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A66844	The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By Hannah Woolley.	Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, engraver.	1673 (1673)	Wing W3276A; ESTC R204109	139,140	297

you need not question a cure Against Kibed Heels a certain Remedy Make a hole in the top of a Turnip take out some of the pith and pour into the hole oyl of Roses then stop the hole close and roast it under hot Embers when it is soft apply it Plaisterwife to the Kibe as hot as can be endured What is best to be administred to one sick of the Measels In this distemper as in the small Pox it is only necessary to defend the Heart and preserve the Stomach from putrefaction and corruption if young to hinder the hands from murdring a good face and then give the diseased a Julip made of two ounces of Violets four ounces of Rose-water and four grains of Oyl of Vitriol mix them and let them be drunk cold It is as good a receipt as any for this distemper To cure the Fits of the Mother Some nay most use burnt Feathers or Assafoetida applyed to the Nose of the distemper'd person not without success but your better way is to take six or seven drops of the spirit of Castoreum in the beginning of the fit in two or three spoonfuls of Ale-posset and apply a Plaister of Gavanum to the Navel To take away the Heat of a Burn or Scald Roast Eggs as hard as a Stone then take out the yolks of them then fry the yolks of these Eggs in a Frying-pan till they turn to an Oyl then strain it and anoint the Burn or Scald therewith then lay on a Bladder anointed with Sallet-oyl and this will speedily asswage the pain and heal the Scald or Burn. For a Scald-head Take a Candle and let it drop upon it as hot as you can in so doing it will scale off then take the Stale of a Cow and the furring of Chamber-pots boil these together and wash the place and it will speedily cure it A very good receipt for one hurt with Gun-powder Take twelve heads of Housleek one handful of Groundsel one pint of Goose-dung as much Chicken-dung of the newest that can be gotten stamp the Herbs very small then put the dung into a Mortar temper them together with a pottle of Bores-grease stir them together half an hour then strain it through a Canvas-bag and so preserve it for your use it will keep two years and be not the worse A very safe Clister to be used by-either Man or Woman who is much bound or costive Take Mallows and Mercury unwasht of each two handfuls half an handful of Barley clean rubbed and washed and boil them in Spring-water from a pottle to a quart then strain out the Water and put it in a Skillet and put to it three spoonfuls of Sallet-oyl two spoonfuls of Honey and a little Salt then make it luke-warm and with your Pipe administer it How to cure old Sores on the Legs which have been of so long standing that the Bones have appeared Take a quantity of sweet Cream and as much Brimstone beaten into fine powder as will make it thick like Paste then take so much sweet Butter as will work it into the form of an Oyntment and herewith anoint the place grieved twice a day and in a short time the cure will be effected Probatum est An excellent way to dissolve the Stone Take a peck of Green-bean-cods without dew or rain and two good handfuls of Saxifrage lay the same into a Still one row of Saxifrage and another of the Green-bean-cods and so distill in this manner a quart of Water and then distill another quantity of Water from the Bean-cods alone and use to drink of these two Waters If the Patient be most troubled with the heat of the Reins then let him most frequently drink of the distilled Bean-water and upon coming down of the sharp gravel or stone let him drink the other A way not only to prevent but to cure the Tooth-ach or to make an aking-Tooth fall out of it self Every Month twice or thrice therein wash your Mouth with White-wine in which Spurge hath been boil'd and you shall never be troubled with the Tooth-ach If your Tooth be hollow and paineth you much take this Herb called Spurge and squeeze it and mingle Wheat-flower with the Milk which issueth thence with this make a Paste and fill the cavity of your Tooth therewith leaving it there a while changing it every two hours and the Tooth will drop out How to order a Woman with Child before in and after her Delivery To preserve the Infant and prevent Abortion take Coriander-seed prepared two drams of the roots of Bistort the shaving of Ivory and red Coral of each a dram of white Amber and Crystal of each a Scruple Alkermes half a Scruple Sugar dissolv'd in four Ounces of rose-Rose-water make tables each of them weighing a dram Let the Woman with Child take one of them every other day morning and evening between whiles let her sup a new-laid-Egg thickned a little with Magisterium of Pearl or red Coral But if her Breasts after their filling should begin to lessen or fall it is a sign of future Abortion to prevent which let her take root of Bistort and Corianders of each two drams of unripened Gales and red Sander and Hippocestidos of each one dram Guin-Labdanum and Mastick of each half an ounce choice Frankineense and Bdelium of each two drams of Coral Amber one dram of each powder those which are to be powder'd and with Oyl of Turpentine and Wax make two or three Cere-cloths apply them sometimes to her Loynes and Sides and sometimes under the Navel She must avoid all violent and sudden motions both of the Mind and Body as Coughs Sneezings Frights also Spices and Wine Thus much before Delivery In Labour if you will facilitate the Birth and give speedy ease take three or four drops of the distilled Oyl of Nutmegs in a spoonful of White-wine or take white Dictamn-root stones of Dates and Borax of each two Scruples Cinamon Cassia-Lignea Amber fine Pearl of each one Scruple Saffron half a Scruple make a small powder of these and divide them into two equal parts and let her take the one part in a draught of Lilly-water or Ale-posset made with Rhinish-wine and the other part let her take in like manner six hours after if need require If she be subject to swooning or fainting before or after Labour give her a spoonful of this excellent Cordial following An excellent Cordial for Women troubled with Swooning-fits in Travel Take borage-Borage-water rose-Rose-water strawberry-Strawberry-water and Rhinish-wine of each two Ounces Species of Diamargaricum frigidum one Scruple make a warm infusion for the space of an hour then strain it and add thereunto Manus Christi made with Pearl four Ounces Oriental Bezor Unicorns-horn and Ambergriece of each six Crains of these make a Cordial-Julip Great pains frequently follow Women newly brought to Bed for which there is nothing better than this plain receipt viz. Drink a good draught of Beer boil'd with a spoonful of

handful of Ivory Harts-horn and yellow Sanders of each one ounce Red dock-roots two ounces Parsley Fennel Asparagus-roots of each an ounce Raisins half a pound boil these very well in a gallon of Beer then stamp and strain them and put it into three gallons of new Beer to work together A Remedy for the Dropsie whether hot or cold Take of the tops of red Mint of Archangel or blind nettles and red Sage of either a small quantity stamp them together and strain the juice of them into some stale Ale so much as will serve to drink morning and evening do this for ten days together and God willing it will effect the Cure Another for the Dropsie which hath cured many a Person when they were left and forsaken by Physicians Take green Broom and burn it in some clean place that you may save the Ashes of it take ten or twelve spoonful of the same Ashes and boil them in a pint of White-wine till the virtue thereof be in the Wine then cool it and drain the Wine from the dregs and make three draughts of the Wine one fasting in the Morning the other at three in the Afternoon and the other when you go to Bed this seldom fails in its desired effect For the Web or Pin in the Eye Take the Gall of a Hare and clarified Honey of each a like quantity mingle them well together and anoint the Web with a feather dipped in the same and in three or four days it will be gone To cleanse the skin of the face and make it look heautiful and fair Take Rosemary and boil it in White-wine with the juice of Erigan put thereunto and wash your face therewith Mornings and Evenings If your Face be troubled with heat take Elder-flowers Plantane white Daisie-roots and Herb-Robert and put these into running-water and wash your Face therewith at night and in the Morning How to ripen and heal a Felon or Whitclof Take some white flower and boil it in Claret-wine to a Poultess then spread it very thick and apply it as hot as you can endure it this will asswage the throbbing pain of the Whitclof break and heal it How to cure the bloody Flux There are two sorts of Fluxes the one proceedeth from the evil quality or temperament of the Liver and is called in Latin Fluxus Hepaticus the other cometh from the great heat and distemperament of Nature and is called Dysenteria that is the distemper of the Guts some cure this distemper with repression and restrictives but many more hundreds are cured by Aromaticum Leonardi with three or four doses of his Syrupus solutivus You may try this way which I shall assure you is both safe and good Take Frogs and distill them as you do Herbs and Flowers or any thing else but put nothing to them but a little water take two or three spoonfuls of this distillation in any thing you drink and it will give you present ease A Cure for every sort of Gout The Gout whether hot or cold or whatever temperature ariseth from one and the same cause though the effects seem different As for example Fat-men have it with much inflamation redness and great pain in leaner Persons it is discovered with less inflamation though not with lesser pain it afflicteth Cholerick and Melancholick men with nodes and tumours The cause of this distemper cometh from an evil quality engendred in the Stomack Blood and Liver the cure thereof must be then the removal of this ill quality from the Stomack and the purgation of Blood and Liver Wherefore when you perceive the pain approaching take two Doses of Pillula Magistrales Leonardi in the morning fasting one day after another or if you will intermit a day then take drams of Quinta essentia solutiva Leonardi in half a Pottinger of Veal-broth sweetned with Sugar take this five hours before you eat any thing then every night after Supper take a little of the Unguentum Leonardi and anoint your grief and you will find your speedy recovery How to cure the Green-Sickness Laziness and love are the usual causes of these obstructions in young women and that which increaseth and continueth this distemper is their eating Oatmeal chalk nay fome have not forborn Cynders Lime and I know not what trash If you would prevent this slothful disease be sure you let not those under your command to want imployment that will hinder the growth of this distemper and cure a worser Malady of a love-sick breast for business will not give them time to think of such idle matters But if this Green-sickness hath already got footing in the body use this means to drive it away Take a Quart of Claret-wine one pound of Currans an handful of young Rosemary-tops with half an ounce of Mace seethe these to a pint and let the Patient drink thereof three spoonfuls at a time Morning and Evening and eat some of the Currans after An Universal Medicine of wonderful use both for Man and Woman Take ten ounces of the seeds of Quinces six ounces of the pills of Citrons Balm and Nettles of each four ounces beat all these grosly and infuse them in six quarts of good White-wine thus let it remain six days then distill it with six ounces of Honey and fifteen ounces of Sugar until you have received a quart of water then put it in a place to cool then add thereunto eight grains of Musk dissolved with about two ounces of rose-Rose-water put thereunto two scruples of oyl of Vitriol and incorporate them well together then keep this water in a Glass well closed to keep out the air and of this take one ounce in the Morning and fast thereon two hours This Experiment is a wonderful preserver of health and continuer of life to long age if constanly used which may appear by the excellency of the Ingredients for the Quince-seeds are admirable for the removing of ill humours which clog the Stomach and are very cordial the Pome-citron-pills preserve and help digestion the Balm purifieth the Blood healeth the Liver incourageth Concoction and comforteth the heart the Nettles provoke Urine mundifie the Reins and correct the malignity of the sinews as for the Wine you cannot be ignorant of its Virtues Musk purgeth the Blood of Windiness the oyl of Vitriol healeth all the excoriations of the Mouth Breast and Stomach and is excellent against malign humours that oppress it An admirable Remedy against the yellow Jaundies Take an handful of Red-nettle-tops Plantane and Saffron and boil them well in a pint of Ale then strain it and drink five or six days thereof and you will find it a present remedy let not the cheapness of its ingredients occasion this composition to be slighted Against the Itch. Take sweet Butter unwrought Wax Vinegar Brimstone a little Rose-water and red Cloves whole boil them together till they be like Salve then anoint the flesh three sundry nights by the fire therewith and no more and

it therein when the fit is coming let the diseased drink a good draught thereof and another in the midst thereof let this be done four several days both in the fit and when the fit is coming This I have been credibly inform'd was a receipt a woman had her livelihood from in curing several when all other means proved ineffectual For a sudden and violent bleeding at the nose Take an Egg-shell and burn it to a coal then pulverize or beat it to a fine powder and let the person snuff it up his Nostrils or take your two thumbs and press them hard against the Temples of the Bleeder and you would admire how speedily it will divert the course of the blood For those that are accustomed thus to bleed let them make an ordinary Posset taking off the curd let the juice of Liverwort beaten be added thereunto and so drink morning and evening To stop the Bleeding of a Wound Take Vervine dried and reduce it to powder or take the sole of an old stocking and burn it put the ashes of the one or powder of the other to the wound and it will leave bleeding An approved Medicine of London-Midwives to break and heal Womens sore breasts Take red Sage and Oatmeal the finest you can get and boil them together in Spring-water till you have boil'd them to a consistency that is as thick as to make a Plaister then add thereunto a fit proportion of Honey having boil'd a little while together take it off the fire and whilst it is boiling-hot make it indifferent thick with the best Venice-Turpentine then spread it on fine leather or linnen-cloth and laying it on the sore breast it will first break it and afterwards perfectly heal it An excellent way to dry up a Womans breast Of Linseed-Oyl and English Honey take of each a peny-worth of white-wax half a peny-worth and half a quarter of a pound of sweet butter boil all these together spread a Plaister thereof and lay it on the breast Probatum est An infallible receipt to increase milk in Womens breasts Take Chickens and make broth of them then add thereunto Fennel and Parsnip-roots then take the newest-made Butter you can procure and butter the roots therewith having so done let her eat heartily and her expectations therein will be speedily satisfied Against a Stinking-breath To prevent a Stinking-breath you ought to keep your teeth very clean by rubbing them every morning with water and salt which will also cure the scurvy you may if you please try Mr. Turners Dentifrices which are every where much cryed up But if your breath be tainted proceeding from some other cause take Rosemary-leaves with the blossoms if to be had and seeth them in White-wine with a little Myrrh and Cinamon and you will find the effect to answer your desires if you use it often For a Cancer in a Womans Breast Take Goos-dung and Cellydony stamp them well together and lay them Plaisterwise on the sore this shall cleanse the Cancer kill the Worm and heal the Sore For a Cancer in the Mouth take the juice of Plantane-Vinegar and Rose-water mingle together of each a like quantity and wash the mouth often with them For young Children who by reason of the weakness of their Limbs can neither stand nor go Take Marjoram and Sage of each a like quantity beat them very well together then strain out the juice and put it into a double Glass-Vial filling the Glass as full as it will hold stop it then with paste very close all over set it into an Oven and there let it stand the time of an Houshold-loafs baking taking it out let it stand till it be cold then breaking the paste round about it see if the juice be grown thick if so break the Glass and put what was therein contain'd into a Gally-pot and keep it When you use it take the quantity of two spoonfuls at a time and as much Marrow of an Oxleg melt them together and mingle them well and both morning and evening anoint therewith as warm as can be endur'd the tender parts of the Childs legs knees and thighs chafing them well with your hands and in a short time Deo volente the child will be able to go and stand this receipt hath been ever found successful An approved China-broth for a Consumption Take two Ounces of China-root sliced thin and let it be steept twenty-four hours in fair water let it stand warm all the time close covered in an Earthen Pipkin add thereunto a couple of Chickens or a Cockerel cleanly dressed to these put half an handful of Maiden-hair the like quantity of fine leav'd grass and Harts-tongue twenty sliced Dates three or four blades of Mace and the bottom of a Manchet let all these stew together till there be but a quart of liquor left then strain it and take all the flesh and bones and beat them in a Stone-Morter then strain out the juice into the aforesaid broth then sweeten it with two ounces of powder'd Sugar-candy Take hereof half a pint in the morning warm and sleep after it if you can you will not do amiss to add two drams of white and red Sanders to steep with your China-root A most excellent Jelly for the Consumption Take a new kill'd Cock scald him and wash him clean then take a Leg of Veal and take away all the fat from it and let them lie in water five or six hours then seethe them together in a gallon of Spring-water scum clean the fat off thus let it seethe over a soft fire till the liquor be half consumed then put in a pottle of White-wine and let it boil to a quart add hereunto the whites of new-laid Eggs clarifie it and let it run through a Jelly-bag then set it on the fire again and put into it an ounce of gross Cinamon and a pound of fine Sugar and let it run twice or thrice through a Jelly-bag again having made a Jelly hereof eat thereof cold An excellent Comforter of the Stomach and helper of Digestion Take two ounces of good old Conserve of Red-roses of chosen Mithridate two dramms mingle them together and when you are going to bed eat thereof the quantity of an Hasel-nut This will expel all flatulency or windiness off the Stomach drives away raw humours and venemous vapours helpeth Digestion drieth the Rheum and strengthneth the Sight and Memory A well-tried Medicine for the Corns on the Feet or Toes Pare your Corns well then take a black snail and bruise it and put a drop or two thereof on the place grieved adding thereto a little powder of Samphire this I can assure with constant use in a little time will take away the Corn. An excellent Diet-drink for the Spring to purge the Blood and cleanse it Of Scurvy-grass take half a peck Broodlime Water-cresses Acrimony Maiden-hair Liverwort Borrage Bugloss Betony Sage sweet Marjoram Sea-wormwood Tops of green-hops Fumitory of each a good

eight times then wringing out the last put in the juice of four ounces of Roses only and so make it up as before Syrrup of Coltsfoot Take the leaves of Coltsfoot and wash them very clean then wipe them with a clean cloth leaf by leaf then dry them well with a cloth then beat them in a Mortar and put them in a Strainer and wring all the juice you can out of them and put it into Glasses and let it stand in them to settle all night the next day pour out the clearest of the Juice from the Grounds into a clean Bason and take for every pint thereof a pound of Sugar finely beaten boil the Juice of Coltsfoot softly on a Charcoal fire and when you have well scum'd it put in the Sugar according to its proportion and so let them boil together keeping it with due scumming until it will stand on a stiff purl dropping it on a Plate then take it from the fire and pour it through a Jelly-bag into a fair Bason putting first a branch or two of Rosemary into the Bag 's bottom then keep it stirring with a spoon till it be luke-warm otherwise it will have a Cream upon it so letting it stand all night put it in what Vessels you think fit to keep it in for your future use and service Let these forms suffice to furnish you with the knowledg of making any other Syrrups you need no better a pattern than this for the making of a many others as to make Syrrup of Wormwood take the like quantity of Sugar with the Juice of the said Wormwood the Sugar being first clarified and so make it up according to art in the like manner you may make Syrrup of Betony Borage Bugloss Cardis Cammomel Succory Endive Strawberries Fumitory Groundear Purslain Sage Scabious Scordium Housleek with many more But enough of this and therefore I shall next treat of Distillation Of DISTILLATION LAdies before you come to the knowledg of distilling Waters you ought in the first place to be furnished with good Stills which Stills must either be of Tyne or sweet Earth wherein you may distill all manner of Waters either for the health of your own Family or others Now by the way observe you may easily make your waters look of what colour you please if you will first distill your Water in a Stillatory and then put it in a great Glass of strength and fill it full of those Flowers whose Colours you desire then stop it and set it in the Stillatory and let it distill and you shall have their perfect colour Of precious and excellent Waters there are thousands wherefore I shall only set down here some of the choicest and most valuable Dr. Stevens his famous Water Take a gallon of Gascoin-wine of Ginger Gallingal Cinamon-Grains Cloves Mace Nutmegs Anniseeds Carraway-seed Coriander-secd Fennel-seed and Sugar of every one a dram then take of Sack and Ale a quart of each of Camomile Sage Mint Red-roses Tyme Pellitory of the Wall wild Marjoram wild Tyme Lavender Penneroyal Fennel-roots Parsley-roots and Setwall-roots of each half a handful then beat the Spice small and bruise the Herbs and put them all together into the Wine and so let it stand sixteen hours stirring it now and then then distill it in a Limbeck with a soft fire the first pint of the Water by it self for it is the best The principal use of this water is against all cold Diseases it preserveth Youth comforteth the Stomack cureth the Stone of what nature soever using but two spoonfuls in seven days It preserved Dr. Stevens ten years Bed-rid that he lived to ninety eight years Aqua Mirabilis Take three pints of White-wine of Aqua-vitae and Juice of Saladine of each a pint one dram of Cardamer and one dram of Mellilot-flowers Cubebs a dram of Gallingale Nutmegs Cloves Mace and Ginger of each a dram mingle all these together over night the next morning set them a Stilling in a Glass-Limbeck This admirable Water dissolveth the swelling of the Lungs and restoreth them when perished it suffereth not the Blood to putrifie neither need he or she to breathe a Vein that useth this Water often it cureth the Heart-burn and purgeth Melancholy and Flegm it expelleth Urine it preserveth a good Colour in the Face and is an utter enemy to the Palsey take three spoonsfuls of it at a time morning and evening twice a week A most approved Water for the Eyes Take a new-laid Egg and roast it hard then cut the shell in the midst and take out the yolk and put some white Copporis where the yolk was then bind the Egg together again and let it lye till it begin to be a Water then take the white forth from both sides of the Egg and put the same into a Glass of fair running-water and so let it stand a while then strain it through a fair Linnen-cloth and keep it close stopped in a Glass and therewith wash your Eyes morning and evening An admirable Water against the Stone in the Kidneys Take of the middle-rind of the Root of Ash bruised two pound Juniper-berries bruised three pound Venice-Turpentine of the best two pound and an half put these into twelve pints of Spring-water in a Glass-vessel well closed and there let them purifie in Hors-dung three Months then distill them in Ashes and there will come forth an Oyl and a Water seperate the one from the other ten or twelve drops being taken of this Oyl every morning in four or six spoonfuls of the said Water dissolves the Stone and Gravel in the Kidneys most wonderfully An excellent Water for the Worms Take of Worm-seeds bruised eight ounces the shaving of Harts-horn two ounces of Peach-flowers dri'd an ounce of Aloes bruised half an ounce pour on these the Waters of Tansie Rue Peach-flowers and of Wormwood of each a pint and half let them be digested in a Glass-vessel three days then distill them cohobate this Water three times This Water may be given from half an ounce to three ounces according to the age and strength of the person A small quantity for young Children will work the desired effect it infallibly kills Stomack-worms Maw-worms or any other inwardly infesting the Body An excellent artificial Wine like Claret but much better and by many degrees brisker Take two gallons of your best Sider some esteem Worcester-shire Red-streak the best and mingle it with six gallons of Water put thereunto eight pound of the best Malaga Raisins bruised in a Mortar let them stand close covered in a warm place for the space of a fortnight stirring them every two days well together then press out the Raisins and put the liquor into the same Vessel again to which add a quart of the juice of Raspberries and a pint of the juice of black Cherries cover this liquor with bread spread thick with Mustard the Mustard-side being downward and so let it work by the fire-side three or four days then turn it