grieved being often anointed with it The Balsam has the same Virtue but not so penetrating and therefore is mostly used in the curing old Sores Fistula's Ulcers Pain in the Gout and Sciatica's c. Rue This is for its wonderful Virtues called the Herb of Grace 'T is very Attenuative Incisive and Digestive Resolutive and Provocative It driveth out Windiness by reason of its heat in the third Degree and not only sharp in Tast but bitter also by reason whereof it may resolve and penetrate gross and clammy Humours and through the same qualities provoke Urine It consists of subtil Parts and is numbred among Medicins which are great dryers and therefore it is good against Inflammations asswaging any lustful Appetite The Seed boiled and drank in Wine greatly resists Poison The Leaves eaten alone or made into a Conserve if the Party take half an ounce fasting it resists ill Airs causeth pestilential Fevers and consequently the Plague The Decoction drank easeth Pains in the Breasts and Sides Inflammations of the Liver and the Pains of the Gout also the Shaking of Agues Being eaten raw it cleareth the Sight and is good against Difficulties of Breathing and the Cough Being mixed with French Cherries dried it allayeth the Pains and Heaviness of the Eyes and with Oil of Roses and Vinegar it easeth the Head-ach Being bruised and put up the Nostrils it stays Bleeding The distilled Water of it infused into an equal portion of Wine and Rose-water is very soveraign for any Pains in the Head or Stomach Rue of the Meadow This is to be found on the Borders of moist Meadows and by Ditch sides flowring towards the end of July and beginning of August Dioscorides highly approves it for Bruises and the healing of old Sores being applied to them Poultiswise or they washed with the Juice The distilled Water and Flower of this Herb have the like Virtue Some People use it shred among common Pot-herbs in their Broth for opening Obstructions of the Body and to render it soluble But the Roots clean washed shred or sliced and boiled in Ale I hold to operate more in that kind than the Leaves yet they provoke Stool but very gently The Roots boiled in Water destroy Lice and Vermin incident to humane Bodies by only anointing the Places with their Decoction Camerarius tells us That it is in great Esteem in Italy as an Antidote against the Plague and that the Saxons use it with success in the Yellow Jaundice Ruffy's Pills Take of the best Aloes two ounces Myrrh and Saffron of each an ounce mix these finely powdered with as much Aromatick as will make them into Pills These taken one at a time as big as a Pea help Concoction and Digestion clear the Stomach and create a good Appetite and are much available against pestilential Airs and Contagions Ruffs and Redshanks to Boil Take these Fowl put them upon a Spit and lay them to the Fire with a little Basting till they are half roasted then having Water boiling in a Pipkin after you have stuck at few Cloves about them put them into it but it must be very little and when they have taken a warm or two put out all the Water to a pint then put in some Claret-wine and strong Broth a few Mace and Cloves with the Gravy that dropt from them when they were roasting then and some Pepper Ginger fried Onions and Salt stew all well together and serve them up on Sippets Rupture Having a good Truss Take Comfry half a handful bruise it well with the Filings of Iron spread it thin on a Plaister of Diatulum and apply it to the Rupture and keep it close up and by often renewing it great Advantage is found Rupture to Cure Take Cyprus Nuts make them into Powder and take Juice of green Hops or the tender Tops mix them well together and having the Bowels put up and well trussed lay it at the bottom of the Belly and in all convenient Places as a Plaister and as it dries supply the place of it with a moist one Rupture on the Navel The Rupture or Burstenness is generally known by the falling down of the Bowels into the Cods tho' there is a Rupture that appeareth above the Privy Parts or at the Navel of Men and Women the Rupture of the Navel being known by a swelling or hanging out of the fore-part of the Belly To remedy this Take Comfry tow ounces stamp it well mix it well with an ounce of Bees-wax over a gentle Fire till it can be brought into a Plaistor and apply it to the Navel But if the Rupture be great often renew it and anoint the Back-bone of the Party with Bears-grease chafing it in hot and let the Party take Morning and Evening a dram of the Herb Thorough wax in a little Wine Rupture a Plaister Take Daisie-roots the like of wild Tansie and Comfry of each half an ounce Mastick a quarter of an ounce Pomgranet-flowers and the Juice of Sloes half a dram of each Hares-wool clipt small one dram Stone-pitch two ounces Bird-lime an ounce Wax five drams Oil of Roses as much as will make them into a Plaister and apply it to the Intestines being put up and a Truss over them to secure them You need not take off the Truss but when you renew the Plaister which need not be under five or six Days Or use this viz. Take of Cyperus-Nuts two ounces Myrrh and Cyperus-Roots Marjoram Galls Juice of Sloes and Frankincense of each an ounce then dissolve an ounce of Gum-Tragacanth in Wine and temper the rest with it and then over a gentle Fire by well mixing and a consumption of the moisture make it into a Plaister and lay it on the Runture Rupture through Water This is a hydropical watery Humour in the Liver Veins and Pores which falls down into the Cods and is known by the swelling of them and the Navel To remedy this Take Mastick one ounce Cyperus-Nuts half an ounce Gum-Tragacanth half an ounce bruise them and temper them well together
you fry it cut it out in pretty thick slices Scabious This Herb though wild and mostly growing in the Field is of excellent use The Herb and Root boiled in Wine or the Juice of it or the distilled Water of it cures Imposthumes Pleurisies Coughs or other Diseases incident to the Breast or Lungs 'T is good also in the Quinsie Plague Ulcers in the Fundament Itch and likewise for Beautifying Scabs Take the Roots of Celandine Wormwood and red Dock of each a handful Lawrel and Ivy-Leaves of each half a handful bruise them well and fry them in Butter till they become crisp then strain out the Butter with hard pressing and keep it as an Ointment of special use in all manner of Scabs Breakings-out Botches or Blains and if mixed with a little Powder of Sulphur it is excellent for the Itch and to hinder the biting of Bugs or cure those that are Bit. scabious-Scabious-Water Take four handfuls of Scabious-flowers a handful of the tender Tops of Comfrey-flowers of Fumitory four ounces Roots of Orris three ounces Baum and Celandinetops of each a pugil distil these in a cold Still with four ounces of Almonds blanched and steeped in warm Water till they swell This is an excellent Beautifier and causes a fresh Colour Scalds to Cure Take a quart of sweet Cream then wash pare and slice a handful of fern-Fern-roots boil them together in an earthen Pipkin with two ounces of Dove's-Dung finely powdered or for want of that Hen's-Dung for the space of half an Hour or till by continually stirring it it jellies or thickens then let it cool and so spreading some of it on a Cloath apply it to the Place scalded So by often applying the Fire will be taken out in a little time and the Pain removed Scaily-Nails to take off Take the Seeds of wild Mint and Linseed of each a quarter of an ounce bruise them and mix them with Honey make a Plaister and fix it on the Nails and in a little while they will fall off and other sound ones grow in their stead Scaily-Spots To remedy these rough and unseemly Deformities of the Skin Take half an ounce of Nigella-seeds bruise and boil them in a quart of strong Vinegar until half be consumed then add as much of the Oil of Walnuts as will when strained and a little more boiled reduce it to an Ointment with which anoint the Place often and it will make it smooth and beautiful This is likewise a Remedy for the fretting and gauling of the Skin and Itch. Sciatica Take four handfuls of Straw-berries boil them in a quart of Water and having bathed the grieved Place with the liquid part strained from them very warm dry it and then anoint it with this Ointment viz. Unguentum Dialtheae one ounce Honey half an ounce Bees-wax a dram mix them over a gentle Fire and make an Ointment for the aforesaid use and by often anointing the Pain will cease Scorbutick-Water Take the Juices of Scurvigrass and Water of Pimpernel depurated of each three pints fine white Sugar two pound make them into a Syrup over a gentle Fire The use of this Syrup is very successful taken in scorbutick Maladies from one spoonful to two in any scorbutick-scorbutick-waters Mint or penny-royal-Penny-royal-waters c. scorbutick-Scorbutick-Water of Scurvigrass Take the Bark of Capers Tamarisk Ash-Tree polypode-Polypode-roots of the Oak of each two ounces Water-cresses the Tops of Baum Agrimony Germander and Ground-pine of each two handfuls Fenel and Aniseeds Carduus-Benedictus of each one dram and half the Flowers of Broom St. John's-wort Centaury the Less Elder and wild Thyme of each a pugil let these be infused in Fumitory-water and Whey of each three pints Whitewine two quarts add Oxymel of Squils one pound then strain them by pressing out the Liquor very hard dissolve in it Troches of Capers six drams after distil it in an Ash-bath and take two ounces at a time for Pains in the Stomach Vapours arising to the Brain Breakin gs out Scurfiness of the Body Nodes or Knots in the Skin and for carrying off all gross and ill Humours by Sweat Stool or Urin. Scurvigrass-Bath Take Scurvigrass and Fumitory of each a handful Fenugreek-seeds three ounces and a half Flowers of Mellilot two handfuls and of Camomil one handful Mallow-roots Brooklime and Mugwort one handful and half the Seeds of Water-Bettony and Parsley of each three ounces and half Bay-leaves a handful boil these in two gallons of fair Water to the consumption of a quart This removes hard Swellings and Pains in the Joints allays the Pain occasioned by excessive heat restores shrink'd Nerves and Sinews and is good in easing Pains of the Gout being applied to the grieved Part. Scurvigrass its Essence Take Scurvigrass Fumitory Germander and Wormwood of each three handfuls of Orange-peel six drams digest them with Spirit of Scurvigrass and Elder of each so much as suffices to the Extraction of their Tincture and let them be strongly pressed out and put of the former Herbs and Powder into the straining and do this three or four times and when it is clarified by settling add of the Spirit of Fern and Scurvigrass of each three ounces and a half Spirit of Tartar nine drams mix them and take it from twelve to twenty drops in Ale Beer Wine or any other convenient Liquor This is good against Fits of the Mother Falling-sickness Oppressions of the Stomach Afflictions of the Matrix and cause Urin. Scurvigrass Physick-Wine Take Water-cresses and Wall-rue of each one handful wild Radish-roots and Roots of Polypody of each two drams black Hellebore-roots and Jalap of each one ounce the Leaves of choice Senna one ounce the inward or yellowest Rind of an Orange two ounces best Cinnamon one dram and a half crude-Tartar three drams These being cut and grofly bruised put them into a thin Bag sew them up lay them by in a stone Pot and pour upon it two quarts of Whitewine let it stand eleven Days draw it off and take three ounces or more according to the Strength of your Body This purges Choler and Melancholy cleanses the Stomach and eases Pains in the Bowels causes gentle Sweats and cleanses the Blood Scurvigrass-VVine Take the Juice of Scurvigrass Water-cresses Brooklime Sorrel all depurated of each a quarter of a pint Rhenish-wine two quarts Roots of Horse-radish Elecampane Flower-de-luce cut into thin slices of each an ounce and half two Nutmegs bruised put all into a stone Bottle stop it very close and keep it in a cold place for use Taking Morning and Night a quarter of a pint cures the Scurvy to a wonder and purifies the Blood Scurvigrass-Wine another Take of fresh Scurvigrass four handfuls beat it very small pour upon it two quarts of Rhenish Wine let it stand in a cool place three or four Days then strain it and let it settle and so draw it off from the dregs Drink of this half a quarter of a pint fasting and it will purifie the Blood help Digestion
Sore Throat Take a piece of greasie linnen Cloth so much as being double may make a Bag in the from of a Stay to reach from one side of the Throat to the other and contain as much Matter as may make it of the thickness of an inch or more then filling it with common Salt heat it thoroughly and apply it to the Part affected as warm as may be well endured and when it grows cold apply another like it well heated and so continue to do forty eight Hours if the Remedy be so long needed This makes the Kernels fallen down retire to their proper places and abates Swellings Speech lost This is not meant of those that are deaf from their Infancy and so consequently dumb but of such as through accident or hoarsness are deprived of their Speech To remedy this Take Ireos half an ounce Pennyroval Hysop and Licorice of each three drams Gum-Tragacanth and bitter Almonds Kernels of Pines Cinnamon and Pepper of each one dram and a half Figs Dates and Currans of each two ounces red Styrax three scruples and a half cut the Fruits small and powder the rest and to every ounce add three ounces of Sugar and make it into an Electuary with Honey or Syrup of Hyssop and take in the Morning fasting and at Night going to Bed a quarter of an ounce washing it down with warm Ale and so do for five or six Days and Nights and the Cure will be effected Speckles For these or Pimples th t are not angry or fiery Take the Blood of a Hare warm if you can get it and the Oil of Cinnamon and anoint the Face with it Specifick-Purge Take raw Antimony and Sal Amoniack powdered and mixed together of each six ounces sublime the combustible red Flowers according to Art and of them take four ounces of the best Nitre take eight ounces let them fulminate in subliming Pots and gather the Flower without wasting any of it dulcifie the Flower with hot Water till there be on more saltness remaining upon this Powder dried over a very gentle Fire pour rectified Spirit of Wine four Fingers breadth above the Matter put them all into an Alembick with a Receiver luted to it then distil them at first with a gentle Fire increase it by degrees that the substance may come to a driness expose the Powder being perfectly dried to the Fire for the space of an Hour and keep it for use in a close Box or Gally-pot This remarkable Preparation of Antimony is sudorisick powerfully provoking Sweat pens the Belly gently being taken at a distance from Meals from twenty to thirty grains in some Conserve in a Bolus or dissolved in some agreeable Cordial-water Speedwel The Male sort of this Herb is of excellent Virtue for opening Obstructions of the Lungs for the Colick and Spleen and is an Antidote against the Plague and is helpful in Wounds curing the Itch. We have it from good Hands That a large Dose of the Decoction of this Herb taken for some time expelled a Stone from the Kidney of a Woman that had been tormented with it for fifteen or sixteen Years Also a Woman that was accunted Barren seven Years conceived upon taking the Powder of it in the distilled Water for a considerable time The Syrup is of great use in the Disease of the Lungs and a Person who had a very dangerous Ulcer in his Leg found Ease and in a short time a Remedy by washing in the Water of it and applying wet Rags dipt in the said Water by taking away the Inflammation and all the Symptoms that accompanied it One who had a Fistula in the Breast and in vain had used divers Medicaments it 's said was cured with this Water by inwardly taking it Rags dipped in it and applied hot do make Scabs fall away in Children and then wash them over with Water of Fumitory and Whey But for all these Experiments the Reader may try them as occasion offers and be more amply satisfied The Virtues of this Herb are many Spirit-Antiscorbutick Take Elder and Juniper-berries and bruise them the Seed of Scurvigrass Carduus-Benedictus and Garden â—…ses of each two poundâ— put them all into a convenient Vessel and having mixed with them a pint of Ale-Yeast set them to ferment in a Stove or hot Place and when that is over distil them and preserve the Spirit Spirit Epileptick Take the Flowers of Lily of the Valley Lavender Sage Tillet Primroses and Rosemary of each two handfuls gather the Flowers in their season and macerate them altogether in six pints of the Spirit of Wine rectified then add to them Misleto of the Oak Roots of Valerian and Male-Peony of each four ounces being bruised and macerated eight Days in a pint of Malmsey Cinamon Cloves Mace and Nutmegs of each half an ounce mix them altogether and distil them in a glass Cucurbit covered with its Head in a Sand-bath and preserve the Spirit as a very excellent one It is very proper for the ease and cure of Epileptick Diseases It is to be given from two drams to half an ounce alone or mixed with cephalick Liquors It may be also put up the Nostrils applied to the Temples and other Parts for easing Pains and preventing the arising of Vapours to the Brain which occasion Fits and Disorders Spirit of Salt Take the finest white Salt and dry it over a Fire or else in the Sun so powder it finely to the quantity of two pound weight mix it well with six pound of Potters-earth finely powdered make them up into a Mass very hard with Rain-water as much as will conveniently do it from this Mass by dividing into Balls in the bigness of a Hazle-nut and let them dry in the Sun a considerable time and when they are dried put them into a large earthen Pot or a Glass that may be luted a third part of it being left empty place the Retort in a reverberatory Furnace and fit to it a large Receiver luting the Joints and give a moderate heat to warm it and so make an insipid Water drop forth and when white Clouds succeed those drops pour out that which is in the Receiver and having re-fitted it lute the Joines close and by degrees encreale the Fire to the last degree of all and so in this condition continue it twelve or fifteen Hours when all that time the Receiver will be hot and full of white Clouds but when it grows cold and they disappear then unlute the Junctures for the operation is at an end and then you will have the Spirit of Salt in the Receiver So pour it into a glass or earthen Bottle and stop it with Wax This singular Spirit has an aperitive quality and therefore is used in Juleps to an agreeable Acidity for such as are subject to the Stone or Gravel 't is also used to cleanse and whiten the Teeth also to fasten loose Teeth being â—empered with a little Water and to consume the rottenness of the
Stiptick-Water the New Way Take Colcothar or red Vitriol which remains in the Retort after the Spirit is drawn out Sugar-candy and Burnt-alom of each half a dram the Urin of a young Lad and Rose-water of each half an ounce Plantain-water two ounces mix them well together for a considerable time then pour the Mixture into a Viol and when you separate it do it by inclination for use This is so excellent for stopping Bleeding that a Bolster dipped in it and applied to an open Artery and held there a while it has stay'd the bleeding of it A Pledget thrust up the Nostrils do's the like for the bleeding there Taken inwardly it cures the Spitting of Blood and Bloody-flux c. The Dose taken inwardly is from half a dram to a dram and it may be given in the Water of Knot-grass Nettles or Wood-sorrel This Water is excellent for any one to carry about them and may upon any Accident happening save a Life that the Effusion of Blood if not speedily stopped may carry away with it Stomach Hot When you find any great Heat or Burning in your Stomach Take green Housleek bruise it and press out the Juice then over a gentle Fire make it into a Syrup with white Sugar This is likewise excellent good a quarter of an ounce taken at a time for the Heart burn Stomach Pain'd If the Stomach be afflicted with Pains occasioned by windiness or Causes proceeding from the defect of the Milt Take an ounce of Cinnamon Rapontici and Galangal as much put to them when bruised half a pound of Sugar and lay it when boiled up to a heighth on Plates make them into Lozenges Take one at a time and drink a glass of Wine after it and it will work gently so that in often taking your Thirst will be much abared Stomachical Tincture Take Agrimony two drams small Centaury-tops one dram Coriander-seeds bruised one scruple Sassafras Shavings and Bark one dram Gentian-root half a dram Zedoary-root ten grains put these to three quarters of a pint of boiling Spring-water cover it and let them steep twelve Hours then strain it and Bottle it up It exceedingly fortifies and refreshes the Stomach eases it of Pains and Gripings and prevents the Iliac-Passion Stone the Cause and Cure The Stone is ingendred of vicious and slimy Flegm in the Reins and Bladder where by heat it petrifies and takes to it self the hardness and nature of a Stone To dissolve and bring away this Take of the Tops of Borrage Fenel Parsly Endive and Succory Spearage and Beets of each a little handful shred them and boil them in three quarts of Rhenish-wine drink a quarter of a pint of it Morning and Evening and once a Week take a Clyster made of Mallows Groundsil Southernwood and Fetherfew boiled in fair Water and mixed with two ounces of brown Sugar especially if the Affliction be in the Reins Stone or Gravel Take thirty or forty Drops of Spirit of Castor in a Glass of Rhenish Wine every Morning fasting Stone and Gravel Take four gallons of running Water four pound of fine Sugar in powder eringo-Eringo-roots and Raisins of the Sun stoned of each one pound a branch of fresh Rosemary boil all these together till half be consumed then work it up with a little Yeast tun it and put the Peel of a fresh Lemon into it when it hath done working you may Bottle it if you please Of this drink Morning and Evening and whensoever you are adry Stone and Gravel another Take the White of a new-lay'd Egg and beat it well with a Spoon in a Porringer for a quarter of an hour then let it settle and take off the Scum mix the Clear with two spoonfuls of Whitewine and four spoonfuls of red Rose-water and put to it one ounce of Sugar-candy in Powder mix all well together and take it in the Morning fasting and another at Night going to Bed Continue this seven Days Stone and Gravel another Take of the Juice of Leeks Onions and Radishes of each two pound Juices of Lemons Pellitory and Mouse-ear of each half a pound Calx of Crystal and Pidgeon's-dung of each half a pound digest it for ten Days then distil it You may give it from one dram to half an ounce at a time in Rhenish Wine Stone and Gravel another Gather the Leaves of Golden-Rod when it is in its greatest Vigour dry them in the shade and when you are troubled with the Stone or Gravel take one ounce thereof made into subtil Powder in a small Glass of White-wine and Milk of each a like quantity repeat this as often as there is cause for it When the Herb is green you may boil a handful of it in Whitewine Posset-drink and drink it instead of the dried Herb which is to keep all the Year Stone and Gravel a Diet Forbear eating of Eggs all salt and tart Meats and Sauces Pork Milk or any thing made of Milk except Possets Cabbage Colworts Colliflowers and such-like let your Diet be Mutton Veal Rabbit and Fowl and the quantity moderate let your Drink be of the midling sort and not too stale Forbear drinking Claret drink Spanish Wine rather than French Strain The Strain or Sprain being newly contracted Take a handful of Wormwood and bruise it well in a stone Mortar then put to it the Whites of two Eggs beaten make a Poultis of it and lay it to the grieved place Strangury This is caused either from the Urin's being over sharp which provokes the expulsive Faculties to expel it before any quantity be gathered together or that the retentive Faculty to the Bladder is weakned through some distemperature especially of Cold or else through some Ulcer or Inflammation of the Bladder to which the Urin coming doth extimulate the expulsive Faculty or lastly when the Womb or Bowels being inflamed do trouble or distend the Bladder To remedy this Take Cassia one dram Manna two grains Violets Sorrel and Purslain of each a pugil Licorice Prunes and the Leaves of Mallows of each two ounces bruise and boil these in two quarts of Whey till a fourth part be consumed strain out the liquid part and sweeten it with Honey and drink a quarter of a pint as hot as may be fasting and an hour after take a quarter of an ounce of the Oil of Violets and half an ounce of the Oil of sweet Almonds mixed together Straitness of the Breasts This is frequently occasioned by evil Humours setling in the Breasts To remedy which Take Taxus-Barbatus Fennel and Licorice of each a little handful boil them in Water and Wine a like quantity and when they become tender strain the liquid part through a Linnen-cloath sweeten it with Sugar and take about a quarter of a pint of it pretty hot in a Morning fasting This likewise removes Hoarsness or Defects occasioned by Cold or tough Flegm Strengthning the Bowels Take Cloves or Chives not Bulbs of Garlick and swallow at convenient times one or two of
on again till it thickens to a Syrup This cleanses the Stomach and Spleen takes away the Obstructions of the Liver by taking a spoonful fasting often Syrup Epileptick Take Misleto of the Oak Roots of Peony the Shavings of a dead Man's Skull that dy'd a violent Death of each half an ounce Flowers of Lily of the Valley Rosemary Lavender Sage and Marigolds of each a little handful bruise the Misleto and Roots and put them together with the Shavings of the Skull and Flowers into a Matras and pour on them one pint of rectified Spirit of Wine and having well closed the Vessel let them macerate a Week together over a moderate Heat then with a gentle heat draw off half the Spirit of Wine and preserve it a-part The remainder being pressed reduced and filtered bring it into the consistence of a Syrup with eight ounces of the finest Sugar then aromatize it with two drops of distilled Cinnamon This Syrup is very highly commended for the Prevention and Cure of the Epilepsie It is to be taken alone and fasting from half an ounce to an ounce You may re-inforce the Dose with a dram of the Spirit drawn off and mix the Syrup with cephalick Waters or Decoctions Syrup of Rhubarb Take of the best Rhubarb and the Leaves of Senna of each two ounces and a half a handful of Violet-flowers Cinnamon one dram and a half Ginger half a dram the Water of Bettony Bugloss and Succory of each a pint and a half let these infuse over warm Ashes or Embers a Night the liquid part being well pressed out through a close Strainer and then boil it up with Sugar to a Syrup adding to it four ounces of the solutive Syrup of Roses This is a very curious and gentle Purge and may be safely given to Children and weak People upon any urgent occasion they being kept from taking Cold upon its reception The Dose is from one ounce to an ounce and a half It expels evil Humours fortifies the Stomach and causes a good Digestion kills Worms in Children and causes gentle breathing Sweats Syrup for Rheums Take Syrup Jubebs Syrup of Corn Poppy-flowers and dried Roses of each an ounce mix these together and take half a spoonful at a time Syder to Make and Order Take your Apples as you fancy the Syder most convenient to your Palate viz. either Red-streaks Pearmains Pippins Golden-Pippins c. when they are indifferent ripe so that upon shaking they will fall with tolerable Ease bruise or grind your Apples very small and then putting them into a Hair-Bag squeeze out the Juice in a Press by degrees and not over-hastily put up the Liquid part into a Cask seasoned by burning a Rag in it at the end of a Stick dipped in Brimstone when the Smoak is evaporated and the Vessel washed with a little warm Liquor that has run through the second straining or Husks of the Apples and to make it work kindly put in a little Flower and Honey made up in a Past and enclosed in a thin Rag so let it stand in a moderate warm place six or seven Days and then draw it off from the Lees or Settlings into another Cask so ordered or Bottle it up at your discretion But in Bottling take care to leave an inch space from the Cork lest it working or fermenting again it either force out the Cork on break the Bottles Or if such Danger appear by the singing of the Air thro' the porous Part of the Cork you may open them and give them vent or have a Quill run through the Cork which you may stop and open at pleasure with less danger and difficulty And so of the Cask in Winter keep it in a warm place for fear of chilling or freezing and in Summer in a cold Place lest it ferment and that tainting it it grow musty or thick You may likewise preserve it from these latter by putting a little lump of Loaf-Sugar for it to feed on Syder of Codlins This is usually made for present spending for it will not keep longer than Autumn though it is of an excellent Tast and very pleasant and sparkling to the Eye and so called Summer-Syder To do this Take your Codlins when they begin to be ripe and lay them in Hay or Straw three Days after they are gathered to sweat a little then cut them in quarters and take out the Coar and Kernels and bruise them as the former squeeze out the Liquid part and let it run into a Vessel beneath the Press through a very fine Hair or Tiffany-Sieve that may stop the Fragments that will come away with it Being drawn off warm it over a gentle Fire but suffer it not to boil scum off the part that bubbles up and sprinkle into it some fine powdered white Sugar-candy then put it up into a Cask and with a little of it heat about half a pint of Ale-Yeast and pour it in very warm and so let it work for Twenty four Hours then draw it off into another Cask or Bottles and leave either of them open ten or twelve Hours in a cool place till it is fit to stop up close and so ordering it it will be fit to drink in eight or ten Days and have a curious cooling tart flavour with it Syder another way Take such Apples as are suitable to your Palate pare them and cutting out the Core and Kernels slice them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water till a third part be consumed A Peck of sliced Apples to a Barrel of Water when first put in before the consumption is sufficient Then strain the Water from the boiled Apples and pour it on three Pecks of bruised Apples that are not boiled and so letting it after fourteen or fifteen Hours steeping run from them then press out what will not otherways come away by the swelling of the Apples and put it up for use Let it work sufficiently then stop it close and be careful to mind it also giving vent if there be occasion lest it force the Cask or Bottles and when it is fined it will be in Colour and Tast like Champaign Wine Syder another Way Take a peck of Apples and slice them and boil them in a Barrel of Water till the third part be wasted then cool your Water as you do for Wort when it is cooled you must pour the Water upon three measures of grownd Apples then drain out the Water at a Tap three or four times a day for three Days together then press out the Liquor and Tun it up when it hath done working then stop it up close Syder its Spirit This may be gained without distilling and the better way by setting a Hogshead of Syder to freeze in Winter and so the strength of it retiring to the middle which will be about twelve or fourteen gallons when the weaker part is over-power'd by the coldâ— let it out by broaching with a hot Iron It will prove stronger then Canary
every two times make a gargling with some Plantane and rose-Rose-water Throat-wort This Plant especially the Root is astringent and drying and therefore the Decoction is excellent at the beginning of Ulcers and Inflammations of the Mouth and Tonsils and for other Diseases that require astringent Remedies Thrush This is usually incident among Children and frequently proves very dangerous wherefore to Remedy it Take an Egg open the top of it and take out the White and Yolk and fill the Shell with the Juice of red Sage and set it on hot Embers till it simpers then skim it with a Knife's point whilst any Scum will rise and take as much Alom beaten as the bigness of a small Hazle-nut and half a spoonful of Honey which when the Juice begins to wast put in to fill it so let it boil a little and having cooled it rub the Party's Mouth with a little of it washing it afterward with the Juice of Sage Thyme here I mean the wild sort It is hot and dry and consequently forces the Courses and Urin. It is Cephalick Uterine and Stomachick and therefore good a-against Spitting of Blood Gripes and Convulsions c. Outwardly applied it eases the Pains of the Head and Giddiness and disposes to Sleep Thyme its Virtues These are very great as will appear to any one that does but observe That it provoketh Urine it doth heat and being taken in Drink doth purge the Internals and expectorates all nauseous and ill Humours of the Lungs by Spitting four drams of Thyme dried and reduced to Powder being taken fasting in a glass of Canary by often repeating eases the Pains of the Gout for it gently purges Choler and other sharp Humours It is good also for Diseases in the Bladder and a dram being taken in an ounce of Water and Honey is good for such as have their Bellies begin to swell for the Sciatica and Pains in the Reins Sides and Breast for Inflammations and Stitches about the fore-part of the Belly for Melancholy Persons and for those that are troubled in Mind and much given to Frights and Fears upon slight occasions if three drams be taken in an ounce of Honey and Vinegar well tempered together it is also profitable against the Inflammations of the Eyes and the vehement Pains thereof and much revives the Sight There is an Oil extracted from it of the colour of Gold which cometh forth with a Water when the Herb being fresh and green is distilled in a Bath of hot Water This Oil smells like a Citron and is very tart in tast its Virtues are to heat all cold Parts but by the way note That for what has been mentioned Black Thyme must not be chosen for it corrupteth the Temperature and engendreth Choler and therefore it must be that which bears a carnation Flower or that which beareth a white one Tickling This is caused by defluxions of Rheum and is often very troublesome To remove it Take Olibanum and Venice-Treacle of each a like quantity incorporate them well and make them up into little Pills and let the Party take a dram of them and if need require it a scruple or two once or twice a Day Tiffanies Faded To recover these Take the Water of Vervain a quart half a pint of the Water that distils from the Vine when it is cut in the Spring c. a handful of the Roots of Primroses and as many Rosemary-flowers to these put a quart of new Milk and boil them together with two ounces of Alom in Powder strain out the Decoction and steep your Tiffanies in it twenty four Hours and then washing them out they will not only look much whiter and be the more capable of a gloss In this manner you may do by Lace Muslins or Lawns if the substance of them be not too much decayed Tiffanies to Wash Take the best crown Soap and soap them on their Hems or Laces and with a gentle Hand pass them over three Lathers and afterwards rince them keeping them as much as may be likewise from the Air and dry them over the Flame of Brimstone then add a quarter of an ounce of Smalt to a pound of Starch and if it be convenient add the bigness of a Hazle-nut in Alom which you may dissolve boil it to a fineness and charge it lightly upon your Tiffanies and dry them being wet by a Fire still clapping them in your Hands and when they are clear shape them by a Pattern you design them for iron them with a smooth though quick Iron till they shine and you will find little difference as to the gloss between them and new Some instead of Starch use Gum-water but this I leave to your Discretion Tincture of Amber Reduce five or six ounces of yellow Amber into an impalpable Powder put it into a Bolt Head and on it pour Spirit of Wine the heighth of four Fingers and stop the Head with another to make a double Vessel and when you have exactly luted the Junctures with a Skin or wetted Bladder place it in Digestion in hot Sand and leave it five or six Days till the Spirit of Wine is sufficiently tinged with the Amber colour then decant the Tincture and put more Spirit of Wine to the Matter and so digest it as before then having separated the Impregnation mix it with the other and filter them and so put them into an Alembick and distil them with a soft Fire About half the Spirit of Wine which might before serve may do in this last Keep the Tincture which you find remaining at the bottom of the Alembick close stopt up You may take ten drops of this in some convenient Liquor for the Apoplexy Palsie or Epilepsie and it is much commended for the helping Women in most Distempers of the Head or Affliction of the Brain Tinctura Sacra Take of the Species of Hiera Picra one ounce Canary a pint infuse the former in the latter in some cool place the space of seven Days shaking it two or three times a Day and then let it stand till the Wine looks clear This wonderfully cleanses and strengthens the Stomach is good for the Jaundice-Dropsie ill Habit of Body and for opening Obstructions in the Liver and Spleen Three spoonfuls may be taken at a time or more or less according to the Age and Strength of the Party afflicted Tincture of Saffron Digest in eight ounces of Treacle-water two ounces of Saffron for the space of six Days then the Tincture being strained out keep it close stopped for use You may take of this half an ounce at a time in a glass of Wine or any other convenient Liquor This is wonderfully efficacious in chearing and comforting the Heart concocting the crude Humours of the Breast helps the Jaundice and is good against the Infection of the Plague and is of singular validity in driving out the Small-pox but in that case you must be wary in taking too much of it for fear of inflaming the
pieces of Swords or Gun-shot and is a very singular Drawing Plaister on all Occasions where the Humours are stubborn Tutsan This stays Bleeding the bruised Herb or Juyce applied stays spitting of Blood or hinders the blood from flowing inwardly the Juyce being drank with a little cinamon-Cinamon-water and the Spirit of Wine VAlerian Half a spoonful of the Powder of the Root of this Herb before the Stalk springs taken in Wine Waters or Milk once or twice helps those that are troubled with the Falling-sickness The Leaves bruised are usually applied with success to slight Wounds and have a power when decocted in any convenient Liquor to purge upwards and downwards and give if the Party be careful of himself fine gentle breathing Sweats Vdders Baked To do this the Italian way Boil the Udder of a Heiffer tender then let it stand till it cools cut it into small square pieces like Dice season them with Cloves Mace Ginger Cinnamon Salt Pistaches or the Kernels of Pine-Apples Dates and slices of Marrow then put them into the raised Past of a Pye not making it above an inch high like a Custard and of Custard-past prick it and dry it in an Oven and put in the Materials before mentioned and to them some Custard stuff made of Cream and Eggs Salt Rose-water and a little dissolved Musk bake and stick it with the slices of Dates candied Pistaches and scrape fine Sugar on it Vdder-Pye another way Lard a young Udder with great Lard season it with Nutmeg Cloves Pepper and Mace and when it is boiled tender and when it is cool wrap it in a Coller of Veal having seasoned it again with the Spices and a little Salt lay some slices of Veal in the bottom of the Coffin of your Pye and place the Udder on them the which cover with other slices of Veal and for seasoning put Lard and Butter and close it up and when it is sufficiently baked liquor it with clarified Butter if you design to use it cold but if hot put in White-wine Gravy and Butter well beaten up together Veal the Chine to Broil Cut the Chine in three or four pieces and lard them with small Lard season them with Salt and broil them laying under them some Sprigs of Rosemary Bay-leaves and Sage dust them over with a little Flower and being broiled serve them up with Gravy the Juice of Lemon nd beaten Butter as a commendable Dish Veal a Leg to Broil Cut it round the Leg in Slices or in rowls as thick as your Finger and lard or not lard them at your discretion broil them softly on the Embers beat up Butter Gravy the Juice of Oranges and the Yolk of Eggs for Sauce Veal to Boil Here I mean a Breast of Veal a Joint unusually boiled To do it Make a Pudding of grated Manchet minced Suet and minced Veal season it with Pepper Nutmeg and a little Salt three or four Eggs Cinnamon Currans Dates Raisins Cream Sugar and Pepper mingle them well together fill the skinny end of the Breast with them prick it up then put it in a Pan or between two Dishes and stew it with strong Broth Gravy Whitewine some Marrow sliced Dates and a few Blades of Mace run it over with Butter Grapes Lemon-slices and Barberries Or thus Joint it well and parboil it put it into a deep Dish or Stew-pan with some strong Broth and a bundle of sweet Herbs some Mace and slices of interlarded Bacon some Capers a few Cloves and half a dozen sprigs of Camphire the Yolks of Eggs and Whitewine slew these to a tenderness and serve them up on fine carved Sippets Veal Forced divers ways 1. Mince some Veal with Beef-suet shred sweet Herbs small then beat Cloves Mace and Pepper put in some Yolks of Eggs grate in Bolonia Sausages and old Cheese season it with Salt 2. Grated Cheese Calves-brains sweet Herbs and Spices Saffron Eggs Gooseberries and Grapes 3. Raw Eggs Marrow Butter sweet Herbs Lemon-peel shred small Ginger Cinnamon and Sugar And these may indifferently serve for Kid Lamb or Venison that is to be forced or stuffed Veal-Pye to Season Take an ounce of Cloves and Mace finely beaten a quarter of an ounce of Pepper and a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace half a pound of Currans and two ounces of Salt These are sufficient to season a Loin of Veal or any proportionable Joint fitting to be put into a Pye there must be added like wise two pound of Butter And this seasoning is very suitable for a quarter of Lamb if it be put in Past Vein to Stop In case a Vein be cut or broke to stay the excess of Bleeding Take Olibanum two ounces Aloes-Hepatick one ounce a little Wool of a Hare the White of an Egg mix these together and dipping a Liniment into it of Flax apply it cold to the Place suffering it to stick on a Day or two then if you see occasion take it off with Oil of Roses Veins Windy To expel offensive Windiness that afflicts the Veins Take the Powder of Licorice Carraway-seeds Sugar-candy beaten small of each an equal quantity to which put Rhubarb in powder a third part with a like quantity of Cream of Tartar in Powder Take as much as will lye on the point of a Knife three or four times a Day as it is or in a glass of Wine and so continue to do for about seven Days This gently purges very much cools the Blood and by expelling the Wind eases Pains and many Disorders that are occasion'd by it Venetian Wash Take the Whites of twelve Eggs when indifferently hard boiled and cut them very small Endive small shred six ounces Purslain-leaves a handful Juniper and Ivy-berries just gathered from the Tree of each a good handful Fern-roots four ounces the inner Bark of Elder and Barberry-tree of each two ounces bruise those well in a stone or wooden Mortar and infuse them in two quarts of Rose and Bettony-water each a like twenty four Hours then draw them off in a cold Still till the moisture be entirely extracted from the Herbs and bottle up the Water corking it close and when you use it put a little Flower of Almonds in it and shake it about This is highly commended as a great Beautifier in most Courts of Europe Venison to Broil Take half a Hanch of fat Venison cut it into slices half an inch thick salt and broil them on pretty quick Embers and when they are well soaked bread them and serve them with Gravy only And in this manner you may broil a Side of Venison or boil it first in fresh Water and Salt and then broil it and dridge it and serve it up with Gravy Vinegar and Pepper As for the Chine broil it raw bread it and serve it up with Gravy Venison Counterfeited Take a Buttock of Beef cut it down the long ways with the grain beat it well with a Rolling-pin and broil it on the Coals and when it is cold lard it
or two of the Juice of Sage Vomiting to Stay another Take bruised Cinnamon two ounces rectified Spirit of Wine a quart infuse them four Days in a large Vessel very close stopt shake it twice or thrice a Day and dissolve a-part half a pound of Sugar-candy in a quart of Rose-water and so mingle the Liquors together and put to them four grains of Musk and half a scruple of Ambergrease This mightily relieves the Stomach when oppressed with Cold or Flegm and consequently stays Vomiting It is also good to stay the Looseness ease the Pains of the Colick and other griping Pains Vrin White as Clay This denotes an ill Digestion a bad Stomach and a bad Liver and if in it there appears any shining Beams it denotes an Impostume in the Milt or if the Urin be white as Whey thick and little in quantity it betokeneth the Flux To Remedy this Take Grommol Saxifrage Parsley and Sage then boil them in stale Ale and drink the Liquid part Morning and Evening You may use them also in your Pottage shred in the nature of Pot-herbs Vrin to Stop If the Party cannot contain the Urin Take the Roots of Male-peony yellow Amber red Coral and choice Gum-arabick of each a sufficient quantity reduce them to a fine Powder mix them well and let the Patient take from ten to twenty grains twice a Day Or this viz. Take a spoonful at a time in any convenient Liquid Vrin Stopt Take the Roots of wild Garlick by some called Crow-Garlick wipe them clean but do not wash them bruise them very well in a stone or glass Mortar strain out the Juice and putting it into a glass of Whitewine drink it off upon an empty Stomach taking it once or twice a Day and you will find great Benefit thereby Vrin Stopt another Take Oil of Walnuts put it into a Frying-pan then put into it some Chervel picked well from the Stalks and apply it pretty warm poultis-wise to the Navel or if need be to the Os pubis or Share-bone For want of Walnut-oil you may do it with Hogs-lard Vrin Stopt another Dissolve a little of the best Spanish Soap in half a pint of Whitewine and pass it through a woolen Filter or Strainer put to it by infusion five or six grains of Saffron divide it into two Doses and take one two Hours after the other especially if the first does not operate well but if it does you may stay a longer time This by the way is taken for Urin that is not very obstinate Vrin Stopt another Take the Powder of a Stag's Pizle a dram Crabs-eyes calcined the like quantity the Juice of Garlick or strong Onions half an ounce Burdock-root finely sliced a quarter of an ounce Powder of Steel half a dram Bay-berries well bruised an ounce Harts-horn Shavings a quarter of an ounce and two drams of the Shavings of Ivory boil or infuse these over a gentle Fire in a pint of Rhenish Wine strain out the liquid part and let the Party drink half a pint as hot as Milk new taken from the Cow Morning and Evening or oftner if the Stoppage be great and it will remove in a little time the Obstruction and cause a free Passage of Urin c. Vsquebaugh To make this the right Irish way who were the first Inventors that we can hear of Take two gallons of rectified Spirit half a pound of Spanish Licorice a quarter of a pound of Raisins of the Sun three ounces of Dates sliced the Tops of Thyme and Baum of each a pugil the Tops or Flowers of Rosemary two ounces Cinnamon and Mace well bruised of each an ounce Anniseeds Coriander-seeds bruised likewise of each two ounces Citron or Lemon and Orange-peel finely scraped of each half an ounce let these infuse in a warm place forty eight hours with often shaking together and somewhat if it may be encreasing the heat then let them stand in a cool place for the space of a Week sweeten it with Sugar-candy and so draw off the Liquor and press out the Liquid part that remains in the Ingredients For a weaker sort put other Spirits to them and do as before This is not only pleasant to drink but moderately taken greatly preserves the Lungs against cold Distillations of Rheums and other Defects that afflict them and encline them to Consumption It lengthens the Breath cheers the Heart and keeps out ill Airs occaâ—…oned by Damps and Fogs c. Vteri Prolapsus Apply to the Navel a pretty large Cupping-glass but suffer it not to continue too long on a quarter of an Hour being the longest for fear of injury especially to the Navel String Vvula Falling Take Coriander-seeds and Rue in Powder boil them in Mint-water and sweetening it with a little Sugar often gargarize the Mouth and it will be remedied Vvula Relax'd Take bluish Pease or for want of them white ones chew them so long till you reduce them to the consistence of a Poultis and lay 'em warm on the Crown of the Head to the breadth and thickness of a Crown piece shifting it for fresh ones when you rise and go to Bed WAlnut-Water Take green Walnuts before they have any hard Shells in them two pound Rue and Carduus of each a handful Roman Wormwood and Baum of each half a handful bruise all these together and infuse them in a gallon of Mallaga draw off the Water in a cold Still and keep it close stopt for use An ounce of it at a time Morning and Evening expels Vapours keeps out infectious Airs restores Appetite and causes good Digestion creates a fresh and lively Countenance and removes Pains in the Stomach walnut-Walnut-Water another Take Walnuts with the green Husks on before they come to a hard Shell one pound and a half Roots of Radishes the like quantity green Asarabacca six ounces the Seeds of Radishes four ounces bruise and infuse them in three pints of Whitewine-Vinegar for three Days and then distil them in a leaden Still till all the moisture be exhausted Take an ounce or two of this Water fasting in a Morning and it fortifies against the Infections of evil Airs raw Damps or Fogs and purifies the Blood Walnuts to Preserve Take green Walnuts before they have contracted a hard Shell under them pierce them with a Needle and boil them in three or four Waters to take out the bitterness and when they are tender to twelve pints of the last Liquor put twelve pints of ordinary Sugar boil it up and clarifie it with Whites of Eggs then strain it and boil it to a Syrup and sticking some Cloves Mace and Cinnamon in the Nuts put them into the Syrup when cold These Preserved Walnuts are very Cordial Pectoral and Stomachical they strengthen it and cause a good Digestion and are excellent in Fluxes and Loosenesses also an Antidote against the Plague and all poisonous and pestilential Diseases Warts Take May-Butter melt it in a moderate Heat mix it well with