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	ounce_n	saffron_n	3,807	5	12.6334	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76774	A black almanack or Predictions and astronimonicall observations foreshewing what will happen to the king of Scots this present year, from the aspect and conjunction of the planets on the day and hour of his coronation the first of January 1651. Also some calculations concerning many bloudy fights between the English and Scots and the various success thereof. With a bloudy contention between the buff-coat, the long coat, and the black-coat, and the issne [sic] thereof. Licensed according to order.		1651 (1651)	Wing B3038A; Thomason E1301_4; ESTC R209011	83,609	225

of thy Head For the Rheume in the Head TAke and seeth Pimpernell in Wine and drink it in the Evening hot and in the morning cold this will help thee Or take and stew Onions in Water in a close pot and bath thy Head thy mouth and thy nose therewith and it will help thee For the weaknesse of the Brain TAke a handfull of Rosemary Sage Marjoram Hysop Betany the leaves and roots and the seeds and roots of Pyony wash all these said herbs and put them into a pottle of fair Water and let them seeth together untill the one half be wasted then take out the herbs and put to the said water almost half a pint of Honey clarified and let it boil well together with a dram of Stecados knit in a linnen cloth and let it boil till the sweetnesse of the Honey be boiled out then take out the Stecados and put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon three Nutmegs well bruised and put them to the same liquor and seeth them together a good while then strain it through a linnen cloth and so use to drink it morning and evening and it shall comfort thy Brain For hair that faileth on thy Head TAke and bray Lineseed and mingle it with oyl-Olive and when it is well beaten together anoint thy Head therewith three or four times and this will heal thee or take oyl of Tartar and warm it and then rub your Head with it or any place that is scald eight or nine dayes and the hair will come again An excellent medicine TAke a farthingworth of Pellitory of Spain and a quarter of Stavesacre seed and beat both together and then drink a draught of Malmsey and put a spoonfull of this powder into your mouth rolling it up and down till your mouth be hot and full of flegme and then spit it all out then take a stool and set before you and lay a cushion under your knees and set a bason under your mouth and gape as wide as you can and then the flegme will void from you out of all the members of your Head and if it come too fast hold over your Head to the bason and let it go use this once in a year and you shall be the better for it a long time A remedy for the Head TAke the juice of Ivy leaves mixt with Oyl and Vineger and rub therewith your temples and your nosthrills For lightnesse in the Head TAke small tents of linnen cloth and dip them in Cinamon water and put them into thy nosthrills and thou shalt be help't presently To purge the Head of evill humors TAke the root of Pellitory of Spain and chew a piece thereof on either side of thy mouth between thy Gumms and close thy mouth fast till the water cometh down then let the water go forth but hold the root still a quarter of an houre For pain in the Head TAke the juice of Ivy that groweth upon trees and oyl of Roses and mingle them together with Wine and anoint your Head therewith and this will make it leave aking Probatum For the Eyes FIrst if it do come of Rheume or corrupt blood purge Rheume and blood if it do come otherwise be let blood in a vein called Mediana and use locall waters as waters to mundifie the place and then use Salves sanative For a white that doth grow over the black of the Eye FIst purge the Rheum with Anacardine and Sternutations or Gargarices and then make a plaister made with the white of two Egs beat it well together and then put to it a little Honey and after that put to it Flax or Tow and to bedward lay it over the Eyes and let it lie all night and in the morning wash thine Eyes with cold water and a fine cloth do this three nights one after another and be whole For a bloodshotten Eye TAke the white of two new laid Egges and beat them to a watrish spome then put Tow unto it and three nights together lay it to thine Eye and bind it fast and renew it every night and wear a green cloth before thine Eye For a blast in the Eye MEddle not with it with medicines but wear before thine Eye a piece of black Sarsenet and eat neither Garlick nor Onions nor drink no Wines nor strong Ale and it will away A water to clear the sight TAke Fennell Vervain Roses Salendine and Rue of each two ounces and distill them and wash thine Eyes therewith for it is good for all manner of sore Eyes For blear Eyes TAke the juice of Wormwoood and mingle it with water made of the white of an Egg and put it into thine Eyes and it shall put the blood and aking away A water to clarifie the dimnesse of the sight TAke the juice of Fennell and Salendine Rue and Eyebright of each two ounces Honey an ounce and a half Aloes Tyme and Sarcocell of each half an ounce the caul of a Capon Chicken or Cock two drams Nutmegs Cloves and Saffron of each a dram Sugar Candy six drams put all into a limbeck of glasse and distill it and of this water put into your Eyes and if you could get the liver of a Hee-Goat and mix with the said things in the distillation that water will be of much greater vertue and almost without comparison Another for the same TAke the green Walnuts husks and all from the trees with a few Walnut leaves and distill thereof a water to drop into your eyes A singer powder that drieth and taketh away the rednesse of the Eyes TAke Tutty prepared an ounce Antimonie half an ounce Pearles two drams red Corall a dram and a half pound all these together very fine and keep them in a box of Tyn and use when thou hast need A Regiment for them that have sore Eyes TAke heed that you alwayes keep your body loose and abstain from fire smoke wind dust and over hot and cold aire and from weeping and long reading of small letters from over long watching over much drinking of Wine and eating late for all these are noysome to the Eyes also all vaporous things as Onions Leeks Garlick Mustard Pease and Beans are very dangerous forbear day sleep and behold green things clear and precious To clear the sight or for rednesse of the Eyes TAke Salt and Ginger and make it in fine powder and temper it with white Wine and let it so stand a day and a night then take off the thinnest ryne and wet your Eyes with a feather to bedward For a Pin and Web in the Eye IF there be a Pin and Web in the Eye or other blemish in the ball of the Eye take water of Pimpernell Vervain or Salendine To make a good water for sore Eyes TAke Fennell Rue Eufrace Vervam torn Mintill Betany red Roses Endive Sowthistles call'd Chicken meat Pimpernell red Salendine Filago the leaves of Piony the leaves of white Vine March Egremony Sinkfoil called Woodbine of each

seeth all these in a pint of white Wine strain it and drink thereof foure spoonfulls morning and evening warm 〈…〉 Medicines for the Side For Wind in the Side TAke the leaves of Holly and dry them and make powder thereof but do not burn them and give the Patient thereof to drink in Beer or Ale and it will ease immediatly Proved by my Lady Coplin For a Stich in the Side TAke the urine of him that is sick Wormwood and Cummin and seeth them well together and by the fire therewith anoint thy side and after with the oil of Bay Also Endive Water water of Divells-bit water of Mallows and water of Carduus benedictus are all good for the Stitch. For a Stich in the left Side TAke a quantity of Cummin and steep it in a pottle of Malmsey then take and fry them together in a Pan and put it into a linnen bag and lay it hot to your side and it will help you Another for the same TAke and stamp Wormwood Mints and Camomill Mallows red Roses Sage Cummin and white Bread Crums and boil all these in red Wine or in stale Ale and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the side This is proved To know when one hath a Stitch whether it be of the Wind or the Plurisie TAke Wormwood and lay it on a tile-stone before the fire and when it is neare hot sprinkle it with good Malmsey and put it in a linnen cloth and lay it to when you feel the Stitch if it be but a Wind it will take it away in two hours but if it be the Plurisie it will augment the pain and then seek other remedy For a Stitch at the Hart. TAke and distill Endive Water and when the fire is out of it drink thereof one ounce at a time for this will help all Stitches of the Heart if you will use it Medicines for the Pleurisie TAke Broom Flowers Scabias and Carduus Benedictus of every one a like portion mingle them together and let the Patient every morning and evening take a good draught and annoint the ribs with oyl of Broom Flowers for this is good Another singular remedy for the same TAke three ounces of the water of Lady-thistle called Carduus Benedictus one spoonfull of white Wine and fix inner whites of Eggs well braid mingle them together and lay them plaister-wise upon the ribs as hot as you may suffer it Another for the same TAke two good handfulls of Horse-dung two races of Ginger in powder then wrap the dung and the Ginger together in a linnen cloth then put them in a pot to boyle with a quart of white Wine untill the third part be consumed and drink thereof evening and morning and after you have drunk the said Wine cover you well and sweat A Regiment for the Pleurisie THe Patient ought not to drink wine nor eat flesh but must be content to drink Tysants Barley water and weak drink and to eat Barley hulked and milk of Almonds clarified rosted Apples and great Raisins as long as the Fever doth last And to help him to spit it is good to use often white pills of Diadragaganton Sugar Candy and other things mentioned in the Remedies of the Cough For the Pleuresie THe common practice is to let the Patient blood and to administer to him Tysants and to give the syrup of Violets in the which is dissolved Cassia newly drawn half an ounce of Manna elect 1.3 give this to the Patient after he is let blood this hath holpen many Also this is very good for the Pleurisie Take a hollow Apple and put therein a good quantity of Olybanum and put the Apple in the hot embers and so let it stand till it be rosted and then give it to the Patient this hath helpt many without letting blood A Pleurisie cometh of cold humors and if it be not far past give the Patient Malmsey wherin hath been sodden Camomil to drink this hath helpt many without letting blood Medicines for the Lungs An excellent Medicine for the Cough of the Lungs TAke the Lungs of a Fox and wash them clean in fair water and lay them in Vineger two daies and then hang them up to dry the shortest way is to dry them in an Oven and then take a few crops of Hysope Elecampana roots and a few crops of Hoarhound and a good quantity of Anniseeds and a good quantity of Licoras and one ounce of Sugar-Candy and bray all together and searse it and then you may chuse whether you will eat the Powder in apples in pottage or in meat To make a Water that is restorative for a man that if his Lungs be wasted will restore them again and gather Nature again TAke Fennell roots and Parsley roots and wash them clean and pill of the utter bark of the roots and the hard roots that is within them and cast it away and make them small then take a brazen pot and put therein three quarts of water and put the roots therein and seeth it over the fire then take Figs and mince them small and Licoras small and put them together and make them boil well then take Sorrell and stamp it and put it thereto and let it boil well and then take it down and strain it through a cloth into some Vessell of earth and stop it well and fast that the breath go not out and let the sick drink thereof hot evening and morning cold For the Cough of the Lungs TAke a handfull of Figs and seeth them in Ale or Beer untill they be somewhat tender then slit them asunder and put them in a linnen bag and so lay them on your Stomach warm and when they be cold warm them again in the same liquor To comfort the Lungs TAke and distill our Lady Thistle and drink the water thereof twice a day and it will comfort the Lungs Also the Water of Chervell doth the like To open the Lungs TAke Hysope VVater and drink thereof twice a day evening and morning at each time one ounce and a half or two ounces and it will help you For the Impostumation of the Lungs TAke and drink VVater of Camomill twice a day at each time an ounce and it will help thee Fennell water will do the like Approved For heat or drought in the Lungs DRink water of great Plantain twice a day and it will kill the heat of the Lungs Water of blue Violets doth the like Medicines for the Heart For trembling of the Heart without a Fever TAke the maw of an old Cock drie it and make powder thereof and drink the same powder in red Wine or sweet Wine for it is very good put a little Saffron thereto For the Heart that beateth or trembleth in mans body and cometh of thought BRay Corall in a mortar of brasse as small as you can then searse it and mingle it with Sugar very fine beaten use to take of this powder first in the morning and last