with Oil of Roses and then apply it and use this Purgation viz. Take Turbith a quarter of an ounce Ginger one dram white Sugar three drams temper them well together and let the Party take it every fourth Day in Wormwood-wine or Water and the other Mornings between them Water of Baum Bettony and Wormwood of each an ounce and half Vinegar of Squills an ounce mix them together and drink them fasting Rupture through Wind In this Case the Party must during the Cure eschew all such Meats and Drinks as cause Windiness in the Body as Milk sweet Wine moist Fruits Pease Beans Turnips c. then take Sulphur-Vine two ounces finely beaten Grains half an ounce grosly beaten Cammomil-flowers a quarter of an ounce seeth these in a pint of Spring-water till a third part is consumed then dip a Sponge in it and apply it to the Place as hot as may be renewing it five or six times a Day Rupture-Wort This is mostly found on dry sandy and rockey Places It is Excellent in the Curing of Ruptures not only in Children but also in those of Years if the Distemper be not too inveterate by taking a dram of the Powder of the dried Herb in a glass of Wine for a considerable time or the distilled Water or Juice of the green Herb taken in like manner It helpeth likewise all other Fluxes in Men or Women Vomitings and the Gonorrhoea and Running of the Reins by being taken either of the ways mention'd It helpeth those that have the Strangury and Stoppage in Urine Stone or Gravel in the Reins or Bladder helps Stitches in the Side or griping Pains in the Stomach and Belly Obstructions of the Liver Worms Yellow-Jaundice Defluctions and foul Ulcers Rushes These some hold so inconsiderable that it is of no value but for making Candle-Wicks But learned Physicians who have searched more curiously into the abstruse Retirements of Nature are not of their Opinion Dioscorides Galen and Pliny agree being powdered and drank in Wine it stayeth the Lask in Women's Courses provokes Sleep but must be taken with caution lest they cause Pains in the Head The Root boiled in Water to the consumption of a third part doth mainly help the Cough Rye This grain boiled in Water or Wine to a strength and drank viz. the Decoction kills Worms in the Belly and brings them away especially if Coriander-seeds be boiled with it SAdness to Expel Take the Herb called Cranesbill Rue and Pulegium of each as much as may be held conveniently between the Thumb and Fore-finger dry them in an Oven and beat them into Powder and being mixed with a little Sugar and Powder of Licorice make them up into little Balls or Lozenges with Cinnamon-water or Rose-water and eat them as you find occasion Saffron The best Saffron is that which tinctures your Hands upon a gentle touch and smelleth somewhat sharp and is not very brittle In property it is good for the weakness of the Stomach and faintness of Heart and being taken in a small quantity of Wine it preserveth from Drunkenness and healeth the Bitings of Serpents and Stinging of Spiders It is restrative The too much Smell thereof is bad for the Brain and the taking too much of it is troublesome to the Spirits Sage This is a singular Remedy against all cold and phlegmatick Diseases in the Head and against all Pains of the Joints either being taken in Drink or applied in Fomentation wherefore it is very good for those that have the Falling-sickness or subject to Lethargies or have at certain times their Members benumb'd or senseless It availeth much against the Defluxions of Flegm and Maladies incident to the Breast and is very advantageous for Women with Child to eat it often especially if they are subject to travail before their time for it keepeth the Child in the Womb and doth quicken it If a Person subject to spit Blood takes three or four spoonfuls of Honey with the Juice of Sage double the quantity in a Morning fasting the Blood will be stay'd in twice or thrice so doing The use of Sage in Pottage and otherwise serves to sharpen the Appetite and cleanse the Stomach that 's oppressed with ill Humours In fine when there is any occasion for heating drying or binding use this Herb as a very good Medicine Saland-Grand To make this of minced Meats Mince Capon Veal dried Neats-tongue in slices Lettuce shred small Olives and Capers Mushrooms pickled Samphire Broom-buds Lemons or Oranges Raisins Almonds Potato's Caparoons or Crucifix-Peas Currans pickl'd Oisters and Tarragon To dish this up Take a little Tarragon and Lettuce mince them small and put the several Things by themselves and garnish the Dish with Oranges and Lemons sliced or in quarters Salmon Fry'd Take the Rand Chine or Jowl of Salmon and fry it cut in thin slices in sweet Butter and when you perceive it begins to grow crisp prepare your Sauce with Claret sweet Butter grated Nutmeg the Juice of Oranges and the Liquor of pickled Oisters heat them over a gentle Fire with continual beating and pour them on the Fish and for garnish lay Sage-Leaves and Parsly fried in Butter but not too crisp Salmon-Pie Take a convenient piece of fresh Salmon two quarts of Shrimps or Prawns and the like quantity of opened Oisters a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace the like of beaten Ginger and four Anchoveys mix what can be conveniently so order'd spread the bottom of the Pie with Butter lay in the Fish and scatter the seasoning all over it and uppermost another laying of Butter Salt-Diuretick Take the Urin of a healthful Man and put it into as much Hungarian Vitriol powdered as it 's capable to dissolve make the Dissolution in a large Vessel that there may be room for Ebullition which being ceased put the Liquor into a glass Cucurbit covered with its Head and distill off the Flegm and Spirit in a Sand-Bath first with a slow Fire then with a gradual Fire encreased and sublimate the volatil Salt at last Salmon to Roast Take a Jowl of Salmon or a Rand and divide it into four pieces season it with Salt and grated Nutmeg stick in it whole Cloves and put it on a convenient Spit laying on it likewise a few Bay-leaves and Sprigs of Rosemary then bast it with Butter and save the Dripping to mingle with other Butter to be served up in Sauce mixed with Verjuice the Juice of Oranges and garnished with the slices of Oranges This Salt composed of the volatil Salt of Urin and several acid Particles of the Vitriol vigorously expels serous Humours by Urin the Passages whereof it opens It is to be taken in White-wine Diuretick-Waters or Decoctions from a scruple to a dram It is very available in Dropsies dissolved in opening Decoctions for which purpose you may mix the Spirit with your usual ordinary Drink The Flegm applied to the Gout asswages the Pain thereof It is also good to allay the Inflammations of the
Take a quart of Water that is ready to boil put into it half a handful of Scabious and half as much Sage let it boil pretty well and drink it in the nature of Tea with Sugar and the Juice of a Lemon squeezed into it Gravel to Remove Take a quart of White or Rhenish-Wine boil it well to the consumption of a third part then put in an ounce of the Juice of White Lily roots Juice of Housleek and Syrup of Citron mix them well together over a gentle fire and let the Party drink a quarter of a pint at a time blood-warm and so doing four or five times it will force the Gravel before it and cause it to void through the neck of the Bladder Gravel to Expell Kill a black Hen or Cock if it be to be had if not one of another Colour may serve take out the thick Membrane or Skin that lines the Gizard wipe it clean and dry it cautiously so as it may be beat to Powder with this Powder mix an equal part or half so much red Coral calcined and take thirty or forty grains of it at a time in White-wine or some other such kind of acid Wine Gravel another to Expell Take two large Red Onions and a White Lily-root bruise them in a Mortar squeeze the Juice of them into White-wine and drink it in the Morning fasting sweetned with a little Honey This gives Ease presently and continuing it it removes the Cause Green Ointment Take new Butter toiled and purified four Pound Burgundy-Pitch and Rosin of each a pound Yellow Bees-wax four ounces melt them and make an Ointment of them over a gentle fire adding an ounce of Verdigriese in Powder to make it of a deep green Colour and so keep it stirring till the Ointment be cold This is a wonderful Cleanser and Healer of all sorts of Wounds and Ulcers it gives Ease to Pains and allays Burnings and Heats in the Wounds or any Inflammations It 's greatly in request for Burns and Scalds especially if mixed with Oil of Roses and Snow-water and applied on a linnen Cloth to the place grieved Green-Sauce Take the Blades of Green Wheat Sorrel Parsley and Spinage stamp them in a wooden Mortar or Bowl with some Vinegar and fine White Sugar and serve it up in Saucers somewhat thinnish with a Leg of Veal boiled or a Calf's Head Green or Winter-Green This mainly conduces to the healing of green Wounds the green Leaves bruised or the Juice applied A Salve of the green Herb stamped or the Juice boiled with Bees-wax Hogs-lard Sallad-oil and Turpentine is highly preferred for the Cure of all manner of Wounds or Sores The Herb boiled in Wine or Water and given to such as are troubled with any inward Ulcers of the Kidneys or Neck of the Bladder mainly relieves them It stays the Fluxes It is good in Inflammations rising upon Pains of the Heart also in Cankers or Fistula's And the distilled Water may be carried along with you or kept by you for the above-said uses Gripes in Children Take the Oils of Nutmeg and of Wormwood of each a dram mingle them well with two drams of Camomel and anoint therewith the Party's Navel and Pit of the Stomach and by often so doing the Pain will cease Grounsil This indeed is very common which renders its Virtues less esteem'd though they are very rare for the Seeds cleanse the Reins help much to break and expel the Stone and provoke Urine two drams of it taken in a glass of White-wine in Powder three three or four times a day some say facilitate the Birth if it be taken by the travailing Woman in a little Breast-Milk Ground-Pine This is excellent to strengthen the Nerves and to open the Parts it also provokes the Courses expells the dead Child in the VVomb and the After-birth but not safe to be taken by VVomen during their going with Child because it works so powerfully that it endangers Miscarriage If it be boiled in White-wine or powder'd and made into small Pills with Hermodactyls and Venice-Turpentine it is given in Dropsies and outwardly applied it cures Ulcers by cleansing and filling them with good Flesh Take of this and VVormwood of each two handfuls Scurvygrass five times as much Sage of the Mountain six handfuls sliced Oranges six make a Paste of Barley-meal and Rye an equal quantity make it into the fashion of a Pye and equal these in it small shred then take them out and shred them with the Crust over again and so put all into a Bag hanging it in about five gallons of Ale not too strong nor too small about six days and then drink it twice or thrice a day about half a pint at a time This has been proved for the Scurvy and afflicting Pains of the Gout Guajacum This for its singular Virtues is called Holy-wood The Decoction of it well managed and taken in time is a certain Remedy for the French Disease It is good in Dropsies for Asthma's Falling-Sickness and Diseases of the Bladder and Reins Pains in the Joints proceeding from cold Tumours and Wind. It grows in the West-Indies and there the Spaniards learned the Use of it from the Natives The way to prepare the Decoction of this Wood is in this manner Take twelve ounces of the Wood cut small of the Bark of it beaten two ounces infuse it in six pints of Water in a large earthen Pot the space of twenty four Hours keeping the Pot close stopped and boil it with a gentle Fire to the Consumption of two quarts and when it is cold strain it then put to the same Wood a gallon of fresh Water boil it to a quart and keep these two Waters apart for use Gums Apostemated Take a handful of red Sage boil it in Whitewine add an ounce of the Powder of Burnt-Alom and wash your Mouth frequently with this Water It is also good against the Scurvy It likewise fastens the Teeth and keeps them from rotting it gives them a Whiteness and eases the Tooth-ach Gum of Cedar its Virtues An Oil extracted from this Gum is hot in the fourth degree wherefore it doth without pain rot soft and delicate Flesh but in hard Bodies it operateth with more time and difficulty It dryeth dead Bodies and preserveth them from Putrefaction by consuming the superfluous Humour without touching the sound Parts but in living Bodies the Heat in them augment the force of the Oil which causes it to burn the tender Flesh It is excellent to kill Nits Lice or any Insect crept into the Ear and good in cold Distempers to anoint the Joints and Limbs withal being much available in the Pains of the Gout if mollified with Oil of Camomil or such-like supling Oils Gum Plaister of Diachylon Take Bdellium Sagapenum Amoniacum of each two ounces dissolve 'em in Wine and strain 'em boil them to the consistence of Honey and Great Diachylon This being applied dissolves digests and ripens hard Swellings and is for those
about a quarter of an hour and so put them up for use Gooseberries to Pickle Pick the Berries clean from the Stalks and Buds lay them in soak in Salt and Water all night then put them into the Juice of Crab-cherries Grape-verjuice or other Verjuice and so barrel them up In this manner you may Pickle green Grapes and Plumbs Gooseberry-Wine the best way Take the ripe Berries and put them into a Vessel and pour upon them a sufficient quantity of Water very hot and then covering the Vessel very close let them stand till the Liquor is impregnated with the Juice at least three or four Weeks then draw it out mix it well and ferment it with fine Sugar putting it up in Bottles close cork'd it will become a generous Wine A little of it is good in Fevers and other hot Diseases or it may be drank for Pleasure as ordinary Wine A Decoction of the Leaves of Gooseberries cools and allays hot Swellings and Inflammations and when they first begin to budd being beaten and infused in White-wine they much help in expelling the Stone and being eaten with cooling Herbs as Sallads they allay the excessive Heat of the Liver and Stomach Gout Take the Roots of Red Dock and Burdock bruise them and put to 'em a little Spirit of Wine let 'em stand twenty four hours then hard and put to it a little Oil of Turpentine and Olive-Oil and stop these up close in a Glass for your use and when you are to use them pour out a little into a Saucer warm it over a Chafing-dish of warm Coals and dipping a thick linnen Cloth in it wrap it hard and close about the part grieved and in so doing twice or thrice the Pain will entirely cease Gout to Check it Take three ounces of Sarsaparilla sliced and cut thin to these add an equal weight of Raisins of the Sun rubb'd very clean but not broken put both these into three quarts of strong Water and let them stand on a moderate heat that the liquid part may simper for several hours and being closely bottl'd up take a quarter of a pint when the Pain comes upon you and it will ease it Gout a Plaister Take Paracelsus and Diapalma of each a quarter of an ounce melt and incorporate them well together and spread it Plaister-wise upon Leather then anoint the part grieved with the Ointment of Tabacco and Oil of Turpentine and so laying on the Plaister the Pain in a little time will cease Gout to Remove Take highly rectified Spirits of Man's Urine warm it a little over a gentle fire and rub it in on the part afflicted with a woollen Cloth and in a little time the Pain will remove and at last vanish Gout Running Take Earth-worms well cleansed in Moss and fill an earthen glazed Pot well luted and covered set it with them in a gentle Oven and let it stand there till the Oven becomes cold then take out the Pot and remove the Cover and you will find a gross Liquor strain this and keep it stopt for your use rubbing the part grieved with it very warm once or twice a day And if the Smell be offensive you may put in a few drops of the Oil of Rhodium or any other odoriferous Unguent to correct it Gout-Wort This is so called from the excellent Advantage it brings to those that are afflicted with the Pain of the Gout or Sciatica in the Joints if the Juice or Herb be applied Poultis-wise Some hold it will allay these Pains by being carry'd about the Party afflicted therewith Grapes The sweet ones are of a more hot substance and therefore cause Thirst and loosen the Belly but the sowre ones are binding and of hard digestion The Juice of the ripe Grape applied to Burns or Scalds eases the Pain The Mother of the Wine or Grapes being kept is profitable against Inflammations of the Breasts and Hardness of them through too much abundance of Milk The Decoction of it in Clysters is good for Dysenteries or Fluxes The Stones or Seeds slave a restringent vertue and are profitable for the Stomach and being parched and beat to Powder and drank in Whitewine are very good against the Flux as also the Weakness of the Stomach Dried Grapes and Raisins have yet a greater vertue and property in Physick and more-especially those that are sweetest and of most substance as they of Damascus Cyprus and Candia They are good for Coughs Sore Throats Pains in the Reins and Bladder if you eat the Stones with them Being boiled with Sugar and the Flower of Barley and an Egg they purge the Brain Being reduced into a Plaister with Flower of Beans and Cummin-seed they allay Inflammations The fat Raisins nourish more than the sharp and lean ones Those that are stoned are Lenitive and therefore very helping in Pains of the Breast Coughs Sore Throats Pains of the Bladder or Reins and the Obstruction in the Liver Grapes to Preserve Take the Grapes when green stone them and break the little bunches of the stalk of the great ones then take their weight in refined Sugar finely beaten and strew a row of Sugar in your Preserving-pan and a lay of Grapes upon it then strew some more Sugar on them then put in four or five spoonfuls of fair Water and boil them up as fast as may be Grapes and Wine their Virtues Very admirable are the Virtues of the Vine and the Fruit thereof I had almost said above all other Plants for the Leaves and tender Branches being bruised and laid to the Head by their Cooling quality ease the Pains of the Head occasion'd by Heat also the Inflammations or Heat of the Stomach being applied to it And the Juice drank in Borrage-water helps the Dysentery Fluxes or Spitting of Blood Weakness of Stomach and bad Appetite especially of Women Great with Child The Water which flows from the Vine when it is cut or bleeds as some term if being drank in White-wine purgeth the Gravel The Ashes of the Branches of the Vine and Stones of Grapes mixed with Vinegar help Costiveness It 's good against the Stingings and Bitings of venomous Creatures and if mixed with Oil of Roses Rue and Vinegar and laid Plaister-wise it helpeth the Inflammation of the Spleen Gravel If you be troubled with the Gravel in the Reins Kidneys or Bladder Take Daucus-seeds and Burdock-seeds of each an ounce mix them together and put one ounce of the Mixture into a gallon of small Ale and when that has steep'd a while and is drank up put the other ounce into another gallon and so continue it as a Drink Gravel another Take Crabs-claws one ounce and beat them into Powder Fenel-seed powder'd half an ounce Powder of Nutmegs four drams double-refined Sugar two ounces these being mixed and finely stuff'd take as much at a time as will lie on a shilling in a glass of White-wine in a Morning fasting or it may be taken in Ale or Beer Gravel another
boil it gently in a Pipkin and take off the Scum or Curds letting it boil only a warm or two then strain it Iuice of Garden or Field-Sorrel This made into a Syrup or the Juice sweetned with Sugar is very cooling and astringent it allays the Heat of the Liver and Stomach stays Fluxes and inward Bleedings It is good to expel the afflicting hot Vapours infesting the Brain in Fevers and to hinder the Lightness in the Head Eaten in Sallads it cools the Blood and thins it Applied Poultis-wise it asswages hot Swellings or any external Inflammation takes off the Redness and Heat of the Face or any Part of the Body being washed with the distilled Water of it and that of Scabious Iuice of Hypocistis This Juice proceeds from a Plant growing like Mifleto It thickens and binds strongly and is used chiefly to stop all Fluxes of the Belly Womb and Stomach It stays Vomiting and Spitting of Blood by reason of internal Bruises An aqueous or vinous Tincture of it is used to stop the Gonorrhoea and Whites in Women A Lohoch made of it with red Wine and adding a third part of Honey that it may be inspissated to a thickness is given for the Cure of Ulcers in the Lungs Stomach or Bowels Iuice of Licorice Of Licorice there are two kinds viz. the Spanish and the English though much of the same Virtues The Spanish Juice is made by boiling the Juice to a thickness or inspissating it by Evaporation and then making it up into Rolls or Cakes which they wrap up in Bay-leaves and that which is best good breaks free and is clear and shining like Jet The English Juice is made into round Balls and is generally a Composition made of the Juice and the Pulp of Prunes and so inspissated to a Body It is one of the greatest Pectorals good against Coughs Colds Hoarsness Wheesing ' Difficulty of Breathing Shortness of Breath stuffing of the Lungs Breast and Stomach also for Ulcers in the Kidneys sharpness of Urine and the Corrosion of the Bladder It helps Expectoration lenifies roughness loosens the Bellies of Children and takes away the Gripings and other Pains It helps to overcome and remove the Effects many times left behind of strong and sharp Purgers To make an aqueous Tincture of Licorice take this Rule Take Spanish Juice very thin sliced or bruised to pieces in a Mortar one ounce fair Water three quarts Salt of Tartar three drams mix and put all these into a glass Body digested over a very gentle Heat twenty four Hours and a pure Tincture will arise into the Water leaving all the Faeces or earthy substance behind in the same form or shape it was put in Beware you shake it not but decant the pure clear Liquor for use and cast away the Faeces It wonderfully sweetens the Blood and is excellent in the Scurvy and French-Pox Iuice of Licorice white Take clean Powder of Licorice-roots and Orris of each six scruples Wheat-flower two ounces Sugar finely beaten one pound Eastern Musk and Ambergrease of each three grains incorporate these together with a mucilage of Gum-Tragacanth extracted in Rose-water mixing and beating them together in a solid Paste make them up into Tablets or Rolls and dry them in the Sun or before a gentle Fire on fine Paper The Juice of white Licorice is more pleasing than the black very acceptable to the Tast and Smell and dissolved in Mint or Rose-water with a little Syrup of Gilliflowers is good against Coughs Colds Phthisicks Asthmas and most pectoral Diseases Iuice of Nettles It stays Bleeding mixed with white Sugar and snuffed up the Nose A quarter of a pint of the Juice of the Tops of young Nettles drank at a time stops internal bleeding It is also good made into a Syrup with Sugar against the Diseases of the Lungs as Colds Coughs Asthmas Peripenumony Pleurisies Stitches in the Side Heat Pain and Stoppage of Urin whether proceeding from Sand Gravel or other mucilaginous Matter Iuice of Pomgranet This is cooling and Cordial chearing the Heart and refreshing the Spirits It resists Poison and the Infection of the Plague and all other pestilential and contagious Distempers It cools and that which is most acid is grateful to the Stomach It is given in cholerick Fevers the Pica in Women with Child Gonorrhoea's and cures the sore Mouth The Wine like Juice that is between sower and sweet is Cordial and Cephalick good against the Megrims Vapours fainting and swooning Fits the sweet Juice is good against old Coughs Of the acid or sharp Juice is made first Syrup with a sufficient quantity of Sugar to make it into a convenient thickness secondly Lohochs with Honey and the distilled Spirit of the Wine of Pomgranets is an excellent Cordial mixed with cooling Waters in all hot Diseases Iuice of Wood-Sorrel Take four pints of the Juice of Wood-sorrel purifie it and pour it into a glass Cucurbit cover it with its Alembick slightly luted place it in Balneo Mariae and distil about half the moisture with a moderate Fire then take away the Cucurbit and let it cool this being done pour out the acid Juice that remains by inclination and pass it through a brown Paper to separate the Dregs gathered in distillation then weigh out a quart of the clarified Juice and in it dissolve four pound of fine Sugar and give it a little time to wamble over the fire Take it off and scum it when it is come to the thickness of a Syrup you may likewise clarifie the fine powder'd Sugar with the White of an Egg and fair Water and boil it to the strong consistency of a solid Electuary and afterward incorporate the Juice of the Wood-sorrel prepared as is directed This Syrup is very cooling and is useful to quench Thirst in hot Diseases also the Heat of the Liver and Stomach It is very much commended in Burning Fevers and in Malignant and Epidemick Distempers It comforteth and strengtheneth the Heart and allays the Inflammation of the Mouth and Tongue likewise that of the Palate and Throat the distilled Water of the Juice may be very properly mixed with the Syrup or you may drink the Water alone The quantity to be taken is from half an ounce to an ounce and may be taken in the Morning fasting and at Night when you go to rest or at any time of the day as necessity requires Iujubs a Syrup Take six Jujubs Barley pick'd Licorice and Maiden-hair of each an ounce fresh Violets a handful Seeds of Mallows Quinces White Poppey Melons and Lettice of each three drams put the Barley into a glazed earthen Pot with six pints of Water and let it boil over a gentle fire for half an hour then put in the Jujubs sliced and let them boil a quarter of an hour then add the Licorice scraped and bruised the Maiden-hair cut and the Seeds bruised let them boil a while and then add the fresh Violets thrusting them down into the Decoction at
c. Boil them tenderly and then fry them in sweet Butter and when fried drain the Butter from them and put to them the Powder of Nutmeg and Anchoves dissolved in fair Water and Whitewine with a little Salt and Mutton-Gravy give all these a warm over the Fire and serve them up in a Dish then run it over with Butter beaten up with the Juice of Oranges Marrow Sage-leaves fried Parsly and the Yolks of Eggs. Nurses Milk to Encrease Take of Earth-worms an ounce wash them well and dry them so that they may keep sweet and yet be reduced to a Powder then take half a dram or two scruples for a Dose in a Glass of Canary Nutmegs are somewhat Astringent and Stomachick Cephalick and Uterine help Concoction discuss Wind take away the offensive Fumes of a strong Breath are good in the Palpitations of the Heart and prevent Faintings lessen the Spleen and stop Looseness and Vomiting provoke Urin and quicken the sight are of great use in Fluxes especially the Bloody-flux having all the Virtues necessary for a Medicin fit for these Diseases The Oil cleanses and defends the Bowels from sharp offensive Humours and eases the Pains that frequently afflict them The aromatick quality consisting in the airy spirit penetrates the noble Part and administer Comfort whilst the gross and earthy part dries up Ulcers and cicatrises them Candied Nutmegs or as they come over with their green Husks about them are good in all cold Diseases of the Head as Palsie and other Diseases of the Nerves and Womb and are very Cordial And notwithstanding all these Virtues in this one small Simple yet if it be taken immoderately that is in too great a quantity it proves very hurtful occasioning sleepy Diseases seeing they are very Narcotick insomuch that Tavernier relates That when these Nuts ripen in the Molucoa-Islands where they chiefly grow the Birds of Paradise come flocking to feed upon them which they have no sooner done to any purpose but a Giddiness seizing them they fall on the Ground in a profound Sleep or Doziness and lye so long before they recover that swarms of huge Ants that frequent those spicey Woods frequently eat off their Legs or intolerably sting and kill them in earnest Nutmeg to Candy Take a pound of fine Sugar a quarter of a pint of Rose-water and Gum Arabick three penny weight boil them up to near a Candy height then having soaked your Nutmegs in Water put them into it in an earthen Vessel cover it close that the Air may not come in no more than through the porous Part and keep them in a warm Place twenty Days and they will be of a Rock-Candy c. Nut-Oil Take small Nuts break them in a Mill or otherways take out the Kernels lay them in warm Water rill the Skins or Husks come off them then steep them in warm Sallad Oil and when they swell take them out and press them and a curious Oil will issue from them put them into a glass Vessel and let it settle and digest twelve Days in a warm place then use it as occasion requires It is good for cold and moist Swellings or Pains in the Joints or Burns Scalds and Tumours especially mixed with the Ointment of Marsh-mallows and likewise that of Tobacco OAk-Tree This Tree in every part is astringent but especially the Bark the Decoction of which is good for the Bloody-flux or Spitting of Blood The Acorns are Diuretick and the distilled Water of a young Oak is good for Womens Diseases Those that are cut for the Stone use a Bath of it made of the Bark to heal the Wound or Incision The Galls that grow upon outlandish Oaks not only make Ink but are of many singular Virtues as being powdered and drank in White-wine to dissolve the Stone or Gravel ease Pains in the Bladder or Reins and cleanse the Stomach causing a good Digestion Take of the Water of Oak-Buds and Plantain of each three ounces Cinamon-water Hordeated and Sprup of dried Roses of each an ounce Spirit of Vitriol two or three drops to make it pleasant and sharp and take it Morning and Evening it 's excellent to stay immoderate Courses and to prevent them Oates They are Physically moderately drying resolving and restringent they are cool and therefore boiled in Posset-drink in Fevers they are good being heated and put into a Bag and laid 〈◊〉 the Side they ease Painâ—… as likewise by such application the Head-ach The Ale made of them cools and purifies the Blood and eases the Heat and Pains in Urin A strong Decoction of them eases the Flux in the Belly and boiled with Figs Licorice and a little Honey in Ale they ease the violence of the Cough or Cold and in a little time the liquid part drank often as hot as may be removes the Cause and the Effects consequently cease Odoriferous-Water Take the Roots of Florence Orris and Benjamine of each one ounce and half the best Storax six drams Lignum Rhodium half an ounce Aromatick Reed and Labdanum of each two scruples Flowers of Benjamine on scruple beat them into Powder and put them into a Matras and let them macerate twenty four Hours in Balneo Mariae luke-warm in a pint of Rose-water the Matrix being stopped and then distil them in the same Bath a little hotter and mxing with this Water-Musk and Ambergrease six drams keep it as a Water of a curious wholsom and odoriferous scent to scent or perfume Rooms Gloves or what else requires it This for its admirable pleasant Scent is called Angels-Water It likewise contributes much to the lustre of the Face and Hands being washed in it mixed with a little of the Water of Fumitory The Sediment dried and mixed among Cloaths gives 'em a fine Perfume and drives away Moths Worms c. Oesepius Prepared Take of the uncleansed Wool from the Neck Buttocks and Shoulders of a tired Sheep and infuse it in hot Water frequently till the Fat swims upon the Water then squeeze the Wool pour the Water out by way of brewing frequently from one Vessel to another till the Froth arises then let it stand till the Froth sinks and take off the Fat that swims on the surface of the Water and froth the Water again by pouring it from one Vessel to another and so continue to do till no more Fat appears then wash all the Fat 's with Froth in fair Water keeping it continually stirring and changing the Water often till what is superfluous be washed away and until upon the Tast it makes no biting on the Tongue then put it into a well glazed earthen Vessel and keep it for use This is good to anoint old Sores also for Scabs Itch Botches or Boils Excoriations or Gallings c. Oil Anti-Epileptich Take the Shavings of a dead Man's Skull that died a violent Death four ounces Amber pulverized two ounces mix them together and put them into a glass Retort fitted with a Recipient and distil them
This Red Ointment is drying and cooling it closes and strengthens and stops Defluxions that fall upon the Parts It digests and consumes the superfluous moisture of Wounds and Ulcers and is of great use to finish the healing Part and hasten the Cure c. Redness in the Eyes This often proceeds from the over-abundance of Blood that flows into the Eyes and in this case it is necessary if need require it to bleed by Cuping-glasses applied to the Shoulders and on the contrary side to open the Head-vein and purge the Body and outwardly to apply such things to the Eyes as may repercuss and drive back the Humours offending To do which Take the White of an Egg beat it up to a very fine thinness with Woman's Milk and drop it into the Eyes by degrees cooling and keeping them close when it is dropped in Or Take Linseed boil it in Water and wet a Sponge in the Decoction and lay it warm on the Eyes Or do it in like manner with the Decoction of Fenugreek and Camomil or the Juice of Night-shade beaten up with the Oil of Roses and the White of an Egg and dip a Linnen Cloath in it and lay it on the Egg when you lye down to take your rest Redness of the Eyes Take Camphire a quarter of an ounce Dragons-Blood and Bolus of each half an ounce Verdegrease bruised and sifted very fine an ounce infuse these in a pint of the distilled Water of large Plantane with often shaking them wash the Eyes with the Water often and it will take away the Redness and Pains asswage the Swelling of the Eyes that have long so continued and may be used as an excellent Mouth-water for impostumated Sores or Ulcerations Reins Hurt Take Pellitory of the Wall wash it and boil it in Whitewine or squeeze out the Juice only into the Wine and drink it applying the Herb to the Reins likewise as a Poultis Reins Running Take a Parsnip slice it very thin and boil it soft in the new Milk of a Red Cow till it looks very white take it out and mash it with the Juice of Oak-Apples or for want of them Acorns or Oak-leaves and sweetening it with a little Sugar beat up in Butter eat of this Morning and Evening moderately for three or four Days successively Rest-Harrow The Bark and Root provoke Urin expel Gravel ease the Pains of the Teeth and open Obstructions of the Liver being infused in Wine or in Posset-drink and drank fasting Restrictive Ointment Take two quarts of Olive-oil dried Whortle-berries half a pound Green Services and the Juice of Whortle-berries of each a pound Roach-Alom a pound and half put the Berries into a large earthen Pot well glazed pour in the Oil and dissolve the Alom in the Juices and so put it in with them and cover the Pot set it boiling in a Bath till the moisture is near consumed then press out strongly the Matter and having separated the Oil from the Faeces take the same Oil three pound white Bees-wax nine ounces melt the Wax in the same Pot and Bath then the Pot being taken off stir the Ointment with a wooden Spatula and when it thickens and grows half cold take Cypress Nuts Whortle-berries Pomgranet-flowers and Rinds of Garnets and Acorns the Stones of Grapes and Ox's Thigh-Bone calcined Grains of Sumach Burnt-Alom Mastick Acacia and the middle Rind of Chesnuts calcine the Bone and burn the Alom in an ordinary Fire then beat them into Powder with the rest of the Ingredients the Mastick excepted which must be beaten a-part and having sifted the Powders thus prepared mix them with the Ointment stirring it till it becomes cold This is a good Styptick Ointment applied with success to the Reins to strengthen them also the Ligaments of the Matrix the Descent whereof it hinders and prevents Abortion by anointing the entrance thereof and the lower part of the Belly It is also successfully used to close the Neck of the Matrix after Lying-in and to consolidate what Defects may have happened in difficult Labour It is also very proper against the Relaxation of the strait Guts apply'd without and put into the Fundament and to stop the unreasonable Loss of Blood in Women applied to the Region of the Reins and Liver and all the Belly It is also layed upon the Stomach to stay Vomiting This Ointment causes not Heat and is the best known for Cleansing and Consolidation Rheubarb The Root only of this Indian Drugg is here preferred It is an excellent Medicin gentle and without danger wherein many Virtues are comprised It cleanseth and fortifieth the Stomach and Liver heals the Pains and Prickings of them clears the Blood openeth and healeth all Maladies that proceed from Stoppages as the Jaundice Dropsie Swelling of the Spleen and long Fevers It is good against Spitting of Blood and stops it It may be moderately taken at all convenient times without danger The chewing of it purges Choler and Flegm It is excellent boiled and taken in Posset-drink before the cold Fit of an Ague comes and is indeed extolled by all ingenious Physicians for the most excellent of Roots that ever was brought into this Nation from any Foreign Parts Rheum Take a pint of Malmsey or Muscadel boil it gently thicken it to a kind of a Syrup with five ounces of fine Sugar then put in half a quartern of the distilled Water of Horehound and being cool bruise a Licorice-stick at one end and when you take it which will be best towards Bed-time dip the bruised end of the Stick in it and suck from that about as much as comes to an ounce at a time This is excellent good likewise against Colds and cleanses the Stomach and Lungs of offensive Matters Rheum to Dry up Take Lettice-seeds white Poppey-seeds and Purslain-seeds of each a dram Tragacanth Gum-Arabick and Saffron of each half a darm Opium three grains bruise and powder these and make them up into a Past Lozeng-wise with Syrup of Red Poppies and when you take one of them in a Morning and at Night bruise it and put it into a little Wine then keep your self warm and as much from the Air as may be Rheumatick Eyes First gently Purge the Head and Body and let the Patient sweat a little Then use the following Powder for the Eyes Take Tuttia prepared an ounce and a quarter Red Coral and Yellow Mirobolans of each a quarter of an ounce Pepper half a dram powder them very finely and strew some of it in the corners of the Eyes This do frequently and the Rheum will be removed and then by washing the Sight may recover its clearness Or Take Rain-water boil in it Myrtle-seeds and Gall-nuts fine Bolus and Cyperus-nuts and with the Decoction well strained and settled wash the Eyes Morning and Evening Rice This nourishes mainly but it is made of more easie Digestion than to be eat as the Turks use it with their Mutton and other Meats with only boiling
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Wines to Back The best time to do it is when the Wind sits full North the Weather clear and temperate in the encrease of the Moon and when she is under the Earth and not in the full heighth Wine Roping To alter this Take a course Linnen-cloath and place it before your Bore when you have set it abroach then put in your Linnen and rock it in a dry Cask then put in five or six ounces of powdered Alom and jumble them well together and so upon settling it will be fined down and become a very clear and pleasant Wine Wine to Scent well Take two ounces of Brimstone and half an ounce of Calamus mix them well together in a pint and a half of Borrage-water melt the Brimstone in a Pan and add the rest to it and dip in so many Linnen-cloaths as will soak it up and put them into the Hogshead then take out your Ashes and rack your Wine and so put into it a pint of Rosewater and rowl it well half an hour it being stopt down close after which let it lye still two Days and by this means this or any other Gascoin or red Wine will have a very pleasant Scent Wine of Squils Take the Roots of white Mountain-squills seasonably gathered slice them and lay them a drying for a Month and put a pound of them into a glass and poor on them four quarts of good old Whitewine infuse them for the space of forty Days and then take out the Squills This is likewise a gentle Vomit but most commonly used with Vinum-Benedictum or the Blessed Wine so that an ounce of it may be taken with half an ounce of the other Wines Vicious to Meliorate Take a pint of clarified Honey a pound of Water wherein Raisins have been steeped half a pint and a quarter of a pint of Claret or Whitewine as to what you propose it to boil them over a gentle Fire till a third part be consumed scum it continually in the boiling and put it pretty hot into the Wine and let it stand with the Bung out then put in a Bag of Spices and it wilt fine either new or old Wine that are fouled or decayed and give them a curious Smell or Tast if when it has rested five or six Days you add white Mustard-seed bruised hang it in a Canvas-bag Woman in Labour Take of Cinnamon finely powdered one dram Amber likewise finely powdered half a dram mingle them in a quarter of a pint of Claret and let the Party drink it This is accounted a most approved Medicine to help a Woman in the time of her Travel and cause an easie and safe Labour Womb to Cleanse Take a large old Onion the whitest that may be cut it in pieces and boil it in a pint of Water very soft strain and press it and take about a quarter of a pint of the Decoction at a time putting thereto an ounce of the fresh Oil of Wallnuts and the expected Effects will be compleated by it Worm in the Head If any Worm or Earwig has crept into the Head whilst you sleep to destroy or bring it away Take three or four Cloves of Garlick stamp them in a Mortar or any other convenienient Utensil then lay them in clean Water to soak a while and so wring out the Juice with a clean Cloth and put a few drops of the Liquor into the Ear and it will either kill the Worm and work it out with the Wax or cause it to come out at the Nose It is also good for Noises and Dizziness in the Head and brings away the Furr and Scurf that many times causes Obstruction in the Hearing and much lessens it VVorms Take Rhubarb a dram Wormwood half a dram Coralline a scruple Currans four ounces beat them to a Conserve and mix it with Syrup of Violets till it becomes an Electuary and give the quantity of a Nutmeg in a Morning fasting dissolved in a little warm Ale or Wine This is noted by Dr. Wetherborn to be of excellent use to kill Worms in Children VVorms in the Teeth If you find when you put hot things in your Mouth something to stir in your Teeth or Gums Take black Pepper a quarter of an ounce beat it to Powder and sift it finely then put it into a quarter of a pint of White-wine and boil it over a gentle Fire then take some of it and hold it as hot as may be in your Mouth and it will make those that can crawl out and kill those that are imprisoned whereby the Pain and Defect thereby occasioned will presently cease VVorms in Children Take the green Husks of Walnuts Rue and Baum beat them very fine put as much Sugar to them as will make them into a Conserve and to make them the more pallatable let it be taken in two or three spoonfuls of Canary to the quantity of a large Hazle-nut at a time VVormwood This Excellent Herb is under the Dominion and Government of Mars Its Virtues are very singular viz. It is good for Inflammations of the Liver and Stomach and profitable for those that are sick of the Dropsie the Leaves being made into a Confection with Sugar It is of a restringent quality bitter and sharp altogether being hot it is comforttable and drying and therefore it purgeth downwards and driveth into the Urin and Excrement all cholerick Humours it principally comforteth and fortifieth the Heart and Stomach being infused in Wine The Tops of it and Roots of Dandelion decocted in Water are powerful Expellers of the Humours that occasion the Jaundice The Juice of Wormwood wherein the Kernels of Peaches are bruised and infused kill the Worms in any Part of the Body The Conserve of it taken fasting preserves from Drunkenness sharpens Appetite and is a sovereign Remedy for those that are troubled with Stuffings or Stoppage of the Stomach if the Juice thereof be drank with Whitewine or Vinegar mixed with Milk and Honey it is good to rub those that are afflicted with the Squinsie The Fume of the Decoction the Mouth or Ears held over it easeth their Pains and being infused in Wine of Raisins it easeth the Pains and Pricking of the Eyes they being washed with it Being mixed with Oil of Roses and a Stomach that has been long weakned anointed therewith it mightily strenghthens it With Figs Vinegar and Darnel-Meal it is good applied outwardly and inwardly against the Dropsie and Spleen Dried and powdered it defends Cloaths from Moths and Worms For a continued Dropsie Take two pounds of the Tops of Wormwood make it into a Conserve with as much Sugar and let the Party take half an ounce at a time three or four time a Day VVormwood-VVater Take two gallons of new Ale but well settled and very clear a pound of Anniseeds and half a pound of Licorice bruise them together very sine then take two handfuls of the tender Tops of Roman Wormwood and put them with the other Ingradients into