in a Glass for use It is very good for the purpose aforesaid the Ground Ivy is Alehoof Another for the same and to strengthen the Sight Take Rose and plantine-Plantine-water of each two ounces Aloes Epatica half a dram white Copperas two drams white Sugarcandy one dram boyl them with a soft fire being cold put it in a Glass for use drop thereof into the Eyes Another for the same Take Plantine two handfuls Housleek one handful stamp and strain them and let the Juice settle then powr off the clear and add half as much rose-Rose-water the fourth part of a spoonful of powder of white Sugarcandy and quench in it Lapis Caluminaris the bigness of a Wall-nut Drop four drops of this water into the Eyes Morning and Evening lying upon your back For a Pearl in the Eye Take Hemlock stamp it in a stone-Mortar then put little Honey to it and work them well together If the Pearl be in the right Eye apply a Plaster of it to the left Wrist if in the left Eye to the right Wrist let it continue there three or four days Another for the same Take the Marrow that is in a Goose-wing mingle with it Ear-wax and work them well together and anoint the Eye with it and it will kill the Pearl For a prick with a Bush stripe or blow in the ball of the Eye Take the white of a new-laid Egg beat it and then mix it with Honey set it over a soft fire and keep it stirring that it may not curdle then spread it on a little Flax and lay it on the Eye changing it every Morning and Evening and by the blessing of God it will help it Another for a stroke or blow in the Eye Take Juice of Smallage Juice of Fennel and the white of a new-laid Egg beat them well together and apply it to the sore Eye Another for a stroke in the Eye Stamp Wormwood with the white of an Egg and lay it warm three days together to the Eye or Eyes then wash the Eye with Plantine-water and Honey A precious Water for the Eyes Take Smallage Fennel Plantine Egrimony Bittony Eyebright Scabious Rice Pimpernel and Sage shred them all small and steep them in the Urine of a male-Child with a little Frankinsens then distill them Bath the Eyes with this water CHAP. IX Mr. Lochers an able Apothicarry of London his excellene Oyl for Deafness approved by himself and given to Sir K. Digby TAke Oyl of bitter Almonds and Oyl of Spicknard of each six drams black Hellebore half a scruple Coloquintida half a dâ—â— Oyl of Exceter two drams Juice of Onyons Juice of Rue of each two drams boyl these gently till the Juices be consumed then strain it and add two drops of Oyl of Aniseed and one of Oyl of Oryganum Powr a drop or two of this Oyl into the Ear and lye upon your Bed with that Ear upwards that you intend to drop into lye still for a quarter of an hour after then drop into the other if it require It is to be continued a Moneth or two or three as you find benefit when you have dropt into the Ear you must stop it with a little black wool dipped in the Oyl This has curcd many of thick hearing and noise in the Ears come by cold or sickness Another Remedy much approved for the same Take a large Eel flaw it and cut it into three pieces then stick them with Rosemary and Sage and bake them in a pan in the Oven laying them upon two sticks in the pan to keep them from falling into the liquor in the bottom then strain the liquor and scum off the Oyl or Fat whereof take four spoonfuls and as much spirit of Wine mix them together take of this mixture two spoonfuls of Juice of Onyons and Juice of the white ends of Leeks of each one spoonful put all into a Phiol and stop it close and shake it well for an hour to make them well incorporate together powr two or three drops of this into the Ear and in all things observe the directions as in the former This was given me by a worthy Gentleman at Paris who assured me he had cured the Governour of Callais his Sectreary with it who had been deaf near twenty years his deafness comming by a sickness Another Excellent Remedy for the same Take an hundred of the large Ants Eggs black Hellebore Radishes sowr bread sweet Almonds white Amber of each one ounce Pulp of Coloquintida Castor Leaves of sweet Marjoram Wormwood Savin Rue of each two drams bruise and mix and infuse them in two quarts of spirit of Wine rectified digest them twenty days then distil it in Balneo Mariae then put into the distilled spirit an hundred live Munky-pease bruised digest again for twenty four hours then filter and keep it for use Put a few drops of this Spirit into the Ear Morning and Evening stopping the Ear with black Wool immediately and it will take away the difficulty of hearing and deafness as also all kind of noise continue it till you are cured Another Remedy for Deafness Take of the Juice of Bittony mingle it with a Womans Milk that gives suck to a Boy dip black wool therein and put it into the Ear use it eleven days together or more if in that time you find any benefit by it then take Milk boyl it with Oatmeal and Juice of Bittony and lay it poultiswise over the Ears Night and day and continue it for some time Another Remedy against Deafness that cometh of Cold. Take a ranged Loaf of Bread of a mean scantling well leavened and baked cut it asunder in the middle and lay both the parts very hot to both the Ears first laying a linnen Cloth doubled next to the Skin as thin as the Patient can endure the heat bind them on fast with a Cloth fastned on the head and let it continue as long as the Patient feels any warmth and then he may take another if the Cold be great you must use it for two or three Mornings together take heed of taking Cold when you leave them Dr. Clodius his Remedy against Deafness Drop into the Ear one drop no more of Oil or Quintessence of Rosemary which will not burn or pain them and after it is soaked in by lying with that Ear up stop the Ear with black wool dipped in the Spirit of Rosemary Repeat the Drop after a day still as you find need This will cure a Deafness caused by Cold and Humors clogging and benumming the Ears and causing sometimes pain in them Another for the same Take red Mint or Horse-mint mortifie and squeeze it in the hand till it renders Juice then take it with its Juice and put it in the Ear change it often this will help the Deafness if the person hath heard before Another for the same Take Rue Rosemary Sage Vervain Marjoram of each a handful of Camomil two handful stamp them to mash and mould
Mouth with the Water and rub it with the Herbs three or four times a day or oftner if need be Another for the same Take Honisuckles Plantane and Sage of each a handful Daizy Leaves an ounce boil them in a quart of Water till they come to a pint then put to it Vinegar and Honey of each one spoonful and a little Allom and white Salt Another Approved Medicine for a Canker in the Mouth Take a Pint of Wine-Vinegar the red is best Herb of Grace Red Mints Red Sage and Rosemary of each a sufficient quantity shred them small and boil them together in the Vinegar then put into it a spoonful of Honey the bigness of a Walnut of Allom and half a spoonful of white Salt Wash the Mouth well therewith It is a present and infallible Remedy which hath Cured many An Excellent Gargle for Inflammations of the Mouth Jaws and Throat desperate Squinsies and other Diseases of the Mouth Take poppy-Poppy-water Plantane water of each an ounce clarified Juice of Self-heal two ounces Diamoron six drams Saltpetre four drams mix them together and gargarize with it often Another for the same Take Album Grecum two drams Liquoras scraped one ounce Roch Allom one dram boil them a little in Rose and Poppy water and Self-heal water of each a sufficient quantity then strain it Take of this Decoction one pint Rhenish or White Wine a quarter of a pint Diamoron and Dianucum of each half an ounce mix them together and make a Gargle and use it often in a day Dr. Scroderus his Water against the Distempers and Inflammations of the Throat and Palat Take Leaves of wild Pear-tree Parsley Sanicle Woodbine Water-Germander Cinquefoil round Birthwort of each two handful Thorough-wax four handful Stale Ale six quarts bruise the Herbs and put all into a Vessel close stopped and let them ferment for three weeks then add three ounces of Album Graecum and distil them It is excellent against all Inflammations of the Throat and Palat and Soreness of the Mouth Drink two or three spoonfuls of it in the Morning in the Afternoon and at Night likewise gargle often with it or dip a linnen Rag into it and wrap it about the Throat An Excellent Water to cure the Squinsie sore Throats Cankers in the Mouth Heat and Inflammations Bleeding of the Gums and to fasten and whiten the Teeth Take Waters of Self-heal poppy-Poppy-water of each four ounces Diamoron Syrup of dried Roses of each an ounce Spirit of Sulphur half a dram mix them together and gargle your Mouth with it An Anodine Gargle for the Tooth-ach Take Roots of Pelitory of Spain two drams Ginger Olibanum of each half an ounce Red Sage Henbane Seeds bruised of each one dram Long Pepper Opium of each a scruple boil these in a pint of Vinegar then strain it and gargarize with it It gives present ease in all Pains of the Teeth Another Excellent Gargle against the Squinsie sore Throat Tumors and Pain of the Mouth and Jaws Take Milk hot from the Cow Album Graecum half an ounce Honey of Roses two spoonfuls Verdigreece half a dram boil them a little then strain it out and gargarize with it often It cleanses and heals Vlcers An Approved Remedy for the Tooth-Ach Take a little Cotton and imbibe it with Lucatellus 's Balsom and so put it into the hollow Tooth This cured a Person that had the Toath-Ach in great Extremity and had tried many Medicines in vain after a little while he had used this Medicine the Pain ceased but came again within a week after Then he applied the same Remedy a second time and the Pain soon ceased and never came again though before he was very often subject to this Pain An Excellent Water for the Scurvey in the Mouth and to fasten loose Teeth to preserve and strengthen the Teeth and Gums c. often approved Take Allom one dram Bolearmonick two drams Myrrh half a dram pulverize them and put them into a pint of Claret and when you use it shake it well and take a spoonful of it in your Mouth and rub the Teeth and Gums with it you may warm it Another for the same The Oyl of Myrrh is a most excellent thing to preserve the Teeth and Gums and to fasten loose Teeth Make it thus Take fine chosen Myrrh in subtil Powder put it in the Whites of hard Eggs which set in a Cellar in a Bason putting some Sand in the bottom of the Bason to set the Whites of Eggs in that they may stand upright and the Myrrh will all dissolve into an Oyl which is very excellent mix this Oyl with some Oyl of Sage made by distillation and put them into Canary wine wherein dissolve a little Salt Wash your Teeth and Gums with this Another Remedy for the Tooth-Ach Take Mastick and chew it in your Mouth till it be as soft as wax then put it into the hollow Tooth and let it remain till it is consumed and it will certainly take away the Pain thereof Sir Kenelm Digby 's Sympathetical Powder hath cured many Persons of the Tooth-Ach the Preparation whereof with its Vse and Virtues will be set down in another Chapter below Dr. Mynsight his Excellent Remedy for the Tooth-Ach Take the Shaving of Lignum Vitae which you may have at the Turners Shavings of Sassafras Sarsaparilla of each an ounce Roots of Pelitory of Spain Raw Allom Nitre of each half an ounce Seeds of Staves-acre and of Henbane of each two drams Opium Cloves Mother of Thyme Organy Saffron of each a dram reduce to powder what is to be powdered and then mix them well together and put them into a Bottle or Matress and powr upon them good Nantz Brandy and Vinegar of each one pint and half keep it in a warm place or set it in warm water for some days shaking it often let the Bottle be stopped very close with a Cork and tied with a Bladder Take a little of this Liquor in your Mouth and hold it on that side the Teeth ake and the Pain will cease immediately also given inwardly and used outwardly it is one of the greatest Anodines in the world eases Pain and causes Rest Dose is half a spoonful in a little Wine To Cure the Tooth-Ach by the Lady Jennings Take white Hellebore infuse it in white Wine Vinegar over a Chasing-dish of Coals then take half a spoonful of it and hold and gargle it in that side of your Mouth where the Pain is and it will give you present Ease Proved by Mr. Bearson Another against the Tooth-Ach and Rheum in the Teeth and Jaws Take a quart of old Crab-Verjuice put it into an earthen Pipkin put thereto Roch-Allom the quantity of a Walnut a few Cloves bruised Rosemary and Thyme of each one Branch boil all together to a Pint when it is cold put it into a Bottle and take a spoonful of it warm in your Mouth and gargle with it on that side the
quarts of Damask-Rose-water fit on the Head and lute it well and let it stand to digest eight days then distill it so long till you have seaven pints of water In this Water put Lignum Câ—ssia well bruised two ounces Safron half a dram Juice of Alkerms let it stand to digest for some days then strain it and sweeten it with fine Sugar or white Sugarcandy It is a most excellent Cordial and very odoriferous It exhilerates and comforts the Heart revives the Spirits comforts the Brain and Stomach augments natural heat causes a good digestion expels wind and is a most incomparable Remedy against the Chollick and griping of the Guts it takes awâ—y Colds and opens Obstructions of the Lungs Liver and Spleen preserves Health and as the Author says keeps back grey hair and prolongs life Those that love Amber and Musk may put into the distilled Water with the other Ingredients Ambergreece and Musk of each half a scruple ground together in a little Mortar with a little Sugar and then tyed up in a little Sarsenet or you may perfume it at any time as you use it with a drop or two of the Tincture of Amber set down in the Chap. of Perfumes The Dose is one spoonful or two Cordials to be taken after Phisick to comfort and settle the Stomach and to cause Rest and Sleep Take of Alkermess one dram and half Syrup of Cowslips a good spoonful Dragon and red poppy-Poppy-water of each one ounce mix them and take it when you go to Bed Or take of the Conserve of Clove Gilly-flowers two drams Diascordium one dram Syrup of Cowslips one spoonful mix them with strawberry-Strawberry-water Lettice Carduus or rose-Rose-water and take it Bedward Or take Conserves of Roses and Methridate of each the quantity of a Hasle-nut mix them with some Cordial Waters and Syrup Another Excellent Cordial to cause Rest and Sleep in a Fever or when one is oppressed with pain as also in a Surfeit or after Phisick Take Confection of Alkerms one dram and an half Diascordium one dram Syrup of Clove Gilly-flowers a good spoonful mix them very well with two ounces of Dragon-water or red Poppy-water or Carduus-water as the Disease requires It is an excellent Cordial Dr. Farrar his great strengthening and restoring Cordial Electuary and Drink Take Conserves of Rosemary-flowers Conserve of Borage-flowers Conserve of Clove Gilly flowers of each half an ounce Electuary of Diasatirrion one ounce Candid Ringo-Roots six drams Venice-Treacle two drams Nettle-seeds and Seeds of Rocket of each half a dram Species Diomoschi duleis two scruples Syrup of Stoechado's so much as will suffice to make it up into an Electuary Take the quantity of a Nutmeg of this Morning and Night or when you will and drink a little of the following Decoction after it Take Leaves of Sage of Organy or wild Marjoram Rosemary and Nettle-tops of each one handful Chamaede Chamepit Stoechao's of each half an handful Seeds of Nettles of Rocket and of sweet Fennel-seeds of each three drams Roots of Pellitory of Spain half an ounce shred them all small and boil them in a quart of Fountain-water then strain it and mix the strained liquor with a pint of old Mallago-Sack This strengthens Nature wonderfully and is excellent for old Men taking a little glass-full after the foregoing Electuary CHAP. XII Select Cordial JULEPS An opening purging and cooling Julep for Choller and burnt Humors TAke French Barly two spoonfuls Succory with the Roots of Maidenhair Liverwort and Sorrel of each half a handful Roots of Fennel and Grass of each half an ounce of the four cold Seeds beaten of each two ounces boil them in a sufficient quantity of Fountain-water a pint and half then strain it and infuse in it half an ounce of Sena then take Tamarins and Polipode of each three ounces Mechoacan Jallop and Hermodactils of each two ounces Currans bruised half an ounce of Borage Bugloss and Rosemary-flowers of each half an ounce if they are to be had if not you may leave them out bruise them all and infuse them warm in a sufficient quantity of succory-Succory-water then boil them until there remains a pint then strain it and infuse in it four scruples of Rubarb in thin slices and three ounces then strain it again and add Syrup of Roses and Cream of Tartar of each one ounce then add the first decoction Take of this a quarter of a pint every Morning as long as it lasts A cooling opening Cordial Julep good in Feverish Distempers Take Succory-water four ounces Rose-water two ounces Syrup of Violets of Rosae Salutive of each half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol fifteen or sixteen drops mix and shake them together and take thereof two or three spoonfuls at a time Another Cooling Julep Take Barley-water and Sorrel-water of each half a pint Syrup of Violets and Syrup of Juice of Citrons of each one ounce Spirit or Oyl of Vitriol twelve or fifteen drops or so much as will make it of a grateful ascidity A Cordial Julep against Melancholy Vapors and Palpitation of the Heart Take bawm-Bawm-water half a pint Borage and rose-Rose-water of each two ounces a few drops of Oyl of Sulphur in which infuse cold one scruple of Safron for four hours then strain it and dissolve in it one ounce of manus Christi Confection of Alkermes one ounce Syrup of Citrons and Clove Gilly-flowers of each half an ounce mix all and make a Julep It is comfortable and refreshing as also restorative Drink a spoonful or two at pleasure Dr. Mynsight his excellent Cordial and cooling Julep Take half an ounce of endive-Endive-water of Sorrel and rose-Rose-water of each half a pint of Water-lillies and Scabio's of each six ounces cinamon-Cinamon-water two ounces Syrup of Violets or Roses half a pound Juice of Limons two ounces mix them and add Spirit of Vitriol so much as to give it a grateful ascidity It is an excellent Remedy in a burning Fever in a spotted purple malignant Fever and all other malignant Distempers It is a very excellent thing it cools Insflammations quenches Thirst moistens a dry body and is a pleasant Cooler being cordial The Dose is five or six spoonfuls A most excellent Cordial cooling Tincture of Roses Take two quarts of water make it boiling hot then powr it into an earthen or white Bason or a deep Pan and put into it two or three spoonfuls of Spirit of Vitriol and stir it with a clean wooden stick then put into it a good handful of red dried Roses of that year stir them well and thrust them even in the liquor then cover it and let it stand to cool then strain it without pressing the Roses and you shall have a Tincture as red as a Ruby Be sure you do not make it in any Tin or Powter Vessel for it will lose the color It is a very pleasant Cooler and a great Cordial and strengthens the Liver the Kidneys and the Stomach It is excellent in Fevers A Cordial Water
running Vlcers and is a most miraculous thing to cure scald Heads Take Amiantum four ounces burnt Lead twelve ounces Tutty prepared two ounces Calcine and Powder them then steep them in Vinegar for some Months stirring them once a Month after boil it for a quarter of an hour and let it stand till it is clear then take of this clear Vinegar Oil of Roses of each a like quantity beat them together into a white Balsom Dr. Hartmannus his approved Balsom which cureth any green Wound or Cut in twenty four hours Take Oil of St. Johns Wort Oil of Earth-worms Turpentine and Mastick of each one ounce mix and incorporate them over a gentle Fire then put it up and keep it for Use Apply it warm with a little Lint To make a green Ointment suddenly for any Scalding or Burning Take fresh Cows-dung and Hogs-grease of each equal parts mix and incorporate them well together over a gentle Fire An Ointment to break and open all Impostumes Biles and Plague Sores Take Oil of Olive two pound white and yellow Wax Rams Fat near the Kidneys pure Rosin black Pitch and Venice-Turpentine of each half a pound choice Mastick in fine powder two ounces mix them and make an Ointment according to Art This Ointment is very effectual to break all sorts of Apostemes as also Pestilential Carbuncles and Venereal Buboes The Consistence of this Ointment is harder than of other Ointments It is to be used from the first breaking of the Aposteme till the Cure be perfect An Approved Ointment for the Itch by Dr. Scroderus Take Litharge and white Lead of each half an ounce Vinegar half an ounce Oil of Roses four ounces Sulphur vive six drams Salt three drams Turpentine half an ounce fresh Butter three ounces mix them and make them an Ointment Anoint with it Morning and Evening and it will kill the Itch in about a weeks time An approved Oyntment for cold or hot swelling Humors It is a singular Remedy Take Vnguentum de Althaea and anoint the place swelled with it warm for hot Humors and lay some spred on a Cloth to the Swelling renewing it twice a day If it be a cold swelling Humor then take an ounce of Vnguentum de Althea and Oil of Peter half an ounce mingle them well together and anoint the place with it and apply some on a Cloth or Paper A most Sovereign Green Oyntment which cureth all Strains Bruises and Swellings Aches Kibes Cuts Cramps Scaldings and Burnings and all outward Griefs It eases the Sciatica and all Swellings in the Face and Throat yea though they look red and have an Ague in them Take young Bay-berries and Wormwood of each half a pound red Sage and Rue of each a pound gather them in the heat of the day and pick them but wash them not stamp them to a Mash in a Mortar then take fresh Suet pick'd and shred four pound beat them well together till they are well incorporated then put to them two quarts of good Oil work it well together with your hands till it be all of one colour and softness then put it into an earthen Pan and let it stand close covered in a cold place for eight days then boil it gently for seven or eight hours stirring it very well all that while and when it hath boiled about four or five hours put in four ounces of Oil of Spike you shall know when it is boil'd enough by taking a drop thereof in a clean Sawcer if it appear of a sad green let it still boil till it look of a fair green then strain it and keep it close in a Gallipot it will keep it seven or eight years A most Excellent Oyntment much approved for Tetters and Ring-worms Itch and Scabs Itching and Waterish Humors and all other Maladies and Infirmities of the Skin Take Litarge of Gold in very fine Powder two ounces Vinegar four ounces Oil of Roses half a pint grind the Litarge in a Mortar powring to it sometimes Vinegar and sometimes Oil stir it continually till the Vinegar do no more appear and that it come to a whitish Oyntment This Oyntment cured a man who had a very Malignant Tetter all over the back-sid of his Hand for many years he had tried many Remedies in vain but at last getting the Receipt of this Oyntment he presently made it and it perfectly Cured him in a short time as he related to me himself CHAP. XXV Select PLAISTERS and CERE-CLOTHES A most Excellent Plaister call'd the Emperor's Plaister TAke red Roses dried one ounce and half Bistort roots Cypress-Nuts all the Saunders Mint Coriander seeds of each three drams Mastick half an ounce Hipocystis Acacia Dragons Blood sealed Earth fine Bole red Coral of each two drams Turpentine washed in Plantane water four ounces Oil of Roses three ounces white Wax a pound Pine Rosin Juices of Plantane Housleek Orpin of each an ounce the Wax Rosin and Pitch being melted put to them the Turpentine and Oyl then the Hipocystis and Acatia dissolved in the said Juices and lastly the Powders to make an Emplaster according to Art It is much recommended to heal strengthen cool dry and bind being applied to the Crown of the Head shaved it is good against a Consumption stops the Rheum that falls upon the Lungs applyed to the Back it strengthens it much and removes Pains thence applied to the Belly it is said to stop a Loosness it is also very good to strengthen weak and luxative Joints and confirm feeble Limbs An admirable Plaister devised and prepared for the Vse of the late Arch-Duke Leopoldus in Flanders Take white Virgin-Wax one pound Emplastrum gratia Dei two ounces Diapalma an ounce Diacolon and Corimbum of each two ounces powder of Orrice roots one ounce Mercury precipitate half an ounce Cinnabre in fine powder one ounce Storax dissolved in Spirit of Wine and strained one ounce Musk three grains slice the Wax and Plaisters thin and melt them in a glazed Pipkin stir them well together continually till they are all dissolved then put in the Cinabre and Precipitate and after the Storax and Orrice stirring them continually then put in the Musk dissolved in a little Rose-water and last of all put in four ounces of Spirit of Wine by little and little for it will make the Composition to rise very high and if it boil over that the Fire take hold of it it will be spoiled and you cannot quench it The Experimented Vertues of this Plaister are as followeth 1. It eases the Pain of the Head being applied to the Forehead and Temples 2. It heals all Bruises and Swellings all Cuts Wounds Sores and Vlcers 3. It cures the Tooth-Ach being applied to the Cheeks and Temples 4. It dissolves any Swellings or Tumors about the Eyes or Throat proceeding from cold Causes as Squinsies and the like It is a most excellent Application for an Issue and to that end it was prepared for the said Arch-Duke Leopoldus The
set the Vessel in warm water to digest two days then strain it and add two ounces of Honey of Roses and take thereof from three ounces to six ounces It temperates and expells adust Humors abates the Heat of Fevers and cleanses the Skin from Scabs and Heat Monsieur Boucaud his Purging Infusion which purges universally all Humors and is very good to Purge and Prepare the Body before one enters into a Diet-Drink or at any other time Take Succory one handful French Barley one Spoonful boil them together in a pint of fair water to half a pint then strain it and let it cool well then put into it Sena two drams Rhubarb one dram Agarick half a dram let them infuse twenty four hours the next Morning strain it without pressing it and put into it half an ounce of Syrup of Limon and one ounce of Syrup of Violets The said Mr. B. took this usually himself and found it operate well and pleasantly without disturbance it is a very good Purge both for men and women it is good to cleanse a Woman after her lying in you may diminish the Dose as you see occasion A Purging Powder good against the Sciatica or Hip-Gout Take Seeds of Dwarf-Elder Turbith Hermodactils Sena and white Tartar of each a dram Cinamon two drams make all into a fine Powder for four Doses to be taken for four Mornings every third day Dr. Quercetan's Purging Decoction for Ladies Take Sena six drams Strawberry-water half a pint infuse them in a close Vessel a Day and Night then add a spoonful of Juice of Limons and two Spoonfuls of Juice of Pearmains Sugarcandy two drams boil it a walm or two and clarifie it with the White of an Egg and a little cinamon-Cinamon-water This was invented to pleasure Ladies with being very pleasant in Taste and Purging gently without griping or making sick Another Purging Decoction called the Bitter Decoction Take the Tops of lesser Centery Flowers of Camomil of each one Pugil Roots of Gentian half a scruple Seeds of Carduus bruised one dram Sena two drams a little sliced Ginger to correct the Windiness of the Sena Cream of Tartar half a dram steep them all in half a pint of fair water all Night the next Morning boil it only a walm or two and then strain it and if you will have it work strongly you may add to the strained Liquor an ounce of Syrup of Roses or half an ounce of Syrup of Buck-thorn Berries It opens Obstructions and is prevalent against Agues and Fevers it eases Pains of the Breast and Spleen and is good against the Green Sickness and Stoppage of the Terms c. A very good Purge for the Itch. Take Tamarinds half an ounce sharp-pointed Dock-root two drams Fumitory and Succory of each half a handful white Tartar half a dram Ginger one scruple shred the Herbs small and stamp the Root and boil it in a sufficient quantity of fair water till there remain about a quarter of a pint to which being strained add one ounce of Syrup of Roses and two drams of Syrup of Buck-thorn Berries and take it in the Morning It is a good and approved thing for the Intention An Vniversal Purging Potion Take Sena two drams Ginger one scruple Rhubarb a dram Agarick two scruples sweet Fennel seeds half a dram Cinamon a scruple bruise them all and steep them all Night in a little more than a quarter of a Pint of the Decoction of Currans Press the Liquor the next Morning through a Strainer and dissolve in it one ounce of Syrup of Roses Another Vniversal Purge Take six Damask Prunes a handful of Agrimony half an ounce of Polipode roots one ounce of Currans half an ounce of Sena one dram of Aniseeds bruise them and boil them gently in half a pint of water strain and press it and sweeten it with brown Sugar Another Vniversal Purge Take of Sena half an ounce sweet Fennel-seeds bruised a dram steep them all night in a little more than a quarter of a pint of Posset made with Ale the next Morning boil it a walm then strain and press it out in the Liquor dissolve an ounce of good Manna while it is hot then strain it again and drink it A good Pectoral Purge for Consumptive People c. Take Roots of Marsh-Mallows and Liquoras of each two drams sweet Fennel-seeds half a dram yellow Saunders a scruple cream of Tartar half a dram bruise the Roots and Seeds and boil them in half a pint of water with a spoonful of French Barly till near half is consumed then strain it and whilst it is hot dissolve in the Liquor an ounce and half of Manna then strain it again and drink it I will recommend here to the Publick a most Excellent Purging Powder which Sir Kenelm Digby made much Vse of in his Family Take Scammony the purest and best an ounce Powder it grosly and spread it upon a piece of brown Paper then take some Fire in a Fire-shovel and put upon it some Brimstone hold the Paper with the Scammony over the Flame of Brimstone until you see it grow moist then Powder it finely and mix it with six drams of Diaphoretick Antimony and two drams of Cream of Tartar both in subtil Powder grind them together to incorporate and mix them well then put it in a Glass Vial and stop it close This Powder was called Cornachine by reason that Cornachine a Physitian of Bisa in Italy was the Inventer of it and had made a great Commentary upon it It hath done wonderful Effects it operates quickly safely and pleasantly it gently purges superfluous Humors from the Bowels and roots up the Cause and Matter of Agues Fevers and many other tedious Diseases as Monsieur Charras relates in his Royal Dispensatory Dr. Scroderus in his Chymical Dispensatory also recommends it as one of the best Purgatives that can be prepared Sir K. D. recommended it to me for the same The Dose is from half a scruple to half a dram or a whole dram It is to be taken in the Morning fasting in white Wine Broth in the Yolk of an Egg in a little Syrup or in some Confection The Diaphoretick Antimony you may buy for six pence an Ounce the Scammony for ten pence the Ounce and the Cream of Tartar one penny the Ounce This Powder is easie to give to Children for the Itch or Scab as also for the Worms CHAP. XXVIII Select VOMITIVES A Gentle Vomit TAke of Hemetick Wine and Oximel of Squills of each an ounce mix them together and take it taking Posset-drink with a Spoonful of Oyl of sweet Almonds in every draught to make it come up easie Another Dissolve two drams of Saltpeter in fat Broth and drink it Another Take three drams of Broom-flowers boil them in half a pint of small Ale for a quarter of an hour then strain it and drink it warm Another Take a dram of Nettle-seeds poudred or a dram of the inner Bark of
the Liver of a Calf and the Lungs of a Fox the herb Lungwort Liverwort Sage Rue Hysop of each one handful Elecampane the Root of Flag of each half an ounce Aniseeds Carrawayseeds sweet Fennel-seeds of each half an ounce flowers of Borage of Bugloss of each two drams Cut them all very small then infuse them for twenty four good hours in two quarts of good old Mallago and Scabious and Garduus-water of each four ounces Hysop-water two ounces then distil it and sweeten it with Sugarcandy drink a little Glassful thereof two or three times a day This Water is much recommended against a Consumption It comforts and strengthens the Lungs and Liver facilitates Expectoration attenuates the tough and thick Phlegm expells wind out of the Stomach and Bowels and opens the obstruction of the Lungs and Liver Another Pectoral Water distilled TAke Scabious Paulsbittany of each two handfuls Maidenhair Sage Hysop Horhound Liverwort of each one handful Flowers of Borage and Bugloss of each one handful Elecampane Florence Orris Roots of Parslee of each half an ounce Aniseeds sweet Fennelseed Nettleseed Cinamon Safron of each half a dram Cut the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and put them all into a fit Vessel and pour upon them three quarts of good old Wine stop the Vessel close and let it stand to infuse for a week then distil it to the water distill'd add Sugar-candy Spanish Juice of Liquorice one ounce Salt of Tartar six drams drink thereof two or three times a day one ounce at a time This is recommended as the greatest and best Pectoral It not only opens all obstructions of Lungs helps Colds Coughs Asthma's spitting of Bloud and Matter but also gives ease in all pains of the Stone Dr. Scroderus his Asthmatick Water against Phthisick shortness of Breath It comforts a weak and cold Stomach and expells Wind and helps fainting Fits TAke Coltsfoot Sage Marjoram Hysop white Horhound of each half a handful Roots of Elecampane of Jentian of each three drams Cloves Ginger Cardamoms of each two drams and half Florence Orris Polipod of the Oak Liquorice Jujubes Sebenstens Currants sweet Almonds of each three drams Squils dry'd half a dram of seeds of Nettles Fennel and Basil of each three drams four soft Figs cut small bruise all the Roots and Seeds and shred the herbs put them all into a Vessel and pour thereon two quarts of Sack three Pints of Nants Brandy one ounce of Honey stop the Vessel close and let them stand to digest for ten days then distil it sweeten the distilled Water with the best refined Sugar to your taste and drink thereof one ounce at a time two or three times a day Dr. Salmon his Pectoral Wine TAke Rhenish Wine two quarts Salt of Tartar Aniseeds Corianderseeds Carraways of each one ounce bruise them all and digest them into the Wine for ten days then strain it To the strained liquor add Spanish Juice of Liquorice four ounces dissolve it in the Wine by the warmth of a Balneum or put it into a Coffy-pot and close it well and set it in warm water and being well-setled pour off the clear Liquor and keep it for use Salmon recommends this as an admirable Pectoral curing most Diseases of the Breast and Lungs as the inveterate Cough Asthma Phthisick Inflamation or Impostume of the Lungs with a shortness of Breath pains of the Side and Stomach and obstructions of both Liver and Spleen A most Excellent Pectoral Syrup against Asthma Consumption of a famous Physician TAke French Barly two ounces Roots of Fennel of Elecampane of Liquorice of Smallage of Butterburr Raisins of the Sun stoned of each one ounce and half twelve Dates Jujubes and Sebestens of each thirty Leaves of Coltsfoot of Lungwort the tops of Hysop of white Horhound Maidenhair of each one handful Aniseeds Cottonseed of each half an ounce flowers of Coltsfoot of Butcher-Broom of each half a handful The way of making this Syrup is thus boyl the Barly in nine quarts of water for half an hour then put in the Roots of Butterburr of Smallage of Elecampane and Fennel all well cleaned and cut small let them boyl also for half an hour then put in the Dates Jujubes Sebenstens and Raisins all cut small then let them boyl with the Eest for a quarter of an hour then put in the herbs cut small which boyl also for a quarter of an hour longer then put in the Liquorice and the Seeds bruised and the Maiden-hair and the Flowers and having boyled only five or six wallops take the Decoction off from the fire and when it is half cold strain it then put in five pound of double refined Sugar and having clarified it with the white of an Egg boyl it to the consistence of a Syrup with a very slow fire then being cold you may aromatise it with six drops of Oyl of Aniseeds and two drops of Oyl of Cinamon mixt with about an ounce and half of fine Sugar in fine powder This Syrop is good to cut and expectorate the cold and tough Phlegm of the Lungs and of all those parts which serve for respiration It giveth chiefly great ease and relief to those that are troubled with Asthma's Phthisick and shortness of Breath with old and inveterate Coughs for it opens the Pipes and brings away the Phlegm which stopped them One may call it the Palsom of the Lungs and chiefly of those of aged Persons one may take a spoonful of it at any time in the night and in the day-time some distance before and after meals and so continue the use thereof or begin again according as you see it needful Another Excellent Syrup for those that spit Bloud experienced by Squire Boil TAke Comfry Roots six ounces leaves of Plantine 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 boyl 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 If you will use this Syrup presently you may only use equal parts of the Juice and Sugar but if you would keep it all the year long you must take two parts of Sugar to one of Juice Another Remedy for spitting of Bloud TAke Leaves of Coltsfoot 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 well together eat it in the morning fasting continue this for some time A Broth with Chinaroot for a Consumption used by a great Lady TAke Chinaroots thin sliced two ounces white and red Sanders of each three drams put them into a large Pipkin and pour upon it four quarts of fair water cover it close and let it stand to infuse in a warm place or in hot water for twenty four hours then put to it a good Pullet or two Chickens let it boyl and
and boil in it five or six handfuls of Mallows and two pound of fresh Mutton-Suet that which is next the Kidneys skinned and shred small and half a peck of Wheat bran boyl it till the Fat be throughly melted and the Vertue of the Mallows drawn out into the Liquor then strain it into a Tub or a large wooden Bowl and bath your feet and legs therein for half an hour or an hour fomenting the legs with the Herbs as hot as you can endure it This will draw much water from the legs for after you have taken the Garlick and Wormwood-Ale awhile it will drive the humors into the legs and feet which will be much swelled with it and pit much but the Bath will draw all the Humors and Water out of them This hath often been experienced with happy success You may also use the following dry Bath Take yellow Amber the worth of three pence or four pence pulverize it and mix it with a quart of good Wine-Vinegar then take a Brick and make it hot but not red hot put it into a Tub putting some Ashes under it then powr upon the Brick the mixture of the Vinegar and Amber and hold the swell'd legs over the smoak of it covering the Tub well with Sheets or Blankets that none of the Smoak may come out and immediatly the Water will come out of the Legs and they will be cured whether they be swoln with the Dropsie or with any other bad Humour Sir Kenelm Digby relates that an Eminent person of Quality was exceedingly overgrown with the Dropsie and his Belly swell'd to a prodigious Bigness he sate in a sweating Stove such as men use to sweat in and used this Remedy powring the Liquor with the Amber upon hot Bricks laid upon Ashes to save the wood from burning when the Bricks grew cold they changed them putting in other hot ones and in a little while it melted him away to an incredible proportion but whilst he was in that Steam he felt a wonderful active heat piercing into his Body The Stove was covered close at the top with Sheet and Blankets leaving only his Head in the Air with the Cloaths fastned about his Neck Once sweating thus served his turn all his Servants with fresh hot Napkins could not suffice to wipe dry the sweaty water that ran out of his Body Another Excellent Remedy against the Dropsie which Dr. William gave to Sir K. Digby Take Elder wood and pare off first the grey outward Bark then scrape off the inner green Rind whereof take four handfuls and one handful of Wormwood then take two quarts of Beer and as much Ale and two quarts of white Wine put them together with the Ingredients into a large Stone Bottel stop it close and let it stand so three or four days that the Liquor may imbibe to it self all the virtue of the Ingredients then strain it and bottle it up into quart Bottles which being stopt close it will grow very quick and pleasant Drink of this at Meals and all times when you have need to drink If you add to this Composition two handfuls of the inner Rind of the Root of Gost it will be more efficacious as you will understand by the following Remedy If you find the Drink too strong of the Ingredients you may add more Beer and Ale and Wine The Doctor said that the mixture of the several sorts of Liquors will cause the Patient to make water in abundance Another Experimented Remedy against the Dropsie wherewith a man was cured who had been in the Hospital but without Benefit or Hope of Cure Take the Root of the Shrub called Gost it groweth upon Hills and upon Heaths it is full of Prickles and yellow Flowers pare off the outward Bark which throw away then scrape off the inner Rind and fill a pint-pot therewith loosly then fill it up with Rhenish or white Wine let it stand to infuse all night the next morning drink a good Glass full of it and continue it till you are cured A Famous Cure of a desperate Dropsie by a Diet of Garlick performed by Dr. Farrar upon an Eminent Lord. Having well purged the Patient first with some fit Purge to carry away waterish Humors the Doctor ordered him the following Diet of Garlick Make some moderate Broth of Mutton Chickens and Capon or Hen but not Veal it must not be too strong of the Meat nor too weak but such as you may drink all the day for you should drink no other Liquor You must make but about a Pottle of Broth at a time by reason it will not keep and for this quantity you must take a Gallon of Water into which put above a handful of Garlick and Rosemary Thyme Penniroyal sweet Marjoram Fennel roots and Parsly roots as also Currans and a sufficient quantity of Salt And after some days taking the Broth put into every draught you take of the Broth a spoonful or more of the Juice of Garlick made by stamping raw Garlick and then pressed out But if you cannot bear it always to take this Broth then use the following Decoction Take Sarsaparilla twelve ounces China root five ounces Sassafras three ounces cut all these very small and powr upon them so much fountain-Fountain-water as may cover them the breadth of three fingers let them infuse in a Pipkin which set in a Kettle of hot water for the space of four hours then throw away this water and stamp the Ingredients in a Stone-Mortar then boyl them in ten quarts of Fountain-water in a Vessel close covered till four quarts of it be consumed Of this Decoction drink without any other Liquor but the Garlick-broth taking sometimes the one and sometimes the other Another Drink Take all the aforesaid Ingredients in the same manner prepared and stamped and put them into a Bag and hang them in a clean Vessel filled with Beer to every of the Ingredients you must take a quart of Beer Either of these Drinks is only in case you cannot bear the Use of the Garlick-broth which alone will dispatch the Cure much the sooner if you can bear it This course of the Garlick-broth is for all Obstructions and Superfluity of cold raw Humors clogging the Brains as well as for the Dropsie To strengthen the Liver use the following Electuary Take Powder of Turmerick make an Electury of it with Sugar add to every ounce of it three drops of Oyl of Aniseeds made by distillation and if you put a little Ambergreece to it it will be better Take of this Electuary two or three times a day the quantity of a hazel-nut but take not above one ounce in a day Besides this to strengthen the Stomach use this following Stomacher Take Wormwood Marjoram Rosemary Rue of each one handful Cloves Cinamon Mace of each an ounce bruise these Spices and mix them with herbs shred small and make a Stomacher thereof and apply it And you may likewise anoint your Stomach and Region of
Sir Kenelm Digby cured a Minister's Son at Frankfort in Germany in the Year 1659 to which I was an Eye-Witness TAke of the Skull of a Man that died of a violent Death of the parings of Nails of a man of each three drams Reduce this to a fine Powder and grind it upon a Marble-stone then take Polypode of the Oak dried two drams Misleto of the Oak gathered in the wane of the Moon half an ounce Misleto of the Tile-tree two drams Piony roots half an ounce reduce all into a subtil Powder then take six ounces of Sugar boil it to the consistence of Sugar of Roses then mix all the Powders with it and stir them well together over the fire that they may well incorporate together then take it from the fire and make it up into Tablets or Lozenges about a dram a piece whereof give one in the Morning fasting and another two or three hours after Dinner and another two hours after Supper Continue this so long as the Lozenges last Another for the same Sir Kenelm Digby relates That in the year 1663. the Lady Warwick told him That a Daughter of her Husband 's Elder Brother had the Falling-Sickness in the greatest extremity so that she fell like a Logg seven or eight times a day without any motion They had put her into the hands of the Ablest Physitians in England who in effect could do her no good A Gentleman one of their Neighbours undertook the Cure and performed it thus Take true Misleto of the Oak the Leaves the Berries and all the tender Branches dry it gently in an Oven after the Bread is drawn then reduce it to a fine Powder of which give as much as will lie upon a Shilling for one of ripe years for middle-aged a Sixpence for a Child a Groat Give it Mornings and Evenings in Cowslip-water three days before and three days after the Full of the Moon Repeat this Remedy for some Months together This Cured also my Lord Herbert 's Son and many other persons of Quality The best time to gather the Misleto is in the Month of September when it bears Berries and in the waning of the Moon Dr. Mynsight his Excellent Remedy against the Falling-Sickness Take Sena two ounces Turbith Mechoacan of each half an ounce Raspings of Elks-hoof and Man's Skull Nutmegs of each two drams Roots and Seeds of Peony Misleto of the Oak of each half a dram Cardamoms Cassia ligna Cloves of each one dram Flowers of the Male-Peony of Lilly-convallis of Lavender of the Tyle-tree of each half a dram Rhenish Wine one quart and half a pint Digest it for two days in a warm place then strain it and sweeten it with double refined Sugar three ounces This hath been confirmed by many Experiences to be a singular Remedy against most Diseases of the Head and Brain and Dr. Mynsight says it is a Divine Remedy against the Falling-Sickness taking three or four ounces of it in the Morning fasting CHAP. VIII Of Choice Remedies against all Diseases of the EYES and to strengthen the Sight An Excellent Water against Dimness of Sight TAke Benjamin one ounce pure Honey half a pound water of Fennel and Rue of each two ounces Marjoram-water one ounce mix them together and distil it in a glass Still or in our Engine This Water hath made some see that have been quite blind washing twice or thrice a day with it It strengthens the Sight wonderfully Dr. Scroderus his Excellent Water for the Eyes Take water of Eye-bright of Fennel Vervain of each three ounces Juyces of Celan dine Rue of each two ounces long Pepper Cloves Nutmegs Saffron of each one scruple Rosemary flowers half a handful Sarcocol-Aloes of each three drams Galls of Partridges one ounce cut and bruise all small then add Sugar Honey of Roses of each one ounce put all into a Glass Alembick and distil it in Balneo Mariae with a gentle fire to every ounce of this Water put one dram of rectified Spirit of Tartar This Water being dropt into the Eyes two or three times a day cures Suffusioon or Catarachs Pearls Films and other defects of the Eyes as Experience hath often testified Another for the same Take white Vitriol two drams Barberries husked three drams Rose and Fennel-water of each one pint boyl them with a gentle fire to the consumption of half then add Cmaphir tbree drams then filter it through gray paper and keep it for use This Water takes away Films Spots Pearls and other things which dim the Sight A Green Eye-Water much Approved Take Verdigreece two drams yellow Orpiment one dram white Wine and Rose-water of each five ounces boil it gently five or six Walms then take it off and leave it upon the Faeces without straining it This Water being dropt into the Eyes cures the Pin and Web takes away the Heat and Inflamation of the Eyes A Water against Heat Redness and sharp Rheum of the Eyes Take Rosewater eyebright-Eyebright-water of each two ounces of Trochisci albi Rhasis one dram prepared Tutia twenty grains mix them together and keep them in a Glass for Use wash the Eyes therewith two or three times a day Another Water for the Eyes Take Rose Plantane and fennel-Fennel-water of each two ounces Tutia prepared two drams Fennel-seeds beaten half an ounce mix it all together and keep in a Phyol close stopped when you use it strain a little of it and wash the Eyes there with two or three times a day An Oyntment good for the Eyes Take Spirit of Wine two Spoonfuls Spirit of Therebintin one spoonful the yolk of a new-laid Egg and a spoonful of fresh Butter beat and mix it together and put a little of it into the corner of the Eye Dr. Salmon's Excellent Eye-Water Take Rose-water three quarts white Vitriol five drams digest them ten days then filter it then digest it ten days more then filter it again and add Saccharum Saturni six drams Camphire half a dram digest again twenty days then boil it and filter it and keep it for Use The Author says he hath made many see which had been blind several years with Films Pearls and other things by barely washing the Eyes therewith four or five times a day for some time It cures all manner of red and blood-shot Eyes and Rheumatick sore and inflamed for which it is to be esteemed as a Jewel A precious Water for the Eyes that hath restored the sight after some years lost in a short time Take red Rose-leaves dryed Smallage Maidenhair Hysop Endive Succory red Fennel Ribwort Celandine Eyebright of each two handfuls wash them and dry them and steep them in white Wine for twelve hours then distil it and wash the Eyes with the water Another Eye-water excellent for Pin or Web. Take white Wine red Rose-water each a pint put them into a bottel and add to it Aloes Hepatick Lapistutia in fine powder and of the finest Sugar of each four ounces stop the bottel
them Rie-Dough make thereof one Loaf bake it as other Bread then cut it in the middle and as hot as may be suffered bind to your Ears and keep them on warm and close for one day CHAP. X. Select Remedies against the MEGRIM and HEAD-ACH A Sovereign Remedy for all Head-Ach much approved TAke a good handful of Ground-Ivy or Ale-hoof wash it clean and swing it in a Cloth then shred it and stamp it a little and boil it in a quart of strong Ale to a pint Give half of it in the Morning fasting and half at night going to bed This cures also all Pains Inflammations and Defluxions in the Eyes it is good against the Jaundies Coughs of the Lungs Consumptions Stone and Gravel Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Sir Kenelm says That the Herb being stamped and applied to a Felon like to a Cataplasm cures it marvellously and speedily it is admirable for old Sores which if they need cleansing you may add a little Copper as and Honey An Approved Remedy for Phrensie and Madness Sir Kenelm Digby relates that he was assured by a person of Credit that one cured a woman that had been mad some years by giving her a draught of the Juice of Ground-Ivy or Jill-go-by-th ' ground at once taking and they tried it afterwards upon several others and it had always the same infallible effect Another Approved Remedy for Phrensie and Madness Take the Juice of Sage of Burnet and of Ground-Ivy and give it to the Patient to drink For the Head-Ach Take red Rose Leaves dried mix them with Wheat-flower Vinegar and Oyl of Roses and some Housleek boyl them together until it be thick the spread it upon a linnen-Cloth and lay it upon the Forehead and Temples and it will ease the pain The Conserve of Rue is excellent for the Head and Brain preserving against Apoplexy Paralisie and the like Make it thus beat two parts of fine Sugar with one of Rue into a Conserve eat thereof in the Morning fasting about the bigness of a large Nutmeg Another for the Head-ach or Megrim Take of the Oyntment called Vnguentum desicativum Rubrum one dram Mastick powder'd two drams mix them and make them into a Plaster which spread upon Leather and lay it to the Temple on the pained side or on both sides and renew it every other day until the pain cease This I have approved Another for the same Take a spoonful and half of the Whites of Eggs beaten a spoonful of white Wine-vinegar Pepper in powder and Frankinsens of each two drams a spoonful of Honey mix all these well together with as much Wheat-flower as will make it into a Plaster whereof make a Plaster taking it all and apply them to the Temples changing them every Morning and Evening An Epitheme for the Forehead to take away the Head-ach Take four ounces of rose-Rose-water Oyl of Roses one ounce Rose-vinegar half an ounce mix them together and beat the white of an Egg therein dip linnen-Cloth In it being milk warm apply them to the Forehead It asswages the pain of the Head and repelleth hot vapours Another for the Head-ach Boyl Camomil and Bittony in red Wine and drink thereof For noise in the Head or troubling in the Ears Take a green Ashen-stick and put one end into the fire and out of the other end will issue forth waters which must be saved and mixt with a little Sivet drop thereof a drop or two into the Ear and immediately stop it with a little black wool moistned in the same lye still a quarter of an hour with that Ear upwards you dropt into then drop also into the other in the same manner An approved Medicine for a scald head Take half a peck of Oyster-shells where the Oysters are newly taken out burn them in a clear fire and when they are well calcined reduce them to a fine powder and sift them as fine as flower then mix it with unguentum album so that it be pretty stiff keep it in a Gally-pot for use it will last a year Anoint the Head with it every day This is good also to dry up a waterish itching humour in any part of the Body Another for a scald head Take Oyl of Olives two ounces put it into a dishful of clear running water stir and beat them well together as you would make Butter then add some fine powder of Brimstone and May-butter and make an Oyntment thereof and anoint the head therewith Another for the same Take Rosen half a pound Pitch two ounces then put into it the bigness of a small egg of Hogg-fleet Barrows-grease let them boyl a little together stirring it well then take it off and keep it in a Gally-pot for use Clip off all the hair from the scald head as close as possible may be Then whiles the Oyntment is yet warm spread it upon new Lockerum that was never washed in Soap and out them into divers Plasters and keep them by you you may make as many at once as will serve a month when you lay them on warm them a little before the fire only to make them stick dress it twice in a week and when you see that the Plasters have taken away the hair and that the head is as bare as ones hand then dress it but once a week you must pick off that hair with the point of a Knife that the Plasters bring not off with them which you must do every time you dress it till all the hair is clean come of Begin to dress it Michaelmas and continue it till March is past and when the Head and Skin looks white then it is a Cure but as long as it looks red it is not cured therefore dress it until it looks white The hair you clip off from the Patients head you must burn and mix the ashes with the Oyntment while it is boyling For the Head-ach Take Cloves Mace Nutmeg of each one dram fine Sugar half an ounce reduce all to a fine powder and take the fourth part thereof in a Cup of warm Posset made with Ale It is very effectual Also the Juice of Ground-Ivy snuffed up in the Nose doth purge the Head and doth often cure very great and old pains in the Head Another for the Head-ach and to draw humours out of the head and face Take a new-laid Egg open the top and put out part of the white then put in some powder of Commin-seed by degrees and powder of Aniseed then close up the Egg with course paste then set it in the Embers to roast leasurely till it is very hard and then cut it in the middle and lay it hard to the Nape of the Neck It is approved For a Cold and stuffing in the Head to draw Rheum from the Head and comfort the Brain Take an Orange and pare off very thin the yellow Rind rowl it up conveniently to thrust up into the Nostril turning the inner moist side outward to be next
of each three spoonfuls make an Electuary with clarified Honey Take the bigness of a Nutmeg of it in the morning and when you go to bed let it go down leisurely and if the Cough troubles you in the night time take also of it This hath holpen extream great Colds or Coughs These Pectoral Electuaries were left out in the first Chapter An Electuary to comfort the Brain and Stomack and sweeten the Breath Take Sage two handful Rosemary flowers an ounce and a half Cloves five drams Cinamon a dram Nutmegs a Scruple all in fine Powder make it into an Electuary with Clarified Honey Take of it half a spoonful in the Morning and presently drink after it a Cup of burnt Claret Another Electuary to comfort the Spleen and Stomach Take Sarsaparilla one ounce the rind of the Root of Tamarisk three drams of the Root of Zedoary two scruples Purslane-seeds one dram reduce all into a fine Powder and with Syrup of Citrons and Syrup of the Juice of Borage a sufficient quantity make an Electuary An Electuary to comfort the Stomach and prevent engendring gross Humors in the Brain Take Cinamon one dram Lignum Aloes and Mace of each half a dram Cloves one scruple and fine Sugar or Sugar-candy half an ounce reduce them all into very fine Powder and with Wormwood water make it into an Electuary and take thereof two or three drams in the Morning fasting three hours before Dinner or make it into Lozenges of two or three drams a piece and eat them in like manner A most Excellent Electuary to strengthen the Stomack and Liver which is also very good against the Scurvey Take green Ginger preserved it is sold by the Confectioners and Conserve of Roman-Wormwood two ounces Conserve of Wood-sorrel two or three or four ounces more or ess as you conceive your Liver shall require beat and work them together into a Pulp Take thereof the quantity of a large Nutmeg two or three times a day You may make the Conserves by beating the herbs raw with two or three parts of fine Sugar to one of Herbs A Cordial Drink for weakness of the Stomack and want of Digestion Take three pints of good Claret Wine and half a pint of Mint-water of Cinamon and Nutmeg of each half a dram of fine Sugar four ounces reduce the Ingredients to Powder and put all into a Coffee-pot and cover it close stopping the Pipe of the Coffee-pot and let it stand in hot water for twenty four hours but let not the Water boil Then take it out and strain it through a Hypocras-bag Drink of this warm a Sack Glass-ful at a time If you have not a Coffee-pot you may use a stone Jugg or Bottle stopping it close but let it not be full A very Excellent Plaister for the Stomack that hath done notable Cures Take Mithridate spread it pretty thick upon Leather then strew upon it all over some grated Nutmeg laid also pretty thick on and cover this with another Leather like the former sewing them together round about the edges lay this to the pit of the Stomack The bigness of the Plaister is to be a hands-breadth round It is excellent for all Indigestions Weakness and Pain in the Stomack which causes Loosness Another Cordial Drink for a weak Stomack and want of Digestion devised by Dr. Mynsight Take Cinamon Mint half an ounce Mastick Galingal Cloves of each two drams Calamus Aromaticus Cardamom Ginger of each half a dram Lignum Aloes Roots of Burnet and Zedoary of each half a dram reduce them all to Powder and digest them in a quart of Canary Wine in a warm place or in Sand or B. Mariae until the Tincture is extracted then strain it and take thereof a small Draught Morning and Evening with a few drops of Spirit of Vitriol It warms and comforts the Stomack and is excellent against trembling fainting and swooning Fits and Vomiting Another by Dr. Mily Take Cinamon half an ounce Cloves Mace and Nutmegs of each half an ounce seeds of Anise Coriander and Ginger of each two drams bruise them and digest them in five dints of Rhenish Wine then strain it and sweeten it with fine Sugar to your Taste Drink thereof a quarter of a pint at a time It comforts and warms a weak and cold Stomack causes a good Appetite and Digestion and rectifies most Distempers of the Head and Brain My Lord Chesterfield's excellent digestive Powder to comfort the Stomack after Meat or otherwise Take sweet Fennel-seed half an ounce Coriander seeds one ounce shavings of Harts-horn and Ivory of each half a dram Cinamon and Pear or Crabs-eyes of each half a dram Sugar of Roses two ounces white Sugar-candy three ounces reduce all these severally into a subtil Powder and then mingle them together and so take thereof keep it in a warm place Dose so much as will lie upon the point of a Knife Dr. Riverius his infallible Remedy to stay a Vomit Take the true Salt of Wormwood half a dram mix it with the Juice of half a Limon and give it the Patient to drink you may mix it with a little mint-Mint-water It is a Sovereign Remedy which I have often approved with great success it hath never failed To chear the Heart and comfort the vital Spirits and prevent Melancholy Take of Harts-horn one handful of the Roots of Celandine Flowers of Borage and of Langue de Beuf of each a handful shred the Herbs small or stamp them a little and steep them in a Gallon of Brandy for a night then distil it the distilled water sweeten with Sugar and hang two drams of Saffron in it tied up in a Sarcenet Bag. Drink a little of it in the Morning fasting Another Cordial to chear and comfort the Heart prevent Melancholy and make the Body lightsom Take a pint of Rhenish Wine half an ounce of cinamon-Cinamon-water Water of Baum Bugloss and Borage of each half an ounce Juice of Limons one ounce half a pound of Sugar-candy seeth them together in a little strong glass-Bottle setting it in boyling water drink thereof a quarter of a pint in the Morning fasting in-the Summer Season In the Winter season take a pint of Malmsie or Muscadine Cinamon Cloves and Ginger of each two drams Grains of Paradise one dram Sugar two drams Musk one grain bruise the Spices and boil all together in a Bottle of Water then strain it and take a quarter of a pint thereof fasting CHAP. XII Select Remedies for all Diseases of the MOUTH This Chapter contains Choice Remedies for the Teeth and Gums Scurvey in the Mouth c. For a Canker in the Mouth TAke the Leaves of Woodbine of Bramble of Columbine of each one handful a little Rosemary shred them and boil them in fair water to the consumption of half then strain it and put into the Liquor two or three spoonfuls of Honey and a piece of Roch Allum in Powder and three or four spoonfuls of Vinegar Gargle the
Megrim Vertigo loss of Memory dimness of sight Melancholy swounding Fits and Barroness in Women You may take half a spoonful to one whole spoonful of it in Ganary or in black Cherry-water or Syrup Note That in every Distillation you must distill to dryness because thn Spirit of Wine is rectified The flowers are to be put into the Spirit of Wine when they are in their prime and that infusion kept till the other things are ripe and fit to be put in Another great Cordial Water of great vertue Take great Ants that are full of Eggs and in the full of the Moon in May or June two handfuls put them into a glass-bottel and powr upon them so much Spirit of Wine as may cover them the breadth of three fingers digest them in the Sun until they turn to water by putrefaction into one pound of this water put flowers of Rosemary Borage Bugloss Roses Marjoram Bawm of each one handful Castor four ounces Confection of Ana Cardimus two ounces Diamoschu dulcis one ounce waters of Bugloss Bittony and Tile-flowers of each one pound bruised Cinamon one ounce digest them together forty days then distill it in Balneo Mariae If you burn the remaining Feces to ashes and extract the Salt out of it and put it to the distilled Spirit it will be more efficacious It is both Cephalick and Pectoral cureth Consumption and by reason of the Ana Cardimus wonderfully strengthens the Memory fortifies the Brain and strengthens Nature and is much recommended to beget courage It attenuates expelleth Wind and is vulnerary It revives the heart warmeth and comforts a weak and cold Stomach Dose two or three spoonfuls in Sack or any other fit vehicle A rare Cordial Water against Frights excellent for Women with Child to prevent miscarrying Dr. Scroderus Take Lillies of the Valley two handfuls infuse them in three quarts of strong white Wine for a fortnight then distil it in Balneo Mariae into the distilled water put Cinamon one ounce and half Cubebes half an ounce Cloves three drams Mace Calingal Ginger Zedoary Safron of each two drams bruise them all grosly and let them infuse in a Vessel close stopped for some days in the Sun then put into each Lavender-flowers of each one handful let them digest for some days longer then distil it in Balneo Mariae If you calcine the Feces and attract the Salt out of them and put it to the water it will be more effectual It is very proper for Women with Child being frighted It prevents Miscarrying and strengthens the Womb and the Child It is a great Cordial Child-bearing Women ought never to be without it The Alexitery Milk-water Take of Carduus Benedictus six handfuls Wormwood four handfuls Speremint two handfuls shred them small and stamp them a little then powr upon them two gallons of new Milk let them infuse for six hours and distill it in a cold Still or in an Alembeck taking off the head sometimes and stir the matter well with a stick else the milk will grow in a Cake at the top and hinder the water from rising My Lady Newports Excellent cooling Stomachal Alexitery Milk-water Take Angelica one part Mint and Carduus Benedictus of each four parts Wormwood two parts shred them small and bruise them a little and put them in an ordinary Still and powr upon them enough new Milk to soak them but not to have the Milk swim much over them Distill this as you do Rose-water stirring it some times with a stick to keep the Milk from growing to a Cake When you will drink this water alone sweeten it with fine Sugar to your Taste You may drink a Wine-glass-ful at a time Dr. Scroderus his Excellent Cordial Water fall Women which is esteemed as a Panacea among or the Noble Ladies of the Palatinate Take Cinamon Nutmeg Mace Ginger Cloves Grains of Paradise Cubebes Cardamom of each one ounce and a half long Pepper half an ounce Galingal Zedoary of each one ounce pulverise them every one by themselves then mix them together then take leaves of Sage Mint and Bawm of each one handful shred them small and mix them with the other Ingredients and powr upon them three quarts of good white Wine let it stand to infuse for fourteen days close stopped then distill it in a Balneo or in an Alembick well tinned within It strengthens the Womb cureth the Suffocation thereof expelleth Wind out of the Stomach and Bowels It also strengthens and warms the Stomach and a cold Womb and that so successfully that all the Noble Ladies of the Pallatinate esteem it as a Panacea or Alheal Dr. Scroderus his second Cordial Water of great Vertues Take Tops of Rosemary sweet Marjoram Sage Bawm of each one handful Cinamon grains of Paradice of each one ounce Mace Galingal of each two ounces Nutmeg Cloves Ginger of half an ounce Juniper-berries two ounces bruise the Spices and Seeds and shred the herbs small and infuse them all in three quarts of Rhenish Wine for a month then distill it This Water cures the Head-ach Megrim Vertigo Melancholy illness of the Stomach stinking Breath It causes fruitfulness facilitates Delivery It strengthens the Stomach and the Womb and 't is good against the Palsie and Apoplexy Dr. Horstius his most excellent Cordial Water for the Head and for the Womb. Take Nutmegs Mace Ginger grains of Paradice Cloves half an ounce Rhubarb one ounce Castor Spicknard of each half an ounce Oyl of Bays let the Spices be whole and infuse them in the best Canary or French Wine seaven quarts digest them in a glass close stopped for ten days then strain it and beat the Spices to a Pulp then digest them together again for three days then distill it in Balneo This Water is as good for the Head as for the Womb It cures most Diseases of both It is exceeding good against the Epilepsie and Fits of the Mother obstructions of the Spleen and Liver It is good against Melancholy ann gross vapors ascending to the Head Aâ—other great Cordial Water of very great vertues which causeth fruitfulness and procures Conception Take of the great Ants or Pismires which are full of Eggs and in the full of the Moon in the month of May or June two handfuls Spirit of Wine rectified so much as may cover them the breadth of three fingers digest them in a close Vessel till the next full of the Moon or until they turn to water by putrefaction Then to a quart of this water take flowers of Rosemary Roses Bugloss Borage Marjoram Bawm of each one handful Castor four ounces â— Confection of Ana Cardimus two ounces Diamoschu dulcis one ounce bruised Cinamon one dram waters of Bugloss Bittony and Tile-flowers of each one pint digest them for forty days then distill in Balneo Mariae This is a great Cordial and Pectoral it is Cephalick and vulnerary and wonderfully strengthens the Memory and fortifies the Brain it strengthens Nature and some
thinks begets Courage causes fruitfulness and procures Conception A rare Water against Hectich-Fever Take Hysop Ground-Ivy Rosa solis Centory Maidenhair Sorrel Cinkfoyl Scabious Succory Burnet Dandikeon Yarrow Agrimony Hauls bittony Watercresses of each half a handful of the four greater cold Seeds of each half a dram flowers of Borage of Bugloss Roses Poppies two pugils Roots of Elecampane Succory Burnet of each thirty six Crayfish-shells Snails bruised of each twenty in number of a Calves Lung half a pound water of Liverwort one pint or instead thereof water of Dandy Leon being all prepared powr upon them so much of Goats Milk as will soak them well let them stand to infuse for five or six hours then distill it in an ordinary Still This water is very powerful against Hectick Fevers and most Diseases of the Lungs as Phthisick shortness of breath Asthma it destroies Accidities It nourishes and restores in Consumption being taken Morning Noon and at Night before Supper the Dose is about two ounces The Lady Elizabeth Gilfords Cordial Water Take four quarts of Nants-Brandy put therein borage-Borage-water and poppy-Poppy-water of each a pint Sugarcandy two pound Figs shred and Raisins stoned of each one pound red Roses clipt and dryed two handfuls red Mint one handful Rosemary-flowers half a handful and as much Hysop a few Cloves bruised put all these in a large double Glass with a narrow mouth such as Apoticaries have in their Shops stop it close and set in the Sun for two or three months It is an excellent Cordial and Pectoral Water good for the Head and Stomach Breast Lungs The Lady Bagnals Cordial Water much Approved Take Angelica leaves two handful Carduus six handful Baum and Sage of each five handful Angelica seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each five ounces Liquoras bruised two ounces shred three Herbs and bruise the Seeds and put them to steep in two Gallons of the best Canary with the Cordial powder of Aromaticum Rosatum Diamuscus dulcis of each one ounce let them stand four and twenty hours then distil it with a gentle Fire then put to the distilled Water Sugar dissolved in rose-Rose-water Dr. Stephens's great Cordial Water for Women Take Cinamon Cloves Galingal Ginger Nutmegs Grains of Paradise Aniseeds sweet Fennel-seeds and Caraway seeds of each one dram Thyme Mother of Thyme Mint Sage Penniroyal Pelitory of the wall Rosemary red Roses dried Flowers of Camomil Origany of Lavender of each a handful shred the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and Spices and infuse them for twelve hours in a Gallon of French wine then distil it and save the first second and third Running by themselves It is Cordial strengthens the Heart comforts and revives the Spirits being given to a Woman in Labour it facilitates the Birth and causes a good Delivery and after Delivery it brings away the After birth cleanses the Womb of Impurity and restores Strength it comforts the Stomach and is good against Swooning and fainting Fits and Fits of the Mother It is good against the Stone and Gravel and preserveth Youth Dr. Mountford's Cordial Water Take Angelica leaves half a pound Angelica seeds and Carduus Benedictus of each six ounces Leaves of Baum and Sage dried of each four ounces sweet Fennel-Seeds nine ounces Liquoras half a pound Species of Aromaticum Rosatum dulce and Diamocum dulce of each one ounce infuse them in thirty two quarts of Sack for five or six days then distil it in an Alembick and draw off ten quarts of the strong to which add white Sugar candy half a pound and half a pint of Rose-water tie it up close and keep it for Use Aqua Mirabilis Sir Kenelm Digby 's Way Take Cubebs Galingale Cardamoms Melilot flowers Cloves Mace Ginger Cinamon of each half a dram Juice of Celandine one pint Juice of Speremint and Juice of Baum of each half a pint Flowers of Cowslips Rosemary of Borage Bugloss and Marigold of each two drams bruise the Spices and infuse all with the Juices in three pints of Sack one pint of strong Angelica water and half a pint of red-red-Rose water let it infuse twelve hours then distil it in a Glass Still and first lay Harts-tonge leaves in the bottom of the Still Keep the first second and third Runnings by themselves This is a great Cordial it comforts the Heart Stomach and Vital Spirits it strengthens the Head and Memory preserveth Youth and procureth a good Colour It is Cephalick and Pectoral it expels Wind and is of great force against the Cholick pains in the Side and Stomack it comforts and warms a cold Stomack and strengthens it it is good against Coughs Shortness of Breath and Asthma's as also for most Diseases of the Head and Brain It revives the Spirits and helpeth swooning Fits It is a counter-poyson and Antidote against the Plague and all malignant Fevers and pestilential Distempers and preserves from the Apoplexy The Dose is one ounce in Rosemary Water Sack or any other Cordial Water Dr. Augustine's Excellent Rosemary-Water Take the Tops and Flowers of Rosemary in the midst of May gathered before Sun-rising of each one handful four or five good Elecampane Roots of Red Sage two handfuls stamp them in a stone-Mortar then take Cloves Mace and Cubebs of each three ounces Aniseeds half a pound bruise them all severally then mix all together with the Herbs and put all into a large stone Bottle or Jugg and powr upon them six Gallons of good white wine stop it very close and set it in the ground fifteen days then distil with a gentle Fire and sweeten it with fine Sugar This is a most precious Cordial Water it rectifies all Distempers of the Head and Stomack comforts the Heart revives the Spirits and is excellent against the Palsie and Apoplexy all fainting and swooning Fits and Fits of the Mother Falling Sickness Convulsions Megrim Vertigo Lethargy and other Diseases of the Head Vse it both outwardly and inwardly An Excellent Approved Water against all Infections all cold Diseases of the Head and Stomack for the Dropsie Palsie preserving Health expelling all Tumors Devised by the King's Physician Take what quantity you please of Bawm-water and to every pint thereof take Aniseeds Liquoras of each two ounces bruise them and infuse them in the water four and twenty hours then put into the Still Treacle four ounces Sage and Celandine of each a good quantity powr the rest upon them then sprinkle over them one ounce of Bole-armenick in fine Powder distil it with a moderate Fire Dr. Butler's Admirable Cordial Treacle-Water Take one ounce of raspt Hartshorn boil it in three pints of Spring-water to a quart then take Roots of Gentian Elecampane Cypress and Tormentil of each one ounce of the Flowers of Borage Bugloss Rosemary and Marigolds of each two ounces Citron-peels one ounce then take one pound of the best Venice-Treacle and dissolve it six quarts of good strong white wine and three pints of red-Rose water infuse all
then set it on the Fire and when the Scum rises take it off then strain it without pressing it then set it on the fire again and put into it a quarter of a pint of Rose-water and boil it up to the Consistence of a Syrup Take thereof in the Morning fasting and at four in the Afternoon and when you go to Bed and at any time in the Night if you are troubled with a Cough It hath done much good to many it will keep a long time being kept in a Glass stopp'd with a Prune and tied on with a Bladder A Comfortable Syrup against Melancholy Take the clear Juice of Borage of Bugloss and Pippins of each half a pound Juices of Sorrel Hops and Endive of each two ounces Cinamon and yellow Sanders of each one dram Clarifie the Juices with the White of an Egg and boil it to a Syrup with one pound of Sugar Then take Cochines one dram Saffron half a dram Lignum Aloes rasped one scruple tie them up in a thin Cloth and hang it in the Syrup Another Syrup of Pippins against Melancholy by Dr. Fryer Take twelve large Pippins cut them through the middle and core them but pare them not boil them in two quarts of Water with a gentle Fire to a quart then strain it through a Hypocrass bag without crushing them then boil the Liquor to a Syrup with a sufficient quantity of Sugar then take four grains of Ambergreece and ten grains of Saffron put it in a little Tiffany bag and hang it in the Syrup Take of this Syrup now and then two spoonfuls with four spoonfuls of Borage-water and eat now and then the quantity of a small Walnut of Conserve of Borage drinking the said Draught after it This Course is Excellent to Cure and prevent Melancholy Syrup of Clove-Gill flowers Take of the best and fragrantest Clove Gilli-flowers one pound the Whites clipt off put them in a Pipkin and powr upon them so much hot water as will cover them crush them well down and let them stand all night then strain them and warm the Liquor gently and dissolve in it fine Sugar in fine Powder three pound of Sugar will suffice for a quart of Liquor but take great heed you do not boil it for all Authors forbid because in the boyling of it you will lose all the fragrant and cordial Spirits of the Flowers If you find that your Syrup is too thin with three pound of Sugar to a quart of Juice then you may take four pound to one quart of Juice Some Women do admire that this Syrup should keep not being boiled but I can assure you upon experience that it will keep as well as if it had been boiled and I am sure that it is a great deal better and more cordial for the reason which I have given Note That some let them stand four or five days before they strain the Liquor To make the best and richest Syrup of Clove-Gilli-flowers Take what quantity you please of the best Flowers their Whites clipt off then take double the quantity of them of fine Loaf-Sugar powdred and sifted put some of the Flowers into a Crock or Pitcher and on the top of them some Sugar then another Lay of Flowers upon the Sugar and Sugar upon them and so continue till all your Flowers and Sugar are laid then set the Vessel in a Pot or Kettle of boiling water stopping the Pitcher and laying a weight upon it to keep it from rising in the Water keep the Water boyling for seven or eight hours having another Vessel of boyling Water ready to supply it as it wasts for it must be always kept fill'd up to reach as high as the Flowers in the Pot after this powr it hot through a Hair-Sieve into a Bason and when it is cold bottle it up and stop it close and you shall have a most rich Syrup very Cordial and Odoriferous far beyond all compare but if you would have more in quantity and not so rich powr some white Wine upon the Flowers and Sugar before you set it to boil and you will have also a very fine Syrup After this manner you may make Syrup of Roses but you need not clip the Roses and single refined Sugar will serve An Excellent Syrup of Aqua Vitae for a Cold or Cough or Shortness of Breath Take half a pint of the best Nantz-Brandy put it in a Silver or Pewter Porringer set it upon Embers and put into it four ounces of powdered Sugar candy when it is warm sire it with a Paper and let it burn until it goes out of it self and leaves a Syrup behind but you must stir it all the while with a Silver Spoon Take of this Syrup two parts and mingle it with one part of Oximel of Squills which is a most Sovereign thing for the Breast and Lungs Phthisick Astma and Shortness of Breath Syrup of Corn Poppy-flowers Take Fresh red Poppies two pound infuse them in warm water for twelve hours then strain the Liquor and infuse fresh Poppies in it as before then strain it again and with an equal quantity of Sugar make a Syrup in Balneo Mariae It is Excellent in Feavers causes Rest eases the Cough and all other Pains and the Colick abates the Rage of the Plurisie eases the violent pain of the Stone stops all sorts of Fluxes the Whites in Women the Loosness and bloody Flux The Dose is from one Spoonful to two To make Syrup of Aniseeds by Dr. Quirceton Take Aniseeds bruised two ounces infuse them in a quart of Sack for three days then strain it with one pound of Sugar boil it very gently to a Syrup This Syrup is good for the Breast and Lungs expels Wind eases the Colick provokes Vrine and cleanses the Reins Mothers and Nurses should never be without this Syrup for it is an excellent thing to give to young Children for the Gripes to which they use to be very subject A most Excellent Syrup to restore such as have been lingering in a long and wasting Consumption Take the Flesh of Snails four ounces French Barley two ounces Dates one ounce Raisins Liquoras of each six drams Sebestens and Jujebs of each twelve in number seeds of Cotton Mellons Cucumbers and Gourds of each half an ounce seeds of Lettice and white Poppies of each two drams the Herbs Coltsfoot and Lungwort of each a handful bruise the Seeds stone and bruise the Raisins and shred the Herbs and the other Ingredients and boil them all in three quarts of Water to two quarts then strain it and boil the Liquor to a Syrup with two pound of Sugar and Sugar of Roses and Diatragagant Frigida of each five ounces which you must have of the Apothecaries Dose two three or four ounces at a time Several other Pectoral Syrups as Syrup of Ground-Ivy of Turnips Syrup of Ale and others you have in the Chapter of Remedies for the Breast and Lungs CHAP. XV. Select EMULSIONS or
and when that is melted put in the Frankinsence and as soon as it beginneth to rise take it from the Fire for fear it should enflame then put into it the other Gums stir them well together and when they are well incorporated strain it through a Canvas-Cloth when it is cold anoint your hands with Butter and make it up in Rowls Or you may spread it upon Leather while it is warm and so apply it using with it the Drink afore-mentioned A most sovereign Ointment for the Gout Take the eldest Gander you can get make him â—eady and draw him but let no water touch him take Sheeps Tallow fresh Hogs-grease Pitch Honey and black Soap new Wax two ounces a quantity of Salt Frankinsence in powder three ounces the flesh of an old fat Cat Meal or Flower of Beans and the Soot of a Chimney of each one handful mix them well together and put all into the Ganders Belly and sow him up close and rost him so long till he will drip no more then put up your Ointment and anoint the part grieved therewith A good Purge for the Sciatica or any kind of Gout Take Aloes Hermodactils and Scammony of each half a dram reduce them to subtil powder and make Pills thereof with Juice of Roses or with Syrup of Roses and for a Fortnight together take every third day one dram in the Morning Vse also the following Plaister Take two ounces of Pitch one ounce of Tar two drams of Treakle one ounce and half of Rosin one ounce of Honey boil and stir them till all is melted and well incorporated and united together then spread it on Sheeps-leather prickt full of holes and apply it as hot as can be endured Another for the Sciatica by Dr. Frank. Take a quart of Sack the bigness of an Egg of Salt-Peter boil them together till a fourth part is consumed then take new Cotton-Cloaths and dip them in it and wring them a little and foment the pained place spreading them upon it one after another many times until the pain cease Another Remedy for the Sciatica and Rheumatism Take Storax liquid yellow wax new Pitch and Honey of each four ounces Cinamon Pepper of each one ounce put all these in powder together into a new pot and let it boil but one walm stirring it carefully all the while then take it from the Fire and put into it four ounces of Aloes and one ounce of Oil of Lillies stir them well together to make them incorporate then put the Pot again upon hot Ashes and stir it until it be of the Consistence of an Ointment which spread warm upon Leather and apply it but if your Disease be in a whole Thigh then you may spread it upon a whole Lambs Skin You may leave it on seven or eight days if it require If the Disease come again put the Plaister on again This Medicine will keep a long time Another Bath for the Gout by Dr. Ruland Take Juniper-berry-wood cut small three pound Mint Camomil Linseeds of each half an handful bruise the Seeds and shred the Herbs and boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to make a Bath by the use of which the pain went away and the Party was perfectly cured A Drink for the Gout Dr. Scroderus Take Germander Groundpine tops of Sage of each one pound and a half Primrose Rosemary of each half a pound Misleto of the Oak half a pound China-Root sliced three drams digest them all in fifteen quarts of Rhenish Wine for ten days then strain it Drink thereof two or three times a day It is also good against the Sciatica and Rheumatism Another Drink for the Gout Take Hermodactils Sena of each one ounce Turbâ—th Mechoacan Ana one ounce and a half Leaves of Ground Ivy Vervain of each two drams Seeds of Fennel Aniseeds of each one dram and a half Cardamoms Cinamon Mace Safron of each one dram Flowers of Mullion Rosemary Flower de luce of each half a dram bruise and prepare them all and infuse them in eighteen quarts of Rhenish Wine in Balneo Marie for two days then strain it and sweeten it with fine Sugar and drink thereof three ounces a time with one dram of Cream of Tartar in the Morning fasting for some days It is prevalent against the Gout and several affects of the Stomach Liver and Spleen It draws thick Phlegm from the Joynts and remote parts An Approved Remedy for the Sciatica in the Hip or any kind of Gout Take two ounces of Burgundy Pitch Oxicrocium and Gum Caranna of each an ounce melt and mix them well together spread it on Leather and apply it to the part for nine days It hath cured many When you use the aforesaid Plaister use the following Infusion Take Sena half an ounce Epithimum Raisins stoned Fennel-seeds and Ginger of each half a dram put them in half a pint of Whey then make them warm and let it infuse twelve hours then warm it again and strain it and drink it all off in the Morning fasting Vse also the following Drink to give every day two or three Stools Make a strong Decoction of Lignum Vitae put into it Sena Hermodactils of each four ounces Epithimum two ounces Turbith one ounce Coloqâ—inrida half an ounce let them infuse in warm Sand or in a Kettle of warm Water in a Vessel close stopped for twenty four hours then strain it and drink thereof every Morning fasting and at Night take of the distilled Water of Lignum Vitae one ounce with half an ounce of Syrup of Cowslips and use to eat the quantity of a Nutmeg of an Electuary made of Conserve of Cowslips four ounces Conserve of Sage-flowers and Rosemary-flowers of each two ounces Conserve of Roses one ounce make them into an Electuary For a Prick that doth foster rankle and burn a present Remedy Take Burnet stamp it to mash then spread it on a Cloth and apply it to the place it will speedily help it CHAP. XVII Select Remedies for Bruises and Swellings A Pultice to open an Impostume and to ripen a Bile TAke one handful of Sorel twelve Figs sliced half a pint of the Juice of Sorel boil this together until it be very tender and put to it some wheat Flower and Hogs Grease and lay it warm to the place changing it twice a day continue this till it be drawn out Another for the same much Approved Take the Whites of two Leeks and wrap them up in a wet Linnen Cloth and bake them under hot Embers so that they be only soft and no more then pound them in a Stone-Mortar with a piece of Hogs-Grease spread this pretty thick and apply it changing it once in seven hours and in three times changing it the Matter will be all drawn out With this Cataplasm you may also Cure Deafness and Noise in the Head and Ears Mr. Stockdeal's Approved Remedy for a Bruise and Swelling Take a pint of fair Water and boil in it a handful
and Saffron with common Brandy but the Myrrh and Mastick with good Spirit of Wine often shaking them then mix the Tinctures together and in a Glass Cucurbite in Balneo Mariae abstract all the Spirit of Wine till the Matter remain in the Consistence of Honey then powr it out into a white Bason and in Sand evaporate it to the Consistence of a Mass of Pills They strengthen the Head Stomach and Heart hinder Putrefaction cause a good Digestion and a good Appetite cure the Scurvey and are a good Pectoral They are a good Preservative in Pestilential times cleansing the Body of such Humors as might be apt to receive the Infection and to that end Sir Kenelm caused them chiefly to be prepared in the beginning of that great Sickness in London in the Year 1665. The Dose from one Scruple to half a Dram to be taken at Night before or after Supper Sir Kenelm Digby's Excellent purging Pills for the Head Stomach and Joynts which he took usually himself Take Aloes Succatrina choice Scammony and Pulp of Coloquintida in subtil Powder of each an ounce make them into a Mass for Pills with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Stechados the Dose is from one Scruple to half a dram or two Scruples in the Morning They are a most Excellent Cephalick they cleanse and strengthen the Head and Brain quicken the Senses clear the Eye-sight expel Wind from the Stomach and Bowels are excellent against the Scurvey and Dropsie Jaundies Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Dr. Floyd's Stomach-Pill which he usually took himself Take of the aforesaid Pill of Sir Kenelm's of Pil. Aggregativae of each two drams Hiera cum Agarico Stomack-Pills with Gums of each half a dram make them up into a Mass with Syrup of Betony Dose is one Scruple or half a Dram over Night and two Scruples or one Dram in the Morning taking a convenient time after them Broth or Posset-drink They are also very good for the Head Dr. Dyes his Excellent Pill wherewith he cured himself of a Malignant Tetter as he relates in the following Take Extract Rudii one scruple Mercurius dulcis twenty four grains Antimony diaphoretick Salt of Wormwood and Tartar Vitriolate of each half a Scruple Oyl of Juniper-Berries four drops make these into Pills with Venice Turpentine and gild them I my self having had a Tetter upon my left Heel which with an Oyntment I healed and made perfectly well in appearance but the Cause remaining the Effect ceased not but it still broke out again and at last in such extremity that it was spred over both my Ankles and upon my Instep both ends within a fingers breadth were met quite round my Heel and was grown so exceeding sore and painful as from the Heel upwards all along the Calf of my Leg Ham and all along the back part of my Hip and hard Lumps and Knots as if the Veins and Sinews had been crack'd whereupon I betook my self to these Pills doubling the quantities of the Composition of them the former proportion being for six Pills to be taken two Mornings three at a time and formed it into twelve Pills for four Mornings which I took in manner following three the first Morning and three the second the third Morning I omitted the fourth Morning I took three more the fifth I likewise omitted and the sixth Morning I took the three last Pills in all twelve which so clearly took away and corrected the Humor immediately that I was never after troubled with the like in that Part nor in any other using withal some proper Oyntments to the Sore Pills for the Sciatica or any kind of Gout Take Aloes and Hermodactils of each one dram Diagridium half an ounce reduce them to a very fine Powder and make into Pills with Syrup of Roses Take every day one dram for a Fortnight together Pills excellent for the Head and Stomack Take Aloes and Turbith of each half an ounce Pulp of Coloquint and Agarick of each one dram Scammony two drams Mastick and Bdellium of each two drams Ginger Cinamon Aniseeds Leaves of Wormwood of Mint of each two drams reduce all to a fine Powder and make them into a Paste for Pills with Oximel of Squills put them in a Gallipot and keep them for your Use The Dose is one dram for one that is easie to move and a dram and a half for one that is hard to move Excellent Pectoral Pills for the Breast and Lungs Take Tears of Storax two drams Juice of Spanish Liquoras one dram and a half Tincture of Saffron four scruples Labdanum Olibanum choice Myrrh and Extract of Opium of each a dram Ambergease a scruple Syrup of Citron Peels as much as suffices to make a Mass for Pills These Pills are excellent to stay Defluxions that fall upon the Lungs and to asswage the violence of Coughs The Dose is from five or six to eight or ten Grains at Night CHAP. XXVII Select PURGES A Purging Whey by Dr. Jackson TAke a Pottle of new Whey boil in it Succory Fennel and Parsley Roots of each a handful having first scrap'd slit and taken out the Piths very clean also one pugil of Damask Rose Leaves with ten or twelve Leaves of red Sage and two or three Tops of Rosemary boil it to a Quart then beat two Whites of Eggs very well and put into it remaining on the Fire which will make a kind of Curd that will rise together with the aforesaid Ingredients skim all these off together very clean then take a scruple or half a dram of Saffron in Powder bind it in a fine clean Rag and let it boil in the Whey a while then squeeze it out by degrees till the Saffron is all infused in the Whey then strain it and put it into a Glass or Earthen Pot. This is to be drunk at three equal Draughts an hour between each Draught continually walking all the time and drunk cold it must be made over night and drunk every Morning ten days together fasting five hours after it Take Borage flower or Bugloss flower water six ounces sweeten it with fine Loaf Sugar or rather with Conserve of Violets one ounce of this is enough to drink each Morning cold whilst the Body is costive and eat Barly Growel Another Purging Whey Take fresh ripe Rose Leaves the Whites cut off two ounces Rhubarb sliced two drams and a half Indian Spick one dram and a half bruise them and infuse them in half a pint of Whey over Night the next Morning strain it and drink it It is an exceeding good cooling Purge it cleanses the Blood and purges Choler and takes away Salt and sharp Humors and operates without Disturbance or Molestation Another purging Infusion of Whey Take Flowers of Borage Bugloss Fumitory Epithimum of each half a handful Polipode of the Oak six drams Fennel seeds two drams Sena a dram and a half shred the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and infuse them in three Pints of Whey
Walnut Tree powdered or three drams of Radish-seeds powdered taking them in fat Broth unsalted or in Posset Another which I have known used by Sir Kenelm Digby Take a Pint of Lukewarm water put into it six or eight spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl and drink it off Lukewarm The Antimonial Cup made of well purified Regulus of Antimony cast in Moulds is a very useful thing in a Family when you have a mind to use it fill it with white Wine and put a Clove or two in it and a little Mace and let it stand all Night the next Morning drink the Wine and it will taste of nothing but Wine and will work safely first by a Vomit and then by stools also when it works drink Posset with a spoonful of Oyl of sweet Almonds in every Draught or sweet Sallet Oyl to facilitate the Vomiting If it be taken in the beginning of an Ague when they have had but a Fit or two it commonly carrieth it off being taken half an hour before the Fit The Virtue of this Cup will never diminish for it will have the same Operation an hundred year hence that it had when it was newly made And according as you would have it work either gentle or strong you may put the Wine in sooner or later at Night CHAP. XXIX Select GLISTERS A Glister for the Colick and Griping of the Guts TAke Roots of Mallows and Marsh-Mallows with the whole Plant of each an ounce and a half French Barly an ounce Flowers of Camomil and Elder flowers of each half an ounce boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water then strain it and add to a Pint of the Liquor three ounces of Linseed Oyl and an ounce of Cassia extracted Aloes half an ounce Nitre an ounce and a half mix them and give it duly warm It powerfully expels Wind loosens the Bowels and eases the Colick and Gripings Dr. Scroderus his Emollient Glister Take of the Emollient Herbs which are Leaves of Mallows Violet Leaves Beets Herb Mercury of each a handful Roots of Althaea an ounce Camomil flowers half an ounce five Figs sliced boil them in a sufficient quantity of fair water to a pint then strain it and put to it Cassia four drams Benedicta laxitiva one ounce Sal Gem a scruple Oyl of Olive or Oyl of Roses three ounces brown Sugar an ounce mix it and give it It loosens and mollifies the Bowels evacuates their Slime and Filth and cleanses them from Wind and Water and is good in Fevers A very good Common Glister Take of the Emollient Herbs of each a handful Camomil flowers half a handful sweet Fennel seeds half an ounce Linseeds two drams cut the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and boil them in Water to a Pint then strain it CHAP. XXX Select Remedies relating to WOMEN-KIND Containing Excellent and Approved Remedies for such Distempers as are particularly incident to Woman-kind Concerning the Retention or Stoppage of the Monthly Purgations THe Retention of them cometh of Opilation in the Matrix abundance of gross Blood or after great Evacuation or Fatness of the Womb They are Cause of many Evils as swollen Legs weak Backs Pains in the lower Parts of the Belly Drowsiness Retention of Urine a weak Stomack Loss of Appetite and want of Digestion Vomiting Shortness of Breath Loss of Complexion Vapors and Fits of the Mother and Spleen c. If the Retention come of thickness of the Blood it is good for the Patient to use the Bath afterwards set down If the Retention come of cold and Phlegmatick Humors then it is good for her to take twice a day four ounces of the Decoction of Alexanders Smallage roots Cinamon and a little Safron and fast four hours after it forbearing of eating Meats that breed gross and moist Humors and gross Blood as Beef Pork Veal Fish and the like Let your Diet be Fowls Birds Partridges Rabbits and the like or Mutton and drink white or Rhenish Wine or Mead or Metheglin using in your Broth the following Ingredients viz. Aniseeds sweet Fennel-seeds Commin-seeds Caraway-seeds Smallage-roots wild Thyme Rosemary Parsly-roots Spinage Madder Cinquefoil Harts-tongue Lupins Organs Valerian Savory Sothernwood Garlick is an excellent thing if you like it Balm Carduus Horehound Cinamon and such like using a few of either sorts of them they thin and subtilize the Blood and open the Passages that descend to the Matrix A Bath to provoke the Terms Take Mugwort Motherwort Mother of Thyme Bawm Fumitory Camomil Lavender Organy of each a handful Juniper Berries bruised an ounce and an half Madder roots Parsly roots Polipode and Valerian of each three ounces let them boil in a sufficient quantity of Water to make a Bath and let her sit in it as hot as can be endured and when she comes out of the Bath going to Bed let her take a Decoction of Bugloss and Borage or the Decoction of Madder in fair water with a little Syrup of Fumitory If you cannot have all these Herbs you may take only some Camomil-flowers and Peniroyal for the hot water alone will be effectual in this Case bathing in it A Physical Course for provoking the Terms Take of the Powder of Hiera Picra simple of the Pills de tribus Fernelii of Agarick Trochiscated of each a scruple of Castor half a scruple of the Chymical Oyl of Thyme four drops make these up into Pills with Syrup of Mugwort let her take them immediately after her first sleep and sleep again upon them The next day following let her take the following Decoction Take Ale and white Wine of each a Pint and half unset Hysop Peniroyal Mugwort Germander of each a handful Madder Smallage Parsly and Fennel roots of each an ounce Juniper Berries and Cinamon bruised of each half an ounce boil them well and having strained the Decoction sweeten it with four ounces of Syrup of Mugwort Drink thereof twice a day in the Morning and at four in the Afternoon and four days before their accustomed time of flowing open the Vein in the Foot and bleed about three or four ounces to invite them downwards An Excellent Medicinal Wine to provoke the Terms by Dr. Mynsicht Take Tartar vitriolate Roots of Scorzonera of each an ounce and a half Filings of Steel from the Needle-makers an ounce Galingal the less Lignum Cassiae of each a dram Safron a scruple bruise them and put them in three pints of white Wine let it stand two or three or four days often shaking it then strain it This Wine opens all Obstructious of the Liver Spleen and Womb it provokes the Terms cures the green Sickness expels Wind discusses Swellings and Hydropical Humors cures the evil disposition in Virgins weakness of the Stomack and want of Appetite and ill Digestion Young People should take it five or six days before the New Moon but elder women as many days before the Full Moon The Dose is from four Spoonfuls to six or seven in the Morning fasting and to continue the
Use of it till they appear Another Approved Remedy for the same I was assured by a Gentlewoman of Credit that a Daughter of hers at twenty years of Age having never had her Purgations was cured by the following Remedy Take a pound of the smallest new Nails put them in a quart of white Wine let it stand four and twenty hours then drink thereof warm a quarter of a pint in the Morning fasting when you have taken three Doses of it put into it a pint of Wine more and let it stand for some time upon the Nails then take of it till you have taken it all this hath been approved upon many others you may put in with the Wine a few Orange Peels and Cloves An Experimented Remedy for the immoderate Flux of the Terms Take a dram of the Scrapings or Filings of the Skull of a man put it into a glass of white Wine let it infuse all Night in and in the Morning take it fasting In two or three times taking it every Morning it will cure it It is an Approved Remedy A Physical Course to prouoke the Terms prescribed by a Learned Physician to a Lady of great Quality Take the Roots of white Ditany Madder and round Birthwort of each half an ounce Orrice and Asaribecca Roots and sweet Flag Roots of each three drams Orange peels and Cinamon of each two drams Juniper Berries six drams Fennel and Commin seed of each one dram Tops of Wormwood Mugwort Horse-mint and Germander of each half a handful Flowers of Elder Savin and Rue of each a handful Saffron half a dram Filings of Steel an ounce tie the Steel up in a Rag and shred and bruise all the Ingredients infuse them in four pints of strong white Wine for twelve hours then strain it and drink thereof three times a day and after five or six days taking of it use the following Purge Take Sena a dram a half Cassia two drams Rhubarb half a dram sweet Fennel seeds and Cinamon of each a dram and a half Savin one pugil This is for two Potions to be taken for two Mornings together After Purging take the following Electuary Take Conserves of Wormwood and Mint of each half an ounce Conserve of Rue an ounce Candied Elecampane Root half an ounce Cinamon finely Powdered and Crocus Martis aperitive of each a dram of Oyl of Mace and Cinamon each six drops mix it and make an Electuary whereof take the quantity of a large Nutmeg three times a day An approved Remedy to stop the Abundance of the Terms Take a handful of red Dock Roots the yelllowest and best slit them and boil them in a Gallon of Conduit-water scum it and put in it Raisins of the Sun stoned two handful Liquoras bruised two ounces boil it until a third part be consumed then strain it and make Almond Milk thereof with Blanched Almonds A good Remedy for the Whites much Approved If the Woman wanteth her Monthly Terms when she hath the Whites they must by no means be stopp'd till the Terms are brought down for it is very dangerous Let all the Means then be used to provoke and bring them down first and then to stop the Whites take the following after some fit Purgation once or twice before Take the Ceruse of Antimony that is diaphoretick Antimony about fifteen grains for a Dose in a little white Wine in the Morning fasting two or three times a day Another for the same Take Garden-Tansie a handful great Dock Roots that are young and without Buds two ounces shred the Herb and bruise the Roots and boil them in a quart of Milk drink a Draught thereof warm sweetned with Sugar of Roses and Nutmeg grated in it You may also take the following Pills and drink a Draught of the said Milk after them Take Venice-Turpentine an ounce Dragons-Blood Nutmegs grated and Bolearmenick of each a dram mix them and make a Mass for Pills Take thereof a dram for a Dose The following Electuary is also very good the Body being Purged first Take Conserve of red Roses four ounces Conserve of Succory two ounces red Coral in subtil Powder Snakeweed Tormentil Roots and Shavings of Ivory of each two drams with Syrup of Mirtles make an Electuary and take thereof the quantity of a large Nutmeg every Morning Another Approved Remedy for the Whites and so the Heat in the Back and Kidneys Take four good sound Nutmegs put them in the middle of a Houshold Loaf of Bread then let the Loaf be baked and take out the Nutmegs then beat the white of a new laid Egg to an Oyl let it settle and take off the Froth and mix the White with four spoonfuls of Rose-water and as much Plantane-water then sweeten it with fine Sugar and grate into it half of one of the Nutmegs and drink it in the Morning fasting for seven days together This cured a Woman that had taken many Remedies in vain for the said Distempers It strengthens and cools the Reins and is good against the Stone and Gravel An Approved Remedy for the Fits of the Mother and for the Vapors Take Roots of round and long Birth-wort Piony and lesser Valerian of each two ounces Castor one ounce Tops of dried Wormwood Mugwort Fetherfew Tansie Elder and Camomil Flowers of each a handful having bruised and cut them all together infuse them in two quarts of rectified Spirit of Wine then distill them according to Art and keep the Spirit for Use This Spirit is very effectual to open the Obstructions of the Matrix and to suppress the Vapors and Fits that arise from it you may take of it from one to two or three drams at a time in some distilled Waters it may also be put into the Nostrils applied to the Temples or upon the Navil I have an incomparable Essence or Spirit of a Chymical preparation which is so effectual beyond all compare for the Vapors and Fits of the Mother c that several Women which could have no Children live by reason of their Vapors and Fits till they took of it had their Children live afterwards and were perfectly Cured of that Distemper A Remedy for a Bloody Vrine whether in Man or Woman also for a Bloody Flux or Spitting of Blood Take Shepherds Purse and Plantane shred them and boil them in fair water then strain it and sweeten it with fine Sugar drink thereof Morning and Evening Another for the same Take the Earth of Swallows Nest steep it in hot Water then strain it and let the Patient drink thereof two or three times a day A Remedy for one that cannot retain Vrin Take a Mouse newly kill'd burn it to Ashes with the Skin and Hair give a pretty quantity of it in Ale or dry the Mouse in an Oven so that you may reduce it to Powder which give to drink in the same manner Another for one that cannot keep his Water Take Conserve of Hips three ounces of red Roses an ounce Crabs Eyes a
all Pain and Inflammation as you see in Sir Kenelm's Relation of Mr. Howard To stanch the Blood either of a Wound or Bleeding at the Nose take only some of the Blood upon a Rag and put some Powder upon it or take a Bason with fresh water and put some of the Powder into it and bath the Nostrils with it CHAP. XLI Containing the choicest and rarest Cosmeticks to beautifie smoothen soften and whiten the Face and Skin and to preserve the Beauty and Complexion of Ladies devised by several Learned Physicians and used by Queens Princesses and other great Ladies in France Italy Germany and England The Word Cosmetick signifies Adorning or Beautifying A rare Cosmetick Water of Dr. Scroderus TAke the Whites of fifteen Eggs the Juice of one Limon three ounces of Snails white Lead a pound Camphir and Borax of each a dram and a half Myrrhe two drams Frankincense and Mastick of each half an ounce bruise them all and infuse them twenty four hours in water of Bean-Flowers and water of Elder-Flowers of each a pint and half then distil it in a Cucurbite in Balneo Mariae and keep the Water for Use It softneth whiteneth and smootheth the Skin Another more precious Cosmetick or beautifying Water by Sir Kenelm Digby Take white Lillies six drams Florence Orrice Roots Beans Cicers Lupins of each half an ounce fresh Bean-flowers a handful Gum Tragant white Lead fine Sugar of each half an ounce Crums of white Bread steeped in Milk an ounce Frankincense and Gum Arabick of each three drams Borax and feather'd Allom of each two drams the White of an Egg Camphire a dram and a half infuse them four and twenty hours in a sufficient quantity of Rose and Bean-flower water equal parts then distil it in B. M. This Water smoots whitens beautifies and preserves the Complexion of Ladies They may wash their Faces with it at any time but especially Morning and Evening Another Cosmetick water Take two young Pigeons gut them and cut them into pieces Crums of white Bread half a pound peach-kernels and the four greater cold Seeds cleansed and bruised of each four ounces the whites of twelve Eggs and the Juice of four Limons infuse them twelve hours in two quarts of Milk then distil them in B. M. To the distilled water add Borax Camphire Sugarcandy and burnt Allom of each three drams set them three days in the Sun then let them stand fifteen days in a Wine-Cellar then filtre it through gray Paper and keep it for Use This is an Excellent Cosmetick-water and hath all the Vertues of the former and is to be used in the same manner Another Cosmetick-Water Take fine Sugar one pound Roch-Allom three ounces white Poppy-seeds bruised Flower of Beans of Water-Lillies and of the greater Housleek of each a handful the Juice of four Limons the Crum of two white penny-Loaves bruise what is to be bruised and put them all into a Glass Alembick and powr upon it Goats Milk or Black Cows Milk and white Wine of each a quart distil it in Balneo Mariae and keep the Water for Use This Water is good to smooth whiten and preserve the Complexion of Ladies washing their Faces therewith Some Receipts of Cosmeticks which I took out of the Countess of D' Hospital her Book which she sent me at Paris A Cosmetick water used by the Queen Take the whites of two new layd eggs beat the shels of them to powder and put them in a quart bottle with the whites and let them be beaten together for three hours then put into it four ounces of burnt Allum in fine powder beat it two hours longer then put into it three ounces of white Sugar candy in powder and beat it also for two hours then put in it four ounces of Borax also in powder and beat it also then take a pynte of water that runs from under the wheel of a mill and put into it four ounces of white Poppy seeds well beaten mix them well together so that it be like milk then pour that into the quart bottle with the other things at four several times beating it every time the space of two hours then strain it through a fine white linnen cloath and having put it into the bottle again let it be beaten for two or three hours longer And to know when it is well made and well beaten is when it froths the breadth of three fingers above it It will keep a twelve month It is a very good Cosmetick it whitens smooths and softens the skin use it only three times a week To wash and prepare night gloves to keep the hands white smooth and soft Take pure white wax four pound Spermacetis two ounces oyl of the greater cold seeds cleansed and drawn without fire and Magistery of Bismuth or Tinglass prepared as shall be set down afterwards of each three drams Borax and burnt Allum finely powdered of each half a dram put them all into a Pipkin which set in a Kettle of hot boyling water and when they are melted stir them well together to incorporate them Then having washt first your gloves in several waters and steept them twelve hours in cream dip them in this composition whil'st it is hot The said Composition is good also to dip cloaths in and spread them for to line womens masks it preserves the Complection of Ladies The Ladies in France use it for both It is also a good Cosmetick anointing the face with it at night going to bed washing it oft in the morning with some Cosmetick water I have two choice Receipts more for the face which I Coppied out of the said Countess's Book which Maria de medicis the Queen of France used her self The said Countess's mother gave fifty pistols in gold for them to him who always prepar'd them for the Queen as was subscrib'd at the bottom of the Receipts forbear to publish them her but I shall be very willing without any Interest to communicate them to any Lady that shall desire them of me The Preparation or Magistery of Bistmuth or Tinglass Though this be a Chymical preparation yet that Ladies may be sure to have it true and well prepar'd I will set down here directions how any Lady may prepare it with ease and pleasure Let a Chymist prepare you an Aqua fortis with equal parts of Niter and Allum but be sure he do not sell you a common one made with Niter and Vitriol Then take four ounces of Bistmuth let it be beaten to a fine powder then wash it so often till the water come from it very clear then dry it and put it into a small glass cucurbit set it upon a round under a chimney and pour upon it by little and little twelve ounces of your Aqua fortis pour in but about the quantity of a spoonfull the first time it will presently begin to work upon the Bistmuth and a thick black smoak will ascend which being almost past pour in a
Another strengthening Cawdle Take a quart of the best strong Ale-wort of the first running and put into it three Dates shred small one Nutmeg grated a small stick of Cinamon and three Leaves of Comfry boil them all together to a pint then put thereto half a pound of of the Pith of an Oxe and a pint of good Muscadine let it boil three or four walms and then add a pint of red Rose-water and twelve yolks of Eggs sweeten it with white Sugar candy to your Taste An Emulsion or Almond-Milk to strengthen cool and to induce Sleep Take half a pound of blanched Almonds beat them in a Mortar sprinkling them now and then with Barly-water then when they are well beaten put more Barly water to them and strain it through a Cloth beat the Almonds again with that remaineth in the Cloth and strain them again with more Barly-water do this again till you get all the Milk out of the Almonds and that you have employed a quart of Barly-broth then put them to two ounces of Rose-water and four ounces of fine Sugar and so drink it Very good Oatmeal Pap by Dr. Colladon Put beaten Oatmeal to soak an hour or two in Milk as you do in Water when you make Flummery then strain it out into a Posnet through a sitting Strainer and if you judge it too thick of the Oatmeal for sufficient boyling add more Milk to it Set this to boil putting then into it a Lump of Sugar about as big as a little Walnut and stir it well all the while that it burn not to About an hours boyling is sufficient by which time it should be grown pretty thick put then a good Lump of fresh Butter to it which being well melted and stirred into the Pap and incorporated with it take it from the fire and put it into a Dish and strew some fine Sugar upon it or mingle some Sugar with it to sweeten the whole quantity You may season it also with Rose-water or Orange-flower-water or Ambergrease or some Yolks of new-laid Eggs. You may put in a very little Salt at the first Wheaten Flummery In the West-Countrey they make a kind of Flummery of Wheat-flower which they judge to be more hearty and pleasant than that of Oatmeal thus Take half or a quarter of a Bushel of good Bran of the best Wheat which containeth the purest Flower of it though little and is used to make Starch and in a great wooden Bowl or Pail let it soak with cold water upon it three or four days then strain out the Milky water from it and boil it to a Jelly or like Starch which you may season with Sugar and Rose and Orange flower-water and let it stand till it be cold and gellied then eat it with White or Rhenish Wine or Cream or Milk or Ale Pap of Oatmeal-Panado Beat Oatmeal small put a little of it to Milk and let it boil stewingly till you see that the Milk begins to thicken with it then strain the Milk from the Oatmeal this is as when you soak or boil out the Substance of Oatmeal with Water to make Flummery then boil up that Milk to the height of Pap which sweeten with a little Sugar and put to it some yolks of Egg dissolved in Rose or Orange-flower-water and let it mittoner a while upon a Chafing-dish quaere of a little Sack if it turn not the Milk and a little Butter if you like it you may boil a little Mace in the Milk Another Beat a couple of new-laid Eggs in good clear Broth heat this a little stirring It all the while then powr this upon a Panado made thick of the same Broth and keep them a little upon the Chafing-dish to incorporate stirring them all the while quaere of putting to it a little Wine also Juice of quick Oranges To stew Wardens or Pears Pare them put them into a Pipkin or into our Engin with so much red or Claret Wine and Water of each at much as will near reach to the top of the Pears stew or boil them gently till they grow tender which may be in two hours after a while put in some sticks of Cinamon bruised and a few Cloves when they are almost done put in Sugar enough to season them well and their Syrup which you powr out upon them in a deep Plate To stew Apples Pare them and out them into Slices stew them with Wine and Water as the Pears and season them in like manner with Spice towards the end sweeten them with Sugar breaking the Apples into Pap by stirring them When you are ready to take them off put in good store of fresh Butter and incorporate it well with them by stirring them together You stew these between two Dishes the quickest Apples are the best A Sack-Posset as Sir Kenelm's House-keeper made it for him Take three pints of Cream boil in it a little Cinamon a Nutmeg quartered and two spoonfuls of grated Bread then beat the yolks of twelve Eggs very well with a little cold Cream and a spoonful of Sack when your Cream has boil'd about a quarter of an hour thicken it up with the Eggs then sweeten it with Sugar and take half a pint of Sack and six spoonfuls of Ale and put it into the Bason or Dish you intend to make it in with a little Ambergrease if you please then powr your Cream and Eggs into it holding your hand as high as conveniently you can gently stirring in the Bason with a Spoon as you powr it so serve it up If you please you may strew Sugar upon it You may strew Ambered Sugar upon it as you eat it or Sugar beaten with Cinamon if you like it Sillibubs by the Lady Middlesex My Lady Middlesex makes Sillibubs for little Glasses with Spouts thus Take three pints of sweet Cream one of quick white Wine or Rhenish and a good Wine-Glass full better than a quarter of a pint of Sack mingle with them about three quarters of a pound of fine Sugar in powder Beat all these together with a whisk till all appeareth converted into Froth Then powr it into your Sillibub-Glasses and let them stand all Night The next day the Curd will be thick and firm above and the Drink clear under it I conceive it may do well to put into each Glass when you powr the Liquor into it a Sprig of Rosemary a little bruised or a little Limon-peel or some such thing to quicken the Taste or use Amber-Sugar or Spirit of Cinamon or of Lignum Cassiae or Nutmegs or Mace or Cloves a very little A Receipt for a Tansie Spinage Sorrel Tansie Wheat a Quart of Cream Bread the quantity of a twopeny Loaf twenty Eggs and half the Whites one Nutmeg half a pound of Sugar and the Juice of a couple of Limons Spinage is the chief Herb to have the Juice Wheat also is very good when it is young and tender You must not take much Sorrel for fear of
out with the Spoon much of the thin Liquor leaving the Cherries moist enough but not swimming in clear Liquor then put to them your Sugar in Powder and boil it up quick scumming away the Froth that rises When it is well incorporated and clear strew in a little more of the Sugar which course will make the Colour the finer when they are boiled enough take them off and bruise them with the back of a Spoon and when they are cold put them up in Pots This will keep well all the Year To make a fine Marmalade of Currans with Juice of Raspes and Currans as Madam Mancy made it for the Queen Take three pound of Cherries stoned half a pound of clear Juice of Rasps and one pound of the Juice of red Currans and a pound of fine Sugar put them altogether into the Preserving-Pan boil them with a quick Fire especially at the first skimming them all the while as any Scum riseth When you find them of a fit Consistence with a fine clear Jelly mingled with the Cherries take them from the Fire and bruise the Cherries with the Back of your Spoon and when they are cold put them in Pots Peradventure to keep all the year there may be requisite a little more Sugar It is a very fine Sweet-meat To make Conserve of red Roses Dr. Glisson's way Take a pound of red Rose Leaves well pickt and the nails cut off in about a quart of spring-Spring-water till the Water hath drawn out all the Tincture of the Roses into it self and that the Leaves be very tender and look pale which may be in half an hour keeping the pot covered while it boileth then pour the tinctured Liquor from the pale Leaves pressing it gently and set it upon the Fire by it self to boil putting into it four pound of double refin'd Sugar boil it till it be a high Syrup very near a Candy height but not to flake or candy then put the pale Rose Leaves into this high Syrup and presently take it from the fire and stir them exceeding well together to mix them uniformly If you put it into Pots while it is yet throughly warm and leave them uncovered some days putting them in the hot Sun or Stove there will grow a fine Candy upon the top which will preserve the Conserve without a Paper upon it The Colour both upon the Rose Leaves and the Syrup about them will be exceeding beautiful and red and the Taste excellent and the whole Composition very tender and smoothning and easie to digest in the Stomach without clogging it as doth the ordinary rough Conserve made of raw Roses beaten with Sugar which is very rough in the Throat When you have begun a Pot and have taken some out you must always keep a Paper lying close upon the Conserve or else it will be apt to grow mouldy on the top where you have broken the Candy that was upon it The Conserve of Roses is very good for Colds and Coughs and for the Lungs it is also exceeding good for Sharpness and Heat of Urine and Soreness of the Bladder eaten much by it self or drunk with Milk or Distilled Waters of Mallows and Plantane or milk-Milk-water Dr. Bacon's Way of making Conserve of Roses Take twelve pound of the best Lump or Kitchen-Sugar boil it with Spring-water and clarifie it with Whites of Eggs taking away all the Skum then boil it to a Syrup and when it is half boiled begin to beat your Rose-Leaves being pick'd and the white Nails cut off beforehand put half a pound of them to every pound or Sugar into your Mortar and beat them well squeezing into them as you beat them the Juice of two Limons which brings out their Colour finely You must have finish'd beating your Roses by then the Sugar is come by boiling to a high Syrup for if you should let them lie still in the Air but a little while they would grow black and of ill colour then with your Ladle put the Roses to the Sugar and stir them well in it to incorporate all well and uniformly together let them boil gently and a thick scum of the Roses will rise which you must scum off from time to time continually as it rises and reserve it in a Pot by it self for it will be good hard Sugar of Roses and may be about an eighth or ninth part of the whole After it is clear from Scum and boiled near a quarter of an hour with the Roses in it and that you see by a drop upon a plate that is of a due consistence take the pan from the fire and stir all well together and put it into pots which leave uncovered ten or twelve days setting them in the hot Sun all the day long during that time to give the Roses a fine hard Crust or Candy at the top If the Sun favour you not you may use a Stove After twelve days tie Covers of Paper upon the Pots Dr. Bacon useth to make a pleasant Julep of this Conserve of Roses by putting a good spoonful of it into a large drinking-Glass or Cup upon which squeeze the Juice of Limon work these well together with the Back of a Spoon putting water to it by little and little till you have filled up the Glass with Spring-water so drink it He strains it sometimes and then it is a beautiful and pleasant Liquor To preserve green Walnuts as they are done in France and Germany Take green Walnuts when they are of a fit bigness to preserve which is about the beginning or the middle of July pierce them through three or four times and put them in fair water for three or four days shifting the water twice a day then boil them in fresh water for a quarter of an hour then throw away this water and powr fresh boiling water upon them and boil them therein till they be tender but not too tender then powr off the Liquor and to twelve pints thereof take six pounds of ordinary brown Sugar dissolve the Sugar in eleven pints of the water boil it up and clarifie it with Whites of Eggs so soon as it boileth put in the other pint of water which you kept for that purpose and as the Whites of the Eggs rise put them down again then strain it through an Hypocras Bag and when it is cold boil it up to a Syrup Then stick your Nuts with Cloves and Cinamon and put them into your pot and when your Syrup is cold powr it upon them so much of it that they may be just covered and let it stand four and twenty hours and the Syrup will be very thin by drawing out the water that was in the Nuts powr it off and boil it up again and when it is cold pour it upon them again and when it hath stood four and twenty hours powr it of and boil it again to its due Consistence then being cold powr it on again and as long as you see that the Syrup
bruise the Seeds and put them all in a pottle of Spring-water in a pipkin close covered which set on hot Embers for a whole day till the Liquor be half consumed then strain it without pressing it then sweeten it with brown Sugar-Candy and drink thereof Morning and Evening Dr. Harvey his Excellent Snail-water against Consumptions and Hectick Feavers Take a pound of Garden-Snails with their Shells especially those that are about Vines wash them well with water and a little salt then wash them once or twice more with fair water to wash off the salt then bruise them with their shells to a Mash in a stone-Mortar add to them Ground-Ivy Spedwell Lung-wort Scabious Burnet Coltssoot and Nettle tops of each a handfull English Liquoras half an ounce Dates stoned twelve in number of the four great cold Seeds of each one dram and a half Saffron a scruple put them with the Snails in a new glazed Pipkin or a Tin Coffee-pot which is better and pour on them a quart of Spring water fasten the Cover close to the pipkin by pasting it round with Dough Set the pipkin in a Kettle of hot water over the fire let it stand therein for twelve hours then strain it and press out the Liquor dissolving into it while it 's warm a quarter of a pound of clarified Honey put it up in Glass-Bottles and keep it in a Cellar Note That the Herbs must be shred the Seeds bruised and the Liquoras cut small This water cools the heat of the Hectick Fever through the cool clammy and glutinous substance of the Liquor of Snails It repairs the parts consumed it facilitates expectoration that is it makes the tough Matter and Flegm come up easie by Cough through its lenifying quality whereby it sweetens the Humors by allaying those gnawing Salts that prey on the Lungs Some would have this to be distilled but in the distilling of the Snails there is no part of the unctuous or glutinous Liquor that cometh over or passeth the Alembick but remains in the bottom of the Still and a meer Flegm and Elemantary water cometh over which hath not power to do the Effects above-mentioned For this and other Reasons the Doctors commend the aforesaid Water This Water is also good for Rickets in Children I have been told by several credible persons who have seen the experience of it that many persons have been recovered out of a Consumption by eating Snails boiled in Milk the Snails washed with water and a little salt and then washed again once or twice to wash off the Salt and then stamped with their Shels as in the foregoing Receipt then boil them in Milk and having strained it grate some Nutmeg in it and so eat it The Syrup of Turnips is very good for a Cough or Consumption Make it thus Bake a quantity of Turnips pared in a pipkin close covered in an Oven with Houshold-bread then press out the Liquor as hard as you can Take of this Liquor one pint Hysop-water half a pint boil it with brown Sugar-Candy to a Syrup and clarifie it with the White of an Egg. Another Remedy against a Cold or Cough Take a pint of Hysop-water a quarter of a pound of Sugar-Candy a spoonful of Aniseed bruised and a small stick of Liquoras scraped and bruised a Pippin sliced with the parings let this stand together all night the next morning boil it a quarter of an hour then strain it and take three or four spoonfuls of it at a time warm in the Morning and at Night when you go to bed and at any time in the Day Another Remedy for a Cough or Cold from an Eminent Lady Take Hysop Raisins of the Sun stoned and Figs sliced of each a small handful Aniseeds bruised two spoonfuls Colts-foot a good handful shred the Herbs and put all together into a Gallon of Spring-water boil it until above half be consumed putting into it towards the latter end a good stick of Liquoras scraped and bruised then strain it and stir in it three or four Spoonfuls of Honey Drink thereof warm four or five spoonfuls at a time in the Morning Afternoon and at Night An Excellent Electuary for a Cough or Consumption Take Enulacampana-roots boil them a little in Water then pour away the Water and boil them again in fresh water until they be tender then mix them with as much of the Pap of roasted Pippins the weight of these both of brown Sugar-Candy in fine Powder stamp these well together in a Stone-Mortar to a Conserve Take of this every morning the quantity of a Walnut for a week or fortnight and afterwards take it but three times a week Another Experimented Remedy for Asthma Shortness of Breath Straitness of Breast and Oppression of the Stomach c. Mr. Newel told me a Friend of his being much troubled with the Diseases above mentioned took for some time every morning three spoonfuls of the best Sallet Oyl he could get with a little Sugar this he continued for some time and was perfectly cured I have been told that several persons have been cured of dry consumptive Coughs by drinking every Morning a good Draught of Posset Drink and then taking three spoonfuls of good Sallet Oyl after it in the Posset was boiled some of the Moss that groweth upon Oaken pales a good handful in two quarts the Posset was repeated at night without the Oyl drinking it warm and sometimes in the Afternoon taking sometimes at night one of Matthews's Pills drinking the Posset after it going to bed Some have been cured of dry Coughs by the Use of this Posset alone boil'd with the white Moss that groweth upon Oaken pales drinking it warm three times a day Another Excellent Remedy against Consumpion Experimented by Dr. Bates Take Colts-foot Succory Endive Borage Liverwort of each six handfuls shred them all very small put them in a Gallon of new Milk let them steep all night in the morning distil them Take of this water and of red-rose-Red-Rose-water of each three spoonfuls put this to half a pint of Red Cows Milk sweeten it with Sugar of Roses and so drink it warm repeat the same in the Afternoon and at night when you go to bed This is a very good Remedy the water is good against Hectick Fevers and the use of the Sugar of Roses is good when there is any Loosness The Syrup of Ground-Ivy is a very Sovereign thing in all consumptive cases it is pectoral cephalick and vulnerary and heals the Ulcers of the Lungs the best time of making it is in May. The way of making it is thus Take the Leaves and Stalks of it cutting only the Root then wash it and drain it well then shred it a little and stamp it to a Mash in a stone-Mortar then press it in a hair-bag in an Apothecaries Press to get out all the Juice which being setled powr it off and let it boil a walm or two and the curd or dross will rise
four spoonfuls more of the said Julep after it this must be given when the hot Fit has been one hour upon him and once in two hours let him take five spoonfuls more of the said Julep and so continue as long as the hot Fit lasts The Cordial Julep Take of the Elixetary-Milk-water six ounces of Plague-water three ounces double refined Sugar six drams mix them together This was ordered by Dr. Brooks The Preparation of this Water you shall find in the Chapter of Cordial Waters Another Julep to cool in Fevers Take twelve parts of water and two of Honey boil them very gently together until you have scummed away all the Scum that will rise and have clarified it with Whites of Eggs then take it from the Fire and put to it one part of Vinegar and let it run twice or thrice through a Hypocras-Bag Drink three or four spoonfuls of it Morning Evening in the Night once in two hours or when you will This hinders the Fermentation of sharp Humors and their flying up to the Head A refreshing and cooling Drink in a Burning Feaver Take four Quarts of Fountain-water and five spoonfuls of French Barley scald the Barley first in two or three waters then boil it with half a pound of Corants until a Quart be consumed then put into it two handfuls of Wood-sorrel and as much common Sorrel shred small and stamped let them infuse in the Decoction for an hour without boiling then strain it and drink thereof with the Juyce of an Orange and a little Sugar An Excellent Julep of Lemons for a Calenture to Burning Fever Take Limons and peel them then press out all the Juyce from them which being setled four and twenty hours powr off the Clear and strain it or filtre it and digest it in a stone-bottle in hot water or in Sand for twelve days then filtre it again and digest again as before repeat this until it settle no more faeces in the mean time calcine the yellow Rind or Peel of the Lemons and with distilled water draw the Salt out of the Ashes put this Salt to the purified Juyce and digest them for some time together then put it into little Vials of an ounce a piece which is the Dose for a big body Two Dose of this will cure the greatest Burning Fever it is best to give it by it self but if the Patient doth not like the Tast of it you may mix a little Sugar with it This is much better than the Syrup of Lemons for in the boiling there evaporates away the greatest part of that which is the best of the Lemons This will keep good five or six years Dr. Farrar his approved Remedy for a Purple Fever Take Cochinele in fine powder thirty or forty grains to a person of twenty years give it in some fit Cordial Water or in Wine if you have no Cordial Water at hand If the Patient be younger proportion it to his Age as seven grains to a Child of three years old eighteen grains to one of 6 years after twice or thrice doing this and keeping the Patient warm the Disease will break out in Spots But fail not to give it once or twice after they are strucken out Mr. Busson a famous Chirurgeon in France his Approved Remedy for a Burning Fever wherewith he cured many and one in Sir Kenelm's presence Take of the Leaves of Honisuckle a good quantity stamp them in a Mortar put as much fair water to it as will make a Glister then strain it and put it into the Bladder or Syringe and give it the Patient not quite cold but blood-warm It opens the Body and cools the Veins A Drink good in a Burning or Intermitting Fever or in the hot Fit of an Ague Take Whey or Posset drink if you have not Whey boil in Borage Bugloss Purslan Endive Succory Sorrel Violet Leaves Lettice Knot-grass and Mallows with a Parsly root and a Fennel root all shred small let them boil until the strength is out then strain it and let the Patient drink thereof blood-warm all the time of the Feaver CHAP. VII Select Remedies against the PLAGUE The King of Poland's Preservative against the Plague TAke the best Wine-Vinegar six quarts Juice of Celandine clarified nine pints Leaves and Roots of Avens Roots of Elecampane of each one ounce Roots of Angelica Zedoary Juniper Berries of each two ounces Sage one handful digest this two days in a gentle heat then strain it and keep it in Bottles clean stopped This is a powerful Remedy both for preserving from and curing the Plague and other Malignant Fevers It also clears the Eye-sight to a wonder taking a little Glass-full of it in the Morning fasting It is recorded that no man that drank this Medicine in the Great Plague 1592. was infected with it but was preserved from it and all other Diseases Another great Preservative against the Plague Take Sage Leaves of Elder of Rubus Idens Rue Rosemary Wood-Sorrel of each half a handful stamp them all together in a stone-Mortar then put them into a stone-Pitcher or other like Vessel and powr upon them a pint of good white Wine and a pint of Vinegar let it stand to infuse for four and twenty hours then strain it and add to the strained Liquor half a pint of Angelica-water then dissolve in it Mithridate and Venice-Treacle of each one dram Take of this Liquor one spoonful in the Morning and at Night and you shall be preserved And if you fear you have taken any infection take two or three spoonfuls of it and go to Bed and procure Sweat The Great Antidote and Preservative which Sir Kenelm Digby bid me get prepared for his Family when that Great Plague began in London in the year 1665 was thus Take a pound of the Leaves of Wood-sorrel and pound them by themselves half an hour then take three pound of fine Sugar in powder and mix these together and keep it stirring and beating for three hours more and then take four ounces of Mithridate or London Treacle and pound them all together for half an hour longer which makes four hours in all then put it up in Gally-pots and tie it up close with a Bladder or Leather or Paper In time of Infection take the quantity of a large Nutmeg every Mornng fasting and if you have taken any Infection or if you find your self stricken with any Disease at the Heart or pain in the stomack take almost as much more and go to Bed and procure a moderate Sweat for an hour Of this I took my self and went up and down the City every day in the time of the Plague and through God's Blessing was preserved and all those that took it To preserve one in time of Infection Sir Kenelm says it is good to eat a little of the Tops of Rue with Bread and Butter and a little very old strong Cheese in the Morning and to drink a Glass of Stomack-water Claret-wine or wine and
together in a Vessel close stopped stirring it sometimes for two days then distil it in a Glass Alembick or in a Copper Alembick with its Refrigeratory or Bucked Head Keep every Running by it self and mix them as you best like and spend the weakest first sweetning it with Sugar It is an Excellent Cordial it comforts the Heart revives the Spirits prevents swouning and fainting-fits is very good against Agues and Fevers Worms and small Pox to drive the Venom from the Heart It is excellent against the Plague and Infection all Epidemical and Pestilential Diseases Dose two spoonful of the strongest for aged People and of the small for Children Dr. Bnessius a Physitian at Paris his Cordial Water of green Walnuts as he makes it every year He gave the Receipt to Sir Kenelm Digby Take a good quantity of the Flower or Bloomings of the Walnut-Trees it is a long green Excrescence and is the first thing that buddeth out stamp them in a stone Mortar and press out all the Juice from them in an Apothecaries Press distil this Juice in a Glass-Still in Balneo Mariae or in Sand and keep the Water save also the Mark that you pâ—essed the Juice out of Then when the Nuts are as big as Hazle Nuts take also a quantity of them and stamp them and press out the Juice which distil there remains in the bottom a thick Substance like an Extract whick keep as also the Water Then when the Nuts are growing big and have but a Jelly in them instead of a Kernel and are fit to preserve take a quantity of them and stamp them and press out the Juice which distil as before to a like Consistence as the other Mingle your three Waters together and this is his Water of Walnuts which is a great Cordial and is Diaphoretick It is much recommended for the Cure of Agues and intermitting Fevers and all malignant Fevers It fortifies the Stomack Head and Brain is good against the suffocation of the Mother it is good against the Colick caused by Wind and Flegmatick Matters The Dose is from three or four ounces to seven or eight I saw a Letter from a Person of Quality at Paris to Sir K. Digby wherein he related to Sir K. that he had cured himself of a Quartan Ague by taking a Glass full of the said water which he had made taking it assoon as he found the least Symptom of the approaching Fit he went to bed and covered himself very warm and fell asleep and had no Fit at all that time nor never after The thick Consistences which remain after the distillation of the Juices the said Doctor putteth together and when he hath evaporated them to a fit height for making of Plaisters if they were not so already by their distilling he putteth to them removed from the Fire a little Venice-Turpentine about an eighth or tenth part or a little more and a little Powder of Cinamon and Cloves and a little wheat-flower to thicken it also a little Salt and kept it in a Pot all the year of this he makes Plaisters for the Stomach from the Sternum to the Navil and six or eight fingers breadth which let remain on as long as it will stick taking it off sometimes to wipe away the Water This comfrots and strengthens the stomack wonderfully when it digesteth not well You should so proportion your Substances or Nuts as to have about a like quantity of juice of each For Crudities and indigestions of the stomach when a loosness followeth which usually commeth from eating more than one can digest he prescribeth two or three days very slender diet and to eat one Morning three or four candid or preserv'd green Walnuts and to drink a little burnt Claret after them or raw Wine eating a mouthful of bread this settleth the Stomach very right The way how to candite and preserve green Walnuts will be set down in the Chapter of preserving and candying A rare Cordial Water called the Royal Aqua Vitae Take Lignum Aloes Roots of Zedoary Angelica Carline Thistle and Valerian of each one ounce Cinamon Mace and Citon-rind of each six drams Cloves lesser Cardamoms and sweet Fennel-seed of each half an ounce flowers of Rosemary Sage and Marjoram of each two small handfuls which is to be bruised and put them into a stone Jugg or Bottle with Spirit of Wine and Malmsey Wine of each four pints stop the Vessel close and them macerate in a warm Bath for three days then distil them in a sand Bath or in Balneo Mariae dissolving in the distilled water fine Sugar then put it up for use And if you would have it perfumed you may dissolve in it Ambergreece and Musk of each half a dram This Water is much esteemed and used by all the Nobles in France The perfection of it is that although there be not many Ingredients yet they are of great vertue It fortifieth the Brain Head and Stomach strengthens the Memory comforts the Heart reviveth the Spirits when enfeebled by the distillation of the Spirits or overpressed by the abundance of ill qualities or bad humors It is to be taken fasting from one spoonful to three in some proper liquor A Cordial Water or Spirit of Cinamon Take chosen Cinamon bruised one pound Aqua Vitae three pints the best Rose-waeter two pints let them digest a day or two close stopped then distil it in dn Alembick with a Refrigeratory or in a Glass Cucurbite or a Tin Cucurbite with a Glass-head such as described in our Engine The first pint will be pretty good and the last milky and sweet of the Cinamon but strong of the Spirits You may distil this till you perceive it commeth no more strong of Cinamon Keep every one of these three Waters in a Vessel apart close stopped The spirituous Water of Cinamon is good speedily to comfort and fortifie all the noble parts and principally the Heart for which reason it is given with great success in swooning and faming Fits It comforts and strengthens the Stomach excites natural heat thereof helpeth Digestion stays Loosness expels Wind and eases Chollicks which are caused thereby It is much recommended to strengthen Women in Labour to facilitate the Birth and case their pains It is also very good to provoke the Terms and to exhail the vapors that rise in the Matrix It is given alone of the first runnings mixt together from half a spoonful to a spoonful when there is any necessity but when you take it often it is better to keep to the lesser Dose Sir Kenelm Digby says that Lignum Cassia maketh a much finer Spirit than Cinamon he made it thus as I make it now Take four ounces of the quilled sort which is the finest and best bruise it well and put it into a gallon of Mallago-Sack Digest them together three or four days in Balneo then distil it with a very gentle heat If you will rest there severe the first second and third
fish called Mussels she was very bad her heart and Stomach very much oppressed and her Body was full of red spots she took a Cup of this Surfeit water and was perfectly cured and I my self have had experience of the good effects of this Water having at one time surfeited my self by eating of those Mussels so that I found my Heart and Stomach oppressed in such a manner that it seemed as if there lyed a very heavy burthen or weight upon my Stomach and could scarce fetch my breath thy Face and the white of my Eyes was as red as a Scarlet They gave me a Glass of this Surfeit-water and it presently cured me The Lady Dacreses Cordial of black Cherries wherewith she was cured of a great dizziness giddiness and swimming in her Head and many others have found the like effects of it Sir K.D. Take four pound of black Cherries squeeze out first all the Juice from them then bruise the rest with their stones in a stone-Mortar then put them with the Juice into a Bag with Bawm and tops of Rosemary shred very small or stamped of each one handful Cinamon and Nutmeg of each half an ounce then powr thereon two quarts of Sack stop it close and let it stand twelve hours then distill it and draw so much of it that it be weak like Aqua Mirabilis sweeten it with Sugarcandy to your taste The said Lady distilled this in an ordinary cold Still but Sir K. D. sayeth he thinks it were better to distill it in a Cucurbite you may have one made of Tin which will serve you many years whereas a Glass one is very apt to break and fit a Glass-head to it and so you may distill either in a sand-Bath or in Balneo Mariae It is a pleasant Cordial Water drink a little Wine a Glass-full at a time in the Morning fasting and at Night going to Bed My Lady Poltney told Sir Kenelm Digby that she had known black Cherrie-Wine do great effects in that case Make it thus Press out the Juice from black Cherries and then bruise the rest with the stones and press that again then put both Juices together and let them settle then put the clear into bottles with a lump of Loaf-Sugar into each bottle to make it work after it hath wrought and is ripe drink of it The true and genuine Receipt of that famous Spirit called the Queen of Hungaries Water so called by reason of the wonderful effects which a Queen of Hungary received by it at the age of seaventy two years Take four pound of Rosemary flowers gathered in a fair Morning two or three hours after Sun-rising and picked from all the green part put them into a Cucurbite and powr upon them three quarts of Spirit or Wine well rectified press down the flowers into the said Spirit and then cover the Cucurbite with its Head and Alembeck lute well all the Juncture with paste and paper then place it in a sand Bath and lute a Receiver to it then leave it so until the next Morning then distill it with so moderate a fire that whilst the Spirit distilleth the Head may not be so much as warm or to hasten the distillation you may cover the Head with a linnen Cloth doubled several times and dipped in cold water and dip again and cool the Head seleral times continue the distillation until you have drawn about three quarts of Spirit which will be very pure and charged with the best and volatile substance of the flowers then take out all the fire and let the bath cool unlute the Vessels and put the Spirit into a Bottle well stopped then strain and press out the liquor that remains in the Cucurbite and clarifie it then put it into the Cucurbite again and distill it until it remaineth in the bottom of the consistence near as thich as Honey or a thick Syrup which put into a Pipkin well glazed and boil it over a gentle fire to the thickness of an ordinary Extract Put the last Spirit into a bottle by it self The great fame and reputation of this Water and the great Vent for it in Germany and France for many years since has caused several persons as ignorant as wicked to prepare it after their manner taking only the tops of Rosemary with the flowers instead of the pure flowers well picked which makes the scent of the Water stronger but more tart and unpleasing as well as the taste and instead of rectified Spirit of Wine make common Aqua Vitae serve their turns The true Spirit of Rosemary-flowers well prepared is a most sovereign thing against all cold Distempers of the Head and Brain It is also an excellent Remedy against all cold Diseases and affections of the Nerves and Joints against Rheumatisms and cold Gouts It cureth the Head-ach dissolves and dissipates the vapors that causes the Megrim and Vertigo strengthens the Memory helpeth deafness and noise in the Ears by dropping two or three drops of it into the Ear strengthens and clears the sight by washing the Eye-lids therewith and dropping of it into the Eyes it healeth Contusions Bruises and Swellings it asswages the Tooth-ach fortifies and strengthens the Stomach and Bowels creates an Appetite and helpeth Digestion it opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen as also the Womb suppressing the vapors thereof It is of great power to preserve and strengthen natural heat and to ease aged People of a great many of those Diseases that attend upon old Age. The Dose is from half a spoonful to a whole spoonful in Wine or any Cephatick Cordial Water For the Head-ach Megrim and Vertigo's you may snuff up a little of it into the Nostrils and apply it with a linnen Cloth doubled to the Temples and Forehead and in the same manner it is to be used for Bruises and Swellings Rheumatisms and the Siatica It whitens softens and smoothens the Skin preserving the Complexion and Beauty thereof being used either alone or mixt with wild Tansie-water Water of Lillies or Water-Lillies or May-dew distilled In short there is hardly any Remedy to be found that produceth so many and good effects as this Spirit as several famous Authors confirm and testifie as well as Experinece can testifie The second Spirit you distilled from the Liquor pressed out is also good and may produce good effects for it will stay longer in the Stomach than the first by reason it containeth less of the volatile part of the flowers The Dose must be doubled A most precious Cordial Elixir of Dr. Mynsight Take red Roses dried Mint Bawm white Sanders Cinamon Orange and Citron-peels of each half an ounce Lignum Aloes and Mace of each two drams Seeds of Coriander of Angelica of Anise of sweet Fennel of each half an ounce Spicknard Galingal the less Safron Cardamoms Cloves of each half a dram prepare and bruise them all and put them into a Cucurbite and having powred thereon three quarts of Spirit of Wine and two
to prevent and cure the Apoplexy Take Tops of Marjoram Jilly-flowers of Lillies of the Valley of Rosemary Lavender Sage Primroses of each three handfuls infuse them in Spirit of Wine rectified and Orange-flower-water of each three pints set it in the Sun for eight days then distil it in a sand Bath and keep the Water This Water is excellent to fortifie the Brain and the noble parts and is given from half a spoonful to a whole one as well to prevent as to cure the Apoplexy and all Diseases of the Brain The best way to distil a most Odoriferous and Spirituous rose-Rose-water far beyond any that can be drawn by ordinary means and as much to be commended for its pleasant and penetrating Odour as for its Vertues Take 20 pound of damask-Damask-Roses pick'd stamp them in a Stone-Mortar with a wooden Pestle mix and beat with them by degrees one pound of gray Salt powdered put it into a large earthen Pitcher or into two crush and stamp them down very close and order it so that the Pitcher may be quite full then stop it up close with a Cork fitted to it then close it up with yellow Wax made warm so that no Air can get in then tie a Bladder about it and set it in a Cellar for six weeks Then open the Pitcher and you shall find the Roses to have a kind of smell of Wine which is a Sign of their fermentation and of the aptness of the spiritual parts to separate from the terrestrial and to ascend in distillation Take out a pound of these fermented Roses and distil them in a Cucurbite in Balneo Mariae between lukewarm and boyling hot until the Roses remain almost dry then take them out and make the Cucurbite clean and put into it seven or eight pound of fresh Roses out of the Pitcher stopping the Pitcher up close again then powr upon the Roses the water that you distilled distil it as before until the Roses be almost dry then take them out and put in fresh Roses and powr upon them the distilled water and distil again as before Continue doing thus till you have distilled all your Roses and thus you shall have a most Odoriferous rose-Rose-water which will smell all the House over while you are distilling and you may pickle what quantity of Roses you please whilst they are in their season and several Pitchers with them instead of one and you may distil them when you please at Michaelmas or at Christmas for they will keep good a long time provided your Pitchers he well stopp'd and closed Thus they commonly do them in Germany and in France And of this Rose-water you may draw an inflamable Spirit that will burn like Spirit of Wine by rectifying it in a Mattress with a long Neck with a Head upon it Sir Walter Raleigh's great Cordial according to the Counsel and Advice of Sir Ken. Digby and Sir Alexander Fraiser first Physitian to his Majesty The first Ingredients of Animals Harts-horn calcin'd in the Vapors Distillations and Circulations of Spirit of Wine with some rasp'd Harts-horn both powdered of each an even quantity in all four ounces The Second Oriental Bezoar-stone reduced into inpalpable Powder three ounces The Third Oriental prepared Pearl two ounces The Fourth Of the Flesh Hearts and Livers of Vipers they being first stripped of their Skins and dried in a Glass-bottom in Maries Bath until they are fit to be reduced into Powder three drams put two drams thereof to the Vegetables and add one dram to the Powders The Fifth Musk powdered with some white Sugar-Candy in a Marble or Stone Mortar thirty grains and afterward dissolve it in a vaporous Bath with Spirit of wine in a Pelican and draw off the Spirit again with a gentle heat of the same Bath unto the consistency of a thick Syrup which must be afterwards mixed with the other things The sixth Amber-greece four drams powdered in a Marble or stone-Mortar with some white Sugarcandy so long till they are perfectly united which will be very troublesom without the subtil and fiery Oyl of rectified and thrice passed over most pure salt of Tartar in Maries Bath therefore this mixture of Sugar and Amber-greece must be put in a Glass-bottle and powr over it of this subtil Oyl until it overtops it the breadth of four fingers then close the Vessel and place it in a vaporous Bath until it be united by dissolution then siltre it through Cotton into a glass-Viol and being cooled there will be united of these three Bodies a Butter or Cream most delicious and pleasing which already of it self is a great Cordial thus the Amber-greece must be prepared for this Operation The Tincture of Coral to be taken as in the Author's first Receipt and strike down the Pearl with Oyl of Vitriol and Oyl of Sulphur equal parts for that is the best way Vegetives and first Roots Which are the Angelica Tormentil and round Birthwort-roots of each one ounce the Fraxinella or white Dittany-Roots the Carline the Contra Yerva and Gentian-Roots the Serpentary of Virginia the Valerean and Zedoary-roots of each half an ounce the fittest time to gather these Roots is the beginning of the Spring Secondly Plants Which are Bittony Carduus Benedictus Soâ—rdium or Water-Germander the Dittany of Creet Marjoram Mints Bawm and Seddual of each four handfuls these Plants to be gathered a little after Sun-rising in a serene dry day the Dew being dried off and not after Rain Thirdly Flowers Which are Borage and Bugloss-flowers Clove-gilly-flowers the red Rose Rosemary-flowers Rosa solis the Marygold and Elder-flowers of eacn one Pottle Safron half an ounce flowers of Nutmegs or Mace two ounces Fourthly Fruits and Berries Namely Cardamoms Cubebs Alkermes-Berries Juniper-Berries Cloves and Nutmegs of each one ounce the Juice of Alkermes of which all over Europe is made the Confection of Alkerms is supposed better than the dried Berry as in the Authors Receipt Fifthly Barks and Rinds Which are Sassafrass and Cinamon of each four ounces Limon and Orange-rinds of each two ounces The Vegitables if they be dry must be put into gross powders if green they must be cut very small with Sissers for shredding with a Knife will waste the Juice Sixthly Woods Wood of Aloes and Sassafras of Virginia of each four ounces These Woods must be extracted in a pure and simple Spirit or some of that Spirit drawn off from the course extract to perform which there needs no more than to proceed simply in the same manner as before in the digestion and filtration of the last Extract then mix this resinous Extract with the Sugar the Extracts Powders Syrup which must be done by dissolving gently with some of its proper Spirit in a Pan and thus unite it gently with some Syrup before it be joyned with the rest otherwise it will remain in lumps and will not dissolve in the Stomack with ease enough to communicate its vertue when it is needful a Cordial should operate
scorching and itching Humor that waters and itches which cured a Gentlewomans Arm which did abound with very ill disposed waterish Humors Take Fumitory four handfuls Langue de beif and Scurvey grass of each one handful Madder two ounces Harts-tongue one ounce Rhubarb sliced and Sena of each half an ounce sweet Fennel-seed bruised one ounce Roots of Elecampane and red Dock both bruised and Currans wash'd and bruised of each half a pound boil them all in two Gallons of Ale to a Gallon then strain it and drink a pint thereof in two draughts every Morning fasting at two hours distance taking the last draught three hours before Dinner Note That it is much better to boil it in clarified Whey An Ointment which she used with the Drink Take Sheeps Suet well tried one pound boil it in a pint of Plantane water and a pint of the Juice of Housleek over a gentle fire till a pint is consumed or more and out a pint remaining let it stand till it is cold then take off the Fat that is upon it and with the Liquor bath the Parts with a Spunge and having well bathed it anoint it with the Fat you took off and continue it till you are well as also the Drink A most Excellent Drink for prevention of the Stone and Gravel whether in the Reins or Bladder and for many other Diseases much Experienced by a famous Physitian in France who using it three times a year viz. just before Easter in the heat of Summer and at Michaelmass preserved himself by it to the Age of 122 years in perfect health Take two quarts of Oats the clearest and soundest you can get wash them well in several waters and rub them between your hands then drain them and boil them in five quarts of Fountain-water with a good handful of Dandelion-roots well wash'd and stamp'd in a stone Mortar let them boil an hour then strain it and put into the Liquor four ounces of Honey and half an ounce of Sal prunella let it boil a quarter of an hour then pour it into an Earthen Vessel and let it cool then put it into Bottles Take of this two Beer-glasses full in the Morning fasting taking the last Glass two hours before Dinner and another in the Afternoon and continue it for a fortnight without observing any Diet or keeping House It is much recommended to be very wholsom it cleanses the Reins is good against the Stone and Gravel purifieth and strengthens the Lungs cures all Fevers and Agues even Tertian and Quartains opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen helps all sorts of Colicks and pain in the side the Scurvey Dropsie Heaviness and Weariness of the Body revives the Senses clears the Sight sharpens the Appetite and causes rest in the Night strengthens Nature and preserves Health It may be taken at any time without danger A Diet-Drink against Melancholy Take Sena two ounces Fumitory Hops and Borage of each a pound boil them in two Gallons of spring-Spring-water to one gallon then strain it and sweeten it with Sugarcandy or Honey and after a weeks time drink a draught of it in the Morning fasting and another about four in the Afternoon Another for the same Take a pint of Aqua vitae and a quart of Rose water four ounces of Liquoras bruised three ounces of Aniseed bruised boil all together with a gentle fire to a pint then strain it and take frequently thereof in the Morning fasting My Lord Brunkard's Diet-Drink for the Scurvey and Dropsie Take of Lignum vitae and Sarsaparilla of each eight ounces Sassafras one ounce Rosemary Marjoram Ground-Ivy Thyme Bark of the Roots of Capers Sea and Garden-Wormwood of each a handful an Orange Peel stuck with Cloves and of quartered Nutmegs put them all in a Bag and hang them in half a Barrel of six shilling Beer drink thereof when you are thirsty the staler it is the better A Rare and Excellent Drink of great Virtues for the Cure of several Distempers learnt of a Gentleman who at his Death confessed he had done many wonderful Cures with it Take half a pound of quick Lime new from the Kiln powr upon it a Gallon of fair water let it stand eight hours then pour off the Clear and strain it through a Sieve with a grey Paper in it put into this Liquor one pound of blew Currans beaten Liquoras bruised Aniseeds bruised Sassafras of each four ounces Mace two drams let these infuse in the Water twelve hours then strain it again and put it in Bottles for Use This Drinks Cures all manner of Obstructions inward and outward Vlcers strengthens Nature purifieth the Blood and is good for the Scurvey and Dropsie it cures Consumption and shortness of Breath it is excellent against the Stone and Gravel Strangury and retention of Vrine it creates an Appetite and causes a good Digestion it kills Worms and is an admirable Remedy against the cold Palsie Drink of it three times a day half a pint at a time with a little Syrup of Ground-Ivy CHAP. XIV Select Syrups A very good Syrup against cold Diseases of the Head Brain and Sinews as the Palsie Apoplexy Falling Sickness Cramp and Water distilling out of the Head lying in Bed TAke of the Flowers of Stechados four ounces Thyme Calamint Organum Sage Flowers of Betony and Rosemary of each an ounce and half Seeds of Rue Piony and Fennel of each three ounces boil them in five quarts of running water till half is consumed then strain it and boil it up to a Syrup with Sugar and Honey of each two pound then take Ginger Cinamon Calamus Aromaticus and Nutmeg of each two ounces bruise them and tie them up in a course thin Cloth of loose and open Threds and hang it in the Syrup A very good Syrup against the Scurvey and to sweeten and attemper the Blood Take of the Juices of Scurvigrass Brook-lime Fumitory Water-cresses of Bugloss and of Pippins or Permains of each half an ounce of the Bark of Roots of Capers and Polipode of the Oak of each half an ounce Epithymum Bawm Agrimony Maidenhair Broom-flowers and Borage-flowers of each half an ounce shred the Herbs small and bruise the Roots and boil them all to a pint and half then strain it and boil it to a Syrup with a sufficient quantity of Sugar Use it with White or Rhenish Wine An Excellent Syrup to clear and open the Breast and Lungs often Approved Take Liquoras small sliced ten ounces Maidenhair five ounces Hysop two ounces put all these into a Pottle-pot and powr thereon a quart of Spring-water set the Pot into a Kettle or Pot of hot water on the Fire and keep it almost boiling hot for fourteen hours and as the Water consumes in the Kettle fill it up again with hot water then strain it and put the Liquor in a clean Posnet and put to it clear Honey Sugar and Sugarcandy of each ten ounces put into it the White of an Egg beaten
five times at last the dye will be so deep that it will look almost black lay of it on a good deal beyond the pained part on all sides keep it thus continually covered and warm with it CHAP. XXXVIII Select Remedies for the Back For weakness in the Back TAke Dates stone them and take out the inner hard white skin then stamp them and mix them with the pith of an Oxe beat and work them well together then add to it eggs and grated bread mix them all well together with a sufficient quantity of cream fry them and eat thereof in the morning fasting strowing sugar upon it Another Take the pith of an Oxone pound Ale and Muscadine or Alegant or old Malaga of each one â—ynte Rasins of the Sun stoned half a handfull Currans four ounces ten or twelve dates sliced a stick of Liquorice bruised Anniseeds half an ounce boyl all these to the consumption of half then strain it and drink thereof warm in the morning fasting grating nutmeg into it Another for weakness in the Back Take the Kidneys of an Oxe or Steer slice them very thin then stew them easily in a quart of water close covered to the consumption of half then add half a pynte of Red Rose water and as much Alegant or Muscadine add Sugar and grated nutmeg take thereof four or five spoonfuls in the morning and at four in the afternoon for a week together then intermit a week and then take it again another week if you think it need Another to strengthen the Back and to restore marrow in it Take the pith of an Oxe half a handfull blew Currans washed and bruised two ounces boyl them together in Allegant or Muscadine then mix it with the yolks of two new layd eggs and grated nutmeg and take a spoonfull or two warm in the morning fasting Another often approved Remedy for a sprain in the Back and to strengthen it Take the yolk of a new layd egg beat it with a glass-ful of Muscadine Alegant or old Malaga then warm it well and grate nutmeg in it and drink it twice a day For a Crick in the Back an outward Remedy Take the marrow of the bone of a Horse warm it and anoynt the Back with it it will give speedy ease and in four or five times anoynting perfectly cure it For heat in the Back and Reins Take Rose water and infuse therein red and yellow saâ—â—ders and red rose leaves let it infuse for twelve hours then bathe your Back very well therewith it will asswage the heat and greatly comfort the Reins For pain in the Back Take Comfry roots and stamp them and boyl them in posset drink thereof four or five days together Also take Knot grass shred it and mix it with butter and make Tansie thereof and eat it it much availeth to the said Cure Sr. Kenelm Digby's Excellent astringent Plaister for the Back Take Comfry Roots Knot grass Cinquefoil roots Budweed or Bawdweed of each two good handfulls stamp all these and put to them a quart of the best sallet oyl let it boyl softly til the oyl hath extracted the vertues of the Roots then strain it then put to it four ounces of Venice Turpentine and as much of Virgin wax and two ounces of Pitch For an Ach in the Back Take Lilly roots Camomile Anniseeds of each a good handfull stamp them together and fry them in Hogs grease with a little Clarret wine make a plaister thereof and apply it to the Reins An Approved Remedy for a Sprain in the Back Take good Muscadine or in want thereof good old Malaga and a spoonfull of Madder incorporate them well together give it the Patient to drink for three mornings together and if need requires he may take it three times a day CHAP. XXXIX Select Remedies Relating to CHILDREN Of Choice and Approved Remedies for such Diseases as are incident to Children A Rare Balsom for Children breeding teeth to make them come without pain TAke two or three River Crabs and beat them in a stone Mortar then moisten them with a little water of blew bottles and press out two ounces of the juice take also two ounces of muscilage of Marshmallow roots put them together with May butter or other fresh unsalted butter three ounces Hens fat and Ducks fat of each two drams put them into a pipkin and boyl them over a gentle fire to the consumption of half the moisture then strain them and add Sugar candy finely powdered four ounces the yolk of one egg Musk and Amber grease of each six grains This Balsom hath been much experimented by many Persons of Quality in France for its Excellency to soften the gums of Infants whose teeth are ready to cut their Nurses must be carefull to anoint their gums often with it The use of it is no way inconvenient and being pleasing to taste and wholsome it can do no harm though it should be swallowed In Dr. Cnarra ' s Royal Dispensatory Another Balsom for the same Take the brains of a Hare either roasted or boyl'd mix it with honey and unsalted butter and a little distill'd water of Cullendine anoynt the Childs gums frequently therewith An approved Remedy for the Rickets Take roots of Smallage Parsly Fennel and Angelica of each a handfull slice them and boil them in distilled waters of Angelica unset Hysop and Colts foot of each one part till they are tender then strain it and boyl it up to a syrrup with white honey Then take a stick of Liquorice and scrape and bruise one end of it and give the Child with it one spoonfull of the syrrup in the morning at four in the afternoon and at night A Bath for the Rickets Liver grown or opilation of the Liver in a Child Take a Sheeps head with the wool on it cleave it in the middle and boyl it til it be tender and that the bones slip clean out of the flesh boyling with it Smallage Camomile Primrose leaves and Hysop of each four handfulls then bathe the Child all over with this broath as hot as it can endure twice a day then mash the herbs with the flesh and bind it warm to the joynts that are weak It is a certain and much approved Remedy Another Approved Remedy for the Rickets Take a quart of new milk boyl it with a handfull of Sanicle shred small til a pynte be boyl'd away let the Child drink of it warm in the morning fasting and let it neither eat nor drink within an hour after it And at night boyl a handfull of Red mint in a quart of milk and let the Child eat it last at night Continue this for a month An Oyntment for the Rickets Take Sanicle and red mints of each two handfulls shred them small and stamp them then boyl them in a pound of fresh butter then strain and press it out and anoynt the Childs breast Arms and Gullet-Bones with it warm before the Fire Another for the same Take
did eat of them To make Harts-horn Jelly Take four pounds of Harts-horn rasped boil it in two quarts of Water til it be a Jelly which you may try upon a Plate it will be so in four or five hours gentle boiling and then strain the clear Liquor from the Horn which will be a good quart then set it on the Fire again with fine Sugar in it to your Taste with half a pint of white Wine or Sack in it and a Bag of Spice containing a little Ginger a stick of Cinamon bruised and a Nutmeg quartered and two or three Cloves bruised Assoon as it beginneth to boil put into it the Whites of three or four Eggs beaten and let it boil up gently til the Eggs harden into a Curd then pour into it the Juice of four Limons and take it presently off the Fire and run it through an Hypocras Bag. My Lady Paget's Harts-horn Jelly Take a small Cock-Chick when it is scalded slit it in two pieces lay it to soak in warm water until the Blood be well out of it then take a Calves-foot half boiled slit it in the middle and pick out the Fat and Black of it put these into a Gallon of fair Water scum is very well then put into it an ounce of Harts-horn and half an ounce of rasped Ivory when it is half consumed take some of it up and if it jelly take it off and put it into a Bason then beat the Whites of four Eggs with four spoonful of Rosewater and put it to the Jelly with a quarter of an ounce of Cinamon well bruised one flake of Mace three or four thin slices of Ginger one top of Rosemary and two or three of sweet Marjoram sweeten it with fine Sugar then set it over a Chafing-dish of Coals and stir it well then cover it close and blow under it to make it boil till the Curd hardens then wring into it the Juice of half a Limon and take it presently from the Fire and strain it If you would have it more Cordial you may add one Grain of Ambergrease and half a Grain of Musk ground with a little Sugar The Way to dress Poor John to make it very tender and good Meat Put it into a Kettle in cold Water and so hang it over the Fire and let it soak and stew without boiling for three hours but the Water must be very hot then make it boil two or three walms By this time it will be very tender and swelled up then take out the Back-bone and put it to fry with Onions if you put it first into hot water as Ling and such Salt-fish or being boyled if you let it cool and heat it again it will be tough and hard Buckorn is to be watered a good hour before you put it to the fire then boyl it till it be tender which it will be quickly then Butter it as you do Ling and if you will put Eggs to it To Stew or Dress an Eel with Ragust the French way Cut the Eel in pieces and put them into your Stew-pan with white wine Butter Sibbalds and Parsly shred some Capers Salt and Pepper and a few chippings of bread to allay the sauce when it is enough serve it up and if you will you may make a white sauce to it with whites of Eggs and Verjuice or white wine and Vinegar To Stew a Carp in Short Broth. Cut the Carp in pieces and cast them into white-Wine or half water and half white wine Season it with Pepper Salt and Cloves some Limon or Orange-peel put into it a bundle of Parsly and Thyme with an Onion if you will let it stew easily till there remain but a little Broth or Sauce then put into it some Butter and some Parsly shred very small then serve it up Salmon in Short Broth. Boil it in Wine Water and Vinegar till it be tender then put into it a piece of Butter which will enter into the fish then take it out and put it in a Cloath and eat it with Vinegar you may make also a sauce to it with Butter and Anchovies which is an excellent Sauce for it Monsieur St. Ebremonds way of Stewing Oysters Take what quantity you will of the best Oysters to eat raw open them putting all their water with the fish into a Bason Take out the Oysters one by one that you may have them washed clean in their own water and lay them in the dish you intend to Stew them in Then let their water run upon them through a fine linnen that all their foulness may remain behind Then put a good great Lump of Butter to them which may be when melted half as much as their water Season them with Salt Nutmeg and a very few Cloves Let this boyl smartly covered when it is half boyled put in some Crusts of light French Bread and boil it on till all be enough then serve them up My Lord of St. Albans's way to Boyl Beef most tender and short Take a Rump or Brisket of Beef keep it without Salt as long as you may without danger to have it smell ill for so it grows mellow and tender which it would not do if it were presently salted When it is sufficiently mortifi'd rub it well with Salt let it lie so but a day and a night or at most two nights and a day Then boyl it in no more water then is necessary boyl it pretty smartly at first but afterwards but a simpring or Stewing Boyling which must continue seven or eight hours Sometimes he boyls it half over night and the rest the next morning If you should not have time to Salt it you may supply that want thus When the Beef is through boyled you may put so much Salt into the Pot as to make the Broth like brine and then boil it gently an hour longer or take out the Beef and put it into a deep dish and put to it some of his broth made brine and cover it with another dish and stew it so an hour A Hanch of Venison may be done the same way OF PRESERVING CONSERVING and CANDYING c. Apples in Gelly my Lady Pagets way set down by Sir Kenelm Digby MY Lady Paget makes her fine Preserved Pippins thus They are done best when Pippins are in their prime for quickness which is in November Make your Pippin-water as strong as you can of the Apples and that it may be the less boyled and consequently the paler put in at first the greatest quantity of pared and quartered Apples the water will bear To every pint of Pippin-Water add when you put the Sugar to it a quarter of a pint of fair Spring-Water that will bear Soap of which sort only you must use and use half a pound of Sugar the purest double Refined If you will have much Gelly two Pippins finely Pared and whole will be enough you may put in more if you will have a greater Proportion of substance to the
Gelly Put at first but half the Sugar to the Liquor for so it will be the paler Boyl the Apples by themselves in fair water with a very little Sugar to make them tender then put them into the Liquor and the rest the other half of the Sugar with them Boil them with a quick fire till they be enough and the Liquor do gelly and that you see the Apples look very clear and as though they were transparent You must put the juice of two Limons and half an Orange to this in the due time Every Pippin should be lapped over in a broad Pill of Orange which you must prepare thus Pare the Orange broad and very thin and all hanging together rub it with salt PricK it and boyl it in several waters to take away the bitterness and make it tender Then the Orange Peels must be Preserved in ordinary manner and it imports not though they be done many days before the Apples be ready and kept in syrrup Preserve it by it self with sufficient quantity of Sugar when it is throughly done and very tender which you must cast to do before hand to be ready when the Apples are ready to be put up take them out of their Syrup and lap every Pippin in an Orange-Peel and put them into a Pot or glass and pour the Liquor upon them which will be Gelly over and about the Apples when all is cold This Proportion of Liquor Apples and Orange-Peels will take up about three quarters of a pound of Sugar in all If you would keep them any time you must put in weight for weight of Sugar Sir Kenelms Observation I conceive Apple Johns instead of Pippins will do better both for the Gelly and substance and especially at the latter hand of the year and I like them thin sliced rather than whole and the Orange-Peels scattered among them in little pieces or Chips My Lady Barclays's Sweet-meat of Apples My Lady Barclay makes her fine Apple-gelly with slices of John-Apples sometimes She mingles a few Pippins with the Johns to make the Gelly but She likes best the Johns single and the cooler is paler First fill the Glass with slices cut round-wise and then pour the Gelly into it to fill up the vacuities The Gelly must be boiled to a good stiffness then when it is ready to take from the fire put in some juice of Limon and of Oranges if you like it but these must not boyl yet it must stand a while upon the fire slewing in good heat to have the juices incorporate and penetrate well Amber-grease doth well in this Sweet-meat Gelly and slices of Golden-Pippins made as of John Apples and Pippins are exceeding good Mrs. Marbury the Queens Preserving-Woman makes her Apples in Gelly thus Cut your Apples into quarters either pared or unpared boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water till it be very strong of the Apples Take the clear Liquor and put to it sufficient Sugar to make Gelly and the slices of Apple so boyl them all together till the slices be enough and the Liquor Gelly or you may boil the slices in Apple-liquor without Sugar and make Gelly of other Liquor and put the slices into it when it is Gelly and they be sufficiently boiled Either way you must at the last put some juice of Limon to it and Amber ana Musk if you will You may do it with halfs or quartered Apples in deep glasses with store of Gelly about them To have these clear take the pieces out of the Gelly they are boiled in with a slice so as you may have all the Rags run from them and then put neat clean pieces into clear Gelly The other Gelly is as good to eat and will serve as well for glasses in which you stand not so much upon the outward beauty Dr. Bacon his Syrup of Apples You may make an Excellent Syrup of Apples thus Slice a douzen or twenty Pippins into thin slices and lay them in a deep Dish S. S. S. with pure double Refined Sugar in powder Put two or three spoonfuls of water to them and cover them close with another dish cutting their joyning that nothing may expire Then set them into an Oven and when you take out the Dish you will have an Excellent Syrup and the remaining substance of the Apples will be insipid You may proceed with Damsons in the same manner or other Plumbs and you will have excellent stewed Damsons as fair as Preserved ones swimming in a very fine Syrup To make Excellent Marmelade of Pippins Take the quickest Pippins when they are newly gathered and are sharp pare and coar and cut them into half quarters put to them their weight of the finest Sugar in powder Put them into the Preserving-Pan and pour upon them as much Fountain Water as will even cover them Boyl them with a quick fire till by trying a little upon a plate you find it gellieth when it is cold then take it from the fire and put into it a little of the Rinde of Limons rasped very small and a little of the yellow Rinde of Oranges boiled tender casting away the first water to correct their bitterness and cut into narrow slices as in the Gelly of Pippins and break the Apples with the back of the Preserving-Spoon whil'st it cooleth If you like them sharper you may put in a little Juice of Limons a little before you take the Fan from the fire When it is cold put it into Pots this will keep a year or two This is the juice of Apples strained out of Rasped Apples in such sort as you make Marmelade of Quinces with the juice of Quinces would not be better than fair water to boil your Apples and Sugar in Gelly of Quinces as it was made by Sr. Kenelms Direction and the Receipt set down by himself The Quinces being very ripe and having been long gathered I took twelve Quinces in quarters and the juice of sixteen others which made two pound of juice and I made a strong Decoction of about twenty four others adding to these twenty four to make the Decoction the stronger and more slimy the Coars and Parings of the twelve in quarters and the Coars and Parings of the twenty four and the Quinces sliced All these boyled about an hour and half in ten pintes of water then I strained and pressed out the Decoction and had between four and five pounds of strong Decoction To the Decoction and Syrup I put three pound of fine Sugar which being dissolved and scummed I put in the quarters often turning them and in near three quarters of an hour it was enough When it was cold it was store of firm clear red Gelly and the quarters very tender and well penetrated with the Sugar I found by this making that the juice of Quinces is not so good to make Jelly it maketh it somewhat running like Syrup Preserved Quinces made by Sr. Kenelm's Directions and set down by himself When I
close and set it in the hot Sun for a moneth shaking it two or three times a day This Water is most Excellent for any Pin Web or Film upon the Eyes It also taketh away the itching heat and soreness thereof Another precious Water for the Eyes Take Ground-Ivy Celandine and Daisies of each one handful stamp them with a little fine Sugar or Sugarcandy in a stone-Mortar then add half a pint of Rose-water then press it out and put the liquor in a bottel and keep it for use This is recommended to be one of the best Eye-medicines that can be made It taketh away all manner of Inflamations Spots Webs Itchings and smartness in the Eyes strengthens the Sight and restores it though near lost Dip a Feather in it and drop it into the Eye Another Excellent Water for sore red or blood-shot-Eyes Take Lapae Calaminaris the worth of a groat make it red-hot in the fire then quench it in a pint of white Wine do this nine times presently one after another then grind some of the same Stone to fine powder and put it into the Wine put all into a Glass well-stopped and drop some of it into the Eyes with a feather For a Pearl in the Eye Take an Egg make a hole in it at one end and shake out the white and yolk then take the Cocktread and put it into the shell again with the quantity of a Haslle-nut of Honey and the quantity of a Pea of white Copperas then fit up the shell with Conduit-water and set it to boyl gently upon hot Embers till half of it be consumed then filtre it and drop frequently thereof into the Eyes it will continue good a Fortnight An Approved Water for the Eyes especially for the thick Cream growing over the sight of the Eyes Rost an Egg very hard then peel it and cleave it in the middle and take out the yolk then put into it a small piece of Allum and while it is hot joyn it together again then put it in a Cloth and wring it very hard and save the water that will drip from it then put into this Water a little fine powder of Ginger mix it together and drop it into the Eye with a feather two or three times a day For sore red and blood-shot-Eyes Take green Parsley stamp it very well with the white of an Egg lay it to the sore Eyes it will soak out the Blood and take away the redness A Drink for dimness of sight caused by swimming in the Brows Take a handful of Suddernwood boyl it in a quart of white Wine sweeten it with Sugar and drink thereof Morning and Evening Another Drink which cures all Pains Inflamations Soreness and Defluctions in the Eyes Much approved of by Sir Kenelm Digby Take a handful of Ground-Ivy-leaves and stalks wash it clean and swing it in a Cloth then shred it and stamp it a little then boyl it in a quart of good Ale to a pint then strain it and take half a pint of it in the Morning fasting and the other half at Night going to Bed This is as admirable also to cure all Head-ach Coughs of the Lungs Consumptions Stone and Gravel It also cures the Jaundies Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Another Remedy for the Eyes Take English Copperas four ounces grind it with one ounce of Camphir put this in a Pipkin and cover it with a Poringer with some weight in it to keep it down then set it upon gentle fire to calcine it and when it is hard take off the Pot and let it cool then take out the matter and grind it to powder and add four ounces of Bolarmoniac then sift it finely Take of this powder half an ounce put into it a quart of water and boyl it together then put it in a Glass and keep it for use Dip a little green Sarsenet in it and shut your Eyes washing only the Eyelids except they be very ill and inflamed and then you may drop some into them and if you find it too strong of it self take one spoonful of it and two spoonfuls of Rose-water and so use it To restore a decay'd sight and refresh and strengthen the Memory Take Eyebright gathered in August before Sun-rising make it into small bundles and hang them up to dry where the Sun comes not then bruise them grosly and infuse them in white Wine and drink thereof three or four times a day leaving the Wine always upon the Herbs An Excellent Remedy to strengthen the Optick Nerves help a weak sight and kill a Pin or Web. Take a handful of Mayweed two Munky-pease some call them Sows or Hog-lice these which roul themselves round like a Pepper-corn when you touch them stamp and strain this together into a quart of Ale putting in a little Ale to strain with Drink of this till you find help which God willing you will do in three or four quarts Another Excellent Water for the Eyes to strengthen the sight Take three quarts of Mallago-Sack six ounces of Ship Bisquets four ounces of white Sugarcandy reduce them to fine powder two handfuls of dried Elder-flowers let them infuse twenty four hours then distill it in Balneo Mariae and with a piece of soft Spunge bath your Eyes therewith Morning and Evening when you go to Bed and at any other time To stay a great flux of Rheum in the Eyes oft proved Take the white of an Egg beat it until it is all froath then let it settle and cut a round piece of Sheeps-leather prick it full of holes and wet it in the Egg-water taking off the froth then scrape over it some Bolarmoniach and apply it to the Temples but if the humour abound then lay a piece along the Forehead at Night when you go to Bed Let it reach over the Temples To draw back Rheum from the Eyes Take a red Colewort-leaf as much in quantity of red Sage and a little Bay-salt stamp them together and put it in a Linnen cloth and lay it in the hollow of the Nape of the Neck use it two or three Nights together and God willing it will draw the Rheum from the Eyes Another approved one for a Pin or Web. Take white Sugarcandy in fine powder Honey and red Rose-water of each one handful boyl it together and scum it clear and drop it into the Eye Another to dry Rheum to strengthen and clense the sight Take Rose-water one ounce and a spoonful of white Wine Tutia one dram Aloes Epatica and white Sugarcandy of each twenty grains all in fine powder put all into a bottel and drop thereof now and then into the Eyes For redness soreness itching heat and inflamations of the Eyes Take Celendive three-leav'd-grass Daisy-leaves and Ground-Ivy of each one handful pick wash and drean them then stamp them and put in four spoonfuls of white or red rose-Rose-water then strain it and put into it the bigness of a Wall-nut of white Sugarcandy keep it