Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	dram_n	half_a	half_n	6,174	5	11.0138	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89219	Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.	Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.; Bennet, Christopher, 1617-1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing M2382; Thomason E835_16; ESTC R202888	187,851	309

owne work commend the same in his third beam or how Plutarch and Avicen extol it above all others in that it not onely bringeth any aire to a good temper but also cleanseth the same of unclean spirits openeth it when it is clowdy attenuateth it when it is too thick refineth it when it is full of dreggy mixtures and consequently dispelleth melancholy from the head fear and ill vapours from the heart procuring natural and quiet sleep and therefore not unworthily consecrated to the Gods Now as the Egyptians burnt rosin in the morning and their Kuphi towards noon so albeit the sun set when many heavy vapours lye in the aire the Ancients were not to burn mirrhe and juniper which disperse those heavy vapours leaving in the house a rectified aire quickning the senses and correcting those melancholick fumes that pervert judgement Wherefore the Egyptians call mirrhe Bal and Juniper Dolech the purifiers of the aire and curers of madness Whereat let no man wonder sith the very noise of bells guns and Trumpets breaketh the clouds and cleanseth the aire yea Musick it self cureth the brain of madness and the heart of melancholy as many learned and credible Authors have affirmed Much more then may it be tempered and altered to the good or hurt of our inward parts by smells and perfumes whereby not onely a meer aire as in Sounds is carried to the inward parts but also invisible seeds and substances qualified with variety of divers things For who knoweth not that the smell of Opium bringeth on sleep drowsiness and sinking of the spirits contrariwise the the smell of Wine and strong vinegar out of a narrow mouth'd glass awaketh the heaviest headied man if possibly he can be awaked Furthermore because stincking smells unless one by little and little be accustomed to them as our dungfarmers and kennel rakers are in London and as a wench did eat Napellus a most cruel poyson ordinarily as a meat are both noysom to the head and hurtful to the lungs heart and stomack in such sort that they which live in a stinking house are seldom healthy It shall be good where the cause cannot wholly be removed to correct the accident in this sort with sweet waters sweet perfumes sweet pomanders and smelling unto sweet fragrant things Isabella Cortesa that dainty Lady of Italy comb'd her hair and sprinkled her gown every morning with this sweet water following whereby the aire circumfluent was so perfumed that wheresoever she stood no stinch could be discerned Take of Orenge flower water water of Violets water of the musk-geranium and the musk rose water of red and damask roses of each a pint powder of excellent sweet orris two ownces powder of Storax Calamite Benjoine and Indian wood of roses of each half an ounce Civet a dram and a half Mingle all together and let them stand in Balneo three daies Then after the water is throughly cold filtre it out with a fine filtre and keep it to your use in a glass very close stopt Marinellus maketh another not much inferior unto this whereof this is the description Take a pottle of damask-rose-water Benjoin Storax calamite cloves and wood of Aloes of each a● ounce ambre-grice and civet of each a scruple boil them together in Balneo in a glass very well stopt for 24 hours space filtre it out when it is cold and having hang'd fifteen grains of musk in it tied in a close cloth set it five daies in the sun and keep it to your use These waters are costly but verily exceeding good nevertheless sith men of mean fortune are likewise to be preserved I appoint for them these perfumed cakes and for the poorer sort a less costly perfume Take of Benjoin six drams wood of aloes four drams storax calamite four drams sweet orris two drams musk a scruple white sugar candy three ounces beat them into fine powder and with red-rose water work them into a stiff paste whereon make a sort of little cakes no bigger nor thicker then a threepence dry them in a cold shadowy place and then put them up very close into a glass and take out one or two or as many as you please and burn them upon quick coles The poorer sort may make them fire-cloves far better then you shall find any at the Apothecaries after this Receit Take of good Olbanum halfe a pound Storax Calamite an ounce and a halfe Ladanum halfe an ounce coles of Iuniper wood 2 drams make all into fine powder and then with 2 drams of gum Tragacanth mingled with rose water and macerated three daies together and an ounce of Storax liquida form the paste like great cloves or sugar-loves or birds or in what form you list and dry them in an oven when the bread hath been drawn kindle one of these at the top and set it in any room and it will make it exceeding sweet But forasmuch as no aire is so dangerous as that which is infected with pestilent influences let us consider how and in what sort that of all other is to be corrected Hippocrates for ought we read of when his own Countrey and the City of Athens were grievously surprised of the Plague used no other remedies to cure or preserve the rest then by making of great fires in each street and in every house especially in the night time to purifie the aire whereby the Citizens or Athens being delivered from so dangerous an enemy erected to Hippocrates an Image of beaten Gold and honoured him alive as if he had been a God And verily as running water like a broome cleanseth the earth so fire like a Lion eateth up the pollutions of the aire no less then it consumeth the drossie mettals So that cleanliness and good fires cannot but either extinguish or lessen any infection whereunto if we also add the use of other outward correctors and perfumers of the aire no doubt it will be much if not wholly amended The Pestilence as I have noted to my grief in mine own house taketh some first with a great chilness and shaking others with a hot sweat and often fainting In some place it raineth most in Winter others it never annoyeth but in Summer The first sort are to correct the air about them with good fires and burning of Lignum Aloes Ebony Cinamon bark Sassaphras and Juniper which as Matthiolus recordeth in his Herbal retaineth his sent and substance a hundred years Burn also the pils of Oringes Citrons and Lemons and Myrrh and Rosen and the poorer sort may perfume their chambers with Baies Rosemary and Broom it self Make also a vaporous perfume in this sort Take of Mastick and Frankincense of each an ounce Citron pils Calamint roots Herb-grass dried and Cloves of each three drams make all into a gross powder and boil it gently in a perfuming pot with spike-spike-water and white wine The second sort I mean such as are sick of the Plague in Summer or are the first