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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	half_n	ounce_n	pint_n	3,466	5	11.4571	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50263	A very useful manual, or, The young mans companion containing plain and easy directions for spelling, reading, and uniting English, with easy rules, for their attaining to writing, and arithmetick, and the Englishing of the Latin Bible without a tutor, likewise the plotting and measuring of land, globes, steeples, walls, barrels, timber, stone, boards, glass, &c. ... : and several other considerable and necessary matters, intended for the good of all, and for promoting love to one another : as by the table annexed particularly appears / collected by William Mather.	Mather, W. (William), fl. 1695.	1681 (1681)	Wing M1286; ESTC R36919	124,932	462

10 a stands for a part 14 20 a stands for a part 32 65 a stands for a part 11 23 6 a stands for a part 6 c three quarters 8 a stands for a part 10 c three quarters 14 c three quarters 21 b half 35 78 b half Ap. 30 A. 2 7 7 b half 9 11 b half 16 23 40 108 20 13 7 c three quarters 8 a stands for a part 10 12 c three quarters 17 b half 26 b half 48 196 9 23 8 c three quarters 9 a stands for a part 11 14 19 b half 30 a stands for a part 62 a stands for a part   Mch. 30 S. 2 10 10 b half 12 a stands for a part 15 c three quarters 22 a stands for a part 36 b half 92 a stands for a part   20 13 11 a stands for a part 12 14 18 26 46 182   10 23 13 13 c three quarters 16 21 31 a stands for a part 62 c three quarters     F. 28 O. 2 15 16 8 c three quarters 24 c three quarters 39 97 a stands for a part     18 13 17 b half 18 b half 22 29 c three quarters 51 110     8 23 20 b half 21 c three quarters 26 36 70 c three quarters       Ja. 29 N. 2 24 25 b half 31 46 110       19 13 28 29 c three quarters 37 59 208       9 21 32 34 b half 44 76 829       D. 30 D.   36 39 51 97         21 1 39 42 b half 56 b half 117         11 11 40 43 c three quarters 59 829         The Use of this Table Cut marks in a Staff for 10 parts and when the Sun shines set it upright on the Ground and measure the Shadow into parts and find them in the Table and the Figure above it at the top of the Table tells you the hour of the day Deafness THe most common cause of Deafness in the Ears comes of stop-age of Wax and Dust in the Ears that hardeneth against the Drum therefore pick them not but have them well washed with a Syringe with warm Beer and Water at going to bed which I have proved by helping above one hundred people I do believe It 's good to drop into the Ear a night or two before they are cleansed a little Oil of bitter Almonds or the Fat of a silver Eel so called if these do not cure try no further Urine The signs thereof 1. Red Urine signifieth heat of the Blood 2. White rawness and indigestion in the Stomach 3. Thick like puddle excessive labour or sickness 4. White or red gravel in the bottom threatens the Stone in the Reins 5. Black or green commonly death Scurvy The signs thereof Is through a Melancholy humour which makes the Gums swell and exulcerated loosening also the sinews and Teeth the mouth stinketh the Thighs and Legs are often full of blew spots like bruises the colour pale the feet are swollen as in a Dropsie and a pain in the soles of them and so will the fingers ends sometimes Dropsie The signs thereof There are three sorts through the coldness of the Liver 1. The watery Dropsie the Body is full of phlegmy blood or oak Water between the skin and the Flesh and the Body doth suck it up as a Spunge sucks up Water an ill colour of the face 2. Is wind and water lying between the Guts and the Stomach the Body waxes lean 3. If more wind than water it 's a Timpany A good Diet Drink for all that are inclining to the Scurvey or Dropsie or others to be taken in the Spring and Fall Take Fumitory green or dried red Dock Roots water Cresses and common Scurvy grass of each one handful Fennel Seed one Ounce and half a peck of Pippins sliced boil all these half an hour in 10 Gallons of Water strain it and add to the Water of Horseradish one handful sliced and bruised Liquorish one ounce Rasons in the Sun half a pound then boil them half an hour in the said water and put in half a pound of Munks Rubarb sliced Sea Scurvy grass half a Peck Sena two ounces and one pound of Sugar and boil it a little the said water being the wort of one peck and an half of Malt work it with yest as other drink and drink every morning about half a pint A Drink that hath cured wounds and Sores when many other Medicines could not Take Bugloss Self heal Yarrow Sanicle Ox Eye the three sorts of Plantane red Briar Leaves mix the juice with white wine and take five spoonfuls three times a day and only wash the Sore with it or get the vertue of the hearbs by boiling To provoke Urine Boil Twitch Grass Roots in skim'd Milk and drink the Milk in the morning For a stuffing Cold and Coughs Take Hysop Pennyroyal Fennel Parsley roots pithed Elecompany Liquorish a Fig some Rasons in the Sun Rue Rosemary boil all these in Hony take it often on the end of a Liquorish stick Convulsion and Mother-fits Take one quart of Spring water and half a handful of Savin and one handful of purple coloured Hartsease bruised steep them in the water two hours strain it and sweeten it with Hony take every morning half a pint for a man or Woman and every night take as much as will lie on a shilling of this powder that is single peony roots and the best poudered Sugar Pain in the Side Anoint it well with Melilot Ointment or Salve and lay on a Tobacco Leaf and at night take one of Matthew's Pills with the decoction of Field Thyme For a Cancer in a Womans Breast Take 4 ounces of Lapis Calaminaris being red hot quench it in one pint of White Wine quench it so three times then take two ounces of Lapis Tuty and quench it twice in red Rose water beat them small and put them both in a glass to the Wine when you use it shake the bottle always and wet double Cloaths therein twice or thrice in a day and apply to the Breast Fundament sore or pained Anoint it with Oil of Roses Take no Purge or Aloes except Manna Keep the Body not bound and eat much Bread and Butter If too loose eat Cinnamon and Sugar Strain not too much and when it bleeds it will be quickly well use not many things Stomach How to cleanse it from Choler without a Vomit and the party have a looseness by reason thereof Take Five spoonful of the Sirup of Rubarb dissolve it in a draught of new Whey drink it and two hours after dine with boiled meat and drink posset Ale instead of

Beer in winter dissolve the Sirup in posset Ale Terms provoked About the full moon take a draught of White wine wherein a small handful of stinking Arach hath been boiled and sweat upon it For the Stone Get into Bed and sweat and every quarter of an hour take one spoonful of the Sirup of Cammamile for an hour and an halfs time For Madness Hold the Party under Water a litle and often and after give them of the sneezing powder Sciatica Take white Wine and Vineger one quart house Snails one pint or more boil them together until half the Vinegar be wasted strain it then add of Neats foot Oil but Badger's grease is better one quarter of a pint and boil it a little and anoint the place often and wear a Flannel upon the place till well Whitloe before it break to put it back Wrap Sorrel in brown paper and rost it in Embers lay it on hot Sore Throat Take sometimes the Sirup of Orpin or the powder mixt with Hony Swelling sudden That it may not break Take Cammamile Smallage and Mallows boil them in milk and Water to a pultice add a little Hogs Lard lay it on warm twice in a day For the Blood Flux Take red Oak bark beaten small a quarter of a pound and of Cinnamon one ounce and a few Cloves mix them together and put about one ounce into a Pancake and fry it it 's best eaten with Oil. Forehead pained Boil Cammamile and Penyroyal in water till it 's tender lay it on at night Juices of any hearb How to preserve it all the year Gather them dry and before they flower stamp them in a wooden Mortar and take the Juice and on a gentle fire take off the skum you may keep it in a Glass by putting some sweet Oil on it or you may keep it another way by boiling the juice till it will be the thickness of Hony being cold Sirups How to make and keep them Sirups made of Flowers is made by the often steeping of Flowers in water covered by the Fire the water being boiled before by itself when it is strong enough of the Flowers strain it and to every pint add two pound of Sugar set it over the Fire but not boil it and scum it well and to make the Sirup of any hearbs you must boil out their vertue in water and let it run of itself through a woollen cloath with the weight in Sugar boil it to a Sirup Scum it often cover the Bottles only with paper both Sirups and distilled Waters A Sneezing Pouder good for the vertigo or madness Take Marjorane Sage and Rosemary in pouder of each half a Dragm Pellitory of Spain and white Hellebore of each one scruple Musk Grains 3. Rot in Sheep for 100 of them Take Grains and Coriander seed of each one ounce Long peper half an ounce Box leaves and Rue of each one handful Savin half a handful boil these in Ale and give to every Sheep three spoonfuls blood warm keep the Sheep fasting the night before and 3 hours after they be drenched if any of the Ews be with young leave out the Savin and put in Crumbs of Rye Bread as much as an Egg the best oil one pint put in when it 's from the fire stir it well when you use it give them Hey often The names of the Medicines that purges Choler Phlegm watry and Melancholy humours severally Choler purged gently by Wormwood Century Aloes Hops Mercury Mallows Peach leaves and Flowers Damask Roses blew violets Cassia fistula Citron Mirobalans Prunes Tamarinds Rubarb with red Dock roots Rhapontick Manna Purges Plegm gently by Hysop Hedge Hysop Bastard Saffron Broom flowers Elder flowers Myrobalans Bellerick Chebs and Emblicks the seed of Bastard Saffron and Broom Jallap and Mechoacan Purges watry humours gently are the Leaves Bark and Roots of Elder and Dwarf Elder or Walwort Elder flowers Broom flowers Agrick Jallap Mechoacan Orris or Flower-de-luce Roots Melancholy purged gently by Senna Fumitory Dodder Epithimum Indian Mirobalans Polipodium or Fearn of the Oak Whey Lapis Lazuli c. Choler purged violently by the seed of Spurge the Bark and Root of the same Scammony Elaterium Flegm and Water purged violently by Elaterium Euphorbium Spurge Opopanax Sarcocolla Briony roots Turbith Hermodactiles Colocynthis wild Cucumers Sowbread Mezereon Squils Melancholly by Hellebore white and black Take none of these violent purges alone without a right Composition among others to correct them Purging the manner and way thereof 1. If the humours be to be drawn from remote parts of the Body as the Head Arms Feet or the like let the Purges be made up in a hard form as Pills are for by that means it stays the longer in the Body and is in all reason therefore the better able to perform its Office 2. If the afflicting humour lie in the Bowels or near to those parts use liquid Medicines for they operate speediest and the Bowels are soon hurt by purging Medicines if the matter be tough and of long continuance it is impossible to carry it away all at once therefore take gentle Purges and take them often for strong Purges weaken Nature A good Purge Take Rubarb and Senna of each ʒi Jallap ℈ i Cream of Tartar and Anaseed of each 16 grains Ginger 10 Grains all in pouder let them steep in a draught of white Wine or water all night in the morning drink the Liquor and keep house and take posset drink as in other Purges it is very safe for many distempers taken as often as need shall require this quantity is enough for a man or Woman Observations Monthly for a Country-man January Breed Calves remove Bees 30. prune the Vine dung Pastures and prune Fruit-Trees February Dress Bees stools lay fresh Earth to the Roots of Fruit-Trees 14. sow Carrot seed 28 graft set quicksets sow Pease and Oats March Set Turneps Beans and Pease lay good Earth in Gardens scour Ditches sow Barly graft slip Gilly flowers and Garden seeds April Purge lop Ashes set Willows being cut and set in Water 6 weeks before kill Moulds May. 1. Set Kidney Beans and sow Purslane kill Caterpillars kill Weeds June Set Garden Beans again 30. clip the Vine branches and Leaves that the Grapes may be seen set Rosemary cut worm-eaten Bark from Fruit-Trees July Cut off suckers and needless buds from Fruit-Trees 20. mow Meadows 24. inoculate the Apricock drive Bees 1. August Sow Turnep seed all the last Month 16. take up Bees and leave the other but a little Door 10. sow Cabish seed September 20. Gather Carrots sow Wheat and Rye remove young Trees and Rose bushes purge October 1. Gather Apples and make Cyder take Earth from the Roots of Fruit-Trees cut Hedges November Cut Timber mose the Fruit-Trees buy Wheat and prune the Trees by cutting off whole Arms. December To keep Hares from Barking of young Trees anoint them with Hog's dung Soot and Blood 30. prune the Vines and nail it close

water to a little less than a pint strain it and sweeten the Liquor and drink it fasting and now and then drink Posset drink For Childrens sore Feet that the skin is off with Chilblains If the Feet itch much with Chills and is hot the best is to hold them to a Fire very hot a quarter of an hour at a time which allays the itching and keeps them from breaking but if they are broke and be as sore as can be one Plaister of Burgundy Pitch cureth if it do but stick and it is very safe lay it on in the morning A Balsom to cure Burnings and Scaldings Head-ach the Temples and Nostrils anointed biting of a mad Dog use nothing else in Wounds Stitches and Pains in the Sides being rubb'd in and apply a Tobacco Leaf for inward bruises or Ulcers in the Bladder or Kidneys taken like Pills night and morning c. It is made as followeth Take Venice Turpentine washed in Rose water one pound oil Olive three pound yellow Wax one pound then cut the wax and melt it on the Fire and put in the Turpentine Oil and six spoonfuls of Sack stir them till they begin to boil and take it off the Fire and when it is cold melt it again the Sack being from it and put to it one ounce of Natural Balsom price four or five shillings Oil of St. John's wort and red Sanders in fine pouder of each one ounce give it a boil and take it from the Fire and stir it till its cold almost Note that the hotter you make this Balsom when you apply it to wounds Burns Inflamations Ulcers or Fistula's the better it is Another Anoint with Linseed Oil ground with white Lead or Cerus which is also good for the chops and sores on Cows Teets or others Bleeding at the Nose c. Let the party sit upright and stuff into the Nose Rabbets wool which hath been rouled in fine Bole-armony and Dragons Blood and sprinkle cold water in his Face and a cloth wet in Vinegar to the Forehead Bleeding at the Nose in the beginning of a Disease is a bad sign Directions for Health 1. Keep from evil Company 2. Virtue lengthens Life Vice shortneth 3. Use moderate Labour of Body 4. Keep thy Feet dry except used to do it 5. In morning wash Face Ears Teeth and Hands 6. Drink not when sweating except Labour immediately follows or in Bed 7. For sudden pain or cold sweat in Bed 8. Keep constant hours for meat and Sleep 9. Anger and Worldly Cares avoid 10. Little Supper or drink at Evening 11. Use Gardening to labour in it 12. Let little wind come upwards 13. Tobacco prevents much Physick 14. Give Children for worms every Full Moon 15. Cut hair the Moon increasing 16. Cut Nails the Moon decreasing 17. Scrape the Teeth clean often 18. Sleep on the Right Side 19. The Feet sweating wholsom 20. Use no Venery when stomach full or Body dry or aged or big with or when sleep doth not immediately follow Signs of Complexion or Constitution Sanguine heat and moisture Overcome Cholerick heat and driness Overcome Phlegmatick cold moisture Overcome Melancholy cold driness Overcome If none of these four overcome then the Body is in health Philosopher's Stone so called something thereof Hermes Plato Aristotle and other Philosophers in former times flourishing the original Spring of Sciences and the Inventors of Liberal Arts so called earnestly approving the vertues of things under the Heavens did enquire with great desire if any thing was amongst the Creatures that might save Man's Body from all Corruption and preserve it alive for ever In which search in vain they wearied themselves by seeking that in the Creature which is only in the Creator calling it a Stone or Medicine extracted or to be by them created out of Elementary things that shall have power of itself to change melted Lead into fine Gold and also to cure all diseases in Man or Woman and having not found such a thing yet have found many Secrets of Alchymy as the Oils and Salts of Animals Vegetables and Minerals c. But their pretending to transmute or change the filing of Tin which they call Jupiter into Silver called Luna and part of Coper called Venus into Gold called by them Sol put in Lime 24 hours in a flame which only makes them the more malleable or harder though there is some Gold and Silver both in Tin and Lead of which some it 's to be feared makes course Silver of and having not found such a thing as I said before and being ashamed in themselves having spent so many years in toiling cost and study in seeking will not say they cannot or have not found it but have still led others in the dark to search by their writings as if they had known or did possess such a Stone or secret and that it would lose its vertue if they make it known to others For Saith Morien Who hath it that is this Stone possesseth all things and shall need the help of no body in any thing because in it is all temporal Felicity corporal Health and earthly prosperity And further the Philosophers saith that by this Stone or Spirit Moses made the Vessels of the Temple and the Tabernacle Noah built the Ark Esdras recovered the Law Abraham Isaac and Jacob obtained length of days and abundance of Riches c. This many do seek say they but few do find it for the defiled with vices or polluted are unworthy to know such things Therefore it is not shewn but to the devout because it is incomparable to all prices c. O how the Gentiles hearts have been darkned and become vain in their imaginations Rom. 1.21 as at this day to think to find that healing vertue in the Life or vertue of earthly things that 's only in God's Spirit Mal. 4.2 Jer. 30.17 For saith the Lord if thou wilt diligently hearken O Israel unto the voice of the Lord thy God c. Then will I put none of these diseases upon thee which I brought upon the Egyptians c. notwithstanding the Astrologers say that the Planets cause Diseases either by Sympathy or Antipathy as Mars causeth diseases in the head c. Venus deforms the Beauty of the Face by Antipathy to Mars c. Isa 3.24 Both Riches and Honour come of the Lord. 1 Chron. 29. Psal 103.3 For by Faith Noah being warned of God prepared the Ark by Faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come Heb. 11. Unto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure Tit. 1.15 So that it was by Faith in God that Noah Moses Isaac and Jacob and all other the Righteous walked but not by Philosophy or Astrology or any other created thing not like the Gentiles and Astrologers who are become vain in their Imaginations Rom. 1.21 and Observers of times for which Sin the Lord drove out the Canaanites out of