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A09117	The treasurie of commodious conceits, and hidden secretes Commonlie called The good huswiues closet of prouision, for the health of her houshold. Meete and necessarie for the profitable vse of all estates. Gathered out of sundry experiments, lately practised by men of great knowledge: and now newly corrected, and inlarged, with diuers necessary phisicke helpes, not impertinent to euery good huswife to vse in her house amongst her own famelie.	Partridge, John, fl. 1566-1573.	1591 (1591)	STC 19429; ESTC S100351	42,215	97

twenty egs beate them and mixe them and distil them which water destroyeth chaffinges heates pimples wheales scurffes wheresoeuer they be To know whether a Woman shall euer conceiue or no. Chap. 66. TAke of the ruine of a Hare and hauing fraied and consumed it in hot water giue it the woman to drinke in the morning at her breakfast then let her stande in a hot bath And if there come a griefe or paine in her bellie she may conceiue if not she shall neuer conceiue To make a barren woman beare children Chap. 67. TAke of those litle Sea fishes called in Latine Polipi or Polipodes and roast them vpon the Embers without oile and let the woman eate of them and it shall profite and help very much hauing in the meane time the companie of a man To make women haua a quicke and speedie deliuerance of their children and without paine or at the least very litle Chap. 68. TAke leaues of Bittanie and stampe them or els make powder of them and giue the woman that laboureth to drinke of it with a litle water and shee shall bee deliuered incontinent without any great paine or labour To stop the running of the Raines fiue seuerall waies Chap. 69. TAke Venice Turpentine washt in red Rose-water foure ounces a Nutmeg Plantine seede a yellow Amber bead of each a like with like quantitie of Sinamon powder of Comsery rootes which being mingled rolle of the Turpentine in the powder make it into fine pilles as big as a beane and take them in a spoone with sirop of Rubarbe three in the morning and three two howers before supper and it will helpe it Another for the running of the Raines TAke Nutmegs half a pound and bruise them in a morter and knead them in dough and bake them which bread is very healthfull Another special way approoued TAke Hazell nuts well pilled or blanched two handfull Sinkfield and knotted grasse of each a handfull foure Camphir leaues stampe the hearbs and straine out the iuice into two pound of Muscadell then beate the Nut kernels as small as you can and put them in also take an Amber bead and beat it to powder very fine which being put in the wine to the rest stir them all together a good while then seeth it vntill it come to a pound and a litle more and drink the one halfe in the morning and the other at night making a verie light supper An other for the same Nip and Clarie fried with the yolks of three or foure Egs and taken euery morning is very good To strengthen the seed Chap. 70. TAke Succorie Endiue Plantin Violet flowers the leaues Clarie Sorrel of each half a handful with a peece of Mutton make a good broth and to eat it euening and morning is especiall good For the gnawing in a Womans Stomacke Chap. 71. TAke a good handfull of Spearemint and a handfull of Wormwood heat a Tilestone and lay these two things on it and make a litle bag and when the hearbes be hot put thē in the bag and so lay them to her stomacke To make a sweete Damaske powder foure maner of waies TAke two or three handful of dried Roseleaues two grains of Musk half an ounce of Cloues and beat these all to powder 2. Another way TAke sixe ounces of Orace foure ounces of Cloues two ounces of Storax Calamite an ounce of Labdanum with two ounces of yellow Saunders and a litle Muske 3. An other way TAke two ounces of Cloues foure ounces of Spruce foure ounces of Storax Calamite foure ounces of Roses three ounces of Beniamin 4. Another way TAke three ounces of Cypres foure ounces of Beniamin two ounces of Coliander or Labdanum three ounces of Storax Calamite two ounces of Roses beate all to powder To make Pepper soft with the vertue of the same YOu shall doo this after the same manner as is showed for greene Ginger in the 15. Chap. that is with sand and the like sirope season and keepe them Ginger and Pepper in Sirope comforteth a colde stomacke and helpeth much to good disgestion To keepe Barbaries TAke clarified Suger and boile it till it bee thicke which you shall perceiue if you take a litle betweene your fingers it will rope like birdlime then put in your Barbaries and let them boile with a soft fire vntill you perceiue they be tender then put them in a glasse and couer them and so keepe them For the ague in a womans breast Chap. 72. TAke Hemlock leaues and frie them in sweet butter and as hot as shee may suffer it lay it to her breast and lay a warme white cotten and it will driue it away in short time For breastes that be sore with milke Chap. 73. TAke Linseed oile and waxe melt them and wet a ragge therein and lay it to the breast warme which will drie vp the milke For a sore breast Chap. 74. TAke beane flower two handfull branne powder of Fengricke of each a handful white vinigre a pound three spoonful of honey and three yolkes of Egges seeth all till they bee thicke and lay it warme to the breast which will both breake it and heale it alwaies crushing out the matter when you shift it To keepe a womans breast from breaking Chap. 75. TAke Sage Marigolds with the blacke seed and the sharpest Netles of each halfe a handfull bruise them together and lay it to which will keepe it from breaking For the breastes broken or not TAke Oile of Roses beane flower and the yolk of an Egge with a litle Vinigre set it on the fire till it be luke warme then with a sether annoint the place For the vnnaturall heate of the Liuer Chap. 76. TAke Borage Buglosse Succorie Violets Fumitorie yoong hop buds Fenell buds of each a quarter of a handfull yoong Malowes and Mercurie of each halfe a handfull boile these in a pottle of whey and straine them For the Canker in the mouth Chap. 77. TAke halfe a pinte of Ale and a sprig of Rosemarie and seeth them together and scum your Ale and then put in a peece of Allum as much as a nut and a spoonefull of honey two spoonfull of Honey-suckle water To make the face faire and the breath sweete Chap. 78. TAke the flowers of Rosemarie boile them in white wine then wash your face with it and vse it for a drinke so shall you make your face faire and your breath sweete To make haire as yellow as gold Chap. 79. TAke the rine or scrapings of Rubarb steepe it in white wine or in cleane lie and after you haue washed your head with it you shall wette your haires with a sponge or some other cloath let them drie by the fire or in the Sun After this wet them and drie them againe for the oftner they doo it the fairer they will be without hurting your head any thing at all To driue away all venemous beastes from your house Chap. 10. TAke

hearbs some by flowers some by fruits Such leaues as are put in medicines should be gathered whē they be at their full waxing ere that their collour be changed or that they fade any thing Seeds when they be full ripe and the moistnesse somwhat dried away Flowers should be taken when they be fully open ere they begin to fade Hearbs should be gathered when they be ful of sap and ere they shrink Rootes should be gathered when the leaues fall Fruits should be taken when that they be at their full growth or when they fall and the heauier fruit is the better and those that be great and light in ponderation choose not them and those that be gathered in faire weather be better than those that be gathered in raine And those hearbs that growe in the fieldes are better than those that growe in Townes and Gardens and those that growe on hilles in the fieldes are best for medicines for commonly they bee lesse and not so fat and haue more vertue Many hearbs there be that haue special time to be gathered in and if they be gathered in that time they haue their full vertue to their propertie or els not so good Some doe help whensoeuer they bee gathered some nought if they be gathered out of time therefore marke well what I teach thee Bettanie shall bee gathered principally in Lammas moneth with the seed and the rootes and without any iron coole and it shal bee dried in the shadow for medicines it may be gathered other times but euermore it is the better if it be gotten without iron and it must be gathered before Sun-rising Swinsgrasse shal be gathered when it pleaseth you in time of neede Camomill shall be gathered in Aprill Pelitorie shall be gathered in June before the Sun rising Red Docke shal be gathered when they need daylie Longdebeef shal be gathered in June July Peniwoort shal be gathered in the beginning of Winter Germander shall bee gathered in Lammas moneth Dragant shall be gathered in June July Columbine in Lammas moneth Addertong should bee gathered in April Pedelion when thou wilt Groundsell alway after midday Walwoorth when it pleaseth you without Iron Violet should be gathered in the moneth of March and in this moneth should Violettes be put into Suger and to sirop Roses should bee gathered in Aprill and in May and of them should be made Suger Rose● in sirop of Roses and in the same moneth shuld oile be made of Camamill Rosemarie flowers shuld be gathered in May. Sentorie when he beginneth to flower Organum in the moneth of June Solsequie should be gathered the sixteenth day of August before the Sunne rising without Iron Hartsstrong should bee gathered ere day in Nouember Aristologia should be gathered the same time Garlike may bee taken when you neede for medicines Wilde Garlke should bee gathered when it flowreth Gourdes should bee gathered in the ende of September when they be ripe and dried wher the Sun may be all day Wild Nep beries should be gathered when they wax yellow Cucumbers should bee gathered when the fruit is ripe and the fruit should bee laid vnder vines where the Sunne may not haue all his strength to him in a moist place that it may roote for then the seed shall be good and ful of kernels Citrull when the fruit is ripe and dried in a drie place in the Sunne Calaminte should bee gathered when it slowreth and drie it in the shadow and it wil last a yeare Saffron should bee gathered afore that the Sunne arise Godur that groweth among flare should be gathered when he beginneth to flower and it may be kept three yeare Drake should be gathered when it flowereth and drie him in the shadow and a yeare it will laste Eleber must be gatherd in Haruest time Fenil seeds should be gathered in the beginning of Haruest and two year they may be kept The rootes of Fenell should be gathered in the beginning of the yeare and two yeares they are good Baldemonie that some men call Gentian should be gathered in the last ende of the yeare and foure yeares he is good inough The root of this hearb is vsed and how thou shall shalt know him is this that he be very bitter the lesse bitter the woorse Also looke that it bee white whole and not hollowe within but sad and not brittle nor full of powder Gallingale is called in Phyisick Typus it may be taken at all times when thou wilt but best is in the end of Ver and three daies it must be laid in the Sunne and so bee dried that the moisture rot it not and then you must keepe it in the shadowe Flowerdeluce should be gathered in the end of Ver and dried in the Sunne and it will laste two yeare well Here followeth the sundrie vertues of Roses for diuers medicines Chap. 90. ROses be colde and moist in two degrees It hath these vertues stamp it and lay it to a sore that burneth and aketh and it shall cease both the burning and aking Also it is good for the Feuer in the stomack and against all euils that are gendred in hot hummors Also let any woman drink it with wine and it shall foorthwith testraine bleeding and help the marrowes of the wombe Also make oile of Roses and that is a principall Receipt for pricking in sinewes and the water thereof is good for sore eien and for hot euils and the oile is good for head-ach to annoint therwith the temples and the root of him is good to drawe forth yron or other things in a mans foote and the red Rose is much better than the white The sundrie vertues of Lillies Chap. 91. LIllies are cold and drie in the third degree and so saith Galen that who so seetheth the leaues in water it is a noble plaister for sinewes that are shortned and it is good for all maner of burnings and scaldings Also when the leaues and the rootes are sodden in olde wine and tempered vp with honey ●t is a profitable plaister for sicknesse that are staruen Also the water and the iuice is good for to wash thy brissers and to do away the freckles on mans visage or womans and the roote is good to ripe therewith botches and for to break them Of the sundrie vertues of Milfoyle Chap. 92. MIlfoyle is hot and drie in the second degree it is good to stanch the bloody flix and the iuice thereof healeth the biting of a red hound and if it bee sod in red wine drinke it and it stayeth wormes in the wombe and it softneth hardnesse in a mans wombe and it helpeth the Jawndies dropsie And take the hearbe and stampe it and temper it with vinigre and it will doo away blood in wounds and it will cease the toothach when it is chewed fasting Also it is good for the stinging of an Adder when it is sodden in wine drinke it and lay the substance thereto and it will drawe out venome of

but this precious wood wil both quickly and gently asswage the paine and griefe of the same if it be ministered accordingly in decoction namelie to them whom either the Pox hath tormented or els the Gowt with intollerable griefe ¶ A most certaine and approoued remedie against all manner of pestilence or plague be it it neuer so vehement Chap. 98. TAke an Onion and cut him ouerthwart thē make a litle hole in each peece the which you shall fill with fine Triacle and set the p●eces together againe as they were before after this wrap them in a wet linnen cloath putting it to roste couered in the Embers or ashes and when it is roasted inough presse out all the iuice of it and giue the Patient to drinke thereof a spoonfull immediately hee shall feele himselfe better and shall without faile be healed To make a sirop of Vinegre good for many things Chap. 99. TAke sharpe Vinigre a pound and a halfe Suger two pound and a halfe boile it til it be a sirrop It will digest choller Melantholie and Flewme It will make grosse humours thinne openeth obstructions prouokes vrine expelleth naughty humors is good against all pestilent Feuers cooleth and quencheth thirst and keeps the body loose To comfort the heart and take away Melancholy Chap. 100. TAke the iuice of Borage foure pounde the flowers of Borage halfe a pound let these stand infused in hot Embers fourteene howers then being strained clarified put to good Suger two pound and boile it to a sirop A sirop to cleanse the breast and the lunges the cough and Pleurisie Chap. 101. TAke Liquorice small shred and bruised an ounce Maiden haire halfe an ounce Hysope two drams water two pound let these lie mixt foure and twentie howers then boile it till the third part be consumed which strained put in of good honey Suger pellet and white Suger of each foure ounces and Rose water three ounces For spitting either of lightes or lungs Chap. 102. TAke the iuice of Purslane and Plantine of each an ounce red Corrall a dram and bloodstone half a dram fine powdered mixt together vse it For wormes in yoong children Chap. 103. TAke drie Lupines and make flower of them which kneaded with hony lay it to the stomacke of the childe For the swelling of the Cods Chap. 104. TAke Rue stampt lay it to the grieuen place and thou shall haue present remedie For him that cannot holde his water Chap. 105. TAke the small end of Oken leaues and seeth them in Claret wine beeing well beaten lay it as hot as may bee suffered vpon the yard in a plaister fashion For the Head-ach Chap. 106. TAke the iuice of Mariorum and put it into the nosethrils and it will helpe you For griefe of the stomacke Chap. 107. TAke Masticke Cloues Nutmegs of each a dram Mace Sinamon of each half a dram fine powdered then take the bottom of a brown loafe tosted and dipt in Malmesey strawing of the said powder vpon it lay it to the stomacke and it is a present remedie For the itch Chap. 108. TAke vnwrought waxe fresh butter Rose Vinegre red Rosewater Brimstone fine beaten and Cloues all boyled together make an ointment A Gargill for a sore throat Chap. 109. TAke white wine conduit water of each a pound roch Allum half an ounce two spoonful of honey boyle all to a pounde and a halfe and vse it three or foure times a day A water for scabbes Vlcers and pushes Chap. 110. TAke Plantine water halfe a pound water of Oranges four ounces Sublimate powder an ounce put al in a double glasse or some other good vessell and let it boile with a gentle fire a quarter of an hower and take it off and keepe it in a cleane vessell which vse three or or foure sundrie times and it shall heale them To make a water to take out all spots out of cloath of gold veluet Chap. 111. TAke rawe red Arsnicke Martem Cudum of each of them a like quantitie and when they bee well brayed poure some faire water vppon them and putting the hearb Cinkfoyle to it seeth it vnto the halfe and then let it coole and set it in the Sunne two howers then wash your cloath in it and let it drie in the Sunne To take spottes of grease and oyle out of all sortes of cloath white or other Chap. 112. TAke the water that Pease haue bene sodde in and steep your cloath where the spot is in it and then wash it with clean riuer water and drie it in the Sunne To take all maner of spots out of silke Chap. 113. TAke the iuice of great and round Mushroms of a sharpe taste wet the spottes in it the space of two howers and then wash them with cleare water and then let them drie To take spottes out of cloath Chap. 114. TAke colde Lie and lees of white Wine made a litle hot and mixe them well together But you must take heede they bee not too hote and wash your cloath A soueraigne remedie for the cough Chap. 115. TAke Brimstone beaten in powder halfe an ounce and put it in a new laid Egge soft roste mingle it well together then put to it Beniamin the bignesse of a Zich Pease lightly stamped and drinke it in the morning at your breakfast Make as much againe at night when you goe to bed and you shall be whole at the second or third time But if the cough haue holden you long you must take it so much the oftener To keepe Poultrie from destroying with Weisels Chap. 116. RUbbe your Poultry with the iuice of Rue or Herb-grace and the Weisels shall doo them no hurt if they eate the lunges or lights of a Fox the Foxes wil not eat thē A briefe Treatise of Vrines aswell of mens vrines as of womens to iudge by the colours which betoken health which sickenes and which death Chap. 117. IT is shewed that in foure partes of the body dwelleth sicknesse and health that is in the wombe in the head in the liuer in the bladder In what maner thou maist know their properties and thereof thou maist learne If a mans Urine be white at morrow and red before meate and white after meate he is whole And if it be fat and thicke it is not good and if the Urine be meanly thicke it is good to like and if it be thicke as Asse pisse it betokeneth headach Urine that is two daies red and at the third day white betokeneth verie health Urine that is fat white and moiste betokeneth the Feuer quartaine Urine that is blooddie betokeneth that the bladder is hurt by some rotting that is within A litle Urine all fleshie betokeneth of the reines who pisseth blood without sicknesse hee hath some vaine broken in the reines Urine that is ponderous betokeneth that the bladder is hurt Urine that is somewhat bloody of sicknesse betokeneth great euil within the body namely in the bladder Urine that falleth by droppes aboue